Training Log Archive: levitin

Mountain biking on the trails of the BU Sargent Center.

Got the battery in my HRM replaced, less than 24 hours after it died at the end of yesterday's Park-O. Fastest turnaround time ever, but at the cost of driving to Waltham. He also changed the battery in my Timex watch. It was a kind he'd never seen before, which doesn't surprise me. It was a prototype that Timex sent out to members of the CMS Triathlon group a few (8 or so?) years back.

He's got a neat machine for testing the water-tightness of the seal. Instead of plunging the watch into water, he mounts it in a chamber, creates a partial vacuum, and measures how far the back of the watch case deflects based on the pressure difference between the chamber (near vacuum) and the inside of the watch (1 atmosphere, roughly). If there's no deflection, there's a leak. If there's a deflection, there's no leak.

Event: CSU Park-O: Franklin Park
 

Park-O at Franklin Park. Brief warmup before starting. Much better contact with the map than last week. A few fuzzy spots, but I'm happy that I recognized the technical area (control 8, the pit) and slowed down to eliminate parallel errors. I have been serious mislocated in that area before. Good endurance, and reasonable speed, for all my lack of base. Unfortunately, my HRM died at the finish, so no splits.

Recumbent trainer

neck, biceps, planks, core

the usual tight muscles

Walking at 4.0mph on a 10% incline. Working hard to keep up, but with no impact (yay). Followed by a cooldown at 0%, at 3mph

Quite tired upon waking today. Legs, esp L ITB, sore.

30 min on the recumbent trainer while solving the week's Extreme Sudoku. Somehow, I managed to solve it in under 30 minutes and have time left to read a couple of articles from a magazine.

Neck, shoulders.

ITB, hamstrings, adductors, calves, pects