rainin saturday

Raining it's pouring, I got soaked while bikin

this mornings run. Mt. Pleasent- Bayview - Brickworks trail

Distance: 13k (From Vash's place)
Weather - Overcast, with drizzle

Feeling: GREAT
Time: 1:00 - +/- 3 min with several 30 s walks (totaling 800m)

Now I'm off to St. Lawerence and then NY!!!


On thursday it was beautiful, Here's a back post:


Distance: 12 +/- .5k
All the way to Munro park baby (hill session at the end of the beach
Felt: beginning, like I couldn't get started,
After: slower than normal
Weather: SUNNY! 24!
Result: Got a Tan!!! and a Tank and short-shorts. great apparel for this run!

sprint

Weather: 12, with gusts of wind,
Feeling: Chilly
Apparel: long-sleeve, and shorts.Distance: 3.2k To the Park
Did 5 Sprints around a 400m lap (avg. 1:35, tons of wind.) with 1:30 walk around lap (1/2 - 3/4 lap) Total: 3kish
Run home3k

Total: 9k (Sweet....) +/- 500m

Then I did CORE. I HATE YOU!

weekend of niceness

Sunday had an "awesome" time at work... let's just say it's almost equivalent to doing a marathon.

At the end of work we did some CORE! it's sooo tiring In Total 3 cycles.
cycle consisted of:
15 crunches
15 leg jacks
15 leg raises
1 min plank
2x 30 s side planks
15 push-ups

Afterwards, we followed it up with this run:
(sidenote: I love being able to use MAPS @ Goggle. )

(Total distance: 7k Loop. Probably ran 6k, walked 1k)
Felt: like I could keep going.

After the run I was very exhausted but was still loving the fact that I'm slowly getting onto my marathon training, which is now being post-poned until Sept. (gah)

taking it slowly, but I wanna go.

oh sunny day

No OTTAWA MARATHON = SAD!

So it's time for the OTTAWA RACE Weekend, but unfortunately I am not there this year. Registered and everything, but long-story.

This morning went on a nice run, after a week of recover due to ankle issues.....

I dub this the: End of Broadwalk Run

Total Distance: 11k

Felt: GREAT.
thoughts: shorts tans are the best.

Stats this week: [S:5.2k, B: 62k, R: 15k ]
Got a good 2.2k swim on wednesday evening... hmm I'll have to start swimming again too, if I want my goals to be accomplished.

Just had a lovely expedition to Lil India .... DOSA! great times

enjoying the lovely weather with abook and a drink.

rain, rain, drench

This long weekend was set-up to be rainy, gloomy, and cold.

All of the above were true. Even though I love the rain, and the smell of it on a puesdo-nice day, I wasn't going to be stuck at work for 4 hours to wait out the rain....

As I rode home, I stopped off at CT and picked up some produce. In the 5 minutes it took me to get there, I was already pretty wet, so I decided if I'm already drenched while biking home, I might as well just bike past my house to bulk barn and avoid the change of unnecessary clothing.

BULK BARN

Is a bulk food retailer that has over 4,000 items for sale. But I needed to pick up some choco chips, walnuts, and falafel mix. All great things! but the best is the choco-covered raisins!!!

So the point of my story was to say, if you're already drenched might as well make an adventure out of it.

UPDATE: post-bike fall my knees are bruised, but nothing too serious. except my right wrist that is a bit irritating and hurts when I turn it counter-clockwise... I'll get it checked out if it continues. No swelling though.. sooo... hmm, ICE that baby.

cut-off, crash, fall!

Weekly total:
S:3k, B: 82k, R: 23k

Saturday morning run. 10k. Good, ankle doing okay. knee holding its' own.
verdict: a lil chilly! but no shorts tan this time around.

Breaky- after a night of indian and narnia =great combo.

My transit to the place resulted in several on-road vehicles cutting me off, or just plain HORRIBLE signalling.
FREE TIMES= FAB 4. hhhmmm, wonder who I'd be if we were the cast of Sex and the City. (random?! much!)

on the way home, I was biking at my regular speed, and the daunting corner once again haunted me.
Parliement and Queen.

