Training Log Archive: Sandy

Training hike with Valerie getting ourselves ready for two upcoming ARs. Goal was ~10miles in around 4 hours and we pretty much nailed that. We took several short breaks for various reasons - bathroom, picture taking, shoe changing, penguin rescuing (see Valerie's log) - but mostly just kept plodding along.

Which is about what we hope to do in the actual races so it's all good.

C • Wow 9

See Valerie! I really did get my bike out. :)

It wasn't pretty but I rode around the streets for 20 minutes just remembering how to shift gears and all. My bike is very old and the gears are a little bent and I can only use a small subset of them but I think it's enough to get me around the AR course in 6 weeks.

I need to 1) build up some seat endurance (just 20 minutes was plenty) and 2) build up the courage to take it on some trails.

C • Yay for biking! 2

C • Tune Up? 3

And then a hike around the meadow loop after shedding most of the layers I had on. I thought it would be cold on the bike on the downhills but I didn't realize quite how warm it was out. I thought it was about 50 when in reality it's 65. What a beautiful day! All my bulbs are pushing up and the crocuses are all blooming.

5 minute warmup (fast walking across campus)

30 minute Personal Trainer. I asked her to do somethings for the muscles on the outside and inside of the legs and we did. And a bunch of ab and core and arm as well. Basically, she ramped it up a notch today. I predict I will be sore tomorrow.

10 minute stretch: did some much needed stretching.

Despite it being a beautiful day, I wasn't really into this. Slept almost 11 hours last night so I think I'm fighting off a cold or something. I feel okay but didn't feel like pushing things so I didn't.

Wore my new purple icebugs. They seem like they will be good orienteering shoes.

Really didn't feel like doing this so made a deal with myself: go to the pool but only do about half of what I usually do. I pushed a little harder and felt and was a little faster. But, I started kicking too much making my toes cramp from pointing my feet and then making my knee really hurt a few times since I was really straightening my legs in order to kick and my knee doesn't like it when I make my leg try to go straight. So then I had to stop a few times to work out the kinks. But, on average, the lap times were a good 5-10 sec faster.

In the pool, working out the toe cramps and just getting some good stretches in.

10 min warmup - up and down a stairwell near the workout room, alternating jogging up with double stairs.

30 min workout with trainer

5 min stretching (should have been longer). Need to come up with some sort of routine for this.