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Saturday Jun 30, 2012 #
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Yay, it's Tour de France time!! A note to any of you who record the stages and watch them later (like we do): I will not post any spoilers on my log until the day after a stage. Commenters, please don't jump the gun! Thanks. :) For now, I will only say that today's prologue was exciting in good and bad ways, and I think we're looking at another interesting battle for the podium.
Paddling (Surfski) 15:00 [2]
We had to take BulletDog for a consultation with a surgeon in Mississauga this morning. (Good news. No torn ACL - her knee is fine. The pain is radiating down her leg from a painful spot on her back, and it will hopefully go away with a few weeks of rest and anti-inflammatories.)
Since we were in the city, we tried texting Michael Fekete of Kayaksport.net to see if we could make an appointment to see their new store. He apologetically explained that he couldn't get to the shop because he was at a park by the Mississauga Sailing Club with some demo boats - just down the road from the vet office. Well, that was easy!
We tested the Epic V8 surfski on Lake Ontario. We were in street clothes since we hadn't planned on paddling, and we didn't have hats or sunscreen or our own PFDs or paddles. So we kept it short but we both enjoyed our test paddle. Michael and his son, who are both awesome paddlers, are loving the V8 and choosing it frequently, even though they can use any boat they want. They say the V8 is slower than higher performance surfskis on flat water but as soon as there is any chop (lake waves as opposed to ocean swells), its extra stability makes it faster than high performance surfskis for many paddlers. Hmm... we are getting close to decision time. I enjoyed paddling JayXC's V10 Sport too and didn't find it particularly unstable, so it's not an easy call.
Since we were in the city, we tried texting Michael Fekete of Kayaksport.net to see if we could make an appointment to see their new store. He apologetically explained that he couldn't get to the shop because he was at a park by the Mississauga Sailing Club with some demo boats - just down the road from the vet office. Well, that was easy!
We tested the Epic V8 surfski on Lake Ontario. We were in street clothes since we hadn't planned on paddling, and we didn't have hats or sunscreen or our own PFDs or paddles. So we kept it short but we both enjoyed our test paddle. Michael and his son, who are both awesome paddlers, are loving the V8 and choosing it frequently, even though they can use any boat they want. They say the V8 is slower than higher performance surfskis on flat water but as soon as there is any chop (lake waves as opposed to ocean swells), its extra stability makes it faster than high performance surfskis for many paddlers. Hmm... we are getting close to decision time. I enjoyed paddling JayXC's V10 Sport too and didn't find it particularly unstable, so it's not an easy call.
5 PM
Running (Trail and Country Road) 40:20 5.78 km (6:59 / km) +24m 6:50 / km
shoes: Salomon S-LAB FellCross
With two days of adventure race course testing last week and two more coming up again this week, I've got long slow distance training coming out of my ears. So I tried a hill training session - a few kms of warm-up, 1 Raspberry Hill, then 6 F&M Back Pond Hills with a short cool down. I pounded my quads as hard as I could on all of the downhills - the opposite of what I do in long races. Gotta toughen up!
In a history-making first, I added one more hill climb beyond what was originally planned. It felt like this was doing me some good so I hated to stop.
In a history-making first, I added one more hill climb beyond what was originally planned. It felt like this was doing me some good so I hated to stop.