Training Log Archive: Charlie

GreenX middle. Not deliberate enough in complex terrain. Very intimidated by #1, and took my time, hitting it right on. Getting to 2 took a long time, but no real problem, except Bill P had already passed me, starting 2 minutes behind. Overran 3, going right past the bag, probably within 2 meters but not looking at it. When I finally went back, Peter Goodwin was there. Straight on 4, but missing it. Right and getting down to the marsh, fumbling badly on the way back up. Trail route to the left was much better. Mix of straight and trail to 5. All trail would have been better. Spent a bit of time standing on top of the cliff before realizing I was in the right place and it was at the bottom. 6 and 7 ok. Met up with Peter again on the way to 8. A bit right of the line. A moment of disarray when I lost attention and thought I was farther along than I was, but recovered. Crossed EW stream, then NS stream and right in, a few folks at the control for confirmation. Drifted right on 9, still with Peter, so lost a little there, then left to the trail and all the way around to 10. Off to the right on 11 and dropped a minute, and off to the right on 12, dropping 3. Trail to 13 was easy, then off to the right on 14 and 15, running hard and just keeping pace with Janet T, who was moving slowly but going straight.

my route

Green-X Middle - Splits

Event: US S/M/L Champs 2011 & WRE
 

Sml champs green sprint. A little long and technical for a sprint, but a nice park and a good course otherwise. Alas several mistakes, including one where I thought I was going to a different control for a while. I'll post map and routes when I get home, as I just have iPad here.

Update: my route.

Not helped by waking up at 2 and not being able to get back to sleep.

C • iPad 2

Green Sprint - Splits

Dog walk plus a trip to the beaver dam near the bridge at Big Down Marsh, with R & S and Dennis and Louise, visiting from CA. Clearing, on the verge of some nice weather. Beavers are causing a lot of mischief, with a pretty good jump required to get across to the bridge without getting wet feet. Later I found the beavers have also moved back into my little pond, a situation I find intolerable.

C • Intolerable... 1

Still sore from Monday. Workout today was 6 rounds of 5 front squats (with DB), 10 situps, 5 jump squats, 6 pullups. Made first two rounds of pullups, then switched to ring rows. Much warmup and stretching, then hung around after jumping rope until it was time to go to hand therapy.

dog walk with the girls

Too sore for crossfit today. Just three loops around the upper trail, with about a 1 minute break. Sassy came along for all three. Third loop 15 seconds faster than first two. It's good to warm up.

Nice workout. Some deadlifts to start, then 15 minutes to do as many rounds as possible of 5 DLs, 13 pushups, 9 box jumps. Have to modify considerably, of course. did my DLs with 105, because the grip is weak and the wrist a little tweaky. Pushups on knees and on parallettes. First time pushups in 3 months. Don't go nuts. Sore knee, so did box step ups, but at 30" to make it challenging. Got 8 rounds.

down to the bridge and back with R & S. Beavers are having a field day down there. Lots of water. They'll pay.

Event: NEOC: Norwottuck
 

Norwottuck green course. Brown can't come soon enough. This was physically difficult and pretty scary on steep hillsides with pointy rocks. Also extremely difficult for me to find some of the controls. Three major walkabouts at #3, #5 and #9. Many unmapped trails, many unmapped large rock features. I stopped too soon on #3 on a pretty convincing looking reentrant on a hill, relocated a few times from the power line, almost gave up. #5 I found fine once I got there, but I had a real walkabout trying to figure out where I was along the way, and finally relocated from a trail well beyond where I might have thought I would have catching features. #9 was the worst, a 2 meter cliff in an area full of unmapped 3 meter cliffs. By the time I found it, there were 7 people milling around in sight looking for it. I might never have found it except I looked up - way up, much higher than I could have imagined, and up several cliff levels. Luckily or not, the Garmin ran out of battery while I was looking for 3, so it will remain a mystery where I was on the way to 5.

Green - Splits