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2006-12-27 Training (good)

Legs are sore, but the trail run was great (see Dobson Trail post). I also went to the YMCA largly to weight train.

Total Time: 2:40

10:30 am – Dobson Trail run
- Run: 1:00

6:30 pm – YMCA lots of stuff
- Elliptical: 0:30
- Weights: 0:35 (upper body)
- Row: 0:10
- Cycle: 0:10 (stationary)
- Core: 0:15 (core and stretch well)

Dobson Trail

Running through the woods… dodging trees, leaping roots, rocks, ducking braches, crossing streams, ice patches, sink holes, bogs… planning the footfalls 5 steps ahead, scrambling up, barreling down… you gotta love running the Dobson Trail. I went for an hour long run this morning and it left me wanting more.

I’d recommend running the Dobson Trail to anybody who loves such things. It’s a trail that starts in Riverview and runs 66km through backwoods NB to Fundy National Park (after 3k you can say bye to your cell). I ran 10k out last summer, and after 5k it’s rough and tumble fun (at one point my shoe came off in a sink hole). Of course being a mostly a city boy I did get a little paranoid about bears but…

2006-12-26 Training (good)

Looks like the cold is gone and the training is on. It was amazing how many people were at the gym… Moncton holiday boredom…

Total Time: 2:20

1:00 pm – YMCA lots of stuff
- Run: 0:30 (treadmill)
- Row: 0:15
- Weights: 0:30 (upper body)
- Elliptical: 0:30
- Run: 0:15 (treadmill)
- Core: 0:20 (core and stretch well)

Yes

La la la my cold is gone, a little cough but… It’s time to rock… bring on the Monkeys.

Bond

So I went to see Bond, and in short, I liked it. It made for a good action flick, and I think they did a good job of setting up his future (in the past and future) character. The movie was solidly entertaining, but at the same time I didn’t walk out of it with a wow sort of feeling. It’s worth a watch, and it’s definitely better than the last two.

Moncton Run

This afternoon I had a beautiful stuffy nosed run on the Peticodiac trail. I was out for about 45 min, and it’s really pretty running through the marshland. In the summer when I was biking along there I kept seeing some form of pheasant. The Peticodiac is an interesting looking river (I’ll post some pictures later). I think I’ll do it a couple of more times while I’m here. What remains to be seen is whether this causes my cold to come back any.

Christmas Day

Christmas morning has come and gone. My mother and grandmother liked their presents. I got sneakers, socks, chocolates, and a bunch of cloths that I’ll probably return (some don’t fit my body, and some don’t fit my personality).

Really every year Christmas gets a little lesser and this year a little sad. This year I feel strange with my Grandpa being gone, my Grandma getting weaker, and having no private space to escape to.

Tonight I’ll be meeting up with my friend Doug and going to see the James Bond movie. We’ll see what happens.

2006-12-25 Training (good)

Christmas day… I went for a run down the Petitcodiac — actually I made it a bit of a circuit run (stopped in a couple of places for chin-ups, crunches, and pushups)

Total Time: 1:00

2:30 pm – Run and resistance
- Run: 0:45
- Resistance: 0:15

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