Training Log Archive: W

A good run along the old railway, kinda muddy, lovely day, good to be back. Legs a little grumpy from not running for a week!

In the spirit of my friend Tara's bronze medal in the track cycling, let's go with a little Canadian content for a pump up song today. Good song. Video that looks like it was done by a high-school student.

Kicked the cold 100%, back to business tomorrow! Not to mention yet another epic travel day.... 11PM train to London, underground to London Victoria, Gatwick Express to Airport, sleep in airport, 930 flight to Edmonton.

I'm not going to lie, there's a pretty obvious genre when it comes to songs that get me pumped up. After watching the women's triathlon, today, though, and seeing Paula Findlay being incredibly distraught after her, well, let's be honest, awful race, I thought I'd whip out one of the songs I like to listen to try and settle things if I'm a little too excited. They also work quite well as depressing songs to listen to when you're angry about bad races.

P.S. There will be more Keane. I love Keane. Thought not quite as much as I love Muse. But we'll get back to more electronica tomorrow!

Well, I'm pretty much over the sickness. And capped it off with going to see the Canada vs. GB match in Coventry, which was amaaaaaazing! Being the only guy to stand up and cheer when Canada scores was a strange, strange feeling. Every eye was trained on me, and probably quite angry and annoyed. Greatest game I've ever seen live. Historic victory.

It was awesome. Though if we lost, it would've been seriously not awesome. This song makes me the most excited at this second. Long, slow build-up, not unlike soccer! Women's triathlon tomorrow morning!

Almost back to 100%, will re-assess in the morning. For now, here's another one of my get pumped tunes. I wanted to go something my rock-esque since that's what they were playing while I was watching the Canadians lose at Beach Volleyball (on BBC, not live). Have I ever mentioned that I wish the tunes at COCs were a little bit more.. modern? Probably. :)

C • Tunes 3

Well, although I'm still a tad sick, I headed out to my old stomping ground, Memorial Park for an OD wednesday night event. Here's a question, do you think its best to wait until you are 110% recovered before going out and training, or be satisfied with 90%? Is it a matter of getting 3 days of training while kinda sick, or missing another 2 and being fully recovered sooner.... But, I digress.

They did a kind of fun thing tonight, you had to start your Emit brick, and THEN draw your own map! But you only got the first 9 controls, because then you'd be back near the start and have to draw more controls, while your time keeps running. I thought that was a clever way to jazz up a relatively easy map. Unfortunately, the map is also old and needs some major TLC, so it wasn't quite as easy as I'd've thought, especially given the number of times I'd run through this park. I would have kind of thought this park, being basically the only major park in the heart of Coventry, would be a very important one to keep up to date, just so that there is a really easy go to place to hold instant orienteering events to the city folk. Seems like an important thing to have!

And, to keep the Olympic pump-music theme going, here's another one of my go to songs. Yes, its from a video game. I don't discriminate on source material!

Since I'm not doing any training, I think I'll fill my log with something else. In the spirit of the London Olympics and how much the BBC commentators claim that the opening ceremonies were inspired by British music, I'm just going to post the music I like to listen to pre-race (though not necessarily British).

Let's start with a recent one that got me jacked up pre-WOC this year. Muse is very much my favorite band.