Training Log Archive: Charlie

Event: Cemetery Hill Inaugural Sprint
 

Phil's long sprint course at Cemetery Hill in Northampton. Good fun and an interesting mid-week o opportunity.

- Splits

At McLean, usual route. Rode over with Zack and Chris. Zack went off ahead. Chris and I were moving along pretty well until he had a bout of foot pain that made us walk a bit off and on the last half. Sounds to me like a possible stress fracture. He has a number of the risk factors - runs mostly on pavement, recently increased mileage a lot, pretty heavy. So anyway we sent him off to the doctor.

R leg very sore, achilles, hamstring, glute. Lay off for a bit.

Event: WCOC Five Ponds
 

Red course at 5 Ponds, from over on Slab Meadow Rd. Very nice course, using the seldom used SE part of the map, which was the most entertaining part.

Not off to a very good start. I forgot my forerunner. Headed off to #1, in an area I often have trouble, and must have gone right by it, wandering in a circle until I finally relocated. After that the navigation went well.

Red - Splits

pretty sore from city running yesterday. Rhonda and I were up and out by 6, walking around looking for a Starbucks. One on every corner, but all closed until 7. Eventually met up with Jess at Bloom's, a favorite breakfast spot. Then hung out with Jess until noon, drove home in surprisingly thick traffic.

just a little fooling around in the gym while Rhonda and her mom were out there. pullups, ring dips, a couple of band assisted muscle ups.

tough night - woke up at 2 and couldn't get back to sleep.

This session was a 2K warmup followed by a 2K ranking piece. Not as fast as last month. Mostly my legs were tired.

7:50.1 for the ranked piece. 2nd out of 3 so far. When I started I had my eye on 7:38, which would have matched the first guy on the list. but after about a minute and a half I couldn't hold the pace.
splits
1:55.3
1:57.2
1:58.7
1:58.2

C • Impressive nevertheless 2

we drove into NYC (Rhonda, her mom and I) to visit Jess, and for the ladies to go to a show (Sister Act). We got to our hotel around 115, and shortly after the girls all went to lunch and I went for a jog, meeting up with my cousin Matt in Central Park. We meandered around, and I wasn't fully paying attention. This is an estimate. After a bit we bounced out around 86th street and got a couple of bottles of beer from a deli and drank them out of paper bags, as apparently open drinking of beer from a bottle is pretty antisocial in those parts. Then we strolled down the street to pick up Matt's son Jake at school, where we met his teacher, Miss Cohen, who appeared to be about 17.

Jake's school yard, like I suppose many urban schools, is paved, and it thrust me back instantly to my formative years as St Catherine of Siena in St Albans, Queens, NY. Lunchtime was a perilous time for a little kid as St Catherine's. We were released into a concrete yard surrounded by chain link fence. The big kids marauded, and I recall more than once having a big kid throw my thermos on the ground and hearing the broken glass in the milk. So I was pretty glad to move on from Jake's school. After a bit, we parted company.

C • I remember seeing my first ... 8

Again, pretty much an estimate of where I went in the park.

Then lolled about the room for a bit nursing my sore hamstring and got ready to go for dinner with Rhonda, Mimi, Jess, and Matt and Jake, who showed up a bit later after Jake's basketball practice. Very nice. I had the grilled sardines.

C • yikes! 2

In town at the gym: some miscellaneous stuff, then the main workout was with kettlebells. I didn't have a very big one, 16 kg, so not as tough as it could have been, but I've been doing a lot of squats this week and I am getting a bit tired from them.

4 rounds of:

10 KB swings
10 squats with KB racked in right hand
10 swings
10 squats with KB racked on left
2 gym lengths walking with KB racked (L/R)
rest 30 seconds

finished that in 8:35. When everybody was done, 1 minute for max swings (I got 36). Then some stretching, etc.

C • I am waiting to read that C... 2