Training Log Archive: Lori

Green course at Needham Town Forest with Presto! I was feeling kind of tired from yesterday and vaguely sick, so I wasn't especially thrilled about pushing through the large amount of vegetation covering the forest. I also made some truly idiotic mistakes including a 180, which I only realized I'd done because I passed this guy peeing on the side of the trail that I'd seen just before doing the 180 as well...this amused me :-). Anyway, the best that can be said of this course was that Presto stayed quite close to me the entire time, and we finished.

Picking up 7 controls with Presto after taking a nap in the car. The controls are kind of large. I am kind of small.

Normal stretching.

Green - Splits

Running between the parking lot and Big Island a gazillion times with Presto and various other people.

Setting controls on Big Island with Presto. It took me a bit to figure out which boulders were mapped and which weren't, but all in all, it was delightful to set controls on such an accurate map :-).

Control pick with Presto! This was awesome fun! I messed up number 1 a bit because I wasn't paying enough attention, but then turned my brain back on and was awesomely on top of things the rest of the time with a slight miss at 9. I don't think I have ever laughed so much during an orienteering course as when Ian with a cheering SGB came tearing passed me at 17 and then again before the finish :-).

C • active cheering 1

O-tervals with Katia and Presto! After an awesome lunch (thanks Katia and Giovanni!), Katia, Presto, and I headed out to do the O-tervals. I was not as clean on these as I was in the morning, possibly because of a combination of being tired and trying to increase the speed. Presto was going kind of nuts most of the time, and then at one point just disappeared. Neither Katia nor I had seen him run off, so we started an increasingly panicked 5 minutes of calling him. He finally came tearing back with his tongue hanging about 5 feet out of his mouth and covered in bloody scratches. He went on the leash at that point, which slowed things down a bit (although not as much as stopping completely...). I informed him that he didn't know it yet, but his bloody run had earned him a bath :-).

Normal stretching plus cruciatus stretches and foam rolling.

Cambridge Street Traverse with Presto! SGB designed a really cool corridor-O for us in the streets around Cambridge Street. We started in a mass start and Presto took off like a rocket. Eventually the people on the longer course moved off and Presto settled into something more sustainable (at least for my poor arm that was holding him back :-) ). The corridor idea was really cool and required way more focus than a normal street-O. Presto and I made a confused mistake (by which I mean, I made the mistake and Presto gleefully followed me) towards the end where I was confused about whether some "not streets" were counted as streets or not on the map because sometimes they were and sometimes they weren't. Fun, fun!

Stretching before dinner.

Halloween run with Alee and Presto! Alee had heard that there were some awesome houses on Brattle Street, so we ran over to check them out. There were a couple of pretty good ones, but the little kids in costume were cuter :-). Then we ran down to Mt. Auburn Cemetery because well, it was Halloween and back via the river. I think this must have been at least a 1-rabbit run judging by how crazy Presto went at one point down by the river, but I didn't actually see the rabbit.

Abs while Presto squeaked his new squeaky frog that Kiwi won for him in an agility competition :-).

Normal stretching. Kind of tight.