Training Log Archive: W

A pleasant spring time run around the river valley. Firstly, the bridge from hawrelak to laurier is disgusting. Seriously. Dog owners should be embarrassed.

Anyway, nice day, nice jog, ran into Marcelo along the way and chit chatted briefly.

It was well known this was going to be a long work day, so all I could muster beforehand was a cycle. Foot was very store after a day of standing around, even if I was standing around in hokas.

Long weekend means its time to whip out the weekend warrior in me and try to put in some good hours and double down every day. I aimed to get going out for some last good ski action out at SWC before it got too too slushy. Did 3 x 15 minute intervals, where the first one was pretty fast, and the last one the snow was decisively in melty stage and was significantly slower, like, dropping from 5.34k to 4.98k. Ouch, 350 metres slower? Definitely blaming the conditions... *cough*

Met up with Nev for a yog scoping out some potential areas. The construction around Kinsmen is going to be super annoying, and it only just occurred to me yesterday that the sign says "jogging route detour, January 2013-October 2015". Ugh, that's going to be super, super annoying. Its funny because while that's going on, it officially means there is no possible way to travel the length of the river valley without crossing a single road at street level. Tragic.

Did a morning ride before the office and the shop.

After the office, headed over to Goldbar for some slow death skiing. The lake, although still rife with snow, was melty and really, really, painfully slow. Like, off-set on the downhill slow. One of those days when you'll be in the shade and going at a good clip down a hill, only to hit a sunny patch and almost fall straight on your face because your skis come to a dead stop. Makes me look hilariously bad at skiing.

Lots of people around obliterating the ski track, so this was likely the last time I'd use my good skis at Goldbar.

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After that much foot-based activitiy (is there such a thing as non-foot based?), there was no doubt it was only going to be a trainer day for me, which it was! I need to get some new cycling shorts because the ones with the good chamois are seriously falling apart. I think I'll get some Craft.

The last indoor soccer game of the year was followed up by possibly my slowest run of the year. My legs were absolutely roasted. Add the soft-ish snow and I was not exactly at the top of my game. Or anywhere near it.