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The summer post sin 7

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After Sinister 7 this year my body gave me a giant F you. My legs were tired and I felt completely depleted; the week post Sin I ran 40km when I should have been resting this also did not help my cause. So I decided not to sign up for Merriot Duathlon (where I wanted to get top 3 to apply for Tri Canada POO) and not to sign up for the St.Albert Tri and not to do the Edmonton half marathon. I really wanted to do the St.Albert Tri and the Merriot Duathlon this year because I have been putting lots of km on my road bike and in the pool since Sin ruined my legs and I mixed up my training. Two years ago when I did the St.Albert Tri-a-tri I got second so I really wanted to come back and push hard in the Sprint – however there is always next year and the year after that! Next year I will for sure I am going to race a Duathlon qualifier.

For the last few weeks I have been running 30km/week and a minimum of 30-50km on my bike! I even had a 35km road bike business meeting; it was awesome minus the fact I couldn’t clip out fast enough at one spot and ate poo during a meeting so embarrassing. On the long weekends Jesse and I always go to Jasper so of course we were there August long! We hiked/ran Whistlers with Chocolate his first big hike and did all the normal stuff. I got a few good runs in while we were there and our puppy thinks camping in the bomb diggity because the tent is a giant snooze pillow and he thinks deer should be his best friend.

Snoozing in the tent.

On our hike. Someone is more interested in the birds.

So pretty. Whistlers.

Things are finally back to normal this weekend we are going to the cabin, next weekend we race 5 Peaks Chickacoo one of our favorites minus Devon which is the BEST ONE EVER; and then we will be back in Jasper for September long with our best friends and their new puppy. Him and Chocolate are becoming the best of friends.

Then from there we are back to September, which for me is the busiest time of my life; because I work in a post secondary and I start coaching cross country again. I have tailored my training to cross country specific now, last week was my first week back training specific XC and it was awesome. My fastest 5km time was 24 minutes so I am very pleased and my 30×1 w/ 1 intervals went really well. I will be training XC specific with a mix of ultra training thrown in there (Sunday LONG runs) because on October long I will be soloing the Grizzly Ultra 50km with Jesse and our best friends will be there to cheer us on and help with our pup. Love them AND we get to have a big thanksgiving together.

Anyways back to zooming; MY FAVORITE race series of all time starts in a few weeks the Frank McNamara Wednesday night races – fall races are much harder than spring but they are awesome because all the post secondary teams run them so there its lots of people and I get to run with my team! This will be my 5th year of Franks races between all the members in my family including Josie we have a bizillon franks shirts!

I was looking in to doing Canada Pentiction Ironman next year but it is just too much money right now because we want to buy a house and on top of our normal warm holidays registration alone for the full iron = one week in Mexico; so I am thinking of doing Canada Calgary Half Ironman and my dad and I are doing the 175km Tour de’l Alberta 175km together because he road bikes also!

That is all for now and remember to eat healthy because;

hahahaha too funny I had too!

Another year of Wednesday night races in the bag

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Yesterday marked the final race of the Spring Frank Mcnamara Wednesday night race series. There are 5 races in the series; personally I think the spring series runs are supAr fun. This is my third year racing them and every year seems to get better. This year I beat all my times by a minimum of a minute I also came in 8th in my age category, usually out of 20 plus girls. I’m super pumped about all of that considering my goal was top 10 each race. How we say success. The only pit fall of the series was at the last race my stomach was acting up pretty bad and by pretty bad I mean I was constipated (gross I know). So I took an Aleve to subside the pain? It helped a bit…ish. Now to rectify this little hiccup I am drinking smooth exit tea – YEAH that’s the real name; what if the exit isn’t smooth hmm? It tastes like weird camomile tea. Awesome, we will see how that pans out; even the package it comes in looks all weird organic medicine-y.

