Training Log Archive: JanetT

Middle course 6 at Ski Vorlage in the Gatineau Park area north of Ottawa, part of the Ottawa O Champs. Cool and cloudy with occasional light drizzle, upper 40s. Course was 3.4 km, 120m climb...same course as for F45 and F55, as well as F21S.

For the OOCup, Janet Findlay was first (Ramblers club), but Linda Kohn was just over an hour for F65; I was third, almost 10 minutes behind Janet F.

Left 6 on the wrong angle and though I tried to read trails there were a lot of other people around and I was distracted. Relocated from the top of a ski lift.

11-12, I saw what I thought was one of the boulders along the way, but lost confidence. Relocated off a dot knoll. The boulder was covered in moss in dark pine forest, but once I got close lots of others were headed there too.

Tomorrow's long here will be a brutal 5.1 km, 265m climb. Ugh. Not sure if I'll be able to move on Monday for the sprint. ;-)

Middle 6 - Splits

Event: Ottawa O-Fest and Ontario Champs
 

To local Starbucks for slightly better coffee than the hotel, plus exercise after driving for two+ hours.

To farmers market from hotel for Ile d'Orleans strawberries, then back by way of the cruise ships and staircase Frontenac.

Around the western tip of Orleans Island (followed by a stop for chocolates at the local chocolaterie).

At Montmoremcy Falls.

From Museum of Fine Arts in Quebec to our hotel by way of the Parliament building and the Ursuline Museum (where I didn't turn my watch off).

We had lunch in the museum's cafe, saw some of the old prison cells (that section of the Museum, the Charles Baillairge Pavilion, was in what was originally built as a territory prison) and an exhibit of the art of Jean Paul Lemieux; and in the Pierre Lassonde Pavilion, a newer building, viewed the Terrace, Inuit sculpture, and Decorative Art and Design exhibits.

The Ursuline Museum had a room with intricate embroideries using metallic threads, largely for religious purposes (altar cloths or vestments), along with details of materials used including paper patterns that were transferred to cloth. Another part of the Museum showed artifacts from the boarding school run by the nuns. I don't think there's a boarding school now as most of the nuns are over age 70 and there are no novices to carry it on, though there appears to be a day care and/or elementary school on the premises. The Ursuline Convent and school was established in the 1600s to educate the girls in the area.

Tonight's group meal was at Bistro Tournebroche which is a farm-to-table establishment which has rooftop gardens and beehives (in the warmer months). Cauliflower and leek soup, or a pate for appetizer, then a choice of beef shepherds pie, seafood chowder, or chicken something; and a creamy, tasty parfait dessert made with sweet stuff.

After a tour of the Governor Generale's residence, we walked from the Citadel to lunch at a restaurant (Aux Anciens Canadiens) located in the oldest house in Quebec. We had a terrine made from wild pheasant and red deer on a kind of cracker for appetizer, then a choice of a Quebec meat pie, wild animal meat pie, chicken fricassee, or minced salmon in pastry wth a lobster sauce. Dessert was a slice of wonderful maple syrup pie!

From lunch to the Norte Dame Basilica, and thence to the Quebec museum of civilization. Forgot to start watch when we left the Museum until we were most of the way back up the hill.

From partway back up the hill to the hotel taking a roundabout way. We ate dinner at the Casse-Crêpe Breton restaurant around the corner from the hotel.

Forgot to use my watch. After an introduction to Quebec history slideshow (410 years in 45 minutes) we had a walking tour past the Basilica, Seminary, and the park near the Chateau Frontenac, and then down the curvy street (below Montmorency Park which is under reconstruction) to the Quebec mural and along just a bit of Petit Champlain before taking the funicular up to Chateau Frontenac where we had luncheon.

The appetizer, soup, was a mushroom bisque; entree choices were duck, salmon with lobster sauce, or quinoa with roasted cauliflower. Dessert was a delightful chocolate mousse/cake with berries.

After luncheon at the Chateau Frontenac, overlooking the St Lawrence, G & I wandered around lower Old Quebec, making our way past a couple of cruise ships (including the Queen Mary II) and the daily farmers market (didn't buy anything there) and back to the hotel.

Later in the afternoon we had a short Louise Penny / Bury Your Dead themed literary tour of the city with some highlighted places Penny included in her novel. I haven't read the book but may have to now. ;-)

After dinner at La Temporel (smaller servings than at the Chateau luncheon) we walked around a bit but I forgot to start my watch right away.

Quebec City at night (intro)

We arrived mid afternoon for a Road Scholar session on Quebec City. We'd never been to this city before and saw an opportunity to learn about it via Road Scholar (roadscholar.org) between the UNO meet at Harris Center and the Ottawa O Fest next weekend.

After an introduction by our RS group leader, Sophie, we had supper in the hotel's lounge (vegetarian--lentils and vegetables; duck confit; or a seafood "lasagna" dish), then had a short walking tour to the Basilica and Chateau Frontenac, and back past City Hall with its fall decorations.