Training Log Archive: Sandy

Finishing up the course. Again, the geometry isn't quite right on the north side of the hill and I'll have to make some adjustments. Spent some time trying to resolve the 0 as well.

I did realize it was snowing - made it easy to retrace my steps a few times - but I didn't realize how much it was snowing. The parking lot had a dozen cars when I started but no one was there when I finished. As I exited the park, there were some stuck people on the hill so I decided to take the long way around on the major-ish roads and not risk the back way. There were cars spun out and stuck all over the place. Both Germantown and Ridge were bumper to bumper for several miles so while it's a 10 minute drive to get to Ft. Washington it was over an hour to get home.

Since I was already dressed for it.

Went over to Ft. Washington State Park for some map hiking.

A lot of new construction, new trails, new trail routings and several very, very large new rootstocks.

Part 1.

C • awesome 3

Part 2

And part 3. Need to fix the map in two spots.

Getting tired near the end so took a short cut.

Hill repeats. Wanted to do this today in the rain to test out my rain gear. Unfortunately, it only drizzled most of the time and certainly never really poured. On the other hand, I did stay completely dry and all the vents worked well to keep me from getting wet from the inside. Feet stayed dry too which was good. Will have to get out in some real rain some other time.

Saw a guy with two very cute dogs several times. On the second, he said something like "I see you're doing hills, too" and on the last we stopped and chatted for a bit about why we were doing these. I told him about Kilimanjaro and he said he's been doing it for the last several years just to stay in shape and that he and his wife do a lot of hiking and traveling and have a big trip to Banff planned for the summer. The first time I've actually stopped and chatted with someone like that out on the trail. Really nice.

RTP - planks, pushups, arm weights, squats, balances and some yoga stretches.

Stairs - 4 x (13 min double, 2 min rest). Wore my pack for the last set. It was a mental battle to finish this workout. Had to push off to get through the last set - usually I just plant my foot and straighten that leg but to finish the set I had to start pushing off the bottom foot. Not a bad thing - just strengthening different muscles. Perhaps I should be pushing all the time.

A little wonky on the splits - I pushed stop instead of lap, realized it after a few minutes, then pushed start but never lap. Thought I just hadn't heard the beep then realized after a while I was still in the warmup part of the workout so hit the lap and then the lap again. The whole workout was a more like 65 or 70 minutes.

C • track 3

Core DVD plus some stretching.

Have a funny twinge in my right quad. Hope it's nothing serious.