Training Log Archive: 'Bent

Out to Highlands for some spring skiing with Bash. Gorgeous bluebird day.

My grip wax was great- for double poling mostly. I was gliding as fast as the skate skiers in places, had some grip in others. Saw Goose and his flock fly by, and met up with them doing unusual training in a field. By the time Bash was heading out for a second lap my grip was zero, so headed down to switch to skate.

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Quick switch- skate skis worked better in the shady spots, but it was getting slower in the sun. Nice fast loop, but my knee wasn't loving it. Still great to be out on snow.

Hauling sleds of firewood with the dogs, then chopping and stacking.
Also carefully excavated our second bank of solar panels.

Knee's quite sore today. Might be something at yoga tweaked it, or residue from the weekend.

Commute without hounds for a change. Feeling a bit tired today, but the snow may not last much longer.

Hard Core class.

Found a way to stretch the thing that's been bugging me in my lower ab/upper adductor today- plank with left leg out to right at 90 degrees crossed under me, with shoulders square to the floor.

Workout #3, foot/kneehab, and soldering battery packs for Bash and Hingo between sets.

Solid run to work with both dogs.

Bazingadog launched out the door after his sister who was tormenting him with her freedom. Unfortunately I was tied to him and flew out the door on my face after him, while the armed security system beeped menacingly before I dragged him back in to reset it.
A bit like this:

http://youtu.be/iVLi9Zn1fTU?t=1m46s

He was contrite on the run.

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Easier run home in the dark.
Knee is a bit sore from the weekend.

Easy scoot to work with Bazingadog, and back along the longer pond loop.
A few rocket intervals, but mostly an easy trot. When we got home Bash got to see him hurl me onto the snow when he saw Mr.Coon up the tree.

Snowgaine Day 2 - we decided to use snowshoes for a change of pace.
We moved well in the bush. Nav was good, other than one mess at one high-value control.

About half way round we met Doubledown and a rather soggy Escondido, with an older black lab trotting along behind them with no tags. The old guy had been following them for hours, but decided to join our team.
We felt bad for him as he must have been exhausted. We tried to see if some snowmobilers would take him to safety, but they just wanted to abandon him. Partly deaf, he tried to run into fast snowmobiles, so I had to walk him on the tow rope. In the bush he kept dragging me under low logs and around things, so it was hard work. He was a slow climber, but trotted OK on lakes and snowmobile trails. I was no help to Bash as I was busy wrangling Buddy. He'd find a trail and follow briskly if a team had just passed, which pulled us off course once.

We had to cross a sizeable river on a small beaver dam. We let Buddy off leash, Bash made it across, then the dam collapsed a bit under me and I got a good soaker. Buddy tried to cross but fell in, and scrambled back up the same side when I tried to grab him. It took us a lot of time and coaxing to get the poor guy to come back across, and this time when he fell in I grabbed his collar and Bash grabbed my pack as I sunk into my hip in water, but we got him across.

He trucked along surprisingly well after that, and we both were warm enough while moving. Bash got us to the remaining controls and I got Buddy to the finish, where he got a burger and lay down by the fire. The camp caretaker took Buddy, promising to call the animal shelter Monday.

We cleared the course even with Buddy with 30 min to spare, getting us 2nd Masters after Joe and Jeff came in 3 hours earlier.

Won't spoil the surprise but Canada dominated.

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