Training Log Archive: CleverSky

10 pushups, 10 situps, 10 pushups, 10 situps, 5 pushups, 20 situps, while watching the JMU-NDSU championship football game, with sets determined by each team scoring; unfortunately, pushups won 17-13.

50 situps.

Snow dealings, round 4a: my driveway. Pretty fluffy stuff, easy going with the snowblower for about 45 minutes once I got it started (key wasn't all the way in). I heard that the TV reported 15" in Lunenburg, but there was about 9" in my driveway after settling and drifting. This included the extra side space and the mailbox.

Snow dealings, round 4b: Nancy's driveway. She did most of it with the electric snowblower, but the plow snow was too much for it, so I came over with a shovel. I was out there for about 45 minutes, but I'll count a little over half of that as actual work. To the extent that I could, I broke up the snow with a shovel and then evacuated it with the snowblower, but due to the wind that was only moderately successful, so there was a lot of manual tossing as well.

50 situps, 20 pushups.

50 situps, 20 pushups. Probably should have gone for a moonlight run, but it is what it is.

Sunday River, with Nancy. Nine runs, she took a break to warm her hands while I did my third and fourth ones, and near the end we took a break for some hot chocolate. This was the coldest day of the weekend in terms of wind chill, probably hovering around 0 F, but occasionally pretty howling up there. I broke down and bought a pair of goggles before starting in the morning. Wore a lot of clothes, so I was generally pretty comfortable. But the place was deserted, no lines, and no crowds on the slopes.

Sugarloaf USA, with Nancy. Cold again, and a bit windier at times. I wore an extra shirt and different socks, and survived. No lift lines anywhere. Four runs, and took a cocoa break at Bullwinkles.

C • No lift lines 1

And four more runs afterwards, including all the way down to the bottom of the condos. For the last two, Nancy and I went in separate directions, and I did a double black run that was fine, though a little icy.

I seem to have logged a comparable amount of exercise this year to recent years, which seems a bit surprising. Definitely less hiking than last year, but a bit more orienteering, helped by the fact that we had a Highlander this year. My Billygoat result in 2017 was pretty pathetic, but my Highlander and Traverse were both pretty good. 32 O races, including one DNF and one DSQ, both unusual for me. Six A-meet weekends, of which I ran M35 at five of them (and M21 at the Team Trials), and I think I came away with two first-place awards and one second place from all that (thanks to various award criteria). Five races in which I turned in the fastest result (one of which I was the only one on). 223 km of orienteering, which is the most since 2011. It would have been good to have done a bit more pedaling, and a bit less shoveling. And with a bit more wisdom, maybe I can avoid injuring my back in the future. A combined highlight/lowlight was the trip to Manitoba with Charlie, which was wonderful in terms of company, but at the end of it, I was saying that I'd had enough and didn't need to return to those sandhills. I think Charlie really has had enough, but I suppose I would consider going back, despite the insane poison ivy situation. I ended up with a decent results despite some pretty disappointing navigation, as it really is pretty hard. But I got through it.