Training Log Archive: HGaston

4x hill repeats on the Hillsborough street hills. Time includes warm-up running to the hill, time running up, and time running down.

Yikes, I need to work on hills more!

C • Hills 3

Weights, leg machines, and abs at the gym. Very crowded, probably because of New Year's.

I went running with Christina after history. It was raining pretty hard, so we ran down East Franklin and then MLK instead of running in the park.

...that meant hitting the long hill up East Franklin on the way back and the hill on Hillsborough Street at the end.

A really good workout.

I did a couple minutes of crunches after the run.

Morning run around Gimghoul and then through Battle Park and back. I didn't go out to the castle itself, just the neighborhood loop.

Beautiful morning and nice to get outside. I saw three deer in the park. Was going to go to the gym afterwards and do a little work on the leg machines, but I forgot that you need to bring ID. Tomorrow morning...

Quickroutes from this weekend (I got the maps themselves from Hannah's quickroute pictures; thanks! :))

Day 1: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?ref=profile&id...

Mostly very messed up around 3 and 12.

Day 2: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?ref=profile&id...

...there is a large red bar of confusion around the out-of-bounds area near 13. I had sort of envisioned I was a lot closer to the line, but then things weren't matching...

C • Learning 12

C • Ok, seriously... 3

Extreme-O! Good fun.

I ran with John and Tracy. It was amusing...

- Canoe challenge: paddle out to an island and get three controls. John hopped out and waded around in the knee-deep mud when we got to the island, and Tracy and I paddled around to the other side to pick him up.

- Bat tunnel: When you get to the control site, it's at the end of a long, 3-foot tall tunnel near a dam...and there are bats living in it. Apparently Hilary and Dana startled the bats and they were flying around in the tunnel with them. Almost completely dark and about 30m long. We had a camera so took some pictures with the flash to get a little bit of light.

- Culvert control: a very small culvert or a very large pipe. Got pretty drenched crawling in that one.

- Memory O' leg

- Aerial photos

- Plotting UTMs

- Contour-only

- Under a building

- In a port-o-potty

...after we finished, John hid in one of the other port-o-potties and made all the other finishers feel spectacularly awkward when they opened it looking for the control. I think he also photographed their expressions :).

Beautiful day, warm and clear skies. Plus there wasn't any egg to break this year, which was good.

C • FUN! 1

C • picture from end of race? 3

Day 2!

A solid run in general; I hesitated a few times and started drifting toward disaster once but it didn't actually happen because I saw the park boundary, so overall pretty clean navigationally.

My biggest area for improvement from today's run is speed -- my legs were feeling pretty tired out there! This is usually not the biggest problem, so it's kind of exciting because it's very train-able. It's not just speed in general either, but hills. I really need to run more hills.

So I'm going to add in a must-run hills workout to a hopefully-to-become-more-regular training schedule. Saturdays sound good.

Incomplete general training schedule with lots of blanks for things I haven't defined yet:

Monday --- short-ish, doubling as grocery run
Tuesday --- ?
Wednesday --- ?
Thursday --- long-ish with Christina
Friday --- ?
Saturday --- hills (Hillsborough Street or repeats of Battle Park exit hill)

I'd like to add in regular time for mapping, long run, medium run, and some gym time especially for legs and maybe my nonexistent arm strength if inspiration strikes.

C • Nice job 2

Red Day 2 - Splits