Training Log Archive: Sandy

Event: DVOA Springton Manor
 

Green course at the new 1:5000 Springton Manor map. Good course given the park - lots of open fields with a few bits of woods and most of the woods a bit green although not too bad this time of year. A handful of 10 second errors but nothing big - just could have taken better lines to a few controls. And run a whole lot more. And be more aggressive.

I've been taking it a little easy trying to be gentle on my knees but perhaps it's time to think about pushing a bit harder.

The splits say I have no time lost to errors. And that one of my best legs was the long uphill leg and one of the legs where there was a lot of route choice. At least that's some consolation.

C • nice to meet you! 2

6 sets of 25

Green - Splits

Late day hike in the Wissahickon after a good bit of yard work - rearranging some plants.

As I was coming through the covered bridge, a man came in the end I was walking towards and I swear he started to veer towards me. I stared at him and was debating whether I could run by or if I should think about kicking or just go for the pepper spray when he veered back the other way and gave a half smile. So maybe I'm paranoid but better safe than sorry and I took out the pepper spray and carried it in my hand instead of my pocket until I was a good ways away up one of the trails to the meadow and had passed several other people.

C • glad you're ok 2

7 sets of 20

Tried to run the short hill loop but ended up walking more than last time. Just felt really heavy and breathing was tough. Allergies are bad - perhaps that contributed.

TNT - a rare double workout. I wasn't sure I was going to be able to make tnt as there was a meeting I had to attend but the part I needed to be there for was first and while I arrived late, so did everyone else.

I was planning to just hike something leisurely, but the guys were doing hill repeats on the SofA hill and I figured I could at least hike over to the hill and back in the hour we set as the time for the workout. And in fact, I was able to jog a bit here and there and get to the bottom of the hill in about 20 minutes so I did a few repeats. The hill is long and I decided the best workout for me was to pick a number of paces to jog up instead of just walking up to the top. So I did two sets of 60, one 80 and three 100. The good news is that now I have a baseline and I should be able to improve on this. Maybe by the end of the summer I'll be able to jog all the way to the top - probably 250-300 paces. I walked down in between not wanting to stress my knees too much. On the last up I just kept going (walking) and then hiked and jogged back on some trails. Nice evening.

TNT bail. Running or even hiking in the cold rain was not appealing to either Sandy or me so we canceled the gathering. I did 40 minutes on the stair stepper in 4 sets of 10 minutes with 25 pushups in between each set. My feet go numb if I don't take a break every so often so this worked well. I took one minute to do the pushups and wipe the gallons of sweat off before starting the next set.

5 sets of 25, one each before, in between and after the 4 stair stepper sets.

Small class so we kept moving but nothing too advanced.

They've opened a new trail so I explored a little.

C • be careful 7