Training Log Archive: kissy

I brought my car in for its 10K check up and decided to go for a bike ride while I was waiting. The weather has been absolutely spectacular this week -- low humidity and cooler temps, but that's supposed to change this afternoon. The humidity is going back to normal levels -- dripping -- and the temps will climb again to HOT. So I thought getting the ride done in the morning was the smart thing to do.

This one's for Mikell:

C • VW 4

Another 900 meters. It felt good, so I might have to add on some distance next time. This was outside, again, on my way home from getting some groceries.

Weird story: I was in the paper goods aisle and some guy, probably around my age and looked like he would have fit right in at an orienteering event, was standing in front of the TP, looking closely at the shelf labels and then back at his phone. I walked right up and picked up the generic store brand that I always get when he asked me:

"Have you tried any others?"
"Other brands of toilet paper? Yes, but this is fine and it's cheap."
"So, it is....."
"Yup, it gets the job done."

Yikes.

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Body Pump

I'll put this as mt. biking because I was on my mt. bike, but it was on the C&O canal, so very flat and easy. There were a lot of folks out on the canal. I was grateful for the shade.

I'm adding this as strength training because it was very hard! My arms were toast by the end.

In order to conduct events in Patapsco Valley State Park, Quantico has to give back .5 volunteer hours for every start. That's a lot. So today, 25 club members showed up for trail maintenance. I thought we'd be walking along a trail, clipping away branches that were in the way. But no. We were actually creating a brand new trail which entailed starting in the middle of the woods and following pink flagging. Along the way, we had to hack out a 2 foot wide trail, with a 45˚ back stop and a trail slope of 5˚ - 10˚. It was *not* just clipping branches!

Here you can see the before and after. The area by the pink flags in the back is what we started with.



By the end, we had done three times the work that the ranger thought we'd be able to accomplish. It was super cool to walk back along the trail that we had just created.

C • Trail Building 2

I headed to Mom's after the trail work, and all I wanted to do was take a shower and relax. But they were ready to party at the Shepherdstown Street Fest, so off we went. It was a lot of fun, and Mom enjoyed the music.