Alive With Sport

I’m 7/7 in the Feb bike challenge! It’s Monday and I have to admit, my legs are tired. Riding 1hr on your bike isn’t actually that much, but I’m feeling it. With such a busy weekend**, scheduling workouts was a challenge (Sunday included a 6am trainer ride and a 9pm speed endurance [...]

Here’s the results for my first couple days in the February bike challenge
Day 1 – 1:02:19, 22km – nice ride, mild weather
Day 2 – 1:20:51, 27km – soggy bike in the am, nice in evening, also had a quality run session
Day 3 – 1:01:18, 17km – all over downtown
Wednesday night I was super tired, so [...]

This week, I was back to my comfortable summer routine of weekly workouts. Monday off, Tues/Thurs running, Wed/Fri swimming, and a few more workouts thrown in for good measure.
Here’s the stats for my Tuesday bike commute. The second half was harder because realized I was going to be late for the run.
45:51, 21.4km
28.2 [...]

Solid week of training, especially considering the big work week plus the fatigue carried over from the training camp.  Highlight of this week was the long run with Calvin… and the gorgeous weather for gardening on the weekend.

Big work week.  Tues/Wed launch of our new NSERC PromoScience funded field trip program….

Highlight of this week was the Birch Bay ride.  Good pace (@29kph) with good riding buddies… but I ran out of food.  What an amateur move. I won’t let that happen again anytime soon.

Highlight of this week was the ride with ride with Calvin & Joel, Delta to Colebrook to 162 hill.  Calvin and I had our own little criterium in the church parking lot.

This doesn’t include all the gardening that I did over the Easter weekend.  I must have moved 25+ buckets of manure… at 40lbs a bucket – the lifting and shoveling was quite the workout.