Training Log Archive: Yukon King

last AM pee-walk. Yay!!!! Off to drink port (?!) and eat cheese downtown. Quickie walk for O-dog, 20 minutes no significant distance in continued pouring rain. Went out for bright-colored slushy/girl & martini-drinks in the evening. Guest-drinker did not drink hardly at all - I'm sure his parents will be encouraged...

4AM Pee-Walk felt horrid, nausea & "other symptoms" - was the chinese takeout bad?! staggered out of bed late this morning, will ice & elevate feet & do not-too-big walks. Kellington kids arrive this evening, to do a weekend of drinking w/ their parents' Canadian friends, weird huh? but it'll be fun, colorful girly martinis downtown, dunno what else. Hopefully the 19 yr old will take home the message that drinking is silly & expensive, & thereby bypass that awkward "disturbing the peace" drinking phase.

despite assertions she is not an Aqua-Dog, G marched around the block for a km of wading thru the Everglades-style river-lake that Burnaby has become. Creek is really up, almost swamping bright yellow skunk cabbages. Feral cherries blooming like mist in the forest, gonna be gorgeous in the sun! feet good. time for tea and Jurgen Goethe in front of the fire....

nothing to do today! chinese takeout for visit to Alfie tonight. raining hard, so maybe we will do some training in the bikeroom instead of a full outdoors walk. Am wondering about new laundry product - in trying to be less heavy on planet, I bought a "green" product w/ no phosphates blablabla, but now I do more research I think I may be washing our clothes in nicely alkaline water. Perhaps we stink. Perhaps the Kellington kids will tell us this weekend.

pouring, dumping, flooding rain, I never bin so wet in ma life !! Gypsy neither. She did a Perfect Sit for introducing to another dog, and we met her friend Kelly. Hey! we tested Catching Features last night, I wanna learn to play!

C • Catching features! 2

more amazing rain, quicker loop up to store & back thru woods. Nice to just have a rest day today, feet are happy about this.

hmmm, just came to me cassia is a cousin of cinnamon not of vanilla - but the faintly vanilla-scented hoisin beef was a hit yesterday anyways! In other news, D was NOT pissed I cut all his maps out of their plastic cases & stuck them in a neat reference binder, he liked it !! Plus I explained we got big ziplocs if he needs to run them around again.
Icing my feet this morning, surprisingly traumatic, usually my body parts love ice paks...feet will figure it out soon I bet. see how first walk goes. Stars from 3am pee-walk gone, clouds came back in...
Risotto for dinner, spicey sausage, onion-tomato-red wine connection... maybe some non-sequitor gai-lan w/ oyster sauce just to finish the bag off...
got the O-log out to start recording our 2007 adventures, so fun!!!

convoluted puppy loops in moderate rain (we are soaked!) 40 min. down the creek-walk (did perfect sit-stay for a runner, yah!) & round about the parkway & Stairmaster, thru woods, etc. Beautiful pink camellia. Did some heel plus good arm signals for focus-come-sit.

split yoga off from (remedial) strength & range of motion as I've added too much of the latter to the yoga which is pretty much getting lost - so will do & report separately. Plus I see from log I tend to do both for too long, & then that day I get tired. This was the strength/range stuff. mostly floor.

Hoisin beef w/ onions & broccoli for dinner on organic brown rice, a fruit salad & lil tings beside. A crockpot adaptation (which I hope goes well) so I can lollygag around & visit my dad-in-law & eat apple pie with him. Second puppy class tonight.
Made an orienteering present for husband - hope he likes it !!

1.2km/0.4km/0.4km/0.4km/0.4km = 2.8km; excellent puppy loop down the Stairmaster & then up in a meandering way past Stoneledge & the parkway, had magnificent play session w/ micro-dog Cassie. Then galloped off in wind & sunshine for tea w/ Alf & a nice apple pie, but Ooooooh, my feet hurt even w/ a 650 mg tylenol in there, will elevate and ice, yowie! Second walk will be minimalist w/ sitting in sun by gate.

donuts, cheesecakes, & big breakfasts on weekend have effortlessly pulled me up from 57kg zone, yay!

half an hour of floor things; L-reaching supine twist is getting better. Worked a bit on L hand as numbness is (thinking about) coming back into outermost fingers. Then 10 minutes of standing yoga - warrior, tree...

rather brisk (50 minutes out total) walk on tortuous route w/ a bit of everything from dog-encounters to bush to sedate sidewalks. A bit of rain, lotsa violets in one part of the woods. L foot hurting rather alot - will elevate a bit in the afternoon & evening. Started Living Planet - vivid description of the Kali Gandhaki right at the beginning - makes me wanna go there!! Chili & quinoa, a walnut/bleu cheese salad W tomatoes...maybe a ficelle loaf and some more bleu mixed into cream cheese to dollop onto that. Fruit salad - odd lil oranges at Choices, kiwi, mango. But time for tea first!

second puppy loop of the day over by the daycares, wow parents have it TOUGH! I was thinking that I was getting a flare (hips, elbows) but then realized I was jumping my meds forward half a day & this was just the med trough. Ow.

One km on the UVic campus as D orienteered about, getting the O-dog used to the concept of Many Rabbits. She wanted to be friends with all of them. Plus their poo seemed to be scrumptious, but I managed to keep her from eating more than about 10 pellets, she is like greased lightning when it comes to picking up nasty stuff. (Note: no apparent ill effects from her odd diet, at least not during the critical ferry ride) Fun to watch the kids gallop around on the baby course.
The other bit was Gypsy's first salt-water beach experience in watery sunshine on the way back up to the ferry terminal - sand, waves. & undrinkable salty water.
Feet seem to be fine, yay!