long run

so i forgot to take my camera today - and too bad as it was really bee-ootiful out on the trail. stoopid dora ! sun was shining and the sky was bluer than blue! ran into a couple friends on the way - onions and october - and a couple of hikers. and the dead turkey vulture was still haunting the trail. had to scale the last little bit up the the lookout north of 9 - using trees for anchors - and only wiped out once on k2.

put in 4:37 and finished strong. legs only got cranky the last 30 minutes or so.

'life is good'

snow's back - again . . .

well it started wednesday morning and ended up looking like this on my thursday run up to k2 and back . . .

put in a solid week of training so far. did some tempo/hill repeat/tempo stuff on wednesday in the blizzard and came back with frozen eye lashes. felt okay though.

lots of upper body work at crossfit end of week - probably a good thing considering the running i had to do. check out this kool shot from friday night club - looking good guys!

hi kane . . .

and i love this one . . .

did a super easy hour on the humber saturday morning. and okay, i know it's pretty - but ENOUGH WITH THE SNOW ALREADY!! i got a 50 miler in may to train for !

hoping for strong legs tomorrow - coach spaff has me doing 4 thirty. think i'll head north and see if that dead turkey vulture's still on the trail . . .


happy earth hour !

road trip

check out lucas - cutest little crossfitter in bolton - well - next to kane of course!

nice underpants fed . . .

friday night club - big group - i ended up doing a few extra squats and push-ups with my superstar friend lisa - like 80 push-ups and 300 squats. gee, no wonder my run SUCKED on saturday!!

after 2.5 hours of stomping around in palgrave saturday, me, andrea and shar ventured south of 7 for a trip to mec - we hadn't been yet this month - an americano at starbucks, and the main purpose of our visit - to see miss pugsley in toy story 3 - a disney on ice production!

sky rats everywhere !

after buying this REALLY kool hat at mec, the girls thought i looked even MORE like a homeless person than usual - so i figured this would make a great picture. and the best part was - nobody even seemed to notice what i was doing! and my very most favorite sister called me a 'binner'. I LIKE IT !

once we got inside the show, the girls had to buy their own hats . . .

a few shots from the show

my fave - buzz lightyear . . .

andrea wanted some cotton candy and shar wanted another hat, so for $12 we got BOTH!

unfortunately i didn't get a shot of miss pugsley - doh! we were way too distracted with all the stuff going on around us!! great pic of the 3 of us though!

we managed to escape just as the show was ending, and didn't get caught up in the kerfuffle of a thousand kids trying to get out of the building!!

here we are being idiots in the elevator . . .

and this is the pylon we stole from wellington street as we were pulling out of the parking garage - we've decided that we will try and get one from every road trip from now on. oh, one more thing - andrea wasn't going to buy anything from mec - but she ended up spending over 200$. we think she is a 'mec-aholic' and that she is out of control !!

today (sunday) was the second of my back2back long runs. after ghetto gym at 8, training with the glp at 9:30 and then MUCH procrastination, i finally got moving around noon. temp was perfect and the trail conditions weren't too bad. a good chunk of ice up k2 and north of 9, but nothing the cascrews couldn't handle. here's a shot from the boardwalk by the gore.

and here's a shot of me at the end with my kool new hat !! i LOVE this hat even if it does embarass my nephew stevie !

so great day of running - got in 3.5 hours and felt strong! woohoo !

'life is good'

sap's running

welcome sign up on the trail last weekend !

warm weather means wet feet . . .

ah, but happiness is a dry pair of sox stuck in the backpack!

woohoo! got me a new pair of moeben sleeves !


hopefully a good weekend coming up - two back-to-back long runs and a trip south of 7 with shar and andrea to see miss pugsley in disney on ice !!!

ROAD TRIP !

forging elite fitness . . .

so it was exactly a year ago that i mustered up the courage to walk through this door . . .

the first thing i saw was this sign . . .

and past the sign, i saw this . . .

right before i ran into this guy . . .

who wanted me to do pull-ups on this . . . HA HA - you're kidding, right ?!

and so over the next 12 months, i was made to do a lot of bizarre things . . .

while being coached, encouraged, corrected and sometimes yelled at by these people . . .

i was lucky enough to meet a lot of incredibly strong, beautiful individuals . . .

and a few characters . . .

and of course, being me, i incurred a few injuries along the way . . .

stoopid pull-ups . . .

don't land the bar ON your chest . . .

stoopid pull-ups . . .

don't drop the bar ON your foot . . .

DOH !

stoopid pull-ups . . .

i even managed to get that really big guy out running . . .

AND do a competition !!

for me, the most fun is at our friday night club - even when the workouts just about kill me !

oh ya - one more thing - i did manage to get my ass up on that bar finally - stoopid fucking pull-ups !!!!!

and so a big monster thanks to all the truly amazing people at crossfit bolton who are standing along side me every time i hear '3,2.1, GO ! ' you're all incredible and i can't think of a better place to spend a friday night !

love you all !!!
'the old one'