Training Log Archive: AliC

Have added some serious March training goals, because it is time to get in gear training-wise!! Ski season will shortly wind down and orienteering season wind up.

The goals: 30h training total, 100 mi running/orienteering, 2h drills, 2h strength.

Plan is to keep minding the body and hope to ramp up the training injury-free. Feels like the limiting thing will be the SI joint that I seriously injured last spring. When my glutes get tight, say from intervals, it starts hurting. Luckily, double poling seems to strengthen low-back muscles that combat that pain from tight glutes, so it may be about keeping glute versus low-back strength balanced. So I'll keep some rollerskiing in the mix to test this theory and hopefully be pain free!

Into daycare. Now, upon arrival, we have to go wash Sylvia's hands in hopes of prevent disease spread.

C • Hand washing 3

And then back out to do 10 x 30s speeds. In hopes that sprint camp will kick my butt a little less...

3 x 15 body weight squats, while cooking 2nd breakfast

Only free time was at lunch and there wasn't much of it. Snuck out and did a bit of a fartlek session on the loop at the end of the canyon.

Yay!! Another ski day! Graded lab reports all the way up to the ski area, thanks to Tom's driving and being able to use my phone for wifi. Then skied with S a small portion of the way to the cabin and carried her the remainder.

This was a classic ski, still on the race wax from 4 weeks ago, still working pretty well!

A little snack with S in the cabin while Tom got to go out for his ski, then back out for a skate!

C • Trading off 2

Neighborhood run in the cold rain while S was final off to a nap. Our heat stopped working in the morning, luckily while on the run, I remembered I had a space heater in my office, which is really saving us at the moment. Luckily our house is small enough and Portland is temperate enough that we can stay above 60 no problem so long as space heater is on.

And we hosted Sylvia's friend Henry and parents for dinner! The toddlers caused much chaos, but fun times had by all!

Minimal time before needed to pickup S, got in a 2 x 10 min tempo around campus.

Then there was a cupcake party at daycare, to celebrate one of Sylvia's teacher's safe return from Mexico. She's an American green card holder, but had her purse stolen while in Mexico over the holidays and nearly didn't make it back. We, and clearly her family, are so very glad she did.

Thesis student has the flu, so no meeting today which meant I could sneak in a run! Sunny out, did Oaks Bottom.