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DemoCampMontreal1 and Midnight Poutine

So I wrote my DemoCampMontreal1 post for Midnight Poutine, I uploaded some photos to Flickr, and I added a couple of videos to my YouTube account. The event was interesting, nicely setup, and pretty well organized. Criticisms: the presentations by Evonium and Evolution felt more like a sales pitch than a “sharing” (but that’s not really a big deal), and the bar was closed (I really wanted a beer).

I’ll definitely be going to the DemoCampMontreal2.

2007-02-27 Training (good)

Double run, weights, and a short swim… Also I believe I’ve mentioned before how unpleasant I find training in the morning to be!!! At any rate, I have one more double run day to do to get caught up the the Run 28 times in Feb Slowtwitch challenge (and of course tomorrow is the 28th).

Total Time: 1:50

7:30 pm – YMCA Treadmill and weights
- run: 0:30 easy run
- weights: 0:30 upper body and stretch

12:30 pm – YMCA Track
- run: 0:30 track run (ok pace)
- swim: 0:20 1000m (500 free, 500 flipper kick — loosen muscles)

YouTube Uploads

FYI I’ve been uploading some silly little videos to YouTube. There’s nothing specacular there but…

1976 Montreal Metro Ad

Ok, I saw this mentioned in a post by Chip at Midnight Poutine, and I have to post the video:

Snowshoeing / LUMIÈRE / NEON

Last Sat I went snowshoeing at the Park national du Mont-Orford, and it was a blast. It was the perfect day, with the perfect company, in a beautiful place. Well… perfect… with the exception of the $185 speeding ticket I got on my way out there. At any rate, snowshoeing is a lot easier than I remembered it being as a kid, but a good workout nonetheless. My guess is that it’s a bit easier because the technology of it seems to have made leaps and bounds. When I was a kid I used snowshoes that were hand made for me by my great grandfather (tanned the hides and everything). At some point I’d like to try doing a fairly long run in snowshoes, but I’m not sure I’ll be able to get to it this winter.

Sat was a super fun but very long day. After getting back to Montreal we decided to check out the Festival MONTRÉAL EN LUMIÈRE. It was worth checking out, but the DJ bubble got a little too boring a little too fast. After that, in an act of insanity, we decided to dance the night away at I LOVE NEON. Tiga’s set was great, but we took off at around 1:45 because the techno was getting a little too hard and tiredness had set in with a vengeance.

2007-02-26 Training (good)

Triple run and a short swim…

Total Time: 2:00

7:45 pm – YMCA Treadmill
- run: 0:30 easy run

12:00 pm – YMCA Track
- run: 0:30 track run (good pace)
- swim: 0:20 1000m (mixed, 500 free, sets of 250)

9:00 pm – YMCA Treadmill
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- run: 0:30 unenthusiastic run
- stretch: 0:10 stretch

DemoCampMontreal1

Just a reminder that DemoCampMontreal1 is tomorrow night (Tues Feb 27 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm) at the SAT. If you wish to register as an attendee you can do so here.

FYI I just been approved as a contributor to Midnight Poutine and this Democamp will be the subject of my first MP post.



Democampmontreal1

Society for Arts and Technology (SAT)

Tues Feb 27, 6:30pm to 8:30pm

1195 Boul. St. Laurent

2007-02-23 to 2007-02-26 Training (light)

Outside of trail running on Fri I had a very active but not very training oriented (at least directly) weekend. Snowshoeing, dancing, and a lack of sleep on Sat left me with a Sun of rest and geeking out at the cafe.

Total Time 3 days: 1:45

Fri
1:30 pm – Mt Royal Trail run
- run: 1:45 great run (no idea of the distance)

Sat
I went snowshoeing for 2:30 in the eastern townships during the day, and I danced away the night at I Love Neon (at least 2 hours solid dancing). I’m not counting these as training time though (just pointing out that I wasn’t sitting on my ass).

Sun
Sore, tired, and running on 5 hours sleep.

Quiet Busy

Haven’t blogged much (or trained much) this week… I’ve been focusing heavily on rebuilding my Gentoo (a Linux distro) Mythtv box (a home brew PVR), rebuilding and streamlining Gentoo for my Transmeta chipped ultra portable (sweet but weak), and setting up Drupal 5.2 (and a series of modules) to be the backbone of my Mile-End portal.

I’ve been overdue for a serious geek out session. Once I get focused on something 4 or 5 hours can pass in the blink of an eye. I’ve actually forgotten to eat once this week, and I haven’t done that in a while… it’s hard to forget to eat when you’re always hungry from pushing your physical limits.

And BTW the new Gentoo graphical installer is crap, or at least it’s currently in the state of being so buggy that it’s crap. The old school Gentoo install method is almost preferable at this point… I love Gentoo once I have it up and running, but the process of getting it there is somewhat time consuming… I’m just a little disappointed because I thought the new installer would save some hastle.

The Winter Trails of Mt Royal

This afternoon I went trail running on snow covered trails of Mt Royal. I was impressed by level of difficulty winter adds: stairs are no longer stairs, the terrain becomes uneven and unstable, and you have to make sure you don’t drift to far to the edge when your running the crest at the top. In other words Mt. Royal becomes a bit more of a technical run (as opposed to just fun). If this appeals to you, then the only thing I’d caution is that you be careful not to trample the x-country ski trails… I like to ski as well.