Training Log Archive: Yvonne

Finished up field checking/tape hanging @ Babler -- rest of red/green courses and all of orange course. Dramatically different conditions from Friday. Mountains of mud were replaced by sparkly ice/snow covered surfaces. Wonderful!!

I've been doing this event for the past 8 (or more??) years and every time it gets tougher and tougher to find unique control locations that still work for the courses. Babler is decent acreage but when the start/finish is always the same, well, you get the picture. Anyway, I did take red into a few little nooks of the park I've never seen before and through a reentrant system that shocked me -- it seemed SO MUCH bigger/steeper/deeper in person than on the map and had active erosion taking place (deep, extremely muddy gullies). I'm assuming our historical rain event contributed? Green has fewer common controls with red which makes it a little better than some of the green courses I've designed in the past. Orange is OK, I guess. White course...yawn. So far, its a repeat of a past course unless I come up with something creative in the next week or two.

C • 8 years 6

Up down, up down, up down our yard hills with kiddos while they were sledding. Logging half time. Testing left leg -- I jacked the upper hamstring a little @ Babler yesterday tripping over a giant tangled mess of vines in the woods. Not terrible, but trying to be mindful of body aches/pains.

Speaking of aches and pains, I signed up for DK this morning. The 200. Oh boy, I hope I can get enough training mileage in.

Spin class @ the gym. Good effort.

Field checking and hanging tapes for red and green courses at Babler.

Dental checkup then back to Babler for more field checking. Not the best scheduling move there -- but at least my dentist isn't too far from the park.

KM level 1 and 2 classes. Lots of slip/roll practice in L2.

Got kiddos to bed, threw on shoes to haul trash/recycle bins, then felt inspired to run more so ditched the down coat and made do w/ fleece hat, dressy jeans, and ruffled sweater set which actually was a pretty comfy running outfit. Laps around yard trail and our gravel road.

Hip strengthening/flexibility w/ a few additional reps thrown in.

Intended to do spin class@ gym ...except oops, its the 1st week of Jan.,even my early arrival did not secure me a spot. Full! So I had to use the spin bike near the cardio equip., except even that was in use and I had to wait a little bit. Sheesh. Place was hoppin. Good interval session though.

- Pushups 15, 12, 12, 15
- Planks 60 sec. x2
- Some light quad stretches