Training Log Archive: RichB

Really bad right achilles. Limped to and from car a few times and about the office. Icing helped to dull the ache...

C • oh no! 4

Event: DVOA Green Lane
 

I should not even count this, but the precedent has been set by others. Walked to the start, walked there again to help Steve A start folks. Walked back with a friend after cleaning up the start area. Distance was 250 m of the harshest mowed grass that Green Lane has to offer. :=) This gets a 0 for intensity, but the socialization and helping out the clubbe that made it worthwhile. I did get the portobellos and romaine on the way home.

Much fun down in Green Lane today on a initially sticky but weather getting better as the day went on kind of day. Overall, happy with my run, but I forgot to turn on my GPS watch and did not realize it until the 3rd control D'Oh. So, for the routegadget stalkers, you will only get an estimate. ;-) The distance is from deviation from as the crow flies to my actual course, which is actually 6.7 km. I like this longer course thing, being built more for endurance than speed.

Critiques and Commentary:

Had some trouble initially on 1-3 getting distracted by groupthink as I caught up to some other folks who started before me, so I can relate that others are more of a distraction that a help.

4-7 gradually built elevation and I think some of my recent jogging is helping me out here.

8-11 Down to Neptune's railroad on a steep but pretty descent. Control 10's view was beautiful - could consider planting a letterbox in this area at some point. Took trail downhill to 11.

12-14 Up da hill again, lungs feeling good. Took trail and nailed 13. 14 was my achilles heel - overcompensated after navigating around the mother of all fallen trees and ended up too far down the hill in the next gully over. Found trail and relocated and found it pretty quickly.

15-17 Pretty easy, just follow compass and trail.

18 This was fun - found a safeish place to cross the mother of all ditches (MOAD) after realizing it would have been a little better to go west on the road a bit to avoid the MOAD's. Found the re-entrant (word of the week) pretty quickly after that.

19-F Jogging time, occasionally walking, especially in control areas.

Got to socialize and help Steve A start folks afterwards. A good hiking friend came up and did Yellow today and we had a little time to catch up after helping Steve take down the starting area.

A funny thing just occurred to me. For the first time ever on green, I came in first on a single leg. That has not happened since orange last year.

Thanks for a fun event and a nice long green course!

C • Look 2

Green - Splits

Chipping and Shredding. Actually out there for a couple hours, but not much of a workout.

Dad's getting some basal skin cancer removed from his nose, so I drove him to the office to have the procedure done and will then take him to the plastic surgeon at a local hospital. Since the dermatologist's office is 5 minutes from home, and the wait is expected to be long, I decided to head home and get in a nice jog/walk. Jogged mostly until mr. achilles started to complain, but felt really good in the breeze and the low humidity. Went behind the apartments, school, the horse place and the local cemetery. A new 'average speed' record, but I have a long way to go to be as fast as the orienteering goddesses and gods. ;-)


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Waiting on Dad Part 2. Slower Pace - Just walking.