Training Log Archive: Charlie

3 Hospital loop laps on a 5:30 clock, 4:37, 4:28, 4:36; then 5x 100m, walking back: :28.5, 27.4, 26.4, 25.7, 25.6.

Garmin 235 was acting up yesterday and I re-set it to factory defaults, hoping that would jolly it up, but today it is not transferring data to the phone, except for steps. So the workout is on the watch, but not showing up at the phone, which thinks it's connected.

And an update: disconnected and re-paired the watch and phone and now it seems to be working.

With Rhonda, while the cleaners were in the house.

In the yard while the cleaners were in my office.

In the gym with Eric. A fair amount of squats, pull downs, back extensions, lots of twisting exercises.

Norwottuck training course set by Will Daniels. The idea was to get out there relatively early and finish in time for a visit with the supposed gang arriving to start at 5:30. Didn't finish with much margin because of all the walking about I did, but as it turned out there wasn't much of a gang. Will showed up about 5:15 and Phil about 5 minutes later, so a short visit with them, but really too old for much more hanging around than that, and Phil was on his way out to run.

1. Not too bad, but saw the first cliff face and hadn't noticed it on the map, so a little consternation before climbing up and over to the control.
2. Pretty much ok getting down to the marsh and across, then saw a slot between hills in front of me and followed it up and over - nothing. I was one slot too far N, so over the hill to the next saddle,. Pretty significant time loss.
3. Then back over the hills to the pond, and up the hill on the little trail, and continuing on more or less on compass, not seeing anything. Maybe I was a little too far E. Evventually back down toward the pond, checked the trail junction and the boulder, up on compass to what seemed like it would be the right place, but not seeing a discernible knoll or a tree stand. And then after a bit the tree stand came into focus, probably 10 yards away,. Huh!
4. Seemed long getting there, but no problem, until at the very end I got sucked off to an unmapped 1 M. cliff 1/2 line higher. Corrected ok after checking the position of the cliff opposite.
5. Finally hit one without incident. To the trail junction, up the trail a bit, then over under the big cliff.
6. Long slog down to the trail, saw the jundtion, from which navigation would have been much easier from the trail that went S, but instead I went E and cut in about even with it, thinking I would just follow the slope of the big spur, but it was pretty vague and I ended up a fair amount higher and to the east, impossibly confused, so dragged myself down the the N-S trail, followed it back up hill to the stream crossing, then down again to the area of the control, up and in, one fal where I got a stick in my eye at the same time, climbed the knoll and it still took a few seconds to find the right cliff.
7. Another clunker, although I did pick up a mylar baloon on the way. plorienteering. Seems that I was too high and not far enough S. Wandered a fair amount, including going up on the hill to see if I could see anything from there, then back down toward the stream, basically retracing steps, and then suddenly saw a very bright flag on top of a hill in the distance.
8. On compass, easy.
9. Fought my way out to the trail, struggled up it, got back in the woods when it got ugly on the edge of the power line, but in pretty good contact. I did climb the unmapped knoll in between the first longer knoll and the one with the control, but from up there I could see it.
10. Easy,.
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C • 18 hr hike 4

Went to see the pain doc, on referral from my GP. After some poking around, he decided I should get some epidural injections. But as these things go, nothing will happen soon. Earliest appointment is June 2.

In the gym with Eric.

Golf with Tom at Blue Fox, white course.
Woke up with a little L side PF this morning. Stretched the calf on the stairs for a while, which seemed to help, but then it was bugging me again when I got back from golf, so I taped it up. Fine with the tape on it, probably keep it on two or three days to let it heal up.