Training Log Archive: Hammer

Snowshoe orienteering with theGriz setting up part of the GRR. Deep and heavy snow made for a very tough workout.

Course is totally sweet! There is gonna be interesting race strategies in the middle of the course.

Wow! That OT has gotta count as training. I nearly had a heart attack!

Not only hockey gold but Canada now owns the record for most Gold Medals at a Winter Olympics! Woooooooo.

Where were you when...."Crosby Scores for Canada!"

Hey who else saw Bender and Venus on TV at the Closing Ceremonies?

C • Found Them! 3

Not feeling great so skipped TNT.

hard core Friday

While watching Canada shut down Ovie and comrades.

the bends and stuff

An awesome (but painful) ski on an awesome day at Horseshoe with the Griz. Cool to see the maze of snowshoe tracks winding through the hills of Copeland Forest. Lotsa long climbs and the legs were burning.

went out again to push the training over the 2 hour mark but had to settle for double poling as the knee was getting too sore and the leg muscles were hurtin' so I cut it short.


I listened to a very interesting discussion while driving home from the snow on the Fan590 about Canada's performance at the Olympics and whether there should be more or less funding for elite sport. Stephen Brunt from the Globe and Mail (and a Hamilton boy) had some great points about national pride, healthy communities and inspiring kids. It was great that they used men's 30K XC skiing as an example of a success of 'Own the Podium'. (NBC showed this race live yesterday and coverage was awesome). If you were to tell me 10 years ago that 3 Canadian men would be in the top 10 at an Olympics XC ski race and ahead of ALL Norwegians I would have laughed my ass off. But they did it. How did they do it? Can Canadian orienteering learn from their awesome success?

Then on the Fan590 there was discussion on why is the XC skiing result yesterday considered a success but Canada's increasing list of 4th, 5th, and 6th place finishes from medal hopes in other sports considered a failure?

There was also discussion of whether the 'Own the Podium' is a failure? There was discussion about that it was too Un-Canadian and too American like to make a statement like that. But if it is true that there was unprecedented private donations then perhaps making high goals like that is needed to attention grab. Now the worry is that Harper will cut all the cash next month. But Brunt said he thinks that this should be an election issue. Have Canadian's ever been asked if we want sport to be highly funded. Show the numbers on how this decreases health care costs. Show the pride that Canadians have that we are now a sporting nation that needs to be taken seriously and will push to be among the very best in the World. So perhaps this Own the Podium is just the beginning?

C • Funding 3

C • Cancon for sports TV? 1

Event: Salomon Dontgetlost.ca Snowshoe Raid
 

Snowshoe Raid with Super. Fun race but perhaps easier than recent years but we still got to break trail and do our own nav for the first hour which while slow was lotsa fun. We Got exactly the number of points we set out to get but clearly #54 was under valued.

Thanks again Super. I had one of the most enjoyable times in a race in the last few years but sorry we didn't live up to our name.

C • name 1

the bends and some extra stuff while watching hockey.
Sid the Kid makes it less embarrassing...

ARK at Churchill. I came dead last in the coach biathlon running challenge.

C • dead last 1

feeling like crap but this will cheer up any Canadian....

http://www.hockeybuzz.com/blog/Eklund/SourceNHL-wi...

Knee very sore. Will take it easy this week so I can keep up to Super...

Bringing back the Jets...the rumour gets bigger...

Friday, Feb. 12, 2010

Scott Taylor’s CITI Sports Reports

92 CITI FM IS AN OFFICIAL STATION OF THE VANCOUVER 2010 OLYMPIC RADIO NETWORK.

OK, here’s the rumour: Wealthy David Thomson of Toronto, the man who most of the shares of the MTS Centre and True North Sports and Entertainment in Winnipeg, has purchased the Atlanta Thrashers of the National Hockey League and will move them to Winnipeg for the 2010-11 season. The Moose will move to Saskatoon. The announcement will be made right after the Olympics. Believe whatever it is you want to believe.

Setting up the GRR with theGriz and making plans for the big bicentennial edition of the GRR in 2012. KAB!

C • How's the Griz's knee? 9

Hard Core (cut short).

Attended the start of ARK before heading in to teach at MAC. New record again of 16 kids (12 or 13 of them are girls). The Raiders of the Dontgetlost ARK ventured into the forest this week on a map jog.

The Bends. Just lying in a bar with my drip feed on.

ARK has apparently now grown to 17 kids.... and the advertising hasn't even started yet! Well done MrP.

Thomass UKR. 4th area this year that i had not orienteered on before which is cool and fun. But often less is more. You know just like training. Quality not quantity.

Fun times at the movies with the wadd squad, MrP and the Tree huggers afterwards. Race across the Sky. Lance reduced the Gombie factor greatly.

C • totally 2

With AdventureGirl! On Cootes.

Awesome ski with the WaddSquad and MrPither on the west loop at Horseshoe. Sunny day, cool and fast conditions.

North red loop and then into southern trails back up to the hotel with MrP. Its been a long time since I've been on the south trails in the bowl at Horseshoe. Brings back memories of my ski racing days. Although I bonked big time.

The Bends and some DWR

The Bends during lunch on the 2nd day of two days of meetings in Gwelf.

A.R.K. jogging, silly walks, some nav, some snowballs and dodge ball.

12 kids tonight which is more than we expected for the pilot project.
Thanks again Pither and Dang.

C • Pither... 2

core and strength and another set of the Bends but the knee is definately sore.

also (possibly) coming soon....

C • giro 6

C • knee 2

hard core mondays including the Bends.

le tour....

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