Friday Aug 22 |
 | Strength Training (WAC) 1:00:00 [3] | |
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| Upper body workout. |
Thursday Aug 21 |
| Strength Training (WAC AB LAB) 30:00 [4] | |
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| Core workout. Upped the intensity on this one. |
Wednesday Aug 20 |
| Running (HS Treadmill) 55:05 [3] 6.0 mi (9:10 / mi) | |
| shoes: Saucony Trigon 4 |
| Run on the treadmill while watching the olympics. Made me run faster and bump into the bar a couple of times. Those guys are fast. |
Tuesday Aug 19 |
| Strength Training (WAC) 1:00:00 [3] | |
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| Upper body. Also threw in some squats and a new exercise I'll call T-bar twists that RVG showed me. I was surprised the squats did not really hit the sore part of my quad from the climb. Maybe lunges might be a better strength training exercise for climbing elevation. |
| Strength Training (WAC - AB LAB) 30:00 [3] | |
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| Core focused group workout. |
Saturday Aug 16 |
| Climbing (The Brothers) 11:00:00  16.0 mi (41:15 / mi) +1951m 18:35 / km | |
| shoes: Salomon XA Pro XCR #1 |
| Hike up to Lena Lake, through the Valley of Silent Men to the Brothers. 6 miles in and the well marked trail ends and the tough stuff begins. Hike up through a recent burn, steep dry river beds, boulders, tons of scree, and a small ice/snow field that looked completely hollow underneath. I stopped about 400ft from the top as my legs were screaming and I didnt want to take on the increasingly technical climb in that condition. I was still able to enjoy pretty incredible views reaching all the way out over the Hood Canal and the Sound to a haze covered Seattle.
Hike out was tough on the already tired legs. I was just dripping sweat on the boulders on the way down. Drank tons of water. Treated the stuff lower down with iodine but not the fast flowing melt higher up. I was just too impatient to get that cold water in me. Hopefully won't pay a price for that.
We stopped to get a coke at a minimart/subway with an ambulance parked outside. Inside RVG ran into the medics running an IV to a climber we had seen near the top that had been complaining of being low on water. Apparently he had passed out in his meatball sandwhich from dehydration. |
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