07022018 – Canoe & Mountain Bike

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As a big group we took out 3 canoes and 3 kid’s kayak’s and paddled through 3 different lakes.  We ended up finding an amazing sandy saddle that we played at for a few hours.  It had a rope swing and was a great place to play and eat our lunch. We took a short cut back to the cars, but it was a delightful way to spend the morning.

When we got back Joe and I had a window to go for another ride. We probably should have driven over to the Rally Center to get more time on the main section of trails, but we still had a great ride.  We rode from the campground on Drag Line, to the new Switchback Trail and then onto Easy Street near the Rally Center. As this was my second time through it felt a little easier and it helped having Joe in front of me too!  I had 8 segment PR’s for the whole ride! We didn’t have quite enough time to hit all the trails in this unit but we went up a few of them including Mucker Mountain and Sand Hog. I got to ride on some new to me segments of Easy Street/Sidewinder that I bypassed the previous day. We then headed back to the campground and took a quick dip in the lake to cool off.  It was a great day for riding and canoeing!   Our ride was just over 10 miles.

 

06302018 – Mountain Bike

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On Saturday after some quality time with the families playing around and doing some paddling Joe and I were able get a ride in.  We opted for the Yawkey Unit so we rode the Drag Line to get there and the Haul Road to get into the trails.  We did Man Cage, Manuel, Skip, and Grizzly before heading back on Haul Road and taking the Man High option before ending up at the campground.

I think Yawkey is some of the best trails in the group.  We did Skip twice before coming back down and doing the whole loop a second time.  I can’t really describe it, but you end up at the top of a mountain in a pine forest  (see top picture) with some pump track on some narrow turns and cliff edges!  Manuel is a hard climb but totally worth it!

Total ride was 9.5 miles.

06292018 – Mountain Bike

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We are camping with friends in Cuyuna Country State Recreation area, which means that we’ll be getting some great mountain biking in! Since we needed two cars, I was able to leave before the family and get some riding in.

We were there two years ago and that was my introduction to mountain biking.  I didn’t ride a lot of trails that weekend, but this weekend I hope to get quite a bit in.  Today was a good start for that. They have recently opened a bunch of new trails and basically you ride out on some “easy” trails before having options on they way back to the trailhead of staying on the easy or progressing to the harder stuff.  For the most part the harder stuff has a lot of climbing or some steep switchbacks – there are a few more technical side trails or sections that you can bypass as needed.

For the first ride I rode out on Easy Street and then took Mucker Mountain,  Sand Hog Mountain, Hopper Hill, Low Grade, Trammer, Roly Poly, Miners Mountain, Crusher, some Sidewinder, back to the Rally Center and then Switchback (plus the new return trail) to the road and back.   That ended up being almost 13.5 miles.

After lunch at Red Raven (which had an excellent Reuben), I went and setup our campsite.  I was the first one of our group so I had my choice.  Once everything was setup, I realized I had time to do another ride.  So I hopped back on the bike and left from the campground and rode the Drag Line and Haul Road.  It was in the 90’s so it was hard to stay up on hydration.  There are some cool Yurts off Haul Road that had nice cool water! Haul Road and Drag Line make a nice easy loop so that’s what I did.  I decided not to hit Man High or Man Cage yet! When I got back to the campground some friends were there and taking a cool-off dip in the lake so I joined them!  My second ride was about 7 miles.

06282018 – Run

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I’m behind in posting updates again so I’m not sure how much I’ll remember from this run! I did forget to start the run as an interval workout again so I had two Strava entries… one for the warm-up and one for the rest!  The workout was a 4x800m with 2:45 rest in between.  The only thing I remember is that when I got home I pulled a tick off my shin.

Here are the splits:

4:59

4:41

4:12

4:04

Strava said I PR’ed on the “South End Hiking” trail which is right next to 394.

06272018 – CrossFit

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100… Keep it 100 was the Workout of the Day!

Three rounds of a rough workout, the good news is there was a 6 minute break between each round. It isn’t often that you get a full recovery between each round so this seemed a little crazy and excessive when reading it. But dang was it a burner of a workout!

Each of the rounds was 

250 meters rowing

10 Kettlebell swings

10 Burpees

10 Swings

10 Burpees

10 Swings

250m Row. 

I don’t remember my round times,  but they definitely got slower each round. The burpees were what really slowed me down. I was first off the tower but then slowly fell behind. My swings were with a 50# kettlebell. 

My total time was 27:05. 

The idea was to go all out each round and I think I accomplished that!