Westerns: Day 1: the journey

Eleven hours is a long time to be in a car, but when your'e surrounded by great people the good times keep on rolling. Our day begins at 5:30am when we hit the road. While on the road Cam, Lucas and I were subjected to envigorating and entertaining ( to those who didn't participate) gas station workouts. These exercises included intervals, hills and lots of stairs! We started first by climbing the 400 ft, 1km long Saskatchewan Escarpment ( led by Chris) off of the Trans Canada Highway. This first " refreshing" work out included high knees,spinting,jogging on the spot and bounding. Afterwards we climbed in to the van and away we went! Our second on the road training session occurred in a Huskie parking lot in Regina. We started with some jogging to get our legs moving, next it was bounding and then onto sprints, jogging on the spot and a bit of positioning after. You sould have seen the looks we were getting! After another few hours of driving we stopped at yet again anothe Huskie, but this time there was no running outside " that would be too easy" instead Chris scoped out the area and found us a nice set of stairs to climb. So it was about 20 times up and down changing from easy to medium to hard. After our legs stopped burning, we climbed back into the van and off we went! Upon arrival we found that our Hotel was really a high class concrete bunker! Once we were all settled in we met in one of the conference rooms for dinner, a hearty helping of Lasagna and salad followed by a meeting. After everything digested ,a few of the other athletes and myself got together with Chris for a quick and effective yoga seesion including visualizing and a litte bit of strength. Well that's pretty much it for day one, tomorrow we've got a full day of combo training leading up to saturday's race. More to come tomorrow, I'll try to take some pictures of the course and range!