Training Log Archive: dbakker

My formal p-chem lab has taken longer than expected (as usual) so didn't manage to get out until now. Unfortunately, the bottom of my right foot was acting up again and only got worse throughout the run so cut it short. Guess I need stretch my legs out more as well as rolling out my back. Rather frustrating, I thought I had gotten rid of this with physio before sprint camp.

Lots of fresh snow today, so ran on the trails (the roads were a sheet of ice) which were very slow as I was breaking trail nearly the entire way.

20 minutes rolling out my back, 20 minutes of stretching out the legs.

Emma Waddington's video edited from Sprint Camp footage captured by Nicole and Myself:


Need to by some sort of stabilizer for the GoPro at some point, but not exactly a priority.

This was my best ski of the year so far, and frankly (unless I make it up to the Far East on Larch Hills next weekend), I don't see anything rivaling it.

Went with Alexander up to McCulloch Lake Ski Area, about 45 minutes from UBCO (so about the same distance away as Telemark). Somehow, neither of us have skied here before, despite 75km of ski trails and a whopping 75km of snowshoe trails.

Guess how many cars were in the parking lot when we arrived at quarter to ten in the morning. A grand total of three. The trails were absolutely stellar, conditions and grooming excellent, and almost no one on them. A nice mix of rolling terrain, as well as some longer striding hills.

This also looks like it would make an excellent orienteering area. Having a solid parking area and lodge with toilets is not to be undervalued, and the terrain is good as well. There was a broad mix of forest densities at different ages of clearcuts, a fair number of water features, some rock, and a moderate trail network. Tons of area, gotta go check my contacts to see if there is any LiDAR for it - even a kartapallautin would be good.

Here are some pictures from the ski, please let me know if they don't work. I've switched how I am doing pictures for my training log (Dropbox was rather glitchy with embedding pictures for some reason).


Alexander's Ski boots


One of the many views


Recent Clearcut - Note how they are replanting almost all lodgepole pine to replace that killed by the pine beetle. I am surprised they aren't planting more of a mixed forest in case the beetle comes back, but I'm not a forester so what do I know?

Looking at a farily high volume weekend and legs are still a little tired out, so opted for a post-apocalypse-midterm rest day.

Also wrote up a blog post on part 1 of Sprint Camp: https://davidbakker99.wordpress.com/

Found my Garmin charger! I had put it in with the GoPro mounts bag...

Run out to and back from Glenmore to get some fruits and veggies. Ended up getting some other groceries as well (including some fruit juice), so backpack was a little heavy on the way back.

Feeling alright, back is a little tight despite the rolling (lots of studying this week for a bunch of midterms doesn't help), and shin still a little sore but getting better I think.

Garmin battery died mid-run, so will have to dig through everything tonight/tomorrow to find the charger.

GoPro Video footage from Sprint Camp weekend (unedited, if anyone wants to make a cool video using the footage please go ahead!)

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1sIqFPf7ZPv...

Going back through sprint camp maps.

Very slow run in the snow. Seeing as it's been the coldest week of the winter thus far in Kelowna, and with limited snow lately, I Brought my skates down to the pond to see if it was possible to skate on it under the couple of inches of snow. Sadly, it wasn't - no nice surface on the ice anywhere, just a gradual transition from snow to ice. So decided to leave the backpack with the skates on the edge of the pond, and make some GPS shapes and lines on the pond - rather interesting to see how close the GPS is. It did better than I thought it would.

New plan is for a longer run tomorrow over to Glenmore and pick up some fruits and veggies at the grocery store. Was planning on running up north to the larger lake north of the airport and skating some GPS art on it, but based on the surface of the pond today that won't happen. Might try skiing it this weekend though depending on conditions.

I seem to have forgotten my GPS charger somewhere - either at home or at Woods, although I didn't use it at all at in Vancouver so would be surprised if I left it there.

20min of rolling out tight spots in my back with tennis balls, then 20 minutes of stretching - mostly legs.

Easy recovery run around Academy in the dark. Right shin feeling sore when running where I bruised it falling at BCIT on the weekend. Right foot doing ok, but a little sore as well. Need to stretch before I got to bed tonight.

Post studying and blogging stretching.

I have some thoughts about an email I got today, but still thinking about things a bit, so will probably write about it when I have time tomorrow. Not sure if it will be a private note or not.