Training Log Archive: Ari-o

Great run with Lincoln, Jess and Doug Mayer. No snow in the valley but an inch or two up a ways. It slowed us down some but basically was great for steady pacing. No big climbs but lots of ups and downs, and good paces the whole way. At the end, we had to blast through a nice, deep river, luckily at this point it was a nice short run to the dry sock car. Plus my feet got warm during that anyway.

Some new trails in the RMC area, and good ones at that. Didn't miss going above treeline in 10˚ temperatures with 100 mph winds. (Heh, now peaked to 112 mph, wind chill of -24.) Lincoln tried to get me to come to Mars Hill (ha) or Camden (considered it) to shred the snow over in Maine, but I didn't want to spend days in a car.

While others were hiking up a wet, nasty trail, I decided to hang back at the hut. My first work for stay was to build a tower of tables and benches and close windows. Then I asked if there was any wood to split.

There was.

An hour of splitting and stacking (mostly splitting) had me down to a tee shirt in a light snow. Splitting wood is so much fun, and such a damn good workout. I would love to live somewhere, someday, where I had to split wood. Oh, and these wood splitting machines? I will never stoop to that level. The satisfaction of squarely hitting a chunk of wood with a maul and having it split and fly in two directions is such a high.

I'm weird.

Ran the other way around the lake on the bog bridges, then down to the car. Made a call just in time at 2. A bit wet/snowy to rollerski.

Only four hills this morning. I hadn't been getting enough sleep all week, and my shin hurt from last weeks shindigs (well, whacking it in to the Zealand Falls porch) so I took it very easy downhills. Then I bounded the bottoms of the hills.

Drove up to Lonesome after work. I shouldered my pack with beer to hike in with others. A pretty decent pace by all, which was nice, and then a good time with former and current roommates, and Beo. We also ate many M&Ms.

PR on the stadium stairs today. It was wicked foggy, too, the bike ride over was eerie. Then BG and BM handed off the reins of NP-Boston, because they are going to take over the world. (They are, by the way.) Then I decided to run fast today. Still kind of warm and sweaty, but I kept a good pace and didn't fully overheat. Legs didn't get heavy like Moosilauke, although I slowed down a wee bit on the second half (I think). Yummy lactic acid throat taste thing. Pretty good L4, took a lot of big steps, then had to lie down for a minute.

Then I recruited a graduated Colby skier to Weston.

Running to NP, and I was running a little late. I would have cheated and taken the T from Central to Charles but just missed a train so ran instead. The train passed me on the Longfellow and it would have saved me maybe 20 seconds. Of course, I would have had fresh legs for the hill up to Staniford. Slalomed some commuters coming off the first trains in to North Station, and made it to NP just in time. Running 7s right off the bat in the morning is interesting.

Oh, also, I was carrying a ~3 pound pumpkin the whole way.

Circuits with pumpkin tosses. The pumpkin toss was burpee-pumpkin toss-burpee, which was fun, and made the burpees slightly less dumb, but my partner did not get the timing down so didn't release the pumpkin mid-burpee or get it back to me instead, so we didn't do as well as we could have in the timed toss session at the end.

Then I played pumpkin medball with Drew.

I thought here about taking the EZRide home but ran instead. A lot slower than the way there. Sessions are supposed to go 3-2-1, right? Right.