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Trail Running in Calgary

admin — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 22:31:43 +0000

We just returned from a beautiful trailrun in bowmont park. We went for just over an hour, it was great to see so many people out enjoying the sunny warm weather regardless of what they were doing. The trails were completely clear and almost completely dry. There were a couple of spots where there was some mud holes but 90% of it was dusty dry. If this weather holds we will have to get the bikes out and hit the dirt in bowmont properly! Have fun and keep training for summer it will be here soon enough.

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Another Awesome day of Training

admin — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 05:07:56 +0000

Once again another great day of training, we started out at 6am with a gym workout. This is our last week for strength training before we go into endurance and core. Over the last 5 weeks we have seen good increase in strength and now it is time to strip down the muscle but keep the strength.

After work we went for our local 5km run around our neighbourhood in South West Calgary with our dog Buddy. We then came home and got straight on the bikes in the basement (hopefully for the last time this winter) and pounded out an hour on the bikes watching the Transporter.

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Triple Play

admin — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 03:50:43 +0000

Today’s workout ended up being a Triple Threat. We started out with our Gym workout at 6 am this morning. See below for details.

Strength A – All weights are in Lbs.

Exercise	# of Sets	# of Reps	Phil’s Weight	Grace’s Weight
Leg Press	3	10,8,6	300,360,440	180,200,210
Incline Bench Press	3	10,8,6	50,100,110	50,55,60
Single Leg Squats	3	10,8,6	15,15,15	0,5,5
Side Squats	3	10,8,6	15,20,25	5,7.5,10
Seated Row	3	10,8,6	90,105,120	70,75,75
Standing Hamstring Curl	3	10,8,6	50,60,70	10,15,20

This evening after work we went for a quick road run with Buddy. 30 minutes on our favorite route straight out of our house. We came home and got directly onto the bikes in the basement. We did an hour ride in the basement watching the movie Saw II.

That was the end of our exercise for the day now repair and prepare for tomorrow. We had a pineapple shake for dinner and then went in our Infrared Sauna.

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Trail Run Club

admin — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 16:23:47 +0000

Club shot after one of the Tuesday night trail runs

Hello fellow runners. Grace and Phil will be starting their Trailrunning Club again in early May. We will once again be meeting every Tuesday night and running for 1 to 1.5 hours as an out and back. We will post information about the runs here and on Liveoutthere.com. Everybody is welcome to come out and have a fun time.

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