Training Log Archive: Charlie

Lots of activities, lots of running (done by me with wagon steps all the way). 3 rounds of wall ball, some various other squats, lunges (done halfway), etc., three runs of different lengths, finish with 20 burpees. Rhonda way ahead of the crowd, right up her alley. Not hard for guys like us, although a little pinchy on my knee at points.

Digging out some rosa multiflora along the side of the driveway, and found some equally nasty Japanese barberry and winged euonymus lurking there as well. Presents left by birds sitting in the crabapple trees there.

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From Pleasant Valley, out and back, keeping to the very short stride and wearing a neoprene support on my R thigh. Warmed up a bit as we went along, so it did get better. I had been laying off running completely, but seeing the occasional jogger out barely moving made me think that trotting along with tiny steps might be preferable to no trotting at all. 19:45 out, 17:55 back.

5x 3 minute AMRAP of 3 power cleans, 6 pushups, 9 squats. Used 65 on the PCs, made 4 circuits on each of the first 3, 5 on the last two. 1 minute break between rounds.

Out and back on dirt portion of Stub Hollow Rd near Cindy's. Very gingerly, short wagonish stride. Turned around at first glimmer of hamstring discomfort. Nice.

Long day. Took Rhonda to the clinic for a look at her hand in the morning, then off to Providence for the day, home around 745.

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Brisk dog walk. Walking much better, as the foot has calmed down quite a bit. Hamstring and adductor still quite tender, but not making me limp, so that is good.

With my friend David, at the Olympic lifting coach in Greenwich. About an hour of stretching and back mobilization exercises, then into the weight room. Snatch warmup series, then spent most of the time working on power snatches and jerks, working on technique. Very hard and tiring. Seems like some useful progress, but like a lot of things a long term project.

First whippoorwill of the season. Glad to have him back. Up until 2 or 3 years ago we had nesting whips here who carried on much of the night all summer. Will this guy stick around?

Very nice walk and lunch at my friend Jim's in Sharon. Jim is a forester and outdoorsman, lives by himself on 116 acres down a long dirt road. His forest has been intensively managed and very interesting to see all the stages of growth. He also has some beautiful taxidermy, including an otter that was caught while beaver trapping, and a fisher that was road kill. Fascinating animals. The taxidermist is also a guy I know. While the animals are very beautiful and admirable, I don't think I need any in my house, a sentiment confirmed enthusiastically by Rhonda.

Easier workout 4x 300 on ski erg, then 4x 300 on rower, followed by 5x5 deadlifts. Hamstring and adductor pain kept me to 125 for the first 3 sets, and then 95 for the last two.

Nice to be back. double workout. "death by burpees", 1 the first minute, 2 the next, up to 12 in the 12th minute, then 10 minute AMRAP of 10 squats, 10 16kg KB swings. 13 rounds. Breathing hard and sweating reasonably profusely.

Sleep today was in small increments. 12:15am until 3:30, then 7am to 730, finally 315 pm to 400. Just too much action around here to get in much more.

My hamstring was pretty sore, but Dennis loaned me a very nice neoprene thigh support and I cinched it pretty tight. More troublesome was my foot which I seem to have wrenched and bruised yesterday. So the plan was to pick up my map, go to a control or two, and walk at a pace that wasn't too stressful. See what happens. And not too awful, so I kept going, walking every step, not too fast.

1 was fine, just down the spur. 2 a bit long, some green to deal with. Caught up to Sandy, although what really happened was she had caught me. Trail around to where I could contour in. A little longer, but an easier attack. On the way to 3 I drifted a little left to check a rock along the way, but corrected fine. Sandy caught up and passed. 4-6 fine, saw the flags from a distance. 7 got into the right reentrant, but way more cliffs there, and spent a lot of time checking various ones. Finally got it from below. Probably lost about 4 minutes there. 8 was fine. 9 I followed bare rock a bit too long and a bit too far right. Saw the powerline and then bounced back. Again saw the flag before the feature. 10 ok on compass, seeing the bare rock opening up and the flag long before I got there. 11, 12 fine, except tired and getting hung up a lot in vines. 13 and F fine, except a stream of runners going by.

Tired and sore. No appreciable additional harm done. Seems unlikely that I will be doing any more orienteering in the next month or so. Next job is to try to get healed enough to run in Germany.

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