Training Log Archive: Nadim

St. Paul, MN. Still lost luggage meant nothing to run or workout in again. Peggy and I still had lots of shopping to do so we cruised seperately about all 3 floors of the Mall of America for 2 hours. 45 situps.

St. Paul, MN. Lost luggage meant nothing to run or workout in. However, Peggy and I did walk about the Mall of America. 45 situps.

C • Will Peggy log the shopping as... 4

St. Petersburg, Russia. From Malaya Morskaya Ulitsa to Gorokhvaya Ulitsa, over Dvostovuu Bridge, across the Spit of Vasilovski Island to Kronevskaya Nab, around and through Peter & Paul Fortress, over the Troitskiy bridge, along the Neva River to Nevskiy Prospect, to Malaya Morskaya Ulitsa. It was icy out and I took pictures like before. However this time I ran my own pace.

After a short visit at the orphanage in Sortavala, we were driven back 5 hours to St. Petersburg and had a snack. I did 45 situps afterward in my hotel room.

Sortavala, Russia. After playing with Sergeiy in the orphanage (should I show crawling as a new workout category?), Peggy and I went for a run through the town. We left from our hotel on Promeleshnaya Ulitsa and got into an ugly industrial area while trying to get to the lake shore. Doubling back, we went through the downtown to a park along lake Ladoga, up along a stream where we saw ice fishermen, up a hilltop in a park overlooking the town, slid down icy stairs to a XC ski trail and back to town.

Sortavala, Russia. After a 6 hour drive on snowy, icy and dark roads, we arrived at the Hotel Sortavala. We walked from there to the orphanage where we met the director, care givers and finally Sergeiy. He was playfull and looked well cared for. I squeezed in 45 situps in the hotel afterward.

St. Petersburg, Russia. We overslept a bit with it being Sunday and having no adoption work scheduled. It had snowed 3" through the night--it has snowed more than it hasn't while we've been here but the residents say they haven't gotten much snow this year. We decided to stay in and hit the fitness center in the hotel again. The calibration of the treadmill was still off. I started at 7:00/? distance and quickly raised it. I eventually finished at 4:00/? distance. At the end I was running pretty hard but didn't feel real tired until I stopped--I suddenly felt exhausted then. Techno music kept blasting at Peggy and I while we did our workout.

St. Petersburg, Russia. Upper and lower body weights on a Universal-like machine. Later in the day Peggy and i went into the Church on Spilled Blood and wandered up and down Nevskiy Prospect. it was snowing breezy and overrcast all day. St. Petersburg gets an average of zero hours of sunlight all of December and January It didn't seem to bother people much. Many Russians walked about wiithout gloves though most had on a hat as they did their holiday shopping preparations. We saw Father Frost in blue and his female comanion in red handing out New Year's party fliers.