Training Log Archive: Sandy

7 sets of 20

It's hard to do push-ups when one ankle is sore and the other knee is sore.

Lots of yard work. Good thing I like yard work in general.

Event: DVOA White Clay Creek
 

Brown course at White Clay Creek. It was probably was not a good idea to go out on my ankle but since I was driving by the park on the way home from Valerie's and I knew that the person running the computer had not used the new software and would most likely need a little help getting going I decided to stop. And once there, it stopped raining and was pleasant out and so I decided to give it a go.

The ankle was okay - not great, but the taping I did made it so I could run (jog) without it hurting. Not a great outing - nothing major wrong, but several sloppy legs and two route choices that I would do differently - but not a good one as I clearly was tired from Friday.

Brown - Splits

PWF training #2 with Valerie. Valerie designed a 14.2 km course (370m climb, 38 controls) using the permanent controls and a few streamered controls from a previous training and we set out around 9:30. It rained a bit off and on but never really hard so it wasn't too bad. Valerie will eventually post the map and details...

Highlights:
- We did the 14.2 km course in 3:20
- We spent an extra 40 minutes trying to determine if a permanent control had gone missing. I actually made a navigational error here but because there was no control to correct to, I was never 100% sure about where we were on the first pass. So we didn't find the next control either. We stopped our watches and did some futzing around and relocated to a really obvious feature and then went looking for the first control but still could not find the permanent control marker. But this time hit the next control fine. Other than a couple of other small errors that I corrected quickly on, this was the only place we had any trouble. I had even said on the way to this control that I was having trouble concentrating and was getting mentally tired and was getting sloppy but it didn't sound the alarm bells loud enough to force a safer route.
- Twisted my ankle at about the 2 hour mark. We had been moving pretty well and I was really upset and cussed a good deal since it hurt quite a bit but after about 5 minutes the pain subsided and I decided that I could finish the course. Valerie was excellent - volunteering to go get the car and meet me at the nearest road point - but after the first excruciating few minutes it felt considerably better and I was psyched that we had been making such good time so wanted to finish.
- Didn't really get too tired and was able to jog quite a bit (until the ankle debacle). Only felt the the long uphill at around the 2:20 mark and the final uphill to the finish.

An excellent training outing.

C • Great training 1

With all the new trails coming and going in the Wissahickon, I have now settled on a standard "short hill loop". There are 5 significant hills and today I had to walk the last little bit of the first one, all of the second one, none of the third one (it's the shortest and least steep), all of the fourth and none of the last (the road part home). So the goal is to whittle away at the other hill sections one by one until I can run the whole thing.

My son and his fiance have a website for their wedding! Who knew?
http://www.theknot.com/ourwedding/EmilyMerola&Denn...

C • That is cool. 3

My backyard has been interesting today. I saw the fox go trotting across early on and then a raccoon - not very big but not a baby either. A little later two of the neighborhood cats were in the yard and they had corralled the fox under one of the bushes. There was a bunch of quick darting around on the part of all three of them and then the cats started hissing and the fox made a run for it. I would have expected the cats to be prey for the fox but it sure looked the other way around. And then the raccoon came sauntering through in the other direction a little later.

C • Film at 11? 4

4 sets of 30; two before tnt and two after so lots of rest in between!

The running part of the work-out.

TNT - workout on the drive with Sandy. I decided I needed to start trying to run again so we hiked down to the drive, ran a mile, walked half, ran half and then hiked back up. The first mile was 525 plus 510 and the last half was 441. But was pretty beat at the end of the mile and definitely at the end of the half. But, as has been said elsewhere, you gotta start somewhere.