Training Log Archive: the kempster

Warmup and cooldown run plus the 4min of rest inbetween each interval.

3 x 5min hard around the track. managed to keep a steady 3 laps per interval.

Did the permanent course backwards to change it up a bit. really made it much more exciting since the parts of the course where i usually just ran without reading the map too closely cause i just had to run out to a trail, i actually had to pay attention!! lots of fun!!! made a few mistakes but nothing big. dad saw a momma bear and her two cubs which is kinda disconcerting but still pretty cool!

C • Bears 1

warmup run to the hill with the team

hill training up at carlington. did some crazy routes on the hill... hoogie had us go up across, down, diagonal... it was insane!! still fun to run with a bunch of people though!!

biking to puttman with my t-bone for a gig. wasn't too bad except that with it on my back, i can't really put my head up at all... a bit dangerous when trying to do a shoulder check... but i'm still alive so it's all good!

warmup run and a's b's and c's before we started the actual track practice

not sure of the actual distance, but we're guessing somewhere around 6 or 7km. was wonderful to actually go for a run and not just run around the field, or do the same old boring loop around the school! went down to the river and kept up a pretty good pace all the way out to champlain, and then picked it up a bit for the way back to the school.

guess you could almost call catching the last bit of ultimate practice my cooldown... but it was still pretty tough. got one long bomb, and it would've been sick if i had actually caught it... i was soooooo close!!! i had it just in my hands.... but then i think i kinda half dived, and fell, and the frisbee went flying into the ground and yeah... not so great.

A variation of the original permanent course as part of the junior training. Lots of fun to be out in the woods dodging all of the friggin saplings. a bit too familiar with the course, but the controls that my dad changed were definitely tricky!!! messed up a bit on 3 even though that one wasn't changed... not exactly sure what happened there. 7 was especially beautiful running right down the re-entrants, actually reading my control description and then spiking the control. 8... i was a little bit too preoccupied with getting to the top of the hill to notice that the control was actually a bit to the right. Wasn't too hard to find once i finally realized it, but i still ended up climbing up 1 or 2 extra contours. took a different route to 10, going around to the right of the hill instead of the left. was gorgeous running until i had to scramble up the hill to get to the control. 12... 12 was very sneaky. my dad said that he bet that i would have to stop going to that one... and i almost did, i got down to a walk. so hah! it looked sooo simple on the map, but then inside the circle, it's a mess of hills and cliffs and boulders that just makes everything so confusing!!! had to take a bit of a detour to 13 since i didn't really feel like bungee jumping off a huge cliff and into a swamp... but other than that it was fine!

kind of the same loop as yesterday ceot a bit shorter... super duper windy down by the river but still a gorgeous day.

some agility excercises in gym class on the ladder thingymadooer followed by some sick circuit stuff!!!

biking to paul's and back.

went out on the river to practice a little bit before the adventure race this weekend. super duper friggin windy with foot and a half high waves... and i was in the middle sitting in a puddle doing my best to paddle. quite an adventure for sure!!!

Warmup run and A's, B's, and C's for track.

and then 2 cool down laps afterwards

did some intervals around the track where we sprinted the staightaways and then walked the corners.

in the lower gym for class

Did a combination of routes going down island park and then cutting through some woods to get to the river. then all the way down to woodroffe and back on the trail instead of on the path. really wet and yucky for the first part, but then at least it stopped raining a little bit for the last 1/2

Did the 'permanent' course up at Cite des Jeunes, though a lot of the ribbons are missing so it's not really permanent anymore. even though i've done this course a bunch of times, i still had trouble 5 and 9 but the rest was fun. no more snow!! woohoo!!! just a little wet in a lot of swampy areas.