Training Log Archive: the kempster

Did the loop 3 times, the first two were at race pace, and then took the last one a bit slower since it was pretty dark.

Tramping around looking for more pins... and then went for a shore lunch at Onion Bay.

Took bearings from the pins that marked the boundaries of the camp. A little tricky to find some of them... but he managed pretty well since it was getting dark and the pins were usually just an orange ribbon, or the bottom of a tin can painted orange.

61 pushups

Around the loop with my Mom, Ian and Molly in tow.

A quick race pace ski around the loop before we drove back.

Felt kinda crummy from working on summatives all day... so while i was thinking about that lying on the top bunk up at the cottage, i decided to just do 60 pushups right then and there!! i'm not sure if they helped me to fall asleep or not...

Did my running training today while tobagganing!! Went down the hill... and then pulled up our neighbour on the sled. It's a kickass hill, so it was really tough getting up to the top... but the ride down was worth it!!

Made a track through most of the trails, which was quite a daunting job since there was about a foot of powdery snow to plow through. But after that was all done, it was much faster and we had a little friendly race between my bro, dad, and sis. Did it in chase format which was lots of fun and reminded me of the race at ofsaa last year. Then, my sis and I went around the loop backwards (which wasn't as good as going the original way) and partway back again before heading in because we had turned into ice cubes.

Really spooky running around at night during a snow storm in the middle of nowhere all by myself.

Tramping around through the bush.

Went for the first swim of the year in the lake... and it was pretty chilly!!! the snow was falling and i'm standing there in my bathing suit... atleast the lake wasn't quite frozen.

Stayed mostly on the trails... though we did venture out onto the ponds for a little bit and nobody fell in!

Stayed mostly on the trails... though we did venture out onto the ponds for a little bit and nobody fell in!

Ran all the way back to the cottage since our hike went a little bit over time, and the prime rib had to get out of the oven before it burnt to a crisp. Thankfully... we were speedy enough and our new year's dinner was perfect!!!

Took Dolly around on the trails/ had fun throwing snowballs at Eric and Molly and trying to push them into snowbanks.

A night run around the trails with my dad. Really tough since the roads were slicked with ice... and the trails atleast had ruts in them from atv's... but it still was pretty difficult to actually stay in them and not step in any puddles.