Training Log Archive: Charlie

Day 2 Brown X at Boulder Dash. A better run, with only one significant error, a parallel error going off the wrong stream junction to #7 cost about 3 minutes. Otherwise in pretty good control, being careful. 1st on the day in M70 and 1st for the two days. Can't complain. A beautiful day, but seemed kind of humid so I went with the contact lens. Seemed to work out ok.

Brown X Day 2, map and route.

Resolved to be slower and more careful today after some close calls yesterday.

1. Trail to the junction, then more or less on compass, looking for the stream and realizing I was too far N because of the big rock before the stream. So crossed it and knew I had to go right and it worked fine.
2. Back on compass, crossing marshes and then the first trail and the second, figuring out I had to go left a bit.
3. Started to go straight for about 5 steps and realized I would much rather be on the trail, so backtracked and trail around past the marsh, to the T junction, right to the bend, then across. Got to the control and thought maybe I was still at the intermittent trail before my reentrant, almost went by, but then realized it was mine and punched, So only a little lost time standing next to the bag.
4. On compass, not bad, could see the cliff developing.
5. Could see the control from a long way.
6. Careful, looked for the big rock on the hill. Just slow and found it ok.
7. I went out and crossed the trail, but I was way south of where I thought I was, which led to wandering on the hillside for a while before I dropped down and found the stream, the stream bend, the big rock, and then in. This looked a lot more like a trail on the ground than it did a reentrant, but there it was so I punched it. Lost about 3 minutes here. Only big loss of the day.
8. Followed the intermittent trail for a while, crossing some streams. It was a bit further than I thought, but a pretty unmistakable big rock when I got there.
9. This was fine, mostly on compass, saw the big rock across the trail, saw the cliff before the control and went around it to the right. It was a bit further around than I thought.
10. A bit of an intimidating long leg, but it turned out to be good running, easy enough to keep track of where I was, and read my way right into it.
11. Hustle out to the trail, bogged down a little in the marsh before I got out.

C • Nice going! 3

Sunday - Brown X - Splits

Brown X day 1 at the Boulder Dash at Burnt Mountain. Kind of loose, particularly in the early going, but no giant mistakes. A little better in the last half of the course. Physically not too bad, although 2.7k is certainly far enough.

1st in M70, although Ken was 5 min faster in M65.


Brown X Day 1, map and route.

start to 1, mostly straight, not sure if the black lines along the way would be cliffs or a trail (turned out to be a trail). I was a little left, going gingerly, feeling dejà vu over how lost I was looking for the first control last year, but eventually stumbled onto it.

1 to 2. Short, easy, but somehow I missed the marsh right in front of me and had to fumble a bit.

2 to 3. Things were going ok, but when I got to the marsh halfway there, it didn't look quite right to me and I started wandering down the marsh to the west for a bit. Then headed back in a bit of a panic and got on the right track.

3 to 4. Trail around to the right, cutting a corner where I needed to, and this would have been fine except I got sucked down to the larger marsh W of the big hill and had to come back for it. Maybe 30 seconds.

5. Fine. Short leg, up above the marsh and down the spur looking for the first big rock and then the second one not far beyond it.

6. Fine, and there were some others in the area, too. North of the marsh, and then on compass across the hill, looking for the rocks and the reentrant.

7. Looking for the corner in the open marsh, and I could see the opening for the marsh from a long way off. When I got there it didn't look quite right to me, so I slowed own a bit and wandered some, checking out a rock off to the right and too high, before looking back and seeing the flag. Some lost time here.

8, Fine, on compass. There was some company on the leg, too.

9. Around the marsh, on compass, looking for the boulder and the developing reentrant.

10. A few tentative steps, and then I could see the flag.

11. Just get out to the road the best I could, try to stay left to make it easy to turn to the flag.

C • limber timber 1

Saturday - BrownX - Splits

Event: UNO Boulder Dash
 

Rhonda's morning class. Feeling relatively more limber than in a long time.

With Rhonda and Sassy along the west side of Lake McDonough.

In the gym with Eric, mostly stretching and balance.

Posted maps from last week in Sicily:

Stage 1 Santa Tecla

Stage 2 Bosco Ragabo

Stage 3 Castelmola

Stage 4 Bosco Ragabo

Stage 5 Bronte

C • Bosco Ragabo 3

Slow, and seemed hard, but my back feels pretty good, less stiff and much less sore than in a long time. Legs are tired I think from DLs and squats yesterday.

Back to the morning sessions with Eric. My back is about as good as it has been anytime lately, so did a bunch of deadlifts and goblet squats. I've also been keeping up with my one leg get-ups, which I think are a big part of the improvement in my back.

The g is getting away from me. But one eats well in Sicily.

Travel day. Left Catania at 7:50, in Rome for a few hours, then Montreal and Hartford, arriving at 5:50.