Recipes

Links for future reference:

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Energy Bars

My fave recovery drink:

• 1 banana
• 1 large tablespoon of natural PB
• 4 ice cubes
• Top up mini blender with chocolate almond milk
• Blend until smooth

Regular chocolate milk or chocolate soy milk are just as tasty.

Stats and that eh.

Ok, I'll try to make this a weekly habit. I've had some great runs and some shit runs. A scary hint of an injury and a bit of a recovery. Haven't been in the water in almost two weeks. That must change asap. Here we go:

• Jan 17th - 4.4km 30mins on the treadmill at work. Some barefoot for strength.
• Jan 18th - 5km home from Mountainview
• Jan 19th - 4.7km in 30-ish minutes on frozen Blackett's Lake. Great run and so much fun for a change. I ran in hiking boots in a few inches of fresh snow so it was a hard effort for the slow pace. Nice to run with both dogs off leash.
• Jan 20th - Long run. 18km in 1:49. Home to Coxheath and back. Started off stiff and not feeling great. Ended up having a great run and a near perfect split. Duke kept me company and ensured that I looked slightly less crazy talking to a dog than I would talking to myself.
• Jan 21st - 4.2 km in 30 mins. Very easy on TM at work. Very stiff and sore from yesterday (2.5 hrs of snowboarding didn't help) but felt better toward the end. This is the start of a rest week so I will be putting in fewer kms.
• Jan 22nd - 6km in 35mins. Home to Blackett's Lake Bridge and back. Lots of snow on the sidewalk. Pretty slippery. -8 and very little wind. Avec chiens.
• Jan 23rd - 5.9km in 35mins. TM at work.
• Jan 24th - Had to take the day off with a terribly blown-out back. Had me worried that I wouldn't be able to continue with the challenge. I have said from the beginning that I will not risk an injury that would keep me out of the Long John Jaunt or any triathlon training just for the 100 in 100.
• Jan 25th - 10am- 4.8km in 30mins. TM at work. 10pm- 5km in 30 mins in the cold and wind. Had to make up the double. Back was better but still a question mark.
• Jan 26th - 4.2km in 30 mins on the Lake. Much harder to run on the lake today. Clumps of packed snow and very slippery patches of exposed ice made it tough and slow. Ran further up the the head of the lake as far as possible before turning around. I've only ever been up that far in a canoe. A very cool perspective. Hopefully I'll get a chance to go for a longer run and go right around the lake at some point. Took the dogs and was joined by Flop on the turnaround loop from the house to the Nun's.
• Jan 27th - 12km in 1:08. Around the lake to Cann's farm and back. Ran the first 4km with Jody and Cara at a nice comfortable pace and then picked it up for 8km at or above my hopeful race pace for the LJJ. We'll see bud.

Take... whatever...

This would not be the first blog to be abandoned by me. No, sir. However I'd like to see it through at least to IMMT if for no other reason than to be able to look back on how all the shit went down. A dull pencil is sometimes better than a sharp mind and I've been in the habit of jotting all my workouts down on a calendar. So, at the very least, here's a list of stuff since late December.

• Dec 23rd - 8-ish km run. 45 mins.
• Dec 24th - 5km run.
• Dec 26th - 11+km run to town from home. Boxing day din din at Mom's.
• Dec 29th - 3500m swim. Second Saturday at the Northside Pool with a pared down Crusties group. Two excellent workouts. Apparently I also ran 12km that day but I can't remember where. Oh yeah, 8 with Jody (her first 8) and then another 4 with Duke. I think this was the start of the build toward the Long John Jaunt training.
• Dec 31st - Happy New Year or whatever. 1:20 on the bike trainer avec Spinervals. Followed immediately with a 25 minute hilly run. Happy Brick Day everyone!
• January 1st - Resolution Run. 8.6 km. Day 1 of 100 runs in 100 days. I'm doing it but I'll quit as soon as I feel like I should.
• Jan 2nd - 5km +
• Jan 3rd - 5km on the treadmill. 35 mins.
• Jan 4th - 4.5 km. Treadmill. 30 mins.
• Jan 5th - 6km. Road. 35 mins.
• Jan 6th - ditto
• Jan 7th - 6.4 km. 42 mins. TM
• Jan 8th - 14+km. 1:17. Tuesday tempo run. 1500m swim.
• Jan 9th - 5.5km
• Jan 10th - 5.4 km. RR. 30 mins
• Jan 11th - 4.6 km.
• Jan 12th - 3500m swim. 5.3 km in Petersfield Park.
• Jan 13th - 16km. 1:35. With Duke. He managed 2 poops and 3 pees.
• Jan 14th - 5.4 km. 30 mins. RR.
• Jan 15th - 11.3 km. 59 mins including a 10km pb. Go figure. Julie C carried me up Hardwood Hill on her back. 3200m swim.
• Jan 16th - 5.25 km. 33 mins. RR- Northend loop with Jody.

Whew. This explains why I'm tired all the time.