Training Log Archive: Charlie

Event: WCOC Hurd State Park
 

Green course at Hurd St Park, fine course set by Joe. A pleasant ride down with Joe, and then visiting with many of my friends, including PG on his mountain bike, George and Lyn, Jim H and Rich N, Rick and Susie, Steve R, Adam C-B., J-J, Earl.

My back has been acting up more than usual, and this was pretty physically demanding for me. Not much in the way of running more than a shuffle.

Fine to #1, pretty straight, could see the hill from a bit away, cliff on the other side. Got a little off to the left crossing the marsh and had to correct off the cliffs, but still didn't see the dot knoll for a while at 2.
Thought the most direct way to 3 was to take road and stone wall around the private property R of the line, but that didn't seem like much fun, so stayed mostly left of the big hill, or at least of the top of it, tried to make sense of where I was as I crossed trails and walls, got there eventually. When I got nearish, I saw Lyn up ahead of me, and then scampering away toward 4. 4 was fine. A little loose to the trail above, but then pretty secure, popped over the top of the reentrant and saw Lyn down by it.
How to get to 5? Probably best to go right of pond and up to road, but Lyn was headed straight to go across the marsh, which looked ugly, so I ended up going left mostly around the marsh, still getting wet feet, then out to the road, behind Lyn who dealt with the marsh better than my route around, and then found Bill near the control.

Going well up toward 6, left of the stream, then up across the reentrant to the higher ground to the control that was on a cliff, not a marsh, but really no problem.

Started to rain and pretty soon my goggles were all greasy, mostly unusable. I was maybe a line high, stumbling around, dropped down where Lyn and Bill were and we all got it more or less together. Not able to read the map well, headed up to under the cliffs and more or less spiked it, Lyn not far behind. Down the trail and the hill to the road, and then along the road slowly to the small trail, eventually with Lyn and Steve R, The control itself wasn't hard.

Then N to the big rock, but there were so many of them! Only two mapped, but maybe 7 or 8 of them on the ground, but found it ok, and continued N, A little difficult crossing the marsh by the road, but again the control was easy enough.

To 12, headed to the parking area, then up the ridge line, but confused and stopped too early. Bill eventually showed up and I followed him up another cliff group and there it was. Then for 13 I saw the big slot in the cliff and thought I had an easy way in, but it was way to steep and deep, so around and punched in right behind Bill, who showed me a (relatively) clean pair of heels on the way in.

Map

Green - Splits

From PV out 10 miles with R and back. Cool. Rhonda's first time down Sandy Brook Rd without braking - a major milestone.

Working out with Eric, stretching, bands, deadlifts, supermans

Back out with Eric and Rhonda - rowing to warm up, then 3 exercise pyramid, 1-10 and back to 1. Goblet squats, reverse flys, ball crunches. Not bad, but got me sweating.

Thought we were going for a bike ride, looked beautiful out, but as soon as the bikes were on the car it started raining, and we lost interest. An hour later the sky had cleared, blue sky everywhere, bikes on the car again and rode down toward PV, but the rain came in again around the time we got to 219 and Rhonda wasn't having it. So back home again. By the next time the sun came out I went for yard work instead. Did some brushmowing, tried to tame the rototiller, but it is running very rough and stalled a few times, starting up on the first pull, until I just gave up on it and started back to the barn and it stalled for good. Now, at 4:45 it sure is nice out, but I've kind of had it.

Rhonda inveigled me into a run from PV today. The back was pretty tight, and my hip flexors were sore, so kind of a struggle. Either this is going to get a bit easier, or I am going to have to give up on it. It is almost at the point where running doesn't get me there faster than walking. But I do seem to have some better days.

In the gym with Eric, who was gratified I didn't come back from Greece broken. Usual sort of stretching, core, deadlifts.

3 rounds, 5 exercises. 1 minute each: Bosu push-ups, tricep pulldowns, bent over dumbbell rows 20#, TRX curls, plank.

Sassy went along for the first one. She doesn't usually like to run anymore, so kind of a surprise she came. Maybe I just go slowly enough now for her!

Hadn't done a 5k in a while, and approached it with a bit of trepidation. Clark seems to do it almost every day, so that gave me a bit of motivation. Anyway, resolved to take it easy and it went pretty well, never getting ahead of myself.

Splits
2:17.1
2:15.6
2:14.6
2:12.9
2:09.4
22spm, a nice controlled pace.

C • It's been a long time... 1

Pretty slow, but at least I made it around. I need to do some running if I am going to keep going to o-meets, as ungainly as it is. Slowed a bit also by wet conditions, including new growth slapping me in the face on the trails. I will bring clippers next time I walk the dog.

In the gym with Matt, Ching-Hua, Tai and my niece Michelle. Lots of different things going on, but I did 5x10 DLs, some hamstring GH raises, pushups of different kinds, squats, pullups, etc.

1 dog loop with Matt, Miichelle and Rocky. Felt really hard.