Training Log Archive: Hammer

Big Sound to GN trails and back. Sweet riding. I'll post the gps track later Wil.

C • GPS 2

rail trail to Copetown. spectacular sunrise on the way back into town.

short lunch time spin

BLASTING. Zoo would be impressed.

ARK K-W sets new participation record! GHO's partnership with Stars is a huge succes. Youth membership is growing in the K-W region. We had 40 kids in our 6 week pilot project in the spring and with still two weeks to go until the start of ARK we are already just shy of 50 kids!! Congrats to Pathetic, Tiny, FunRun, theDuke and the rest of the K-W ARK team. Great work guys! FYI, I received interest for ARK Attack and Adventure Running Juniors programs from some K-W parents too. Would be great to see that launch next autumn as a lead up to the COCs.

C • nice 5

Gula Stigen with the Wadd Squad.

9 mile lake

Had AG! on the kayak tow rope because she was being a princess

C • Princess 21

Big sound hole in the wall with wadd squad

Kayak is getting closer to being finished....

http://home.cogeco.ca/~waddinj/mse2-varnish1stcoat...

C • Beautiful! 6

water running at Nobel beach

C • Who's in? 5

Westdale-Copetown-Westdale with Sudden, Tarno and Almageddon.

Soccer Fail. Parents vs. Daughters game and I decided to kick the ground instead of the ball. While Inov-8's are awesome running shoes they don't make good cleats. Result? Swolen right big toe. :-( Daughters erased a 4-0 deficit to win 6-5 in extra time. No penalties were called for goalies holding the ball more than 6 seconds but Etoile made an awesome diving save pushing the ball with her hands away from the side of the net....but she wasn't the goalie. Fun times except I can't put weight on my right foot.

C • is that a hand ball? 3

Since there are lots of smart people on AP I thought I'd post this here as well in hopes others could pass it on to others that might be interested.

PhD or PDF opportunity in numerical modelling of wildfire behaviour!!
Start date: January or May, 2013
Location: McMaster University (http://ecohydrology.mcmaster.ca)

My lab group is looking for a PhD student or a PDF to assist in developing a suite of models that recent students and PDF's in my lab have started to develop on wildfire behaviour in peatlands. Hydrological models, peat smouldering models and ecohydrological tree simulation models. A strong background in math and/or computer science is required. Additional courses in ecological earth and/or environmental sciences is an asset. This research is part of a larger research program with the Canadian Forest Service to develop a new wildfire moisture code for peatlands and may also have links to northern resource extraction impacts and reclamation. If you have any questions or know of somebody that is interested please let me know. I also will have an opening for more traditional field-based ecology and/or hydrology.

Turbo Core

legs are still trashed from the fieldwork and racing so this one hurt. 2 months to NAOC, 5 months to SSR, 12 months to WT so there are some goals to train for.

2 sets of five Hellga climbs. Felt surprisingly good.

Westdale-TNT-Westdale plus some easy riding while SuperWes1000 and Turbo TNT'd. Zoolander was a no show. Count 50%

45 is the new 45 (includes warm-up)

C • your age 6

COC Long - Course 7 - Splits

COC Middle (M-Elite)
Ugh. Started out too fast (1 second behind best time to #1) and then that coupled with the uneven ground took its toll on the knee and it was hurting by the time I got to #2. Walked part of #4-5 then missed it (lacked focus). Struggled to be able to run in the open and then made a mega error to lucky #13. Could not relocate in the woods/jungle as the tall grass and stuff made it all look the same. A whopping 5 minute error. I ended with a decent few CP's. Time to embrace my birthday and the over 8km less in running that comes with it tomorrow. M45 debut time!

Oh how the race performance decline continues.... Once I was the top orienteer on the continent...then the top in just in the country...then just in s. Ontario... then just in my club...and after today I'm not even the top orienteer in my own research lab with Gustaf taking silver in the COC middle. :-)

Soon I won't be the top orienteer in my family either. Or perhaps AG! is already better than me. #oldage

COC Middle - Course 10 - Splits

marathon core during marathon tv coverage. Three Canadians in top 27! Woohoo.

How lame for TSN to stop coverage before the Canadians finished!

C • Super lame 2

Event: Canadian Champs
 

rail trail with Tarno and Almageddon

Yoga and stretching during AG!'s quarter final game at Sanctuary with a some barefoot running at halftime. Having trouble with the left hamstring. Considered carrying my super pathetic pack full of sticks and stones but decided to go without.

C • semi final 3

Gula Stigen 1000. 5:07. AG! ran 4:57 for new WR.
Ok this GS-1000 is a brand new route. Who will go sub
4 first?

Gula Stigen 1000 - Splits

Big Sound with AG! and the Wallace clan

C • Clan 2

Big Sound in the Starryak

water running, swimming and yoga after the Wadd Squad made a 500m extension to Gula Stigen. sweet cliff drops, full on road sction, wall jump and wall balance beam.

while watching Olympics.

best olympics tweet so far That I've read

from Chris Moulton

Americans must be disappointed in the fact that they are down 5-2 in shooting medals to a country where gun possession is prohibited.

C • I think it's great 12

with Tarno to Slote's Road and back. Watched a deer and wild turkey standoff near trail centre.

exploring CIL north and north of 400 crown land trails with Wil. nice trails and
sweet O terrain