Training Log Archive: Charlie

Not sure if anyone else would watch this whole thing.
Venice street-O headcam video
But very cool.

C • I only watched the first five mins or so 5

Workout today was five rounds for time, 12 Deadlifts, 9 hang power cleans, 6 push jerks. I only used 53# because I knew the hang power cleans would be tough on my wrist, and that was enough. DLs and PJs were pretty easy, HPCs deadly.

Event: NEOC: Blue Hills Traverse
 

Blue Hills Traverse. It became apparent pretty quickly that this was not going to be a good day physically. I felt pretty toasted after #6, and ran only slowly and sporadically after that, almost exclusively walking by the last loop or so. Surprised to meet up with J-J after blowing #3 to the right, then blew #4 as well in his company, going by 5 on the way. Phil was standing above #5 looking puzzled, so we told him where it was. After 4, 5 was easy the second time, but my energy was disappearing by 6 and J-J got away. Alone at 7, and then confused by the trails on the way to 8. Alone all the way there, but meeting up with Dean and a couple of the AR folks at the control. Pulled away from Dean on the way to 9, but then met up with him again at the top of the reentrant above 10. Ken Sr. came zooming by on the way to 12, and Dean showed up again, briefly. Ken was ahead going over the hill to 15, and it seems we made the same mistake, getting on the hill below the SW-NE wall and thinking we were above it, and drifting way down the hill, although I didn't see him until later. Confused about where I was on the trail for a while, and Ken showed up, a bit confused as well. He was moving faster, and I caught glimpses of him on the way to 15, 16 and 17, and the last I saw of him was when he was leaving 17 and I wasn't there yet. One control that was hard for me to find was 20. I got sucked off by a larger rock higher up the side, and then wandered down too far before seeing the trail and heading back. Then I did some really dumb stuff going from 21 to 22, getting above the line of cliffs and heading all the way up to the trail because it looked so ugly to climb down, then missing which trail I was on and getting way too far N. Then walking, walking. Leaving 26 I saw Lori and Presto coming in behind me, so I tried to jog to hold them off. At least I beat the greyhound!

Route

Traverse - Splits

Extended dog walk, checking in the vicinity off little down marsh for any signs of storm damage- none found.

Vetting and storm damage review at Sessions, with Bill and Rhonda. Woods are very open, storm damage visible, but not an impediment to navigation, and not particularly unsafe. Looks fine for the December 4 meet.

Event: Sprint the Golden Gate
 

Finally home, and scanned my maps from Venice

Saturday Park O and
Sunday Street O

I tried to make the GPS tracks work, but they were too determined to go through buildings and across canals, so I had to give it up.

C • Welcome back! If you guys... 4

C • Street Race Map 2

C • Street Race #10 2

Tough class. First we did push presses. These are tough with my wrist, but better than they would have been a couple of weeks ago. Worked up to 90 lbs, which would have been pretty easy for me before the broken wrist, but which I didn't quite lock out at the top today.

Then we did 4 rounds of 1 minute each max reps of ring rows, wall ball, KB swings, and DB cleans, with a 1 minute rest between rounds 2 and 3. Really felt hard. Of course there was some jet lag involved, too.

dog walk with R&S. Saw where my forester had replaced a fence post that broke.

Another beautiful morning in Venice. Running with the map, but taking easy routes across Ponte Scalzi, along Strada Nuova, past Rialto and through the Campos to Accademia. Interesting, but the running doesn't bother me in the way that walking does. Last night I was feeling quite lame, but fine this morning.

We walked over to Ospedale Civile, checking a few restaurants along the way, then making a dinner reservation at Alla Staffa again, too good to pass up on our last night in town. Then we walked back over Rialto, seeing a large mass of carabinieri near the banks near San Bortolo, looking like they were ready to tangle with the Occupy Venice crowd. Through the campos and back home, stopping by our local wine bar for some tramezzini, one smoked tuna with dandelion, one onion, olive and some other stuff, one ricotta with pesto, and a mystery one Rhonda thought might have ground nuts of some kind. Not the pistachio and ricotta we had the other day. The wine bar has two names, Vini al Bottegon and Gia Schiavi. It has some pictures on the wall, including a picture of the bar from a NYT travel section from 1990, and a picture from 1988 of people walking in front of the bar in hip waders, with the water over their knees. That would have made for some ugly street O.

Home for a short stretch, then out again across Ponte Scalzi and through Cannaregio to Madonna dell'Orto. We were going to just take a boat back from there, bu Rhonda wanted to go see the cemetery at San Michele, so we went that way instead, then took boats back, 4.2 to Fondamente Nove then 5.1 down Cannaregio canal and around the west side of Venice, a more industrial area, before ending up near home at Zattere.

C • Venice Industrial Area 2

Walked down to Zattere to see Jess and Kyle off, stopping for very nice cappuccino and brioche at Nico's. Then we strolled home for a bit and set out again, this time taking a waterbus to San Marco and touring the Palazzo Ducale, with it's opulent decorations, giant council rooms and dank prison. We walked from there first up toward Ospedale, then through Campo Santa Marina toward Rialto, and to the Natual History museum. Nice enough, but nothing one couldn't see in lots of other natural history museums. Then we walked through Campo Giacomo dell'Orio and San Polo and up to the open air fish market at Rialto Mercator to buy shrimp for tonight's dinner, and back through San Polo and San Toma' to The vegetable boat in San Barnaba for artichokes, onions, tomatoes, lettuce and parsley, with a last stop for wine and tramezzini at Vini Ai Bottegon before heading home to clean shrimp and pit olives before the next excursion.

Walked over Accademia and through San Marco down to the Street race HQ, then headed N along the Arsenale to the water at Celestia. Then we walked along the elevated steel walkway along the back of the Arsenale to the Bacino vaporetto stop, where we had to wait a while for the right boat. We rode around to Sant' Elena and then walked through the ParkO map until we got back to the Arsenale stop. My back and feet were sore and we took the boat back from there.