Halloween Updates

So the trainer tire has come back off the bike, because it looks like it's going to be a decent next week, or at least the rumors say that there's going to be a nice and mild November, followed by an utterly crappy 3 months of colder than average winter.  So a thought would be to try and take advantage of that as much as possible, and hopefully get in the last little bits of decent weather, especially with the upcoming race.  I'm running the doctors without borders run this Saturday, it's just going to be a fun run, so we'll see what happens.

The trainer is out

Unfortunately, this past week has been not so great for the weather here in Calgary, so I have finally pulled the trainer tire onto the bike, and I've put the bike onto the trainer, and it looks like it's going to be a long winter. Pictures will come up soon

Mother nature does not co-operate (Pt 2)

So yesterday started off as a possible bust in terms of going out and getting a decent run in, but as I was determined to not be lazy, I layered up, and went out for a run, as I was heading out my sister was also heading for a run, and she's like well you run faster than me, why don't you take the key.... great idea right? WRONG
I use my iPod and Nike+ to track my runs and what not, oh that and to yell (tell) me how far I have run.  The experience yesterday will probably push me in the next little while to get a dedicated watch of some sort, probably from Garmin, probably the from the Forerunner series, more on that later.  But when I finally got the chip to hook up, my sister was already probably a good 6-8 minutes ahead, not really a huge deal, but I was only doing a 5k time trial, so that made making up time hard.  So I ran and ran and ran some more, in the end caught up to her after roughly 2k, and then got hit by a major cramp.  All in all, ran a 22.38 for the 5k, so I won't moan and groan.

Lessons Learned
- Get a real device to track your running, a gps watch, something, just not a device that's meant to be something else
- You're better off chasing someone down and making up time after you have ran a k or two, not right off the bat, because you will feel it, and it hurts
- I also remembered that I need lots of stretching...

Mother nature does not co-operate

So today was supposed to be one of the few days left to get in a decent ride on the bike, but unfortunately, between school, weather, and real life, these plans have completely and utterly derailed.  The original plan was to go out to Banff and get in two solid days of around 100k, but then I found out that I really should work on studying for my midterms which look like they're going to kick me in the face.  So we scaled those plans down and said lets just do a semi long-ish ride and then go to cadence have breakfast and carry on studying.  Then that fell through when we looked at the weather forecast and realized that it is going to be..................... 0 degrees when we left warming up to a balmy 3 degrees. so I said screw that and decided to sleep in.

Fast forward to this morning and I woke up and was like well I can't go biking, I'll go running, well got up, looked at the weather, and reached the same conclusion, I'm not going running in zero degree weather, so with that I will now go find breakfast, and get down to a long day of studying...joy.

Slightly on hold

So as midterm season rolls around, more and more midterms piling onto us, there will probably not be a whole lot of updates on this front, but on a completely different note, I have managed to get her (Jess) on board to this blogging thing.  Now the only catch is that I need to teach her how to do it, and I'm just kinda doing this as I learn too, so that should be interesting.