Training Log Archive: Charlie

Big hills! Up 179 to E Hartland, down 20 to 219 in Granby, 219 to Ratlum and home.

Pleasant Valley, E River Rd. Slowish on the way out, but picked it up coming back. 23:12, 21:27.

Rhonda's 6 am class. I've got mid-back spasms on the left, and the class was irritating it.

Rode the mtn bike down to town and back. 24 minutes down and 44 back. Quite a hill.

Pleasant Valley up east river rd and back. Hot and muggy. Rhonda was a bit behind, in 47:47. All things considered, not bad.

Wandering around on Wells map, trying to get a feel for it. Map quality is pretty erratic. Way too many features, yet still missing some really major ones. Also killer poison ivy.

Down Doyle Rd to NH and up Goose Green to Stanclift Cove to swim with Rhonda - bummer, though, as the swim area was closed due to a couple of lightning flashes. A little swirl of wind came through and cooled things off, though.

Pretty hard. I was really feeling it in my low back and in my wrists.

Too beat to run this morning, so Rhonda and I walked down the Devil's Elbow and to Lavander, then back through the woods.

Down Doyle to NH to Goose Green to Stanclift cove. Pushing a bit to break 30, but broke my computer instead - it just stopped in the last quarter mile. Why??? Can't seem to get it to register now.

Easy couple of laps at Stanclift Cove with Rhonda. She has been swimming half hour at a clip, but it's a little dicey on my neck, so I'm easing into it.

Down Bunker Hill Rd and up Barbourtown. Rhonda made me do it! 6 am and already sticky out.

I don't generally keep golf in here, but had an interesting time today. I've been thinking about my backswing for the last week or two (although not doing anything about it). Today I went off to play 9 holes with my friend Tom and had time to hit a bucket of balls first. I think I've been swaying back rather than turning, so turning was the fix I worked on. Started out with some low flubs and some prodigious hooks. Then I proceeded to the Ancient Mariner, who hitteth one of three. Finally played the round, and had my best outing of the season - a 44 with no divots the size of a small raccoon. Am I in recovery? Who knows?

Rhonda's 6 am class. First time in a month or more. It was plenty hard! I could sure feel it in my lower back.

Pleasant Valley along E River Rd and back. Wicked hot and humid, even though it was only 8:30 am.

Down Doyle Rd, to NH and up Goose Green Rd to Stanclift Cove. Pretty spent after spending most of the day at a very lengthy memorial service for some friends and neighbors who were killed in a plane crash last week. Didn't feel like working when I got back, so biked over to the lake and went for a little swim with Rhonda and Jess (who ran there).

Doyle Rd to NH to Goose Green up to Barkhamsted Cemetery, down Beech Rock Road to Stanclift Cove, to meet Rhonda to swim. Went late, after I got back from Shelton and West Htfd.

Around Ann and Foxcroft with Rhonda, fairly early.