Training Log Archive: Charlie

Event: NEOC: Earl's Trails
 

Earl's trails Red course, set by Phil Bricker. Very nice course. I don't seem to have much sense of what is going on on that central hill. Also got way thrown off on it at the BG last year and ended up heading S off the map. This time I persisted, finally found something to relocate on. Still not sure which trails I was on when I was on them. Not too far off most of the way, but then lost it pretty badly on the far side of the hill.

1. Was ok, went by 17 to make it a little easier.
2. Thought I was fine, but I was one spur too soon, went back up for a while before figuring it out.
3. Mostly trails. Once I got to the stream I was pretty confident.
4. Idea was to climb around S side of the central hill, use trails where I could, but it took forever, and then once I finally got over on the back side I was further north than I thought, and lost another 13-14 minutes trying to find something to relocate on. Finally recognized the big trail segment where I turned around, 300 M NE of the control.
5. Again used trails a lot. Saw Sam L at the control.
6. Sam was a little right of me, and I didn't much want to follow him, so stayed left, but we converged near the control
7. Sam behind me, trying to hustle along, but I don't move very fast these days, even when I feel like I am hustling. Around the corner of the last hill and in.
8. More or less straight, seeing the shape of the land well, Becks off to the right and zoomed right into it, someone else was in front of her.
9. Everybody else was on green, so alone headed to 9 and promptly screwed it up, finally bailing out to the trail, well short of it, but maybe only 2 minutes or so actually lost in the process.
10. Stayed on trail all the way, but I knew where I was all the time.
11. A little longer, but wanted to stay on the spur. Not moving very fast.
12. A long time out to the trail, then across through the mapped yellow now a clump of beech saplings. Rock pretty visible once I got close.
13. A lot of climbing, a lot of thick hemlocky stuff, more or less executed my plan. Just really slow.
14. Once again totally flummoxed by the trails. I was two trails higher than I thought. OK once I figured it out, but went around a lot more than I had planned.
15. Easy.
16. Again, some climbing, thought I had it figured out, but stopped a little soon, looked across the brook and saw the trail segment, so then I figured it out.
17. Just slogging up the hill, saw #1 off to my right. Steve R coming up behind just as I hit the trail.

And then hustled right out because Rhonda was waiting for me, and off to have lunch with my cousin Ann in Amherst, at the Monkey Bar.

Red - Splits

Green - Splits

Event: WCOC Gay City Meet
 

Gay City Advanced Long - nominal distance 7.1K. I felt compelled to do the long, because it was my idea to add a couple controls to the Green to make it. Really nice course by Earl. My only real error was on the third control, where I over-ran it because there was so much more water in the area. Really fun doing the short legs at the end. Woods very nice and open.

Map and route.. And then a stop for ice cream with Becks after at Fish Family Farm.

For a day that started out rainy, turned out really nice.

C • Fish Farm 8

With Zack, around at PV.

Advanced Long - Splits

This seemed like a hard effort. Still pretty sore in the legs. Also quite humid today, which is particularly difficult on the rower for me.

C • Hard 5k effort 2

Rhonda was on her way to PV to walk for an hour. Her foot is better, but back is hurting, so she is still not running. So I went along and did this. Not too lively still, and my foot is really sore.

Rhonda's morning class. Haven't done that in a while, and feeling a bit less graceful than I remember. It was Jackie's birthday, so seemed like a good day to go.

Haven't been here in a while!

First there was a 13 minute AMRAP, alternating rowing for 18 calories (which takes me a shade over a minute) with four wall walks (from a pushup position, feet up the wall and walking back on hands until straight up). After a couple of those it was pretty clear that it would be dangerous, so I cut back to two and then to one, mixing in some pushups to kill the rest of the time.

Then 8-6-5-3-3 deadlifts. Again, no reason to go nuts with this. Last set at 125#. Plenty.

Legs more sore today than yesterday from the BG. Hamstrings particularly tight today.

Once around at Pleasant Valley with Rhonda. Legs surprisingly good, considering how bad they were yesterday, but tired. A nice little spin on a beautiful day.