Torso-tormenting!

Thursday and friday I did a lot of training of the muscles around my Torso: Sit-ups, the plank  etc. Now it hurts, when I walk up the stairs! I'm NOT twenty anymore! -though it IS great to feel alive. I've always meant that feeling moderate pain from training is a great sign of having done "enough" and getting better
:-)
I also took out Anna-banana together with my mountain-bike for a fast ride in the evening. It is good to vary the training of both dogs and humans. But once I felt a little "alone" out there at around 21.00...
Anna had caught the scent of some large animal moving in between the trees! She was all light up with eagerness, but I only wanted to get the f... out of there. We do have at least two large bears in our neighborhood.


Today the plans are as following:
Tidying up things in the house, cleaning, feeding the monsters and picking up their "left-overs", training the 4 dogs in one team, out running the first intervals in this training-season, bicycling with Anna and making goood healhty food for me and my hubby :-)

MUDDDD!!!

Muddy training of the team of 4 malamonsters!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUjZA4qujFY

Later this evening I did a circle of totally 276 reps for the back, side and belly muscles. I bet that hurts tomorrow :-)
I can still feel my legs after the last weeks stunt, testing speed and endurance. Why do I keep on doing these silly things? One should have believed that I had managed to grow up loong time ago, at least have learned to handle my penis-envy a little better :-D
I don't need to prove anything??? Do I?

Test of my endurance

Today I did a test to see how much endurance I have, before I start up training seriously. Alex drove ahead of me in the Jeep, and I ran for as long as I could, without feeling any serious pain in knees and hips. As soon as I started to get small symptoms in those areas, I stopped.
I managed to do 8,5 km in 49 minutes and 58 seconds! I'm very VERY pleased with my self.
Next time, I will be doing tests, will be in 5 weeks from now.

Did a test of my strenght regarding the muscles around my belly and back. Took a static test in the so called "planken" (The plank), just to see how long I could hold the pose before starting to shake and sweat all over. Time: 3 minutes and 3 seconds. It's an awful looooong time in that position :-o
But I do believe, that this is a real good way of training the muscles around the waistline. Take a look at this video, that shows how to combine training in this area:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUFHkYiCctE&feature=related


I also took out the "youngsters" + their mother and let them go "seek" for their food in the large playground, we builded for them last year. Their "old man", Grizly loves to be with his family. Then he proudly walks around between them and enjoy their fascination of him. They love him very much. I'm so happy, that nothing has ever come between him and his son. It's like they know how much family means :-)
The Grizzz also loves to be with his daughter; Imelda and Silver. Despite Silver was out of Madsen and Dizzy, he has had a love for Grizly, since he was a puppy. So they also walk along very very good. 
I'm happy, that he has such a large family, the Grizz :-)
He means the world to us!

Snow ..AGAiN!

GOOOOD morning!


Started the day by taking my resting-pulse, it was 50 beats per minute, which is ok but higher than last summer. Then again.. Last summer I did not have the flu.


Outside it is snowing, and it has been snowing all night. I have an urge to go to the skiing-stadium to train on technique, but the feeling I got in my chest after yesterdays running-stunt is a reminder to keep calm, until I'm completely recovered from the damn virus, that has been bothering me, Alex and half of the small town, were we both works as teachers. It already has a nick-name amongst the people up here:  The plaque of Hammerdal or the the Hammerdals decease.. 


Apparently it takes 5-6 weeks to just get through it! I don't have time for that crap now!

Ground Zero..

In spite of my good intentions on NOT to start running again, before I was completely recovered from the flu, I couldn't resist doing a little test on my self today, just to find out HOW bad it actually was.


"Timed" a distance on 2400 meters. Did it in 12 minutes and 13 seconds. It was iiiiincredible stupid of me to do so, (I've been sick from a bad flu the last 4 weeks, and my lungs are hanging on the outside now) but I simply had to find out what "Ground ZERO" felt like and were it was. Now I have a point to start on
:-)
Very important to know, were You are, if You need to find out the best and shortest way to the goals, You have. -And.. pain IS still just a sign of weakness leaving the body, -a mental state of mind..


After doing this stunt, I put on the blood-presure-meter, that was on the other hand encouraging. Did several tests and took the average pressure: Systolic: 99 and diastolic: 59.


Tomorrow before I get out of bed, I'll try to find out my resting-pulse.

This is the devastating truth before the next step in my training-program:

Weight: 66,8 kg

Measures in cm: 97-87-96, legs: 54, arms: 30


I got rid of the first 20 kg during the last 2-3 years by altering my food and lifestyle slightly: Cutting down in general on food, sweets and alcohol, and avoiding fat and fast carbohydrates in my everyday + being more observant on the fact, that without exercise, there is no healthy and lasting loss of weight.


