Training Log Archive: Becks

And the walk back down. After a clearish night with a few stars (the moon was too bright to really see them) I got about 6 hours sleep (win!) and then we had brekkie (wallpaper paste porridge) and walked back down at Rob and Becky speed, and waited for everyone else at the bottom. With a lot less wine, water and food, this was way more pleasant, but I was tired. Saturday was tough. We ate lunch at 10.30, then got back on the road to New Haven, where luckily Rob was awake enough to drive, because I was totally spent.

Good weekend, until we got back to find Clem on the edge of heat stroke. We had to give the cats cool baths and monitor them for a couple of hours with the air con on. They're both doing fine now that Rosie has finally realised it's a lot hotter inside the cupboard than it is inside the air conditioned living room, but it was a bit scary for a little while.

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Walking up Mount Lafayette for the Granola Challenge. About half at Rob and Becky pace (good), about half at rest of family pace (bad). Also bad was we had a slight misunderstanding about which rucksacs to pack in the car, and ended up with a tiny day pack and lightweight running pack. Tiny day pack had to carry all our water, food (and wine!) and was too heavy. Even worse, the arm straps were too small for Rob, so that was my job. He did the first mile anyway, but was clearly in pain so then I took it for the next two up to the hut. I can't say that was fun, especially with about an hour of rock steps just before the hut. Luckily, we could then dump all the extras on our beds, and went up to the ridge with a thermal and a bit of water. Glorious views for miles in every direction, a perfect day for the hills. We left the family and walked along the ridge which had some cool knobbly bits to Mount Lincoln, and then back to the hut for a lovely evening of surprisingly tasty food and wine.

C • rock steps before the hut 2

Finally manned up and did some running. Out the door, short warm up, 4 x 4 (3), then pick up bag and run into work. Just missed the storm, so it fresh ish out there. Hamstrings stiff from the dead lifts.

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Oh man. Ladies, you know once about every six months for no apparent reason you get the period of doom? This week seems to be my turn. I hurt a lot in various parts of my torso and abdomen, and I just tried to go and do my intervals but it was very clear very fast it wasn't happening. Boo.

Sorry for too much information, everybody.

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The lab is too cold. It's loooooooovely.

Cross Fit with Rob. "Easy" work out today, in that I never got out of breath but I'm sure my legs are going to hurt tomorrow. A dead lift series interspersed with ring rows, then 20m Farmer's carry with 15 Burpees. Kelly was there too and we shouted her on as she did some sled pulls. Then we spent all night in various pubs with Kelly then M & M, and it was awesome.

This run was the most fun I've had in a long time. Not only did I have speedy company and good chat in the form of Mr Sgb (yey!), but we picked the exact 50 mins that there was a mega storm, and thus were running along trails that were mini rivers, and it was so dark at times that I actually turned my ankle twice because I couldn't see the floor. They're fine now though, so nothing to worry about. I think if it was like this every day of summer I'd get kind of annoyed, but today it was soooo much fun.

Not doing Cross Fit tonight as they're doing an aerobic workout with 100cals on the airdyne, and don't want to screw up my legs for intervals tomorrow. Might go tomo evening instead.

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