doctor joe goes heli skiing ...

a few of us went in on good friday to train!  it was a blast!  we even got a half decent selfie thanks to father jimmy's gorilla arms ...

easter weekend was a good back-to-back.  did the humber station to glenn haffy route on saturday for just over 3 hours.  love all the green moss ...

the pirate stream ...

water was really clear ...

beauty shot of the sky ...

by the gore ...

just lying around ...

i took this one after a 40 minute run with eddy on the rail trail tuesday! kinda kool how i managed to catch the sun ...

this view put me in a great mood friday morning!  so lucky to see stuff like this ...

this saturday i headed back up the palgrave sidetrail and made it ALMOST to the lookout north of 9.  for the most part the trails are awesomely clear now.  EXCEPT for this wall of snow ...

there was no way i was getting up that!!

put in a solid 4 hours.  legs were somewhat kranky at first, but i warmed up after about an hour and finished strong!  yay!   once i stretched and crawled back into my car, i had my usual 'post-run breakfast' at the archtop cafe in bolton!     mmmm - extra bacon! 

 

and then after a bunch of stuff at sunday mass - all i fucking remember is 60 burpees - we went out for breakfast club!  mmmm - lots of bacon!  and i just LOVE toni's (with an i) cute little face ...

 

 

 

monday was back to the rail trail with eddy.  we did a solid 5.5km - and i think i'm getting the hang of it.  what's next - this maybe ...

 

 the weather has finally warmed up JUST enough that the ghetto girls can train outside.   marion couldn't make it on monday, so we thought we'd cheer her up with a 'selfie' ...

and it's about time i give a huge 'shout out' to one of my clients - doctor joe!  i've been training him for quite a few years, and it's always an adventure.  well, last summer, july 7 to be exact, doctor joe fell down the stairs (he still maintains his wife janner pushed him).  this resulted in a total tear of his quadriceps muscle, and tears of the lateral and medial meniscus.  after surgery on july 12, he was put in a cast for 2 months.  on september 18, he was able to get back to the gym, with the intention of just getting his leg strength back up to where it was.  it was a slow process - starting out with single leg presses at just 10lbs.  throughout the fall we kept upping the weights and then working on regaining some of his balance.  now i can't remember the exact date, but sometime around christmas, he informed me that he had been invited to go heli skiing in british columbia the end of march, and did i think it was possible!  good grief!

so we really started busting ass!  it was fun!  i had him drag me around the track while holding on to ski poles and doing quarter turns, i had him pushing the back extension bench (weighted) up and down the hallway of the gym - all to the amusement of the other members.  the best part - we got his one-leg press up to 125!  not bad at all!  after our final session on april 28, i gave my little fledgling a big hug and sent him on his way.  the result - well this photo pretty much says it all ...

soooooo proud of his achievement!  he worked his ass off and he made it happen!  LOVE IT!  you're awesome doctor joe!

compwod tag team open 2014

i really put my legs to the test last weekend.   coach D wanted me to run 3.5 hours on saturday - not a problem - except that i had signed up for a crossfit competition the next day.  what the hell?  what could go wrong?  so i headed out just after 10 on the palgrave sidetrail, and made my way over to hwy 9 before turning back.
 

conditions were all over the place, some ice ...

some dirt ...

some snow ...

and a purty blue sky overhead ...

took a little breather at the top of k2 before heading back to my car.

3.5 hours done and i felt great!

on sunday i woke up a little stiff, but not bad!   me and my partner, policeman dave, drove to crossfit cordis in oakville for the compwod tag team open.   as usual, our hosts, jamie and kevin, put on a fantastic event!

dave had only done one small competition before, so he wasn't sure what to expect.  the first wod was kool!  well, for me, but maybe not him!  he had to carry my sorry old arse across his shoulders for 400m.  we both almost died!  he with my weight, and me almost being dumped in a pothole!  haha!  but we did it.  i then got to run 400m with a 30lb sandbag while dave did a shit-load of wallballs!  in the span of 10 minutes, we managed both runs and 160 wallballs!  we placed pretty good after this wod.  the second one didn't really suit me.  the goal was to reach our one rep max clean, with rounds of cindy thrown in between.  i only got to 115 - almost all of the other females STARTED at 125 - while dave pr'd at 225!  wahoo!  unfortunately our combined score wasn't that great and overall we ended up in the 'b' or 'badass' division.

the third wod was a blast - a 12 minute chipper!  it started with 30 reps each of front squats, shoulder to overhead, cleans and snatches - split up between the two of us.
 

the only kicker was that while one partner was doing reps, the other couldn't drop the bar!

we thought we were doing okay, but we were the last ones to finish the bar work - wtf?

from there we ran over to the ropes, it was only a 12 foot climb, so i did one and dave did the rest - pretty easy for him considering his height!  after doing 50 squat jumps, we stumbled through 30 burpee over box jumps, of which dave did more for sure!

then 30 knees to elbows - again, dave crushed these ...

and finally, we had to do 10 wall climbs.  i had asked dave before we started if he'd ever done one, to which he replied, 'well, i watched kathy do one once ...'  hahaa!

but he did pretty good!

with 5 seconds remaining on the clock, i scrambled up the wall, banged my forehead, and crumpled down to get in the final rep!  wahoo!

what a hoot!  i loved that one!  dave - not so sure ...

by just sneaking in the last rep, we managed to get ourselves into the semi-finals!
 

and, in true compwod fashion, it involved thrusters (my least favorite bar move) and burpees (my least favorite anything).  5 minutes to do 15 thrusters, 30 burpees over bar, and another 15 thrusters.  the only kicker being we had to do them TOGETHER!  so if one of us dropped the bar, the other one had to wait!  argh!  we weren't quite fast enough to get into the top 3 and move on, but we were a very respectable 6th place out of i think 21 teams!  not bad for a rookie and an old broad ...

thanks dave!  that was a super fun day.  i had a blast and you were an awesome partner!

this weekend, moose is helping me move my shit out of the farm.  a girl can only go so long without water, and, i can't live in the palace forever.

but life goes on ...

love you mfs, miss you ...

 

 

see kat run !

we got our kevin ogar shirts the other day!  wahoo!  looking good!

i actually managed to get out on the trail somewhat early on saturday - well, earlier than usual!  started at humber station and got almost through glen haffy.

kool cedar patterns on the snow through k2 ...

not the birthday tree, but just as impressive!

oh ya!  rocking it for 3 hours and feeling good!

yup!

after another barbaric workout of burpees and thrusters at sunday mass, we headed out for breakfast.  policeman dave did the 'just show up after class' thing this week!  and rannnnnnnnnnnn-dy was well behaved!

and LOOK who i got out on the trail!  yup!  badkat!  after a rather amusing conversation ...

tree hugger!

i think she's having fun!

climbing hills!

we even ran into sherry and buffett!  it's above zero so he ventured outside!

 what a great run - almost an hour and she didn't get her shoes muddy!

awesome weekend - i'm beat!  and i leave you with this ...

thanks tone!