Training Log Archive: jtorranc

To Metro and then to Lake Accotink.

QOC Lake Accotink Blue Memory-O - a tolerably competent performance technically with only a couple of failures of memory that cost me noticeable time and one simple plan whose failure to work still mystifies me - I apparently overshot the ditches I planned to use as my cue to leave a trail but I can't see why in retrospect, even after picking up that control.

Control pickup - really about 20 minutes running to and from the north end of the map and the rest orienteering to get the 6 bags.

Had planned on heading out to Fountainhead and doing some map updates in the area my clinic used but couldn't find my supply of pencils and my preferred baseplate compass for the purpose so I threw my hands up and stayed at home to wage war on the chaos in my room. The plan also allowed me to take in one of the Benoit Jaquot films at the National Gallery and spend half an hour walking through the Bellini, etc. exhibit before it closes next weekend. Eventually found my compass and pencils around 9pm.

Warmup and cooldown.

Silly walks and 10x100m strides.

Cycling in with a tiny side trip to take care of some postal business. Had intended to go to the pool but my bed was exerting its cottony magnetism. Pool this evening, I guess.

Cycling home as well.

C • Cottony magnetism 2

Warmup for DWR and cooldown after.

All in one go.

At least my knees feel okay. My neck/upper back are somewhat better but it felt like a bad idea to tempt fate by running to work so I Metroed in.

Home by way of PCRM and brushing the outer layer of security around the National Cathedral, wherein I believe Muhammad Khatami was giving a speech.

Commute in. Dry again and apparently likely to stay that way through the weekend. Nice since I plan on seeing how my knees react to running home this evening.

Stuck to plan to run home, though very slowly, through Rock Creek Park for the first time in a long while despite weird neck/upper back pain that came on during the morning. Many new trees down since last time and it looks as though the foundations of the bridge just south of the Pinhurst Branch Trail have been undermined sometime recently - the concrete ramp leading up to the span on the east bank is now noticeably askew.

Commute in in heavy rain. Good thing I'd heard that it was wet, not that I suspected just how abundantly, and bothered to bring my rain shell. I suppose it's getting to be the season when I shouldn't ride without extra clothing since it may not be warm enough to be tolerable when wet. Home with some shopping, dropping off the new QOC rack cards at Fleet Feet in Adams Morgan and returning three CDs to the library.

In to work and home schlepping a fair bit of stuff I'd allowed to accumulate at the office over time.

While watching Prison Break, which, silly me, I forgot to switch to from tennis until about 8:20.