I'm NOT on a diet now, training hard requires a certain amount of good and solid food. I have never been able to combine hard training with diets. And I do not think, it is a healthy way of doing things. But just by start training and running and bicycling again after the winter,  probably will help me loose a couple of kilos and hopefully transfer the rest into more muscles.


So just You wait and see, Krister Sand (My challenger regarding the bet about skiing!)..
I'll do my best to make it difficult for You to win!

So tonight I started the muscular training of my self. Every second evening I will train as following:

A circle of 10 different sets to train belly-back-legs-knees. Simple but very effecient 3 x 5-8 reps for a beginning.

Every other evening I'll train biceps-triceps chest and shoulder, as far as my damaged shoulder will take me. 

Tonight I did the leg-back-belly thing! Of cause AFTER Alex had gone to bed, so I had no "spectators" with silly comments!

I actually really enjoyed starting training again.

Here is a very informative link on how to train Your legs and knees in particular:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBSv_XW8dAw&feature=related

This is the first week in the rest of my life...
Why is it, that when someone tells me: "I'll bet I can outrun You on skies on 10 km. Shall we make a bet, I'll bet 15 kg of Royal Caninedogfood?", something stupid happens in me?
I know -being a 47 year old woman, my answer should have been: "I don't give a shit, I feed my dogs with Sportsman's Pride".
Instead it came promtly: "TOP! I'll throw in a bottla of Amarone Della Valpolicella!"
So now I have to spend the whole spring, summer, and autumn living an even more healthy life, training my ass off, to get rid of extra kilos and build up more muscles and condition to even have a chance!


Since monday, my food has been pure "gold" = vegetables, proteins non-sucar and much less fat. Unfortunately I have been sick with the flu, last week, so my lungs can't make it through start running again ... YET!


Tuesday, 17/4, I took the cart and Silver and Imelda out on 10 km. Snow is rapidly melting, and spring is just around the corner.

Training in April 2012 -and goals for the next season

Mudd-season has started again!Sleds are being put away in the barn, and the cart and the MTB have been taking out again.The roads are still very VERY muddy. But that only adds the weight needed to build up more muscles on the dogs...  :-)-still I hate it! I do not see the spring as the end of the winterseason, I see it as the beginning for the preparation for the next season. This winter did not at all go as planned.. It all started so well, but then -after having trained 300 km in the legs of the dogs -and me, I had to rush to Denmark. My father died from me, and I never made it down there in time. That took away all spirit from me, and I settled on maintaining the training on the elderly dogs and looking forward to start up the youngsters. But slowly the joy of working the dogs returned as the sorrow and chock grew into sadness and longing memories of the past, and I took up, were I had stopped.I maneged to do the Beaver Trap Trail with two dogs -On SKIES! That was a huge satisfaction for me.So now my goals are made for the next season. Of cause I may have to revise them as shit happends, that's Murphys law. But who cares? -as long as the dogs and we are happy and contempt ;-)

Goal for my self: Continue training myself so I'll build up muscles and better fitness nessecary for improving my skating. In practic that means transforming 5-8 kg fat to muscles and CO2/H2O + improving my distances on a Coopers test. I have a goal sat on 2800 m. Hard for an almost 48 year old woman, but not impossible. Last year I did 2700 m. as the most.

Goal for the dogs:Doing at least one workingdogtest on 10 km and at least one long distance run, getting at least 1000 km in the legs of all the dogs.

Sunday 15/4 I took the team of Anna and her puppies out for 13 km on the muddy dirt-roads. 

I hate mudd!

Ups and downs... and up again!

This is the first post for a long time. The first couple of month in the autumn 2011, I drove my dogs a large number of kilometers. But tragically I lost my father in late november, and the sorrow made me loose all joy and interest in the goals I had set up for me and my dogs. I settled on keeping them in good shape and started training the puppies around Christmas for shorter runs.
Their joy and happiness, and the fact, that good friends from Denmark came visiting us withe their dogs, made me start struggle to get "back on the track".
So in late march, I managed to do the Beaver Trap Trail with only two dogs. I did it the nordic way; on skies after a pulka pulled by the dogs. This was the first time, I did this distance; more than 100 kilometres on skies, and the satisfaction of doing this has lit the fire in me again, and up until now the dogs has at least 600-700 kilometers in their paws.
Snow is still here, and I have bought a pair of new Salomon-skies. I intend to twist the winter for every bit of winter-joy :-)
I'll start collecting links, that has been a great help to me regarding sledding and skiing.
I'll also post some of the photos I took from the Beaver Trap Trail.


So I still hope You will find it interesting looking at my blogg!