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Tuesday, January 01, 2013
2012 has come to an end. Here are the final team fitness stats.
In 2012 the team ran a very impressive 2,820Km team total. Congratulations, and big thanks, to all who submitted their runs. Fitness is of top importance to us, and running is a great way to do it.
Our top 3 runners: very well done.
- Gold: Trevor, 259.50Km
- Silver: Gustavo, 207.50Km
- Bronze: Francois, 172.75Km
We will begin training for all for the Ottawa Race weekend in March, although some of us will keep running in winter as much as possible, together with x-cty skiing. Some of us will be running the semi-marathon. Brave and fit people!
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Sunday, December 30, 2012
Gustavo says hi from the Santos F.C. training facility, in Santos. Pele and Neymar are everywhere here.
Santos´s beaches are great and beautiful for runs, as they are nearly flat. Temperature, a `low` 28C, but humidex +40C. Elevation 0m, running on sand at the beach.
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Saturday, December 29, 2012
The 15Km Sao Silvestre race is being held Sunday in Sao Paulo, the most famous New Year race in the world, with tens of thousands of runners, including the top in the world.
Lesser known, but perhaps more important (to me) as it encourages children to get fit, is the Sao Silvestrinha edition, a race for kids, held 2 days earlier. This year was the 19th edition, and it was another success.
2,000 kids participated - in the heat.
And this is Brazil, where some kids do not have running shoes (and no cleats either)
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Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Merry Christmas!
The objective was to run 10K, the only way was to do it at 8AM, otherwise it would be too hot. The run still finished with sunny +32C. Very hot, very hilly terrain (108m elevation gain, 112m elevation loss). Lost 3.5Kg..Very tough, never give up!
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Light green shows elevation below. 110m elevation gain, combined with +32C = very tough!
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Sunday, December 23, 2012
Not used to the heat and 99% humidity, a short 4.5Km run, too dehydrated to continue! Two laps around several beautiful and perfectly maintained soccer fields.
A whole different set of satellites:
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Tuesday, December 04, 2012
Very warm for December, running in the rain. GPS worked impressively well in spite of complete cloud coverage and heavy rain at times..
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Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Cyber Monday = a new Garmin footpod!
Running in the snow today, 6.82Km. Still very good conditions for running.
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Friday, October 26, 2012
Record warm today, perfect for a long run on shorts and t-shirt. An interesting course today with a different perspective:
(Had only been on that side of the lighthouse for Canada Day's fireworks).
Triple loop on the light house too.
This was followed by a Brazilian picanha barbeque to recover the 710 calories and have energy for soccer.
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Saturday, October 20, 2012
The blue line represents the timing, in mins/Km. The left side of the chart is Gustavo's running during the 3K EOXCC race. The right side is coach's running during the soccer game (lower is faster).
In this chart, higher is faster:
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Saturday, October 20, 2012
The Eastern Ontario X-Cty Championships were held today at Mooney's Bay/Terry Fox. 5 of our players participated, representing our team and their schools.
They did amazingly well. Both Francois and Peter earned race shirts for finishing in the top 20. The top 4 finished within 21 seconds of each other.
- Francois 17th (12:56)
- Peter 20th
- Gustavo 23rd
- Dylan 24th
- Hunter 38th
Great job, on a beautiful day.
The course:
The course included a trip to the top of the hill at Mooney's Bay. Gustavo was wearing a GPS, so now we now the height: 20m:
Licee Claudel won as a team (top 4 runners). Our team would have finished 2nd if we had been allowed to run as a soccer club (our 5 runners were from 5 different schools).
A little celebration followed at Gellateria Italiana in Little Italy.
