Training Log Archive: Charlie

Day 2 Tucson Green course. Mostly a better run than yesterday, but one real lapse. Took a longer road route to avoid a fence crossing, and then ran too far when I didn't see the fence. Turned out there was no fence - it was a powerline. Wasted about 4 minutes running out of the way and getting confused instead of the easy straight line route. Also got slowed down a bit on the next leg, still looking for the fence that wasn't there. Really tired from #9 on in, and worn out by the finish. Went and sat in the car for a while, but not as bad as yesterday.

Pleasant dinner with George n Lyn at Mi Nidito.

Green2 - Splits

Event: Western States + Intercollegiate Championships
 

Green Day 1 at Tucson A meet. Killer cold that showed up again on Thursday. Felt very tired, but knee held up. Race was very nice, with only two mistakes, one not finding #2 because of not visualizing control circle right, and one missing a reentrant and running up the wrong spur for a while before correcting. Encountered Lyn W at #8 (she was on Brown), but courses pretty similar and back and forth with her the rest of the way.

After the race repaired to the car and sat there moaning - too tired to take the ibuprofen in my bag in the back seat. Many infusions of OJ.

I was pretty worried about the knee, and it felt ouchy for the first few controls, but ultimately ok.

Tucson A meet sprint. Pretty good run, and felt better than the morning, but still really dragging, and dragging more so as the race went on. Knee ok. Two fine scalps (or perhaps one and a half).

Thanks to Bob and Jeanne Walsh for the accommodations, and to Lex and Pete for a great dinner - a fine and relaxing dinner with Lex, Pete, J-J, George n Lyn, Valerie, Sandy. And some fine lemonade, with very local lemons.

Sprint - Splits

Green 1 - Splits

Fun party at Cristina's! Thanks!

On the spinning bike, with Rhonda and her sister Chris.

Brian's leg exercises (or at least most of them) out in the gym.

AOWN: nice healthy looking red fox with a big brush crossing Ratlum Mt Rd this morning.

Bunker Hill to Hanson route. Stopped at the driveway on the way back because: a) enough is enough and b) a convenient time to roll the trash barrel back up the hill. Knee tender, but not overtly painful. Presumably last tune up before Tucson.

AOWN: Lovely lunar eclipse. Got clued in by PG and watched it on and off between about 9:15 and 10:15. Beautiful clear night.

stationary bike at Brian's to warm up

All the leg exercises, with their arcane names: quad builders, kangaroo squats, rockets, waist trimmers, sideways skipping, jumping on trampoline, lunges against resistance, jogging on trampoline against resistance, medicine ball catch on one leg on the trampoline, balancing on half foam roller with squats and leg adduction. Went pretty well.

Down Doyle Road and back with the ailing Rhonda. She is trying to fight a cold, and this was just to get her moving a bit. Hazel made a friend down the road and we had to repatriate this dog before she followed us home. The owner thanked us for taking her back to him, and told us she had been "in jail" a few times for wandering away. In fact, she had showed up at our house one time a couple of months ago. Glad Hazel is a homebody. She loves to go places, but only if we take her.