Training Log Archive: CharlieIn the 7 days ending May 16, 2011:
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Monday May 16, 2011 #
8 AM
Hike 25:00 [1] 1.3 mi (19:14 / mi)
slept:8.5 weight:158.5lbs
dog walk with Rhonda and Sassy. First time past the site of Sassy's Friday night encounter. She was checking it out pretty carefully, eager for round 2. The other participant was nowhere to be seen.
Kind of stiff and sore from yesterday's effort, but not too bad.
Kind of stiff and sore from yesterday's effort, but not too bad.
11 AM
Note
I finished taking the deceased peach tree out of Rhonda's garden, careful not to damage plants. J-J had helped me break some of the roots on Saturday, using physical principles to enhance leverage, and finally pulling with my pickup truck. I finished it off today with the tractor. Leverage is not important with the tractor, or at least it's important in a different way. We had attached a tow strap at the top to get the tree rocking. Now, getting closer to the root was better, so I re-positioned the tow strap as low as I could get it, and then lifted a bit with the backhoe and it popped. Then I cut it up with the chainsaw and added it to the firewood pile. Pretty neat.
3 PM
Rowing Machine 13:17 [3] 3.0 km (4:26 / km)
I wasn't sure whether I wanted to do anything today, but thought this was a compromise. Turns out it was pretty hard. Strangely enough, my arms felt tired and weak, forearms, triceps, left hand. So 3k was enough.
Sunday May 15, 2011 #
Event: Billygoat Run
10 AM
Orienteering race 3:08:37 16.24 km (11:37 / km) +413m 10:18 / km
ahr:134 max:166 slept:6.5 weight:160lbs shoes: 2010 Yellow NB 840
Billygoat Run. Nice running weather, but not very nice to my glasses. I was fogged and streaked out from about #3 on, relying on the kindness of fellow runners. Spent most of the race hooked on to Phil, and sometimes Adam. Other times I was with Alar and Tiivo, or with Ken Walker. I could see the marshes, and some of the bigger features, so I could do some route planning, but I couldn't see trails (except for the big ones) and I couldn't see contours, unless there were several of them together. A pretty good physical effort. I felt like I was working pretty hard to keep up. At around 31-32 I was in a big group. I think Phil and Adam were still there, certainly Alar, Ken. I think Carl Childs was still there, and we had caught up to Steve Tarry. Not sure if he had skipped, but I think the rest of us were planning on skipping 33. Ken and I got out of 32 near the front of the group and hustled along working together, opening up a bit of a gap on the others. Very tired, but no cramping during the race. Pretty fine. Really excellent BG course. Thanks, Joe.
Saturday May 14, 2011 #
2 PM
Orienteering 16:15 2.29 km (7:06 / km) +48m 6:26 / km
ahr:154 max:168 slept:7.0 weight:159lbs shoes: 2010 Yellow NB 840
Speedy Goat Relay at Tarrywile, running legs 2 and 4, teamed up with jjcote, who was running legs 1 and 3. Had PG in sight much of the way to 1, got a little high on the hill to 2 and again to 3, but not bad. Slog back up to the butterfly control at 4, then misread the numbering of the next loop with red number in the green, and, thinking it said 5, went most of the way to 6 before seeing that the one I wasn't going to was actually #5, so I lost most of a minute there. Back to 7, opening a nice gash on my scalp by misjudging the height of an apple tree branch. Becks passed me after 7. 8 was fine, but my mind was wandering and I took the wrong trail ending up down at the main trail and having to figure out what I had done. About 1.5 minutes lost with that foolishness, so about 2 minutes lost in total.
My route.
My route.
Orienteering 20:19 *** 2.46 km (8:16 / km) +57m 7:25 / km
ahr:152 max:172 spiked:8/10c shoes: 2010 Yellow NB 840
Speedy Goat, leg 4 (leg 2 for me). More alone on this one. 1 was fine. Took the trail to 2, which seemed not to be as favorable as going through the ostensibly green woods, based on the comments of the others. Across the road and up the hill toward 3, and I was certainly not sprinting any more. Sucked off thinking the cliff I was looking for would be on a spur, and running well off course before correcting, then 5 was ok. Too high going to 6 and wrapped around the cliff, looking for the flag and not seeing it, so looked around a bit to see where else it could be. Nope, it really had to be on that cliff. Read the clue. SW foot. Oh. Tucked in at the end. The rest uneventful, if slow. About 3 minutes squandered. Got the right trail this time from 9 to 10.
My route.
My route.
Friday May 13, 2011 #
1 PM
cycling 35:00 [3] 8.6 mi (4:04 / mi)
slept:6.0 weight:158.5lbs
CCW loop from Pleasant Valley with Rhonda. A few sprinkles. First time on bikes for both of us this year. She was pretty spunky, considering.
C • ugh 5
Thursday May 12, 2011 #
4 PM
Running 14:00 [3] 1.3 mi (10:46 / mi)
shoes: 2011 NB MT840
a quick dog loop with Sassy before heading down into town for Crossfit
5 PM
Gym 1:00:00 [3]
animal warmups first - lots of crawling, jumping, hands and feet
main workout was deadlifts, sets of 5 and stotts presses sets of 5. Turns out I can't much do a stotts press at all. I like deadlifts, but I was a little nervous about my hamstring, which was already pretty inflamed. Last set of DLs was at 185. Could have done more, but it was feeling a little stressful on the hamstring.
Then some warm down stretching, and a bunch of pullups and dips on my own, then repaired to the ice tub for a while where Jen was nursing her knee, and it felt pretty good on my achilles.
main workout was deadlifts, sets of 5 and stotts presses sets of 5. Turns out I can't much do a stotts press at all. I like deadlifts, but I was a little nervous about my hamstring, which was already pretty inflamed. Last set of DLs was at 185. Could have done more, but it was feeling a little stressful on the hamstring.
Then some warm down stretching, and a bunch of pullups and dips on my own, then repaired to the ice tub for a while where Jen was nursing her knee, and it felt pretty good on my achilles.
Wednesday May 11, 2011 #
5 PM
Orienteering 57:06 *** 6.17 km (9:16 / km) +164m 8:10 / km
ahr:138 max:172 spiked:25/30c rhr:58 slept:8.0 weight:159lbs shoes: 2010 Yellow NB 840
Phil's long sprint course at Cemetery Hill in Northampton. Good fun and an interesting mid-week o opportunity.
Tuesday May 10, 2011 #
2 PM
Running 59:17 5.17 mi (11:28 / mi) +107m 10:46 / mi
ahr:130 max:149 slept:6.5 weight:160lbs shoes: 2011 NB MT840
At McLean, usual route. Rode over with Zack and Chris. Zack went off ahead. Chris and I were moving along pretty well until he had a bout of foot pain that made us walk a bit off and on the last half. Sounds to me like a possible stress fracture. He has a number of the risk factors - runs mostly on pavement, recently increased mileage a lot, pretty heavy. So anyway we sent him off to the doctor.