Congrats TC - enjoy your trip and visit!
Scheherazade, I'm with you on the finally getting some pounds to budge. It's a great feeling, isn't it? High five!
SLOgoing, if you're aiming for 90 you'll equal me - I did doubles the last 2 days so I'll make it there, since the last day of 100/100 is a Friday and training on a Friday is verboten for me. I think the most I've done previously is 85-ish and with recovery from the 8-hour plus 2 dental surgeries I'll happily take my "gold medal" this year. I may not have 100 runs, but I'll be over 100hrs for the challenge.
Last week's goals:
run x 5: win with 8
swim x 1: win
bike x 1: win
core/strength x 4: win
foam roll x 1: win
Saturday was 4.25hrs on some new-to-me trail. I knew it was going to be mucky and my ankle was sore so I decided to run on rail trail instead of singletrack - got Tank to drop me off at the East end of the 47km Elora Cataract Trailway and ran basically all of the trail that I hadn't seen before, ending at Bellwood Lake Conservation Area where it has served as the bike course for a "fat tire" try-a-tri and the run course of a road tri that I've done in the past, both as a solo racer and as a relay with Tanker. We'd cycled the rest of the trail from the Elora Gorge (Western terminus) to Fergus while camping in Elora several years ago.
It was snowing for most of the run and the trail was covered wherever it was lined with coniferous trees, though fairly clear along the open fields through which much of it runs.
There were some pretty streams along the way, though mostly at the Eastern end in the Credit Valley Watershed as opposed to the Grand River section.
I got Tank to meet me at one of the major trailheads (Orton) around 21km in so I could re-supply water and change to a jacket and warmer gloves - the falling snow had soaked me pretty badly and the wind was chilly. Some parts of the trail were well-trodden but on some I was making first tracks.
Only saw about 4 other people out apart from Tank - maybe because the trail signs get a little snarky.
I made it to Belwood Lake just before sunset, but the conservation area was closed and the police chased Tank away when he tried to park there to go for a hike while he waited for me.
We made arrangements to meet at a burger joint on the outskirts of Fergus, but I had to leave the trail to run on the side of the road, and that just isn't a comfortable thing after 4hrs of running on snowy rail trail. It was also further away from Bellwood than I thought, so Tank came and picked me up on the side of Hwy 3 after 39km / 4h15m. I'd wanted to get 37k in, so that was plenty.
Did a couple of short runs on Sunday as my ankle was sore and I was pretty shagged out from Saturday. The sun came out and it was a lovely, mild day with almost no wind, so I had fun splashing through the mud and slush in a skirt!
That gave me 91.5km (almost 57mi) for the week, which is the most I've ever run in 7 days before. Tired and sore but managed a couple of short road runs yesterday - just have a quick lunch run today and a swim tonight should help with some recovery.
A friend is putting on a group run (which will probably see me running alone again, since all the people I know who are going are much faster) on the Bruce Trail in Hockley Valley on Sunday that will likely take me about 3.5-4hrs (for 23km!), so I may take things a bit easy on Saturday. Have to see how I feel.
This week's goals:
run x 5
bike x 1
swim x 1
core/strength x 4
foam roll x 1
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ill advised racing inc.
Scheherazade, I'm with you on the finally getting some pounds to budge. It's a great feeling, isn't it? High five!
SLOgoing, if you're aiming for 90 you'll equal me - I did doubles the last 2 days so I'll make it there, since the last day of 100/100 is a Friday and training on a Friday is verboten for me. I think the most I've done previously is 85-ish and with recovery from the 8-hour plus 2 dental surgeries I'll happily take my "gold medal" this year. I may not have 100 runs, but I'll be over 100hrs for the challenge.
Last week's goals:
run x 5: win with 8
swim x 1: win
bike x 1: win
core/strength x 4: win
foam roll x 1: win
Saturday was 4.25hrs on some new-to-me trail. I knew it was going to be mucky and my ankle was sore so I decided to run on rail trail instead of singletrack - got Tank to drop me off at the East end of the 47km Elora Cataract Trailway and ran basically all of the trail that I hadn't seen before, ending at Bellwood Lake Conservation Area where it has served as the bike course for a "fat tire" try-a-tri and the run course of a road tri that I've done in the past, both as a solo racer and as a relay with Tanker. We'd cycled the rest of the trail from the Elora Gorge (Western terminus) to Fergus while camping in Elora several years ago.
It was snowing for most of the run and the trail was covered wherever it was lined with coniferous trees, though fairly clear along the open fields through which much of it runs.
There were some pretty streams along the way, though mostly at the Eastern end in the Credit Valley Watershed as opposed to the Grand River section.
I got Tank to meet me at one of the major trailheads (Orton) around 21km in so I could re-supply water and change to a jacket and warmer gloves - the falling snow had soaked me pretty badly and the wind was chilly. Some parts of the trail were well-trodden but on some I was making first tracks.
Only saw about 4 other people out apart from Tank - maybe because the trail signs get a little snarky.
I made it to Belwood Lake just before sunset, but the conservation area was closed and the police chased Tank away when he tried to park there to go for a hike while he waited for me.
We made arrangements to meet at a burger joint on the outskirts of Fergus, but I had to leave the trail to run on the side of the road, and that just isn't a comfortable thing after 4hrs of running on snowy rail trail. It was also further away from Bellwood than I thought, so Tank came and picked me up on the side of Hwy 3 after 39km / 4h15m. I'd wanted to get 37k in, so that was plenty.
Did a couple of short runs on Sunday as my ankle was sore and I was pretty shagged out from Saturday. The sun came out and it was a lovely, mild day with almost no wind, so I had fun splashing through the mud and slush in a skirt!
That gave me 91.5km (almost 57mi) for the week, which is the most I've ever run in 7 days before. Tired and sore but managed a couple of short road runs yesterday - just have a quick lunch run today and a swim tonight should help with some recovery.
A friend is putting on a group run (which will probably see me running alone again, since all the people I know who are going are much faster) on the Bruce Trail in Hockley Valley on Sunday that will likely take me about 3.5-4hrs (for 23km!), so I may take things a bit easy on Saturday. Have to see how I feel.
This week's goals:
run x 5
bike x 1
swim x 1
core/strength x 4
foam roll x 1
__________________________________________________________
ill advised racing inc.