Training Log Archive: jtorranc

I went to a shamisen ensemble concert at the Japanese Embassy in the evening. Walking home, I confirmed my impression that Rock Creek immediately west of Connecticut Avenue will be a convenient place to do hill training. There are a couple of grassy slopes that climb around 20 meters vertically over the course of 150 to 160 meters (measurements courtesy of Google Earth). I'll probably do hills there as part of my running form workouts. I may also start doing my long intervals there although another nearby offshoot of Rock Creek Park, Pine Branch Park, is probably a stronger candidate for that.

Event: QOC: Wheaton
 

QOC Wheaton Blue on virtually contour only map - basically clean effort partly due to caution in the contour only navigation and partly due to feeling physically subpar as a result of a sore throat that came on overnight and slowed me down. Have now (Monday) pretty much lost my voice.

Dan ran her first orange with an ex-Marine friend of hers. Apparently, he saved her from making a 180. Dan professes to find running through thick vegetation unpleasant. Maybe "moving" would be a better verb to use - on the plus side, she thinks being unable to run made things easier on her right knee, which has been giving her grief, than a continuous run would have been.

C • Knees 1

Blue - Splits

Class with Deborah rather than her regular substitute Helen for the first time in at least a couple of months. Intended to be the first of a shocking three Saturday morning dance classes in a row.

Spent virtually the whole day not spent dancing moving house. Upper body soreness on Sunday mandates logging some of it as training.

Normal commute in. Should be the last one from that apartment. Not home since I went directly to the Freer Gallery to see the first of a series of five recent Vietnamese films with Dan.

Cycling to work, somewhat weighed down by another load of paper to recycle here since my current apartment complex doesn't have any bins. Moving seems like a good spur to jettison much of the useless paper that it's been easiest to stick in the closet during several years in the same place. Home again by way of volunteering at PCRM.

C • 8

Usual abdominal stuff and slightly less usual bridges and back extensions.

Commute in in slightly cooler weather again - I was having trouble mentally adjusting to the near-room temperature outdoors we had for a bit (reluctance to revert to fingerless gloves, leave off the jacket, etc.). Home by way of the Takoma Aquatic Center for a swim.

Similar swim workout to Sunday's with a little bit more front crawl, butterfly and flutterkicking added.

Felt energetic cycling in. Home by way of the AFI to see "Elevator to the Gallows". Raining cats and dogs on the leg from the theater home, which quickly overwhelmed my booties despite the front fender and down tube mudguard I bought while getting my derailleur cable replaced on Saturday.