Training Log Archive: Sandy

BrownX at GNC. Another fun outing but boy was I a space cadet today. It was really cold and I was fussing over which layers and extra stuff (hat? gloves? buff?) to wear and got to the start and realized I had forgotten my control description holder. Then I get to the actual start line and was confused when they didn't call my name at what I thought was my start time but while I had the hour right I had the minutes from Saturday's start stuck in my head and had shown up 25 minutes early. Luckily they let me start only about 5 minutes later. But then it took a couple controls for me to settle down. Little off to the right on #8 - I guess I wasn't following my compass well enough and the yellow area I thought would be obvious wasn't - but there were a couple of other people in the area which saved me. Did some more running and my knees are still holding up well. Life is good.

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BrownX - Splits

BrownX at GNC. Was having a decent outing and then as I've done before at about an hour I lost focus. Lost about 4 or 5 minutes on a leg where I just could not make myself stick to a plan and just botched it up royally. Finally got my act together and then was fine. Again, I had a really fun time. I was jogging in places when the footing was good and pushing hard everywhere else. It was raining, pretty hard actually, when I started but it stopped after a while. My contacts worked well enough; although I had glasses with me I never used them. They were probably too fogged anyway. Time on the watch includes some extra at the beginning and then at the end until I remembered to turn it off.

BrownX - Splits

Event: Georgia Navigator Cup 2019
 

I forgot to start my watch right away so this is the beginning couple of minutes to get to my official time.

Brown course. Fun. No errors although one big hesitation on #4 as the vegetation mapping didn't seem quite right; then I remembered to look for the feature and not the flag and it was 10 feet in front of me - a large knoll with the flag hidden on the far side. I was 2 seconds from bailing out so a useful hesitation. Got tangled up in some thorny vegetation at #10, tripped and stepped in a muddy gully bottom getting one of my feet soaking wet. Had kept them dry until then which surprised me given the amount of rain yesterday. Ran a bit - never for very long but in the woods and not only on trails so a big step forward from what I was doing last year.

Brown - Splits

The treadmills were all taken so I used an elliptical. Decided after a warmup to do 1 min hard, 2 min rest. Hard meant keeping it at 10mph or more, rest was around 7mph. The hard minutes were hard! Followed by a cool down before class.

SJU class - circuits. Hard one today (out of 9 stations, three circuits) was a plank with feet on a step and aternating putting one foot out to the side as far forward as possible. My shoulders really felt it.

Meadow loop. Bundled up but was sweating and took off my hat, buff and gloves by the end.

Had a nice visit with Gail & Peter. It's easy to polish off a puzzle when three people are working on it!