Training Log Archive: 'Bent

Nice run with Slowrunner, Bash and the gang. Early start before sunrise, but it turned spectacular with sun on snowy trees.
Boston Rob caught up after a while and he and I kept a solid pace together.

Wow, perfect ski conditions up at Highlands with 75cm of snow in mid November! Bash and I went up with Knobless. Even after today's run, climbing felt good on the first real ski of the year- big contrast from last year with my gimpy knee.

Also a Sudden sighting.

Workout 3 + extra shoulder work.

Oh yeah, first decent ski of the year! Couple of stops to saw low-lying logs. One section of trail will be off limits until our neighbour gets out with his real chainsaw, so I'm skiing the open fields that burnt last year to reach the conservation area.

Finally made it to Caron's class. Not too hard today.

Some long balancing poses that I'm not used to.

Slightly shorter and easier workout #2 to allow time for running after.

Hard 5-minute intervals with 2 minutes off between sets. I ran the rail trail, listening to the 177BPM Podrunner "Fastigium". http://www.djsteveboy.com/fastigium.html

My quads were a little sore from yesterday's tempo run, so it was a push to get the HR up to zone 5. This will be the hardest run until Tuscon.

Rest of commute + time in between intervals.

Slower night run home in the deeper snow, detouring around fallen trees.
Skiing tomorrow!!!

Hard and fast run in to work via Hawk hill, Reddigton and rail trail.

I'd expected a slow walk home with T-dog, but the snow-rejuvenated hound had me at a brisk hike or light jog the whole way.

A lot of trees to saw up across the trail. The Lumberjack season's not over yet.

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Long "easy" run with Coach Bash, who prescribed the longest pre-marathon run today.

We'd planned a much earlier departure and hoped Goose could join us, but our power was out in the storm last night, and this morning we found out that our hydro pole on our property was down, along with the transformer (and several trees)
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It took us a while to pack the dogs off to doggy day care and drive to the office to get drinking water and charge up laptops and power supplies.

We finally made it out, drove to Belfountain, ran to Terra Cotta and back for soy mochas at the Shed. This route was flatter than some around our area, but still has some good solid climbs. Especially cool was climbing up the Grange hill into the snow line and winter wonderland, with every branch of every tree plastered with snow, after there was none just a few km away.

After we sprung the dogs and showered at the office before a BBQ dinner at home by headlamp. Luckily we have tons of firewood and the generator's fulll of gas.

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