Training Log Archive: Charlie

Event: DVOA National Event Nov 4-5
 

Stump grinding. Zack is operating the device, but I need to be there to help guide him, as he can't see where the blade is going, and to dig rocks out of the way, since rocks are really hard on the teeth. 5 stumps down before lunch, 3 to go.

And the next 3 after lunch, and one other stump that had a lot of rocks around it so we took it out with the tractor instead. A pretty successful outing, but not a machine either of us is eager to try again. Too hard. Thankfully, no other stumps that are currently bothering us.

C • Ratlum 4

Yard work today, including 2 hours with the brush mower, clearing the area above the smaller clearcut, working some mountain laurel along the edges of trails, then going with Zack to pick up the stump grinder from the rental shop for stumps tomorrow.

Very satisfactory workout with Eric in the gym, usual stuff, deadlifts, goblet squats, bent over dumbbell rows, but somehow felt relatively stronger today.'

Surprising considering the unsatisfactory sleeping last night. Stayed up until 11:30 watching the Astros in solidarity with my mother-in-law, and then woke up at 2;30, wide awake, finally came downstairs at 3:45 as I was not going back to sleep. Will need a nap somewhere along the line.

1 dog loop. The plan was to do an easy two, but there were a lot of sticks down across the trail and I was picking them up along the way and by the time I got to the end of the first loop I wasn't feeling it anymore.

Around the Ann loop with Rhonda, with a short side trip to inspect why there is a barrier up at the top of Barbourtown. Turns out there is a broken tree hung up in the power lines just N of the intersection with Triangle. I assume there is no one available to take it down because all the guys who would otherwise be doing that stuff are dealing with the outages in Eastern CT.

Seems to have been a busy day.

In the gym with Eric, usual kind of stuff, including DLs, goblet squats, pushups, TRX rowing

About 4 and a half hours with the chipper today, a Bandit 150. Pretty fine machine. Zack and I cleared up everything that had been cut on Friday, plus a bunch more stuff that we could get down without the lift. Satisfactory, but very tiring and it led to a 2 hour nap for me.

Unsettled day, and nothing like what I might have expected. Woken up at midnight by the dog pacing and panting. Then she skedaddled downstairs and threw up her supper. Finally got back to sleep for a bit, got up at 4, in time for her to drink a bunch of water and throw up again, then gingerly eat some breakfast. Took her out where she strained unproductively to defecate, and then took her down to the vet at 9. Some x-rays and this and that, left her for a while, came back around 3 to see what was up and the vet directed us over to the emergency vet who could operate on her tonight. So over there, more x-rays, more waiting around and finally they decided they would operate sometime tonight and we got out of there around 5:30 or so, in time to get home and do some chipping with Zack, who had picked up a chipper at the rental place at 5.

C • Hoping this morning for a r... 11

Rhonda and I signed up at the Winsted Y under our Silver Sneakers membership. I used to go here 20 +/-years ago. Not quite sure why I stopped, but now that it is free seems like a good idea. Anyway, very unaccustomed to it, so 1/4 mile was a good start and seemed hard.

9 minute circuit workout with Rhonda.

watching a bit of the Patriots game