Training Log Archive: MAJ

Rode hills along River Rd near campus. The wind was really gusting. On the final lap heading north on RIver Rd I noticed I was going 25mph UP the hill by the Red Cross Building.

Took the canoe (Tuktu) to Lake Nokomis and paddled with Jerritt and Jasper. It was a great day for picnic on the beach and a quick swim.Jasper is quick learner- I think he has the basics of the "J" and "C" strokes down. Not bad for a 2 year old.

Chippewa Valley Adventure Race fun course. Started with an urban run to the canoes for a trip down the CHippewa River with 4 controls in this section. Tuktu the Alumatub proved to be a good teammate. We took out near a RICKETY ski jump which served as the rapell site. Very cool view from the top of the jump. After ditching the harnesses we jumped on the bikes for road section to the orienteering section. The score went well- we missed a couple of the controls and spent some time on them. Jerritt's stomach seemed to disagree with choice of food and he spent a quarter of a mile dry heaving on the bike. I was appreciative of the fact that he kept pedaling and didn't stop. Things seemed to take a turn for the worse when Jerritt's quads and hamstrings joined the revolt by cramping. I felt a bit useless and nervous about his ability to contiue as he was rolling around gravel on the side of the road.
We continued onto the single track (with a few more cramp breaks) and completed the "Needle in the Haystack" Activity in 3 hours, We found the first 4 of 6 randomly place unmarked controls. The final 2 nearly did us in. We finally found #6 on the LAST trail and rode into the finish.

Biked to St Paul Campus. Left home late, rode pretty fast to meeting.

relaxed ride home

Stopped on Lake St Bridge and Franklin to watch rowers coming up.

Ran with Flink around Franklin-Lake. I was hot and sweaty, Flink was cool after swiming in the river every chance she had.

Rode to Minneheha for SNAP cookout.

Home-Work-Home

Biked with Jerritt to 5 8 Club, had a couple beers at Nokomis and biked home.

Fort Snelling, Airport, Mendota, St Paul Loop with Jerritt. Overall intensity was 3 with higher intensity 5+ on Ohio and Ramsey Hills. New gearing is great but miss granny on the hills.

Rode with Dori and Susan. Intensity over all was about a 2 1/2 with some intensity of 4 on speed ups.
Airport loop with extra hill at Fort Snelling

1X steady state up to top and back. Had the pleaseure of being first and only boat heading up river.

Great ride into work sipping coffee while cruising down along the river.

1st time on red. struggled through 1st 4 controls and speeded up a little (VERY little). Mistook a deer for trail along side a lake, then got to see the deer bound through the water. Pretty cool.

Went to boathouse hoping for a good row in the 1X but was thwarted by a wind from the south. Whitwe knuckle row almost to Franklin before deciding to head in.

Used mtn. bike to pull Jasper in Chariot while Jerritt ran blazingly fast around Franklin-Lake loop.

Franklin-Lake Loop with Susan. We were going slow but was struggling a bit with breathing so felt like I was putting more effort out than a "2"

Hill repeats at Lock and Dam #1 with Dori. Hills were prescribed in her Triathon training. Planned to do 10 but ended up doing 6 and biking down to Franklin and back.

other portion of work out after leaving the hill work.