Training Log Archive: JHen

Leadership Trail and back on lunch break.

Trails north of the boat launch at Riverside Park on lunch break.

Lots of work to do to get in shape to ride in North Carolina in June.

Leadership Trail and back on lunch break.

Blue course at Pine Hill. Pleased to have stayed under three hours. (barely). A few stupid errors, heat, very tough to read map and a couple of nasty falls really slowed me down. Saw and got ripped up by tons of green barbed wire.

Sunday Blue (raw) - Splits

Sunday Blue - Splits

Event: CSU Pine Hill A-meet
 

First Blue course at Pine Hill. Found the trail network impossible to understand in places.

Blue final. Chase start. Heat got to me mentally and physically. Only part I enjoyed was the sprint in the chute with PG.

C • Enjoyed? Though I will a... 1

Saturday Blue Semi - Splits

Saturday Blue Final - Splits

To the end of Hannah Lane and back with side trip to check out marsh marigolds in the swamp near Broadway.

Cricket field and back on lunch break.

To Leadership Trail and back on lunch break.

Blue course on the new Lake Popolopen map at West Point. Goal was to finish in less than 3 hours. Accurate but slow for the most part. Ran right by 13 to beyond 14 and then back tracked to find 14 first. Enjoyed seeing several other much faster and younger runners make errors. Even saw one run right off the map. Of course, they can make mistakes, relocate and still beat me to the control. Liberal dosage of ibuprofen made the glute pain bearable and even allowed me to run some. Plenty stiff this morning.

Classic: Blue - Splits

Event: West Point A-Meet
 

Walk to Wilson's and back on lunch break.

Feeble attempt. Glute very bad the whole way.

Soldier's Field and back on lunch break.

To Leadership Trail and short hike to vernal pool on lunch break. Brought at least one tiny tick back to the office with me where he/she perished.

C • perished 2

To end of Hannah Lane then into the Liberty Croft open space to check some boundary markers and take a few photos of springs beginnings.

Score O at Tarrywile in the rain. Glute held up pretty well. Had a couple of very sharp pains when I slipped on wet rocks and fell, but it passed quickly. Started off with Rick but we parted ways when I made a bad route choice - then leap frogged a few controls with Adam. Got really tired on the uphills on the west side of the course and wasn't moving fast enough to stay warm.

At Nathan Hale SF mostly on trails but some rock hopping in terrain testing the glute. Painful but bearable.

To the end of Hannah Lane and back. Muscle pull still very sore. Tried a short jog and found it more comfortable than walking.

Glute pull seems to be much worse than I had hoped. I knew getting out of bed that the trail run was out of the question, but thought I could go to Paugusset for a walk in the woods. I drove about 5 miles before the pain of sitting became intolerable. Could barely walk when I got back home. Spent the day reading while flat on my back or standing to do some easy chores. Took one brief walk on uneven ground and had to be really careful not to put the very irritated muscle into spasm. Ice and ibuprophen and rest and hope for the best.

C • too bad 4

Hockanum Linear Trail from Golf Land in Vernon south to North Main St. in Manchester and back. Several paddlers practicing for tomorrow's race. Canoes having a lot of trouble with the rapids under the Oakland St. bridge. Every year I think about doing this race and then go orienteering instead. Hope to run the Bimbler's Bash 10k trail race tomorrow morning in Guilford and then drive up to Paugussett for Peter's meet. Had a little accident while chasing a rolling soda can in the parking lot at BigY and pulled a muscle. Really sore now. Will see if rest and Ibuprophen do the job overnight.

Registered for Blue at West Point on Sunday. 11+k and 23 controls. Should be a challenge to finish under 3 hours.

2 miles at 7:45 pace and plenty of jogging in between.