Hi Everyone,

I am now officially back training full time.  After a April filled with great skiing at the Canmore Nordic Center I took two weeks off training and went home to Regina, Sask.

I wanted to go home and visit with those people I just don’t get to see enough of anymore. My friends and family.  I had a great time at home and it started on the trip home.  I was able to stop in Moose Jaw, Sask for some rejuvenation at the Temple Garden Mineral Spa’s it is a all natural salt spring.  After floating around in there for a hour with the local Seniors I was back on the road now only 71km away from home out of my 854km drive.

When I arrived at home I was greeted with a great home cooked meal and desert.  The latter is probably what resulted in nearly a 5 lbs gain over the month of April.

While at home I was not very active, my first week at home I wanted to take completely off and I was starting to get my normal energy back after a long and draining year.  Then however I started to stay up later and later and ended catching a cold.  It seemed like everyone was sick in April.  So my second week I was even less active only really doing normal activities around the house.  But after healing from that cold I was back feeling like myself again which was good because I would soon be leaving for Canmore to start with training again.

I arrived back in Canmore on May 07, 16 days off total.  And I was ready to get back too it.  Unfortunately I paid for that bit of motivation.  On my first day back I did double training 90 min Weight Room in the morning and 90 min running in the afternoon.  You would think that after 25 years of life I would have a little more common sense then that, however I spent the next two days stiff and sore and it made my training less then enjoyable, especially when the weather was terrible.

However this week we were lucky enough to get a decent day for our precision shooting test.  The first one is usually pretty damn tough for me.  I usually find my trigger timing and stability is a little off.  I was anxious to try it though because over the spring I had a new rifle stock made. It is heavier then my previous model and I wanted to try out the balance.  I ended up shooting a 495/600 and even though that is not a PB I think it might be for this time of year and considering I have been fiddling with this new stock everyday so that I can get it just right before the start of June.  I am happy with the result.

So even though I had a rough start to my training year I have been sleeping like a baby and in May I think that will be my top concern.

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