Training Log Archive: Mona

Busse Lake, near ORD, noonish

Ha-ha...I had trouble thinking what shoes did I wear :) Now I remember, my most expensive REI watershoes.... in about 10 years they'll pay off!

This was so much fun! Had Dragos as team mate as last year, and we did a whole lot better (= almost no bickering :). We were a bit tired after party last night (ok, I napped in the car, so that was not exactly fair...), but as soon as I hopped in the canoe I forgot about all the tiredness.

Weather was great, we saw some tall skinny white birds - stork looking like, wind was barely there. There were a ton fishermen on the lake that we kept bothering, but hey, they could figure out the route and get out of the way...It was interesting that we actually had to get on the land and search for the control couple times, so you could not always see the control from the other side of the lake. i like that.

I forgot to turn the watch on till control 6 (past mid way...), but oh, well.

Then right at the finish, I quickly walked to punch in the finish control, and one second dragos was in the boat, and next he was all soaked getting out of the water. apparently big drop right at the shore:)) it was quite a funny site!

Left over chicken picnic to end and a visit to wally's completed an awesome day of fun!

we ended up 12 out of 23! YEY!
http://chicago-orienteering.org/results/results080...

Up north. A bit hot. Energy level almost OK.

Same as monday. It was good to see the old gang.

It took me half hour to realize I cannot understand the steps, and then everything came into place, where I was just having fun making up my own stuff. Great workout!

Yes! I am so proud of myself! Conquered procrastination one more time! I went out pretty late (8pm, that's late!), me, the mosquitos and the fire flyes. It was fairyland... as long as I didn't stop. cause the mosquitos made sure I woke up to reality! Therefore, not that many stops.

Thought for future: night time may be a good time for me to run (cool, mosquitos to keep you going, beer in the fridge, uuhhh... that may be it)

Time does not include couple min of rush streches and mosquitos fights mid way.

Registered for Canoe-O. Got tickets for WY. From my prev experiences, running training for out west never paid off, maybe the right training would be to stick my head in a paper bag for 30 min and try to breath...

HOT!! So I had the whole morning to do this workout, as i was working from home, and what does Ioana do? Obviously, queen procrastinator waits till last minute = high noon, hottest time of the day, so I can go out and run. I can tell it was definetly not overachieving monday :)

Legs felt great, actually to keep it short, everything felt great, except this great lazines that came over me and hang out with me the whole time, whispering "walk, walk...what's the use of running....stop, see how good it feels" Ooops, didn't have any answer prepared for that :)

Considering at this time doing the canoe O this weekend....

....And the series of over achiving Mondays is back on! So today I cranked it real bad:

Squats, Back and Chest : L+M
Bicep, Tricep: M+S
Lunges: my quads failed me miserably. I usually pretend to do the lunges, well, I could not even pretend today :)

My body hurts wherever I can identify muscles, so that must be good. However, my quads are super tight for a reason I can't think of. Especially that as part of over achieving Monday I was gonna run as well today, but that may be out of the question now.

Up north. Nice and cool. Quads behaved. Nice sunset. Did not include strecthes mid way. skipped the push ups due to audience. met mike on the trail so that helped with the aleviating the mild boredom.