Baby Steps

So last Friday I did indeed take the dog out for a walk at Heart Creek, where I was able to let my creativity flow and took 150 pictures.  I posted a 20 pictures to my picasa site from the hike.  I attempted a ride on Saturday from Seven Persons a small town, not more then a blip on the map, but has FANTASTIC smoked meat, the best beef jerky or sassages ANYWHERE. But I digress, it was very windy and at -10 C with a 40 kmh wind made for a very unpleasant ride, so alas after a few km I turned around and admitted defeat.

I finally put on a new Odometer on my bike on the weekend so am able to track my distances; Monday and Tuesday I did the long ride from C.O.P. to downtown and back, discovering its 30km, so a major increase over my shorter ride of 8.4km.  Wednesday / Thurs I decided to do the shorter ride giving my legs a chance to recover and allow me to do some running.  My goal for Friday is to do the long ride again. I have found that I am not as dead tired on this ride as I was last week, so that's encouraging.

I did also do a short run Tues and Wed evening.  I really haven't had the energy and I find my body giving up really easily.  Tonight I am going to meet up with the Red Rock Running Club in Cochrane, and try out their runs.  I'm not used to running wit others so this will be a really new experience.  My other concerns are that my running has been languishing and right now I am down to just runnign 3-5km not the 8km I had been up to in October, and theirs are probably a lot longer then mine as well as probably a lot faster then me as well.  I am praying that it all works out as I know I need the running to improve my cardio.

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