Training has been going really well; last week I was in Jasper with work and I got in some great training (in my favorite place super shocker I know). I didn’t take any photos which, was totally my fault but I did hill intervals at Old Fort Point with the sheeps and ran with the elks almost everyday. It’s May so they are out in full force. My interval day I did up Pyramid lake road they were 9 – 3 minute intervals w/ 1 min walk 1min jog. This is my little fancy chart thing from the run to spice this post up.

Interval training day. Woot.

I did a few two-a-days; they are hard but I noticed a difference in my performance when I did an am run before a Wednesday night race. I felt really strong and ready to go. Now that we are in May I have started back training in the pool and on my awesome possum bike because Tri season will start for me in August. I sport my swim cap and one piece bathing suit – I am sexy and I know it. Then I go back to work looking like a drowned rat because I swim on my lunch break once per week. Sew tutes. Back to running training; I have started running more in my 5 fingers so like once a week instead of once every 2 or 3 or 5 weeks. I truly love them but usually just wear them on hiking, adventures, and in the gym. It has been a nice change they are so comfs. (comfy if you didn’t catch my personal abbreviation).

This Saturday will be the first 5 Peaks race of the year! Party on! Can’t wait hopefully I race it much better than last year because I got the shit kicked out of me. No lie but I still had fun because they are that awesome. Then I am gone to Ontario for work for Cystic Fibrosis Canada Shinerama! My people! Then the weekend after that is the Blackfoot Ultra, I will be doing the 25km baby ultra. See there is my training schedule and motivation notes. Nerd nerd nerd nerd. Also the  picture will not rotate you can do some neck stretches to look at it if you wish.

 

The picture will not rotate I do not know why.

That is all.

 

For now.

 

10 Thank You Thursdays

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Thank you and Thursday sound fancy together so I thought I would make a quick list of things I am thankful for. I’m even going to use numbered bullets and photos.

  1. The fact that kilometers are superior to miles for two reasons. km = Canadian and km’s sound way more impressive than miles. “I ran 13.1 miles today, oh really I ran 21.1km” Sounds so much better.
  2. The Nest had an ice cream special on today and I ate it at 10:30 in the morning. I now feel extremely sick regardless of taking lactose pills. But that is okay because it was DELISH. I will also never learn.

    Nomnomnom chocolate and roasted coconut.

  3. The cool new shirt I just bought. I luffs it. Shameless self photo via computer in my office.
    Yes, I took this photo in my office with my computer
  4. The beautiful weather in my less than beautiful city. Its finally in the double digits sometimes which, is very nice 10 and 12 degrees you make me smile!

    12! Like the tropics!

  5. That running has been going pretty good lately. My stomach has been acting up really bad but I have still made it through all my runs and they are all in the sunshine. I even am starting to take my gloves off and hill training twice a week! Holla!

    3km of hills after a 7km run.

  6. I just got a new keyboard because my other one broke while writing this post. The cap locks did not want to turn off and I don’t think people want to READ THIS ALL THE TIME. It feels like typing on magical clouds with spurts of rainbows and kittens running around. I am sure this will up more productivity 5%. Thank you work for the new keyboard.
  7. My big fat tax return. Thank you to my mothers fancy tax program and data input skills for getting me this haha. I doubled my “I might have enough money for a down payment for a house when I am 80″ savings account by depositing my cheque. My tax return was huge and went in to haus One day it will happen.
  8. This magical cheque also means I have a bit of money I am going to go shopping with. Oh Hai Lululemon.
  9. The Wednesday night cross country race series starts soon and they are my favorite races of all time besides Sinister. Just simply amazing and fun. To top that off Mountian Equipment Co-Op in Edmonton is having a race April 15th. I love MEC and races that cost $10.
  10. Finally, I am thankful for Old Spice Game Day deodorant, yes it is mens but it smells SO GOOD. I will not lie to you I, sometimes smell my armpits during the day it smells that good. It is also superior at masking post running/fitness sweat if you don’t want to shower. Story of my life.

    INVEST.

    That is all for now. I am really excited for summer. I downloaded an oceans sound app to help me daydream about my cabin and summer things. Pathetic I know.

Summer I am coming for you. So tanned and happy haha.