Training Log Archive: Nadim

In Little Bennet Regional Park, MD. I set out e-punch boxes on Dave Onkst's course with Valerie Meyer, Greg Lennon and Sam Listwak since the QOC meet was postponed to this Sunday and Dave is in FL now. The controls bags were already out having been hung for a week in the closed park. Dave missed the quiet snowy woods; that'll teach him to go to FL in the winter. Crunchy at first with temperatures in the mid-30's F, it rose into the 50's F with bright sunshine leaving me wearing too much clothes. I'm not sure if it was the weight of the backpack with e-punch boxes, the hiking boots I wore or the snow but I struggled to run uphill. Tommorow's 12.5k will be tough if it hasn't melted. Going downhill was better. Suburbia is creeping to the edges of the park.

Late work and a dinner date w/Peggy didn't leave much time or will to run late.

A slippery new snow indicated a better night to stay in reading on the trainer instead.

Working the pair of 20lbs. dumbells for needed upper-body work. I was able to work around my continuing right shoulder problem but my left arm felt sore along a tendon too.

45 situps.

From Rosedale Ave. to Wisconsin Ave via Maryland Ave and Jones Bridge Rd. to Alta Vista, through Oakmont mostly on Heampstead, up Huntington Pkwy. into NIH and to Rosdale Ave. via Battery Lane. The sidewalks and roads were better so I got out. I slowed down in a few places for remaining ice and for going up the hill in Alta Vista but overall I felt better than I have been feeling.

Working late, eating late and remaining ice brought my training choice to cycling indoors today.

From Rosedale Ave. through NIH to the Bethesda Trolley Trail, down to Rock Creek Park almost to East West Hwy., up to the Georgetown Branch Trail via Grubb Rd. to Kentbury Rd. to Rosedale Ave. I guessed correctly that getting on my mountain bike in 25F air at night on the ice and snow would be more exciting than riding indoors on my road bike. Except for some patches of solidifying melt water, the knobbies did well. I was glad for full suspension on the snowy ice in Rock Creek Park. The same ice and snow made the paved trail feel like rough singletrack and my arms got a workout. Crunching it almost all the way often sounded like glass breaking and it slowed me down. It was easier than running on it.

Shoveling a wet and icy 1"-2" of new snow off the driveway and walks.

From Rosedale Ave. to Maple Ave., through Lynnbrook Park to the Georgetown Branch Trail, to Bethesda Ave. to Glenbrook Rd., through Battery Park, Edgewood and Huntington Terrace to the NIH Trail to Jones Bridge Rd. to Maryland Ave. to Rosedale Ave. I started with Peggy for a short while then picked-up the pace a bit where I could. Snow and ice on the trails and roads kept the pace down but I was also still feeling my run last Friday's. I suppose it was good that the QOC Little Bennett meet was postponed (the park didn't have a plow and would not open) since my legs were dead.