Training Log: First Week in Vancouver

I have ended my first week as a "Vancouverite" or whatever they call it. I won't even start about how dissapointed I was to see France lose to Italy and how I was forced to leave town until the celebrations died down (truth be told I was going to leave anyway).

Here is a synopsis of my uneventful but successful week of running, if any who reads my blog is even the least bit interested in this. I think that my art-friends are more likely to read this than my jock-lite friends.

July 3 -- 8:30 am 1 hour on grass. easy.
9:00pm with Tara. 30 minutes on gravel and boulevards. [both runs at Trout Lake]

July 4 -- 59:13. night-time run on sidewalks up Hastings and into Burnaby. Accidental progression run as I slowly sped-up on my way back due to a dire need to relieve my bladder.

July 5 -- 1 hour @ Trout Lake. Try to keep it easy but ran a little too briskly. As I have been ramping up my mileage quite a lot I am trying to keep most of my runs very slow but I am having trouble controlling this.

July 6 -- 1 hour easy on grass at Trout Lake. I need to find other soft places to run besides Trout Lake.

July 7 -- 1 hour on the roads at an easy pace, mostly with Tara with 3 long hill repeats thrown in for good measure towards the end.

July 8 -- 1 hour easy. Into Burnaby but on the meelower streets this time. Very big hills and rolling hills, all on road. Ran strongly up the hills, quick and loosely down them but otherwise slow.

July 9 and 10 -- 2 days off. This week I hope to run two doubles (two workouts in one day for you non-runners who've hung in this far).

Thanks for dropping by.