Training Log Archive: Nadim

Event: QOC Hemlock Overlook
 

Hemlock Overlook Park, VA. Max and I did the QOC Streamer-O course. It was about 40F with ocasional snow flurries. Max seemed tired starting out and this was the most challenging Streamer-O course yet. I was very physical for a two-year old. Initially it was okay on a ridge but following a steep, muddy intermittant path down to Bull Run the trail was choked with fallen logs and surrounded by dense mountain laurel. Without me prompting him, Max called it a tunnel. At one point, not long after the cookie incentives ran out, he wanted to turn back up the hill to go to the car. At another, he wanted to turn back to go under the "tunnel" again. He seemed to have fun but I had to lift him over every fallen log. At the river, a trio of older girls passed us and his interest in moving ahead perked-up. Going back up the hill, Max walked a good way before wanting to be carried. Carrying him and holding the map distracted me enough to miss a control. We turned back, got our sticker and went on to finish with Max walking the last bit back. This served as my warm-up for the Brown course.

C • Maxing it 4

QOC: Hemlock Overlook Park. I ran the Brown course partly because I ran a lot yesterday (while out of shape), partly because it was cold out, and partly because it was already late after Peggy had run and she was cold. I started off fast. I made minor errors on #2, #3, #5 and #6. It was hilly. I thought the workout the day before would make me more tired but I was okay. See the Split List.

Brown - Splits

Prince William Forest (PWF), VA. Warm-up for some vetting.

PWF. Vetting of courses. Some errors; minor map updates needed.

PWF. Control Pickup.

PWF. Vetting. A big error at the end.

C • Vetting 5

PWF vetting. I started cramping early but held it together until near the end. Then I made a big error and a second lessor error. Very tired.

Blockhouse Conservation Park, MD. After an early flight out and being excused from trying to get back to the office, I used the time to relax in Blockhouse (some of the sleep was on the plane). It was a bit colder than I expected. Reports were that it was in the 20's F and breezy. I probably wore too much because sometimes I got hot. I've finished field checking most of the land north of River Rd. and west of Muddy Branch. There was a good bit of open land. I found a small hard to get to cave in a potential top-roping/bouldering area on the east bank of Muddy Branch.

45 situps in my hotel room in Kansas City, MO. Though we got out of the office at a reasonable hour, I had work to do after the group dinner. There wasn't time to do much more.

C • KC 2

Like yesterday, after another longish work day and a long dinner, I watched some television then near 11pm I ran a bit on a treadmill in my hotel in Kansas City, MO.

After another longish work day and a long dinner, I watched some of the State of the Union speech then near 11pm I ran a bit on a treadmill in my hotel in Kansas City, MO. Outside with temperatures in the teens, it's all snowy except for the roads; left over from the weekend. After the run, my sinuses were the clearest they'd been all day.

45 situps in my hotel in Kansas City, MO. Not much time to workout after the semi-obligatory work dinner where everyone eats a lot at a Jack's Stack.