Patching a Car Tire

Woke up late today. It was REALLY cold out today. Blustery cold.

I did a bit of Spinning tonight at St. Clair and then Yvonne's Yoga Class.

I'm scheduled to do a "Medley" launch of Body Combat next week and practice is tomorrow. So is the Zoo Run which I'm going to walk with my dad hopefully.

Scales are weird. At Mount Pleasant, I'm 150 lbs, and at St. Clair I'm 155 lbs. Jen says it will also vary depending on time of day, if you've just eaten etc.

WHAT I ATE TODAY
Grape Tomatoes, Frozen Yogurt Sandwhich snack, Curry and Lemongrass Ginger on Spicy Noodles and Pad Thai with Cabbage salade, 2 slices of Pizza, Booster Juice with Warrior Booster.

Cold has arrived

No more shorts for me. I wore my jacket today. I'll have to remember to leave the house dressed warmly. Particularly if I am going blading.

Did Yvonne's Yoga class this afternoon at St. Clair.

WHAT I ATE TODAY
Frozen Yogurt sandwhich snack, green goodness juice, ham, pillsbury croisants, green beans, piece of chicken, 5 pieces of pizza, ice tea, grape tomatoes, berry granola cereal with greens.

Rainy and Cold

I'm glad I got out skating today, it's pretty miserable outside.

Don't feel like I've accomplished much today.

Stayed up to late, couldn't wake up to get to Yoga and Pump this morning. Jen is feeling under the weather and doesn't want to run with the Running Room.

We did Jacob's Body Pump Class at Mount Pleasant this evening followed by Lee's spinning class. I missed the warmup and kept the weights easy for Squats and Lunges, trying to give my legs more recovery. The bars here have added weight to them, kept my weights 1-1/2 kg lighter for biceps and chest. Worked harder in spinning than I was going to.

WHAT I ATE TODAY
Flax Bagel with light cream cheese, Brisk Ice Tea, hot and sour soup with chicken and shrimp, green mango salade, curry pad thai, chinese greens in shitake mushroom sauce, mango milk shake.

Sunnybrook Park

Today's activity consisted of going for a light skate with Carolyn at Sunnybrook Park and down the trails behind the Ontario Science Centre. I wore my rec skates and kept an easy pace with Carolyn in her rec skates. It was the first time since the beginning of the inline season that we skated with this set-up and she was able to keep up for the most part. I am very proud of how far she's come along this season. As much as I appreciate all the inline friends I've made over the past couple of years, it was really really nice this season to finally hook one of my other friends into this sport I love so much. I was feeling kind of sluggish this afternoon and I am glad she talked in into going for a skate. It's supposed to rain for the rest of the week.

I'm starting to think of what to do for the off-season. There will be running events with Jen of course. I'm planning on at least trying indoor inline at Scooters, and Carolyn has talked me into doing an eight week ice speed skating course. I enjoyed Skate skiing the two times we did it last winter, hopefully we can do it some more. I would like to try the winterlude triathlon in Ottawa this year: Ice Skating, Cross Country Skiing and Running.

I really need to get back onto the weights this week, and start gearing up for the Body Combat release. My body still felt fatigued yesterday at the gym doing Jen's weight program. I don't know whether it was the fact that I was working and isolating muscles that I don't normally focus on like that, or that I haven't been doing weighs for a few weeks.

Chicago is less than two weeks away and I don't feel very prepared right now. I haven't been doing any running at all.

Tomorrow's plan is to get up for Yvonne's Yoga class and then stay for Tanya's Pump. Learn a BC track or two and then go do the Running Room Group Run at 6:00.

It's time to get back into the swing of things.

WHAT I ATE TODAY
Flax Bagel with Light Cream Cheese, Brisk Ice Tea, Fruit To Go strip, Tandoori Chicken, Garlin Naan, Indian chips and salsa, Tandoori Fish, Indian sausages, other kinds of Indian Chicken, cabbage, onion, green pepper.

THANKSGIVING MONDAY

I did some of Jen's weight program today on the machine circuit at the Oakville Goodlife. My legs are still tired and recovering from last week's A2A race.

WHAT I ATE TODAY
Fried Rice, Singapore style noodles, mushrooms, green beans, ham, general tao chicken, beef, fruit, raspberry mousse cake, Ratatoui, Couscous, green salad with thai ginger dressing, Lick's hot fudge sundae, onion rings, cherry coke with whipped cream.

Thanksgiving Sunday

More R & R. I will really have to work hard after all the eating I've done this weekend.

This week on the scales at Mount Pleasant, St. Clari and McCaul, I was still under 155 lbs (ealier in the week I was closer to 151 lbs).

WHAT I ATE TODAY
Berry Granola Cereal with 1% Milk, Green Goodness Juice, Dr Pepper, Ginger Sparkling WAter, Cheese and crackers, Ceasar Salade, Green Salade with grape tomatoes, Turkery, Stuffing, Mashed Potatoes, Green Beans, Rattatooie, Apple Pie/Crumble, Whipped Cream, Twix chocolate, Sunflower seeds.