I knew this morning was going to be the start of a heat wave so I got up at 4:30 AM intending to head out at 7 AM. The day before, Marilyn and I measured out the 15 km course on our bicycles. We put on about 27 km on our bikes. [...]
Posts from ‘June, 2008’
Run 57, 2008
I had a most interesting run today, doing another 11 km in 1:21:40 for a 7:26 pace. I would have done better except that as I was about 1.5 km from home, running along the road, I saw a very fat and healthy pair of badgers come onto the road from out of the [...]
Run 56, 2008
Well again I did not start out until 1 PM for my planned 8 km run. I still feel like crap, but I decided that if I waited until I felt perfect I’d never do anything. I decided early on in the run to go for 11 km and I did that in [...]
Run 55, 2008
My intention was to head out for a scheduled 21 km at the start of this, my rest week. I did not start until about 12:30 PM and things went awry. I did not finish, far from it! I only managed to finish 8 km in 1:03: 46 for a 7:58 pace.
I [...]
Karate 48
Yesterday (Saturday) was the last class of this season. We will be starting summer classes July 8th. There will be one class at the Devon Community Center on Tuesday and one class at Elmwood in Edmonton on Thursday. There will be kobudo so we will have to bring our weapons to class.
Marilyn [...]
Run 54, 2008
Today’s run started at 9:50 AM and I knew it was supposed to last a good 3 hours which would put me into the hottest part of the day. I could say I was extremely lazy and did not get out of bed early enough, but no! The real reason, *ahem* was that [...]
Karate 47
The thing to note about today’s class was that we devoted the class to some pretty fast thinking as opposed to relatively slow deliberate kata. We practiced kihon katas and Ko Tai Rin while being attacked. This is Bunkai. One person was being attacked by 6 people. The people performing the [...]