Training Log Archive: Elina B

Yesterday I smashed my toe against the trainer extremely hard. Not sure how I hit it so hard. It's very swollen and bruised. This morning, while getting ready for a group ride, I smashed it again. It is now more swollen and a lovely purple-grey color. Not gonna ride. Sad.

First race is in less than a month...
Hopefully the weather holds up for this weekend so we can ride outside.

My schedule will switch up again since I'm starting a new job on Monday. Probably won't be able to train during the middle of the day when I'm not at school but hopefully I'll be able to work from home a bit instead of commuting to the office in DC 3x a week. We'll see.

Christine came to visit so we went on a hike at Great Falls. She was very impressed with the waterfalls/rapids. I have to admit they're pretty cool and very unexpected. Then we walked down the towpath towards the lakey part of the canal. We wanted to do something a bit more exciting than just walk along the canal so we followed a trail into the woods towards the river... I somewhat quickly realized that we ended up on the Billygoat trail which was closed due to flooding lol but by the time I figured that out there was no point turning back. Had to do a bit of "bush whacking" and scrambling to get around the flooded parts but it was lots of fun. I kinda feel bad that we were in the closed section but they didn't do a great job closing it off so it's no our fault...hah.


My cousin and Amber were here this weekend so I didn't get to exercise. We did quite a bit of walking around DC and I stayed up much later than usual so that's my excuse for not exercising. Had lots of fun and we all got to hang out with Will's brother too so it was a good time.