Catching up
Boy, it's been a busy few days on my end and I am behind on the blog reading and writing. Since blowing a tire on the highway on our way to Ottawa we had a nice weekend of spending time with family and skating on the canal. Also, I caught up with a friend from my grade school days, who now has a three-month old baby boy and was brave enough to meet up with us for some skating in -14C temperatures on Sunday morning. Her little guy slept through the whole thing, nicely sheltered in a stroller!
The world's longest skating rink was nice and solid on account of the cold and we had a great time! There was no lack of space either:
We also hit a great bead store on Bank Street because Owen wanted to make a necklace for his granny as it was her Birthday. The necklace turned out awesome, though it was a bit tough for the little guy to choose the beads he wanted given the massive selection (and this picture captures only a fraction of what was available):
I took Owen back out on the canal on Monday morning as well to get some more skating in before hitting the road back home. There was one last piece of pie left from the weekend and (for some strange reason) someone (who will remain nameless) decided to pack it in a Ziploc bag for the trip back home! If you've never enjoyed a bag of pie, you've never really lived:
Monday evening proved busier than I'd anticipated as another old friend of mine, this time from my undergrad days, called last minute that he was in town from the west coast on a last minute business trip and could we get together? Unfortunately he was staying in the west end of the GTA, about a 45 minute drive in a part of Mississauga that I find completely devoid of any redeeming qualities, and it didn't make sense for him to stay with us for it would put him too far away from where he needed to be the next morning. I drove out to see him anyway and we had a good time catching up over dinner.
Then, on Tuesday, I was back at work and got in a lunchtime swim: 2000m in 30 minutes. I also did some chin ups (8-8-8 pull and 8-8-8 chin) and a few hip flexor things. I haven't run in over a week, but am thinking of heading out tonight as the knee seems to be pretty much pain free except for one spot right at the bottom of the kneecap where it hurts when pressed. Anyway, it's supposed to be freezing tonight, but I'd like to make it out for a short run and hope that it happens.
The world's longest skating rink was nice and solid on account of the cold and we had a great time! There was no lack of space either:
We also hit a great bead store on Bank Street because Owen wanted to make a necklace for his granny as it was her Birthday. The necklace turned out awesome, though it was a bit tough for the little guy to choose the beads he wanted given the massive selection (and this picture captures only a fraction of what was available):
I took Owen back out on the canal on Monday morning as well to get some more skating in before hitting the road back home. There was one last piece of pie left from the weekend and (for some strange reason) someone (who will remain nameless) decided to pack it in a Ziploc bag for the trip back home! If you've never enjoyed a bag of pie, you've never really lived:
Monday evening proved busier than I'd anticipated as another old friend of mine, this time from my undergrad days, called last minute that he was in town from the west coast on a last minute business trip and could we get together? Unfortunately he was staying in the west end of the GTA, about a 45 minute drive in a part of Mississauga that I find completely devoid of any redeeming qualities, and it didn't make sense for him to stay with us for it would put him too far away from where he needed to be the next morning. I drove out to see him anyway and we had a good time catching up over dinner.
Then, on Tuesday, I was back at work and got in a lunchtime swim: 2000m in 30 minutes. I also did some chin ups (8-8-8 pull and 8-8-8 chin) and a few hip flexor things. I haven't run in over a week, but am thinking of heading out tonight as the knee seems to be pretty much pain free except for one spot right at the bottom of the kneecap where it hurts when pressed. Anyway, it's supposed to be freezing tonight, but I'd like to make it out for a short run and hope that it happens.
Labels: bag of pie, skating on the Canal, swimming
posted by Vava at
9:37 AM
5 Comments:
Nice work on the swim and chins, but skating the canal really sounds special. Stay warm and enjoy that short run.
i have yet to skate the canal too... sounds amazing.
Skating the canal looks incredible.
Very cool pictures!
I can't skate to save my life and it almost looks like fun but cccoolld. Get out there and run - tonite will be my first in a month so it's sure to be ugly. We can cry about how we suck together!
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