Training Log Archive: Rosstopher

to from work. raining today. New music on the iPod for the first time since WOC. Sometimes I'm lazy about switching it up.

To/from work. sleepy today, which didn't affect the biking so much as it affected my ability to stay awake during the noon lecture by my boss. a co-worker kept nudging me to keep me from really drifting off.

after work I stopped at trader joe's which also does not carry baking powder ( so no pumpkin bread for Thursday's CSU training) and didn't have zucchini for a recipe I was planning in my head. needing a new idea I cast my gaze around the store and then saw a jumbo carton of strawberries. I remembered a recipe that I had "read" in a Swedish magazine on the train to Uppsala and made that for dinner tonight. a salad of strawberries, green beans, and feta with lemon juice ( I had to substitute lime instead). It was surprisingly and surpassingly yummy. I would post a picture, but I was too hungry to wait and get my camera.

Event: 2008 Laramie Daze & US Champs
 

to from work. way home was nicer because it was cool and I was so thrilled to be leaving work. Fleeing can be so invigorating. Legs feel better than I could have hoped for.

C • Seems like you are getting ... 2

Long O planned by Brendan. Mentally it was hard to will myself to go out on what I knew was going to be a very tough course. especially with a fresh Clem frolicking about showing off his energy :) As I headed for the first control I realized that there wasn't going to be a streamer at the location, so when I got to the re-entrant I tried to draw an O-flag on the ground. Apparently nobody saw this design though. Same was true for the second streamer as well. I feel pretty guilty that this was the straw for brendan's race. I feel even more guilty that I felt so relieved to hear that Brendan had gone out to pick up Night o controls instead, which meant that there were fewer controls left to pick up when I got done.

anyway, back in the jungle. I was able to keep moving up until control 10. Unfolding the map and realizing that I still had several k to go was a bit disheartening, and my legs were super tired. I started walking on the way to 11, and only found the control by lucky accident. I was basically just bumbling along, swatting at flies and trying to estimate how much longer I had until I was done :)

after the finish, I could only muster a slow walk back to the parking lot. draining, but an excellent course. would have been really fun to race this course on fresh legs.... don't know if I could have matched Clem's time (under 1:50:00) after putting in so much work yesterday. I think i have splits somewhere on my watch... I'll have to see how I compare through the middle section.

C • guilt 1

picking up 2 of the night controls. thankfully Ed, Brendan, and Clem all picked up a few. many hands makes light work. completely spent after this weekend, nothing left in the tank :)