Training Log Archive: Charlie

Event: CSU Pine Hill A-meet
 

Day 1 at Spring Runoff CSU meet. Sinking feeling when I flipped the map and saw it was all dark green and, even worse, purple lines. Still mad enough to rant: What is the purpose of making a whole map green? This was quite a contrast to the really fine maps and courses last week.

C • green... 2

Saturday Green X - Splits

shoulder exercises, chatting up Zack. Zack left after while, and it was getting tedious, so I skipped the theraband ones.

RhinO. Hot day, and feeling a little stiff after crossfit yesterday. Still a pretty good effort, and PRs on legs 5,6, 8 and 9. Starting to wear some trails in a few places, so I may have to find another route.

shoulder work while Rhonda did the bike and the treadmill. Very slow progress, but certainly a lot more when I do the exercises than when I don't

20 reps each of 8 exercises I used to do. Haven't done these in quite a while, so kept it to 20. A pretty good little workout for 7 minutes. Chatted up Zack while I was at it. He was doing a little buffing up himself.

shoulder exercises while the girls were doing yoga

This was from last Friday, Oskar's first day on a unicycle.

Ross had asked about our puppy. Here are Zack and Sassy.

From Spring pictures

Goodbye to our pleasant Swedish visitors.

From Spring pictures

RhinO run in the light drizzle. Fine running weather and best time on 13 of 15 legs. A PR by almost 2 minutes.

Working the shoulder again. Have to keep it up. This was rather a communal activity as Erik was on the treadmill doing his interval workout and Oskar and Zack were buffing themselves up and trying to inveigle me into a benchpress session. I resisted, as I had things to do, and certainly not ready for any significant benchpressing. Currently I am doing sets of 50 with a 10 lb bar which works out mostly ok. Harder psychically than physically. Also hardest near the bottom, where the mobility is most limited.

working on the shoulder this morning while yoga class was going on around me. I have to get serious about this, because I have only been doing the exercises sporadically, and it seems to be getting stiffer.

Classic Green Y course at West Pt. A little stiff after yesterday. Couldn't quite face the climb right out of the start that was best to #1, so took the trail N to the reentrant and climbed up there. Cost a few lines, but seemed worth it at the time to let me ease into the course. John Campbell passed me pretty smartly at #2, and took a route a bit more left to #3. I went up the broad saddle then a little trail and curved around, coming in from the W. #6 was a good leg, moving fast down the spur and picking up the trail over the knoll. Took the trail from 7 to 8, and had a hard fall on the way off the road. Caught my foot on a stick and down in a bunch of rocks. Hit my forehead between two big pointy ones, which was a bit of a shock to the system. Walked it off for a bit and then kept going, but it sure was a hard hit.

Checked my watch around #9, and then on the way from 12 to 13 and began to think I had a shot at 60 minutes, which was pretty motivational. A little fuss getting from 16 to 17 because of the barberry and marshy stuff, and leaving 17 I could see that it would be really close. Seconds ticking away as I got into the field and ran really hard to the finish to make it by 1 second. Most satisfying.

Felt like a really good run, but the wily George was even better.

Classic: Green Y - Splits