Training Log Archive: Yukon King

first day on Galiano - marched about on the Bluffs over Active pass, where the ferries go thru - cold air that stayed w/ us over our whole vacation made its first impression. later in the (still sometimes chilly) sunshine G & I wandered around Driftwood Village & the woodlot above it - saw these beautiful wild lily-things, maybe a dog's tooth violet - while D took photos.

don't like this slumpiness in my weight. Eat more cheese more regularly. Countdown to vacation - packing food, packing dog, packing self. Also transfusion, so trip downtown this afternoon, sign up for HP book 20% off, drop off stuff for Alfie & see how knee is. Much walking today followed by takeout yay!

1.2 sunshiney loop, out to Poo Hill w/ daffodils & forsythia, cut between daycares & school & around base of Taylor Park to annihilate one nasty spider-monkey nest w/ much schnorting & vigorous nose-tunnelling. (First walk aborted after a hurka-hurka in the elevator - did not want to jiggle Miss Explodey too much)
Off to Alfie's 0.4km/0.6km & then downtown (1.0km/0.4km) Cherry blossoms are out at Burrard station. On the way home I saw a teenager wearing camo-pattern tights trimmed w/ turqouise lace, bright orange runners, a teeny jean skirt in rags, & a shorty parka w/ a truly amazing huge red plaid pattern. I believe the correct term is Yowza...
off to the islands, off the net, off the continent, outa touch yeah...PS ate a maple donut at Tim Hortons to gain weight. yum.

yow! my back hurts like crazy! what's up w/ that!? but my joints arent buggin' me... I guess if not one thing then another, oh well, time for coffee & a bit of natural history - Hey, I decided to sign up for the last Potter book - downtown they'll give you 20% off. So I'm gonna re-read the first one on Galiano, only 4 months to go heheheh...

twenty minutes of frail & brittle yoga, very weird feeling...mostly floor, trying to see if back would be happier. (it is happier this afternoon.)

late morning walk in the spring sun, G is boggled by unprecedented heat of 11 degrees Celsius - being born in late October, she only knows winter. Puzzled by cherry blossoms on the lawn. We changed direction about every 100 meters, stayed close to home but covered ground surprisingly. A fridge-cleansing stirfry, broiled salmon w/ sherry-mushroom-butter sauce (I invented it this afternoon to further cleanse the fridge, & I want to bathe in it, yum!) And some oatmeal cookies that have what I fear is an irreproducibly delicious aroma.

over to train station under a weather-is-changin' kinda sky - then under the overpass which was creepy & shan't be repeated. Met Happy three times.

downtown today for celebratory lunch with (ex-) work buddy - soon both Robin & I will have left the Man behind, & will be carousing out in Burnaby. We will be able to have 8-hour lunches...on the other hand, I do hope the Man remembers to issue me a check sometime for the work I did do.

puppy loop AM (1.1 km) up to store & then down the creek on the footpaths; PM loop (1.0 km) up to the store via the bikepath/construction site, encounter w/ Kal the Masteful (G pees her pants, which placates Kal), followed by play session w/ Gizmo, Tisha, & Gypsy's Local Fan Club - G now exhausted by unusual heat & so much fun. And the unusual efforts of self-control - she doesn't get to meet dogs unless she can sit & be calm about it.
Lunch downtown was a ball, stalked husband at safety conference but just missed him. (0.4km, 0.7km, 0.4 km). Definitely feeling better today, hip & feet grumpy but OK given distance...

starting to feel stronger, almost normal; have I been carrying a buggie without noticing it the last few days - had that nasty night a few days ago... Anyhooo, gonna start cookin' up a storm! We are off to Galiano this weekend for a vacation at Driftwood Village (or sumsuch) so gonna make cookies & waybread for that, ordered posh breads & local artisanal cheeses from SPUD, and am gonna hussle thru homemade pasta for tomorrow as well as today's tempeh & noodles experiment. I love food and the sun is shining!

was that a great walk or what!? out for about 1.25 hr, did dog soccer at the rink, around the base of Taylor park in the sun looking for spider monkey nests, and THEN wrestled w/ Sophie the bedlington terrier for 15 minutes at the end !! G is puffing on the kitchen floor trying to cool off, hahaha! Teatime for me. Started a book on trains, its great! Oh yeah, and ice on assorted body parts, mmmmm, feet are starting to dig it.

up to the store & under the train tracks, checked the creek for skunk cabbage, feral cherries in the woods look great in the sunshine. Puppy class tonight. Printed a shot from google-earth of the neighborhood to get another look at distances (too lazy to carry GPS every time so I guestimate from certain legs I have measured) - looks like I usually slightly underestimate.

The ice is on the hip... the sun is shining in the sky! haven't seen the swallows yet.

springtime gambolling for an hour with puppy - down the top of Stairmaster, played w/ Whistler, & then into the woods - turns out I'd just rather be outside looking at salmonberry blossoms & lil birdies in the bush, even tho I love our beautiful apt... hip aches, oh well, gotta live now to some extent. Some days I'd cheerfully trade the rest of my life for this one hour, some days I'm a bit more sensible and try to figure out how to amortize the pain a bit. Practiced sitting in the sun for 20 minutes as at an O-meet. Gypsy seems to like it just fine. Now its time for some tea & an icepak.

over to train station to see if we could meet D getting off the train from downtown, but he's having too much fun talking avionics or sumthin. Met some dogs, tried to eat alotta garbage, very nonchalant re hyper-urban environment, excellent! Malaysian curry for dinner tofu-cashew-coconut milk connection, w/ broc N carrots, AND the last of Alfie's carmel-apple pie! Almost O-food...hip OK, I think we are better than yesterday.

woke up very slow, but was happy to see sunshine & the swallows are back!! wernt for dimsum, then Granville Island, & then R hip started hurting so bad! Yow. scared me a bit. Tylenol, rest, & ice all afternoon.