Training Log Archive: Charlie

At the lake with R&S. Spiced it up a bit by throwing in some 200M running intervals, 8 of them in total.

Event: WCOC Ansonia Nature Center
 

Ansonia WCOC meet. There were two Brown courses, and an invitation to do them both. This was Brown 1, and went very well. I was focused, able to move, and got around pretty efficiently. Nominal distance was 2.5K, so didn't cover much unnecessary ground.

Map Brown 1 .

And then course Brown 2, after perhaps too short a break, perhaps 10 minutes, but maybe less. On the way to #1 I felt my legs and realized I was going to be slower. And then I just found myself struggling to maintain focus, making lots of mistakes, tripping on sticks a lot. Just tired. Pretty instructive to see what a difference it made to have done a 2.5K course before this one.

1 was ok, but slower going to it along the trail than I had been when it was #10 on the first course and I then went to 11 and the finish. 2. I had also been to before, but missed it pretty far to the N. Then missed 3 a lot to the north, and saw the flag for 5 and went to it. Yikes! and still had trouble finding 3 from there. Then 4, t were ok. Six I got to the general area and the big rock reasonably quickly, but trouble finding the right rock for the control. 7 was easy all the way, but stumbling and slow. For 8 I tried to follow a compass line, but lost focus again, got off to the right, and then went further right before correcting. 9 was ok, but then a fair amount of trouble getting off that hill and through the rocks to get around the marsh. Gingerly. A little wobbly to 11, up above it and not seeing it because of the downed tree in between, so wondering where else it could be. I was actually a little surprised the time wasn't worse, because I sure felt awkward out there.

Nominal distance was 2.7K, so added almost a K of unnecessary wandering.

Map Brown 2

Mysteries of DOMA. It won't let me add the Brown 2 course without the route.

Brown1 - Splits

Brown2 - Splits

With R&S at the Lake. Nice day. Still cold, but more sunshine than we have seen in a while, and all yesterday's snow was gone.

Nope. Not today

In the gym with Eric, usual stretching, rolling, deadlifts, squats pulldowns and core.

With Rhonda and Sassy at Lake McDonough. Pretty cold day, 30-ish by the time we went.

I've had trouble the last week convincing myself to row, glad I did today. Pretty fair time for my current level of fitness.

Split pace:

2:12.1
2:11.9
2:11.1
2:09.9
2:07.4

C • Started fast; finished faster! 2

In the gym with Eric. Most of the usual stuff, but had a little twinge on the first set of deadlifts, so stopped them right there. I think it was more a lack of focus than anything else, as I was telling a story at the same time instead of paying attention.