Training Log Archive: andrea balakova

Phantom Run Race. My first trail run as a race experience. Started too fast and had to slow down a lot after the first half. Had fun trying to hang onto someone and keep the same pace. Did pretty well at the beginning even in the hills. After crossing The Seymour River I started to fall down the field of competitors, first slowly, but on the way up to Powerline I got passed by a group of women and was not able to keep directly behind them. I kept seeing "my group" all the way to Homestead climb, so not too bad but just a bit too far to run with them. A lot of people still finished behind me. Result probably somewhere just below the middle, hopefully pretty close to it. Thomas, Magnus (2nd) and Louise won, cool! I for sure ran a lot faster than my last training on a similar loop, took 8 minutes off.
11.5

Bike ride on the road and trails of Seymour Valley with Magnus. Not too many people out in the forest. Went all the way to the Hatchery to see little salmon having lunch. Very nice light and views with snow right above us. Seymour Road, Coho trail, Road again, fun Hydraulic connector down, the whole Fisherman's trail with a very long boardwalk and the lovely Homestead trail up. Stop for coffee at the End of the Line and up the hill home.
29*0.33=9.5

Cross Canada Challenge
3632.2 - land
151.7 - water


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C • Feels like you've been in O... 2

Infrared Sauna for 15 minutes. Yin Yoga with Mike. Stretches.
2

Morning hike to Black Mountain to check out the snow on Cypress. No views, nice snow past 1000 m. Very wet down at the parking area. Nice to walk in the snow.
5
Took two pictures
http://www.flickr.com/photos/magjoh/5167348809/

Anusara-Inspired Yoga class with Alex. Planks, Triangles, Warriors and Inversions. Feels good and strong.
2

Club Run 101. Finally made it to a club run. Ran with Alison and Zoltan. It is very nice to run more than 1km of a continuous flat trail. Will have to come more often.
6

Event: Lynn Valley Adventure Run
 

North Shore Long Distance O-event without the rain. Started very late because I was helping with the registration. Very far and very hilly...
Had fun in the forest part and did pretty well all the way to control 11 (the ridge), where my time was 1:09. Then I took the more scenic but slower route choice to number 12 ( do not know these trails well enough...?). Too many stairways and tourists on the way. After number 13 I seriously ran out of the calories and started to think only about food. The rest of the course (still 9 k to go) I jogged with these questions in my head: "Where could I eat something, who lives on the route choice, is it too far to my house or let's just keep going?"
Ended up visiting a community Centre (almost on the route choice, 18 to 19) to at least drink from a water fountain - located at an ice ring, everyone was having skates on, I looked very out of place. Finished somehow the course.
Great day and a lot of people came out (around 80).
Lesson learned: Eat! or carry a power bar!
20.3