Training Archive: hammer

Orienteering 1:00:00 [3]

THOMASS Caledon at Forks of the Credit. Woke up not expecting to be able to run today but ran anyway and felt much better than I expected I would. Got behind early and didn't think I was having a good run and so didn't push hard late in the race but ended up 6th and not far behind 3rd. Beat AdventureGirl! for the first time in 4 races. Woo hoo. ;-)

When I started the THOMASS series 16 years ago it was meant as a way to train over the winter. "We don't orienteer in the winter" and "We don't have mass start races" was the main opposition. The first 'race' had less than 10 people. The biggest race in the first year had 25'ish people.

Today could have been one of the most enjoyable THOMASS experiences of them all and Phatty and Bash and the CN gang should be proud. In the first 10 years of THOMASS we just used ribbons and it was an honesty thing. Today? Full controls and SI (a standard the last five years or so), the best post race food anywhere (love those brownies but it should have been a 3 per person limit cause you can't just eat two), a post race fire to warm-up by and a great Salomon display. And that's not all. A free car wash courtesy of Bob Miller and some great drinks at 'The Shed' in beautiful Belfountain on the way home.

So here we are on a warm weekend in the middle of January and on back-to-back days GHO gets 80+ participants and CN gets close to 60.
I guess we don't race in winter eh!

Thanks CN.

C • agree 7

Orienteering 1:15:00 [3]
rhr:0 slept:5.0 weight:8kg (injured)

Icebreaker at Keith's corner on the Rocky Ridge map. At +4C there was some ice breakin' going on. I started to get tired about 40 minutes into this and ended up hobbling home with Bash. A real great time orienteering and an excellent turn out on a day that was like early spring.

C • 2 am eh? Now that's hard c... 2

Orienteering 1:30:00 [3]

Pre-Icebreaker training with Dang and MrPither at Rocky Ridge. Great conditions for running as the rocks were covered with snow (even though it is grass only in the Hammer).

Running 30:00 [3]
rhr:0 slept:4.0 weight:9.5kg (injured)

TNT with MrPither, Turbo, Dang. 1.5 sections of the Winter Rally (lotsa knee pain) then two strong runs up the stairs (no pain). For a week that I have done little training I am VERY tired...I need a vacation.... I should be a MP..... (see below):

http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/Shows/The_Rick_Mercer_Re...

C • or a college instructor on parental leave ;-) 1

Core 20:00 [3]

leg exercises

Core 40:00 [3]
rhr:0 slept:4.0 weight:10kg (injured)

hard Core Mondays nearly killed me.