Training Log Archive: phatty

- Enjoyed a 2 hour sleep
- Paddled down to Lake in twisy river, hard work keeping in moving water
- Trekked way too much on roads and trails but moved up to 5th
- Hit rappel at night okay
- Got started on next bike

- Finished the trek
- Botched up one CP which cost us 3 hours
- Put in a good effort on the ride
- Paddled efficiently in the sea kayaks amongst the islands
- Hammered to catch a ferry that was uncatchable as later learned
- Pedaled well to TA to canoe

- Drafted in the 50 km ride amongst the pack as much as possible
- Flatted
- Raced to catch up
- Paddled tippy plastic boat in decent swells for a few hours
- Pulled out early when swells to big
- Hammered on the bike to hit the ferry just before it shut its doors
- Pedaled with the group to the Resort (TA)
- Began the 1st trek on Drummond Isl.

Rode up to Bent and Bash's place. Got to take a look at our MIX chariot, Bent's riding mower, and they, of course, offered their closet of gear to us. We're now officially sponsored by Team Tree Huggers!

C • HAPPY BIRTHDAY! 11

Leanimal and I ran a short one around B-Town.

Cruisy paddle out to Big Chief with the MIX team and back. Sail trial was interesting but not likely successful enough to try in the race - umbrellas it is.

Up the north side of the lake before dinner and back.

Snuck in a jaunt along the north side of the lake after another long day. Cool looking rain clouds in the distance over the mountains and could see where Sunday's trek was - pretty cool looking from from that vantage.

C • So, you don't have a digital camera? 1

Continued the successful sleep strategy when going to Annecy and took to the hills for a vigorous trek. Lots of climbing to start and in the middle and of course, what goes up, must come down. The knees took a beating on the downhills but it's good to get the body used to it.

Ran the Humber Station - Duffy's circuit. Saw some good people cleaning up the sides of the roads of all the trash. Hopefully it's not kids who find the animal carcasses in the ravine.

From Bent and Bash's backyard (thanks guys!), Leanimal and I rode the trails of Palgrave and Albion. Not having riden techy trails in a while, I forgot how fun they are. Maybe later in the summer I'll get a race or two in.

C • Any time! 7

Finally got back in the pool after a couple of weeks away due to work. Thankfully, the speedsters weren't too far ahead after my hiatus. I had better be faster in tris this summer after all this swimming!

Went for an easy run around B-Town's trails to see how the legs were feeling after the weekend. Still tired for sure. Bloody hot out for 19h00 at night in early May! We're going to cook in Michigan if this keeps up.

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Went for a recovery spin just north of B-Town. Easy riding and just focussing on easy pedalling after the hammerfest on Sat.

C • HR of 96? 4

Ran around the bush awhile, chasing the SCAC teams. Thankfully, the lost teams were found in an easily accessible place rather than where L-Dawg and I were looking in the bush along the Big East River.

C • Lost Teams 9

FAC Deerhurst - Zoolander, Hot Shot Lawyer, and I formed Team Salomon-Suunto for this early season test of speed and navigation. Off the line on bikes, I somehow managed to convince Zoolander that a hammerfest off the start would do little to create a lead and do a lot at wrecking our (aka 'my') energy early. Thankfully, other teams had the same idea and the start of the race was very manageable. By CP2, we had a choice of route and we elected for the conservative road route which paid off from the stories we heard of the other one...bike whacking, muck, and forks in the road. However, a back and forth later on of our own hurt our pace but luckily, we dragged a few teams with us - that south part of the road just didn't match the map!

We left CP3/TA1 before the chase teams arrived which felt good and we made great time through the bush to CP4 doing our best impressions of "Last of the Mohicans - Deer Hunt" - I even sang the theme song a little to add flavour to the trek!

Once through CP4, we crossed the river, got our map soaked (my bad), and spied Team Beowulf approaching behind us. We knew that it would take them about 5-10 minutes to reach where we were but we took off up the steep embankment quickly. I later learned that they didn't see us which was probably a good thing as they would have kicked it up a notch knowing their competitiveness.

Atop the hill, we found a skidder trail, I grabbed Zoolander's tow, Hot Shot Lawyer set a torid pace, and we were off toward the canoes at CP5/TA2. The skidder trail led to a main dirt road along the south bank of the lake we wanted and Tyson lifted the pace again. I really want to see our split here as I've NEVER been made to run this quickly in an AR.

Grabbing the canoe, we took off back from whence we came on the lake, peering back to see if Team Beowulf was in sight - thankfully no. Entering into the Big East River, it was rock dodging time. We had a fun time going down the river trying to make sure that we kept the team IN the boat. Hot Shot Lawyer almost bailed a few times because the balance in the middle of the boat on a foam block coupled, our team weight, and the blows from the rocks made for a bumper car-like ride down.

Into CP6/TA3, we grabbed the bikes and took off just as Team Beowulf arrived - DAMN, we'd have to push some more! Too bad my map was unreadable at this point as it was in shreds from water damage, but thankfully, I'd memorized the route enough to fake it.

The riding was tough going to CP7A but my teammates pushed and encouraged me along and when we hit pavement, my weight seemed to pay off on the 60+km/h downhills.

We hit the line in 1st and I was pretty spent. My teammate are animals to say the least and were a great source of encouragement. I feel good that our navigation went fairly cleanly but I do know that my conditioning needs some work.

C • Congrats! 2

Motored down along the Moira River here in sunny Belleville in the early AM. Felt light and quick for the first time in a while. I've tried to eat more recently so perhaps that has something to do with it. Slight twinge behind my right knee which stopped me for a moment but I'll get my hot chiro to work on it for me.

C • And then there is always Leanimal... 4