monday the 7th of June

Run this morning.  Overcast and calm.  10*C.  Did some hill work.  Not many hills in Swan  but I found one that gives the legs a bit of a work out.  Out about an hour with warm up run and cool down runs.  I started at 1/4 to 7a.m.  Reid & Val - started at 5:30a.m.  Good deal.  The best time to run is in the morning before all hell breaks loose.  Then,  however the day pans out, you got your run in.  If you leave it at the end of the workshift - you're tired and you'd much rather sit down and relax.  Do it in the morning, I say.
Keep give'n'er,
gk

sunday the 5th of june

Did a long run at 4p.m. when we got back from the Lake.  Ran from home to the Roaring River bridge on #10 at the Auction Mart and then back.  12 miles.  Took me over 2 hours.  The last couple miles were hard - that's a given I guess.   I'll do one more long run next Sunday (June 12th) but it won't be as long  - maybe 10 or 8 miles.    This week I will do some speed work and hills.  And then it's a taper off thing for the run on the 19th.  I'll be glad when the run is over.  The training isn't that fun, it's crossing the finish line that's the real fun.  I'm hoping I can get in under 2 hours.  It's getting harder.  Last year I was 1:57, pretty close to going over the 2 hour mark.  Eventualy, maybe this year, I'm going to go over.  We'll give it a good shot. 

Keep give'n'er,
gk

friday the 3rd of June, 2011

Hey, nice morning out there, and Friday to boot.  What a rain last nigh eh and it came down hard.

Sunshine this morning.

Started run at 20 to 7a.m.  Did a 20 minute warm up run and then some hill work.  The hill I used was at the railway tracks at Morley's.  It's a fairly long taper down to Centennial.  So, I ran up hard from Centennial to the railway tracks.  Then walked a little ways back to Heyes Street and jogged back to the bottom at Centennial and  hard back up the hill to the tracks.   I did 10 of those reps and then a straight run back home.  Took close to an hour. 

The hill work was definately a run  "out of the comfort zone".   The legs were working and the heart rate up.  It wasn't hard to change to a walk after I hit the top of the hill at Morley's tracks.

Have a great week-end everybody,
Keep give'n'er out there,
GK 

thursday the 2nd of June 2011

Hey, how's it going?

Went out at 6:30a.m. this morning and did the New By-Pass.  Met Kevin Warkentine on 3rd St. N.  Did the route anti-clockwise this morning, ending up on Ross, 9th Ave. and back to my place via the Ag Path.  These dandelions are quite beautiful actually.  If we tried to grow them, we probably couldn't do it.  They would be especially beautiful if we had them show like this on the first of March instead of the middle of May.  This morning was nice for running but after that it cooled down about 9*C and then into the rain business again.  Those coolish temps and drizzley stuff  aren't that bad for running.  Keeps the engine cool.  It's a much tougher job in high heat.  TGIF day tomorrow; and that's a good thing. 

keep give'n'er out there,
gk 

Wednesday the 1st of June 2011

Hey.  Nice day today.  Went for a run around the new by-pass at 11a.m.  Shorts.  I had two layers up top; a logsleeve base layer and a t-shirt over top.  I didn't need the two layers.  I was quite warm running. 

Met Derek and ran with him a bit.  He's going great guns in prep for the Mb. 1/2.  Last week he did a 13 mile long run.  Good for you Derek; you are training very well.

It's nice to be the 1st of June.  All summer ahead of us.  Long sunny days.  Daylight early and sunset late.  It's more bbq weather than Stanley Cup weather. 

Keep give'n'er out there,
gk