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15th November 2008

Training and Logging

Had a wicked session in the gym today (well, yesterday as it's late at night now), and a decent one Wed. Plus I did some solid logging recently, very nice dry wood from standing trees with K... Read more »

12th November 2008

Winter and Weather Change

The ice season is on around here, but the temps have been really warm. Only the relatively high and north-facing ice (Ranger Creek, Replicant, etc) has stayed in. The last month has really r... Read more »

8th November 2008

Walking in the woods

Yesterday I went for an all-time fugly walk in the woods. We went the wrong way repeatedly, mired ourselves deep in the debris of an overgrown logging slash, fell down, groveled, cursed and ... Read more »

5th November 2008

Training, friends, Obama, winter

Every so often my home gym, the Vsion, has a bouldering comp. All the local climbers rejoice not just because the comp is fun, which it is, but because the new routesetting means a total reo... Read more »

3rd November 2008

Poland, Travel, Training

Poland:Leave Calgary at 6:00 p.m., change planes a bunch, (you know you've spent to much time in airports when you know which lounge to go to at the Frankfurt airport, and recognize some o... Read more »

30th October 2008

Poland

I'm in Poland, having loads of fun. More later, but some nice photos here. Managing to have a ... Read more »

24th October 2008

Spoga, etc.

I've had a few emails asking what Spoga is--explained it a few posts ago, but it's what I laughingly call "speed yoga." It's yoga without all the woo-woo, which likely means it isn't yoga to... Read more »

21st October 2008

First Ice

On Sunday the venerable (same age as me except for four days so I can use that term) Dr. Slawinski and I actually went ice climbing. Yeah! Typical early season ice, bit odd and sketchy but s... Read more »

16th October 2008

Training Update October 16th.

Wed., October 15 (really--I somehow tweaked my dates, fixed now for recent entries...)Savage workout. Limbed some trees, bucked them up, moved them to truck, unloaded. Helped out with some m... Read more »

11th October 2008

Training Log: Body Tensions is not about situps!

First off, a quick rant about body tension.I often watch people with saggy-ass syndrome (poor body tension) do endless situps. This does NOT solve the problem of keeping your feet on while c... Read more »

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