Training Log Archive: W

Went to the shop and did another run on the treadmill. I notice I've started to fog up the windows when I do this, so I guess I need to either tone down the intensity, or stop sweating so much. Or run outside, I suppose. But, the great thing about the treadmill, aside from getting lost in my thoughts (which is really a 'take or leave it' aspect), is that I can do some continuous climbing. So, I did around 5:10 pace but at an incline of 6 on the treadmill. A nice, continuous uphill session. I wish I normally had hills like that to run.

Afterwards, I did a new shop strength workout, just to change things up. First was a clock lunge set, then 3 sets of 1 minute on/1 minute off of frenchies, single-leg box jumps, push-ups with mods, one leg step-up jumps, and then either dips or standing shoulder press (with the intent of eventually doing handstand push-ups again, yes, I once could do handstand push-ups! It was my greatest athletic achievement).

Its a nice variety, and I think will be a good change for the next little while, depending on how long shop strength continues.

Well, its still -1000 out, so even though I'm not working at the shop today, I decided to get there early and run on the treadmill and do some shop strength. I did an easy 20 minutes, followed by 20 minutes at 4:00/k, which was nice and comfortable. It was at about 18 minutes that I realized that the treadmill was slowly sliding away into the wall. For some reason the pew that the treadmill sits behind was getting further and further away. And further and it probably would have started melting the wall. I should probably note that for next time. Time to the treadmill to something. Finished it off with 15 minutes of shop strength. Got my "T-Rex Arms" up to 10 pull-ups. So, pbbbbfftthhhh.

I did a lot of strong work today. I sat around. Accomplished virtually nothing. Shredded some documents. Snacked. Had a nap. Watched the new-esque Hunger Games movie. Wisted. Wore my new toe spacers. Ate pudding. And... rode on my trainer for 45 minutes.

Overnight it was -34. So guess what I did? If you said, "something outdoors", then there's something seriously wrong with you. Actually, its not so bad outside. Just cold.

Got my sweat on in the basement while watching the CBC news. Sometimes I think that after an hour my fluid trainer is going to catch on fire. I should start using a fan or something.

This time classic intervals, 15 x 1:30 w/ 1:30 off. We did the high high upper trails at the nordic centre, which are without question, the most fun trails.. There were a few intervals where, for various reasons, I just couldn't get the heart to try. Those were tough. But, then others, especially the climbing where I could stay in the track, were pretty good. A merely so so workout.

Unfortunately, afterwards I concluded I went back to Edmonton. Still no usage of my new snowboard gear yet, or my sunshine marmot card. /le sigh.

Impromptu training camp in Canmore with Paul. You know how they say exercise takes your mind off other things? In this case, it strangely didn't. Which was quite surprising because we did 5 x 10 minutes at quite a high pace, and featuring a lot of climbing (745 meters), to be precise. I had asked for sustained climbing, and I guess that's what I got!

Its interesting because Paul is fairly clearly a stronger climber than I am, but I seem to be better at accelerating on flats and maintaining my speed through rolling terrain. Many times I can one-skate quite a few strides further than he can and that immediately closes or makes a gap. It probably explains why I can do significantly better than him, for instance, at Strathcona Wilderness Centre, so much rolling means that I have more opportunities to one-skate up and over hills without switching to off-set.

An evening recovery around some different trails. My forearms were quite sore. I kind of wish we'd gone for longer, but that's just kind of.... when we ended up back at the parking lot.

Post-soccer, I jumped on the trainer for a little bit, though suffered quite a lot of motivation issues. That is all.