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Getting to PEI – Feb 2023 Edition

Again… working on that whole consistency thing…

Here’s the chart from the last update to the end of February.

28/2/2023RunGarmin bgnr 5k2.1 km20:079:27
25/2/2023WalkDefault2.1 km25:22:0012:09
25/2/2023RunGarmin bgnr 5k1.9 km20:1310:39
24/2/2023RunGarmin bgnr 5k1.2 km9:117:51
20/2/2023RunLearning2.7 km27:09:0010:02
15/2/2023RunLearning3.0 km30:09:0010:14
13/2/2023RunLearning3.0 km30:08:0010:05

A total of 16 km for February. Well, February is a short month. But yea, nothing between 22 January and 13 February. That doesn’t help the overall numbers at all.

Also though – no yoga on that little chart eh? I am feeling this today – early in March writing about February and thinking to myself, damn my hamstrings are tight….

But enough! Moving on now to the good stuff – see the change on 24 February? “Garmin bgnr 5k” is when I started a new training plan based off my new very fancy training watch: a Garmin 255 🙂

I’m sure I’m not using even half of what it can do but so far I love it a ton. I do still have the habit of setting it off when I’m just reading or whatever; my hand twigs the top right button and then the watch thinks that I’m about to do something active as opposed to sitting on the streetcar reading a novel lol

The garmin beginner 5k plan starts with you picking between three different online coaches – I chose Coach Amy. My first run was a benchmark test that was 9 minutes long:

2 minutes walking warm up

5 minutes running – walking if you need to

2 minutes walking cool down

Then the next two runs were:

5 minutes walking; 1 minute running x 3

There was also a good long walk in there that I counted! Mostly because it was me walking all the way to my massage ❤️ And yes, I am well aware that 1 minute running is a bit less than what I can do but I needed a win okay!

So 16 km in February plus the 81 km to the end of January = 97 km-ish. Which puts me near Pork Hope Ontario: moving link here.

Port Hope always meant I was half-way back to Kingston (where I went to law school) but apparently lots of other people will recognize it because IT – the movie IT and its sequel – were filmed in Port Hope; it stood in as the fictional Derry, Maine. (IMDB link to Port Hope).

The other thing Port Hope is kinda known for, confirmed by wiki:

Port Hope is known for having the largest volume of historic low-level radioactive wastes in Canada

http://nuclearsafety.gc.ca/eng/waste/historic-nuclear-waste/index.cfm

And last, but definitely not least: Float Your Fanny Down the Ganny! The Ganaraska River (the “Ganny”) flooded in 1980 and caused oodles of damage to Port Hope. And now they commemorate this with a 10k race: canoe, kayak or “crazy craft!”

(a footnote: Google maps says it’s 1,700 km by car from Toronto city hall to Charlottetown city hall – so I am about 5.7% of the way there. Well hell!)

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