- 2011 Race schedule update
I have been looking at trail races happening across Ontario and there isn’t much in the winter time – unless you want to use snowshoes! So I added my first California trail race for 2011: The Chabot Trail Run. I will stick to a 30 km race that weekend. Now it is just a matter of weeks before all the races start! Yay! Still need a March and a June race…
2011 Races
- Chabot Trail Run: 30 KM – Sunday February 20, 2011
- Seaton Trail: 26 KM – Saturday April 16, 2011
- Sulphur Springs: 50 KM – Saturday May 28, 2010
- Creemore Vertical Challenge: 25 KM – Saturday July 2, 2011
- The Limberlost Challenge: 28 km – Saturday July 16, 2011
- Iroquoia Trail Test: 32 Km – Saturday August 20, 2011
- Haliburton Forest: 50 KM – Saturday September 10, 2011 – or 50 miles if training goes well!
- Vulture Bait: 25 km – Saturday October 15, 2011
- Getting to the finish line
Apparently you need to train to get to the finish line of a 50 mile race! Oh who would have known? Not met obviously as my training last week was beyond pathetic. Hitting the re-start button: I am just going to pretend that this week is the first training week. So how am I doing?
- 5 AM wake up time: check! But even I have to admit that waking up at such ungodly hour in the winter hurts.
- at my desk at 6 AM: check!
- breakfast of champions (oatmeal + fruit): check
- scheduled one hour training at the gym: check
- early bed time for early rise: well, we will see about that one.
The reality of distance training in the winter time is setting in. I mean who wants to be out there in these temperatures (-20C). I keep repeating “I love winter, I love winter” but it is not doing it. Can’t wait for the trail races to start. In the meantime I am going to need to find a 25 km or 50 km trail race somewhere. The goals for the next 30 days is to work on my schedule. Early wake time, early bed time, training daily 5 days a week. Needs to become a habit in 30 days. Will I succeed? hmmm…Time for some Haile inspiration!
Haile Gebrselassie used to run 10 km each way to go to school for 10 years. He is – hands down – the greatest runner the world has known.
- I want to believe!
Either Techvibes‘ Digital Media People to watch in Canada is fake or Techvibes has forgotten that even in Canada, and in media, we have WOMEN. Techvibes: I am sending you off to do your homework, unless you simply want to relabel your list Digital Media Men to watch in Canada:
Quebec:10 men. 0 women
Ontario: 12 men. 0 women.
Alberta: 9 men. 1 women
- 2011: the running year! or my 1st 50 mile race?
yes, I can!
I have been dreaming of a 50 mile race for years now and I think it is high time that I just got out there and completed a 50 mile race. What do you say? In 2010, I completed a combination of 50 KM and 25 KM races. I had a lot of fun. I am looking forward to more running this year with perhaps a bit more training. I am the slowest runner in the world and it would be awesome I am sure to finish my races without utter and complete exhaustion. So I am going to approach things differently this year and actually train. Yes, train, like in actually exercise and maintain a decent weekly mileage. I have no clue how I am actually going to make sure I get the exercise I need, and no idea how to make sure that I leave my desk daily for this exercising thing. I will figure things as I go along, but one thing is for sure: I will schedule exercise time and simply stick to it. Come rain or shine. As Tara is my witness!
My favourite races in 2010 where of course the Haliburton Forest, Creemore and Sulphur Springs trail races. If all goes well in training, my Haliburton Forest sign up will be for the 50 mile race in September 2011.
2011 Races
- Seaton Trail: 26 KM – Saturday April 16, 2011
- Sulphur Springs: 50 KM – Saturday May 28, 2010
- Creemore Vertical Challenge: 25 KM – Saturday July 2, 2011
- The Limberlost Challenge: 28 km – Saturday July 16, 2011
- Iroquoia Trail Test: 32 Km – Saturday August 20, 2011
- Haliburton Forest: 50 KM – Saturday September 10, 2011 – or 50 miles if training goes well!
- Vulture Bait: 25 km – Saturday October 15, 2011
I can’t wait until April for a trail race, so I am looking at a January and February trail race in California or somewhere warm. What’s your race schedule?
- Sicko!
I got the flu from hell. It has been so awful! Down for 4 days and counting! Would not wish this on my worst enemy hence the mask (and foggy glasses!).
Sicko!
- Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work.
Chuck Close:
“The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s almost never the case.”
Applies to startups too!
- Sheryl Sandberg: Why we have too few women leaders
Well… it is complicated but Sheryl Sandberg’s 3 comments are pretty much bang on!
1. Sit at the table
2. Make your partner a real partner
3. Don’t leave before you leave (keep your foot on the gas pedal)
- Cake!
Cappuccino Dacquoise from Dufflet in Toronto has arrived in the Ideeplex and that’s going to be my lunch today! Discs of hazelnut meringue layered with rich coffee buttercream, coffee whipped cream and bittersweet chocolate glaze; drizzled with white chocolate. Mon Dieu!Ok, I will share!
- Power Vegans
BusinessWeek: “Having dolphins in a small tank outside a casino is crazy,” “Ordering vegetables is not.” Ah finally!
- Startup sales
The three most important things to do with a sales lead [are] to qualify, qualify, qualify. Mark Suster
