Hey!

It is official I am not racing any triathlons this year. I am okay with that, I still want to do the marathon though...I guess I should sign up for it!

I am running, hiking, going to a bootcamp, trail running - all kinds of good stuff. I do miss Lucy though. I am sure she is feeling neglected upstairs all by herself. I should take her out for a spin one of these days!

Chad and I just got back from holidays in the Yukon. We went up there for a week to visit my family. I think that drive gets longer everytime we do it! Here are some photos from the trip:

First rest stop along the way - some logging road!

After awhile Rexy finally went to sleep and we could relax!

These are the caribou Rexy so kindly got off the highway for us!

Summit Lake - Stone Mountain

Ready, set, go!

This was taken the day before solstice

Hmmmm...what doesn't belong in this photo?

Whitehorse

Miles Canyon

A view from the top of Miles Canyon

We went to the Salmon Ladder

Fishing at Butterfly Lake

Chad caught a fish in the lake behind my house, this is my dad cleaning the fish.

Here is the fish before it was in my belly!

Moose at Toad River

On the way home...

SURPRISE!!!

Hey!

As many of you already know Chad COMPLETELY surprised me for my birthday by taking me to San Diego. This was hands down the best birthday present! I had no idea - he did video tape me when I found out so if you get a chance to see it it's quite funny. Here are some pics of what we did!


Here we are bright and early at the airport - probably around 4:30am and had been up since 3:15 am.

I am only a Palm tree hugger!

It wouldn't be a holiday for Chad and I if we didn't hit up a stadium. Here we are a Qualcomm stadium, home of the Chargers and SDSU Aztecs.


First baseball game ever! I don't even like baseball but I had a lot of fun.

Hotdogs and beer for dinner. This is the first trip in 6 years where I didn't have a bike, swim gear, or running shoes and was able to kick back and relax!

Sea World at the Shamu show

Walking along Pacific beach watching all of the crazies in the COLD COLD water!

USS Midway - retired aircraft carrier

Lastly, in this pic we are on the double decker bus tour at the San Diego Zoo.

Since we have been home I have been recuperating from our trip! There is always too much to see and do on holidays so we never rest at all!

Happy Training!

Leslie

Hitting the trails

Hey guys,

So I have been busy...maybe not with triathlon but with everything else in my life!

Rexy has been doing great in agility classes...here we come superdogs! woooo hoooo! She loves to work hard and is ready to do anything anytime. Our challenge for the last couple of weeks was to work on her "off" switch. For anyone who has met her will immediately know the challenge we are in for. Surprisingly she is getting there. We still have to give it a command...so to her she is still working...we tell her to "chill!"

We volunteered for the Spring Thaw Trio on the weekend at an aid station. It was weird because we had 2 stations: the first just past the turn around - the idea was to go around the turn around and then hit the aid station. The 2nd aid station was for the 15km racers just past the 10km turn around. This shouldn't be hard...but for the majority of the runners it was. They kept crossing the pathways to get to the aid station - good thing it was a small race and there weren't people running into each other!


I also headed out to West Bragg Creek with the ladies from work again and we miscalculated the distance of trails - aimed for 7 km and ended up doing 10 km. That was a challenge for this road junkie. All of the snow was still melting out there so we were all full of mud and dirt - tons of fun!Not to mention I did an 80 min run 2 days before that! Whew! I also through in a day of hill repeats in there last week and I did them again tonight!


These were white when we started!




This weekend is a little slower than the last - whew! Rexy and I will be without Chad for class this week, we will see how it goes!

Good luck to everyone running the Calgary Police Half Marathon and 5km this Sunday!

Happy Training

My Feet Hurt!

Hey all,

I haven't been up to much since my last post. I have taken to trail running of late and needless to say it is kicking my butt. There are some pretty good hills out there and I am loving the challenge.

I am still battling with my asthma - this spring sucks big time. Especially with the crazy wind, rain, and snow we have been having.

A girlfriend and I went out to Bragg Creek today for an easy 5 km run and it was so nice to be in the mountains. Within 5 mins I wiped out on the ice...but I managed to catch myself on the way down and there was no harm done. I do need a new pair of trail runners as the bottoms of my feet are very sore.

Other than that nothing new here, I can tell that summer is on the way because we are getting busier and busier.

Happy Training!

Leslie

On the mend

Hey guys,

I have been out of commission as of late due to a chest infection and then I caught another cold. Talk about a crappy week. All I could do was walk and even that was a challenge some days. I am off the antibiotics but I still can't go anywhere without my inhaler. In the evenings my chest would be so tight it was hard to breathe while I was sitting on the couch.

Yesterday I volunteered at the St.Patricks Day Road Race with the Kerby Center (organised by Chad of course!). It was a lot of fun. I like being in the race environment because I find it motivating. We were at the finish line collecting timing chips. Chad ran the 5km and he said he felt really good the entire time. He has been running a few times per week at lunch time so his training is starting to workout for him.

It is a new week so I hope things go a little better for me. The past couple of days I have been noticeably better so I am going to give running a go today.

Happy Training everyone!

Blitz Snowshoe Fun Run

Hey guys,

Here are some pics of the race in no particular order - I was too lazy to move them around!

Chad and Rexy post race

I love the mountains!

So the race on Saturday was tough. It started out okay and we were gradually going up and the next turn came around the corner and it was straight up on a narrow little trail. All I could think was oh boy I am in for it now. This makes big bertha seem like nothing. My asthma has been terrible since I have been sick. If I do anything above zone 2 I can barely breathe after, it is awful. So needless to say when this race was done I was a hurting unit. It was a ton of fun and I think we will do it again. Running on the trails in snowshoes was a lot of fun, there were fallen trees to go over, packed snow, powder snow, big hills...couldn't ask for more. I came in 4th overall and Chad came in 3rd...so not so bad for people who barely snowshoe.

Part of the trail

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Getting ready

Pre-race

Chad putting on snowshoes for the first time

Rexy race morning...no doubt wondering what the hell her mommy and daddy were up to.

Running Fotos

These are some pics I took running down by the river a few weeks ago. I just figured out how to put new pics onto the new computer so here you go!

Rexy was too busy looking at the ducks

Short and Sweet

Hey!

So I will keep this short and to the point...

The move went well and we are almost settled in. Man what a difference a 3 bedroom house makes compared to a 1 bedroom apartment! Rexy is also loving having a deck and a yard...we can't get her to come inside now.

Over the course of the move I also caught a cold - bad combination. So I had a few sick days in there.

I tried running in snoeshoes for the first time last Wednesday and it was hard! I did a run/walk for about an hour. I would run until I couldn't anymore and then I would walk until I was able to breathe again. By the end of it I was getting into a rhythm, especially on the flats. The race this weekend should be interesting but at least I only signed up for the 4 km.

Other than that the usual biking and running has been going down. I have to start swimming soon as well. It is going to be hard for the first while - thats the worst part of taking a break, how much it hurts when you start again.

Happy training everyone!