Its been a while since I crashed at this intersection, getting my tire got stuck in the streetcar track. But the ghost of karma, past, struck. They say that "things never happen twice" and so it didn't.

This time, a LARGE WHITE ESCALADE decided it was going to turn out of it's parking spot. Granted, I saw it signalled and was slightly slowing down, hoping that it'd turn into the appropriate lane. From what I recall, there were no cars, since I had just crossed the intersection as it was approaching yellow.

NO MOVEMENT, kinda turning, BRAKE. .... I slow-down, but BRAKE HARD since it was clearly going to turn into the moving lane. What resulted was myself, flying over the handle-bar and landing right onto the palms of my hands, and my knees taking the brunt of the fall. I literally flew over my handle-bars. Thankfully no cuts, but tons of bruises.

What made it sooo much better, was the fact that the car zoomed right off... thanks!
There were a couple of nice ppl getting into their parked car, who asked how I was doing.... I walked it off, and largely was checking the state of my bike and my hands.

THANKS! brakes ajarred, palms were stinging, I was slightly shaken, but was very apprehensive while riding over the river.

thanks!

enjoy the rest of your long-weekend.

Finally

I'm BACK!

Woke up late, lazied about, and then decided it's time for me to RUN!

Total distance: 13k
Total Time: 78 (58 min + 20 min cool down walk)

Decided to do a beach run!

Got off strong!
Went to B in 35 min. and got to the 10k- ~50min
Decided that it wasn't enough distance, so I went to River and Queen.

Walked back to my starting point to pick up bike.


Felt: ekk @ 7k, knee was giving in, but then I pushed through, and it was fine.
After feeling: AMAZING! great run, great walk.
Ran to: HOT CHIP - Made in the Dark
This is amazing! I'm back to run, gotta take it slow though.

YES! high-five!

Planet Earth, planet not!

BEST NATURE DOC around!

Planet earth episode 1 was viewed tonight, but not everyone was actually watching it.............

Great times, great people, great food- (needs work though!)

LOVED IT.... and I noticed you tooo//// before we even knew each other -_-!!

hearts, stars!

it's nice outside, so what?

Weekly total from commuting:
S: 5k, B: 95k, R: 10k

let's hope I can run this week, I'm starting on Monday!!!! let's not press it though.

Went bike shopping. Saw some really good stuff... more later.

Such a great saturday, off to the patio I go to read in the lights of my back porch!!

SPRING, here I come.
missing everyone that I haven't seen in 3 days, it's kinda sad, but.......... I'll see them all on monday!

NXNE - not very exciting... Major makers? maybe

Viva la vida

This morning, I really didn't feel like getting out of bed. Most likely it's because I'm kinda tired, and sick.... I got to work and was uplifted by the beautiful people that I share the morning with.

I bought new cordless/wireless phones and they're different from before, but they were COOL.

Got home, from my bike ride, with ANOTHER FLAT.!!! I'm getting a new bike!

But I've been vegging out to CBC Newsworld ALL afternoon. I love love love that channel.
and I just got to download and listen to the new single from coldplay. Viva la vida!

two words: MAGIC EVERYDAY.


thoughts?

(photo: aroma expresso on Bloor West , sugar and hears make my life, plus the kool people that attended FLOW with me.)

First weekend of MAY!!!

This usually indicates the beginning of patio season, all this spring, mother's day and the start of a great spring-summer running season!!

SERIOUSLY!

Saturday the weather decided it would like to start off with the remaining April showers... so it did.
I took in an awesome blue jays game v. Chicago White Socks.

We won.5-2 (WP: Jesse litch)

Then had a great outting to EAton Centre while walking in the rain.

Sunday:
Meant the Sporting Life 10k, which I've been dreading!

Finished in 1:03.... pretty lame... but It was my knee's fault.

To the right is the Asics Family - Cass, Robs, Cin.

Too bad I couldn't do a PB.... I really wish I didn't have runner's knee/ meniscus problems.

weak week

to run or not to run?!

concerts week= ok,
Kate nash, Woodhands, (midnight juggernaught)

work, work , work.

RUn run run, bike bike bike, swim swim swim!

Sporting life 10k tomorrow, let's see how this is.

running in 1hour, hopefully!