Training Log Archive: jtorranc

Cycling to and from QOC Wheaton meet. Annoying front wheel flat when a scary looking glass shard went right through my front tire. Even more annoying that I patched the darned thing twice before I noticed that there was a second cut in the tube accounting for it's failure to hold pressure after I put on the patch.

QOC Wheaton Blue - earlier rain had stopped though the forest was still wet. Wavered, given the cool weather, over whether to run in gloves or not, eventually opting to wear them. Probably the right move even though the velcro strap on the right one kept coming undone and looping it back around my wrist on the run without dropping my map was a royal pain. Nothing like having ones hands invulnerable to both cold and casual abuse by vegetation in passing. Fun course - not that Wheaton holds any great mysteries (bar a few point features buried in green) with all the times I've run there but there were two legs over a kilometer and other longish ones that made high speed route choice interesting. Ran hard all the way making the long uphill through open land from 13 to 14 tough - just as well the picnic /playground area was deserted so no one saw me labour up that. Pleased, since the Wheaton woods are thicker, to have run about the same time I managed at McKeldin in September.

Went to see "Phantom" at the National Gallery after the meet - part of the current Murnau series I've mostly been missing due to A events. Some striking expressionist moments but mostly Alfred Abel doing a fine job of looking much less comfortable in his skin than he did as the city administrator in "Metropolis".

Class with Jessica Marchant in Deborah's absence - apparently she's working on Laban certification and will be having guest instructors regularly one weekend per month so she can attend the classes. Fine by me - mixing instructors is good; even better if they come to me rather than my having to seek them out. Jessica spent longer than usual on warmup/stretching so I'm logging this as intensity 1.

Warmup/cooldown jog, bum kicks, A's, B's, 9x100m strides and 2x perhaps as much as 150 meters of bounding up a very gentle hill.

Another day of routine cycling - good thing the weekend comes next.