Training Log Archive: Bash

In honour of Revy attending his first yoga class, I did Rodney Yee's Power Yoga for Flexibility. My injured foot likes yoga; I must keep this up.

I'm lousy at walking on the balance beam with my eyes closed.

Creative use of social media... 338 Australian sharks are now on Twitter after being fitted with acoustic transmitters. They will tweet whenever they are within half a mile of a beach.
http://www.outsideonline.com/news-from-the-field/T...

Year End Review, Part 1 of 3: Training
2013 Training Hours by Activity

Top activities (with 2012, 2011 totals in brackets):

1) Running + Snowshoe Running - 153 hrs (190, 138.5)
2) Adventure Racing - 112 hrs (26, 163)
3) Mountain Biking + Road Biking - 60 hrs (77.5, 89)
4) Orienteering + Snowshoe Orienteering - 55 hrs (66.5, 73.5)
5) Strength + Yoga 52 hrs (36, 30)
6) Paddling - 48 hrs (31, 74)
7) XC Skiing (Classic, Skate, Roller) - 45.5 hrs (55, 28)

Total Annual Training Hours = 557 (505, 612)

Observations:

- Annual training hours haven't varied as much as it appears. Multi-day adventure races in 2011 and 2013 skewed the numbers.

- Not many mysteries or new trends here... Skiing is down a little, only because we didn't do the Silverstar Supercamp. Strength is up a lot, mostly because I did so much physio. Biking is down because we did 320 km of skeleton-rattling mountain biking at Tierra Viva, which was logged as adventure racing and reduced my usual enthusiasm for spring riding.

- Running is down a *lot* because my year effectively ended with UTMB on Labour Day weekend. I did 8 hours of recovery runs over the next month, then an injury flared up so I only logged 8 hours of running in the last 3 months of 2013. More on this later.

Up next: Report card on 2013 goals, then plans for 2014!

I wasn't planning to run today since I want to give my foot a day off between runs as it recovers. But our dogs went crazy, and I noticed a young golden retriever at our side door with two fuzzy puppies. They belong to neighbours half a kilometer away on the other side of the road - people who aren't familiar with dogs and definitely should not own one. They didn't get their golden spayed because they thought it might be fun to breed her. They also didn't fence her in, and they didn't understand the concept of "in heat". She escaped for 4 days last summer, and we only heard about it on the 4th day. I'd seen her during that time on a different road but hadn't realized it was her or that she was missing. She was with a male friend at the time - and now she has puppies, some of whom have been found wandering alone on our road since there still isn't a fence, and they are allowed outside without supervision. Grrrr.

Anyway... the 3 dogs were frightened by our dogs' barking through the window, and they ran up the hill toward the conservation area. It is -31C with wind chill today, which is why 'Bent didn't take a dog with him to work. Crap, no puppy should be wandering in the woods in that weather. I went after them wearing Sorels, skidding around since I'd forgotten how slippery it still is. I called them in my friendliest voice but they scampered farther away. As I was coming down Thinker's Hill, I saw them come back to F&M's property from the conservation area, heading toward our house or F&M's house. I initiated a neighbourhood alert and have been watching outside. I hope they made it back to the road and got home safely. Ugh.