Training Log Archive: kissy

I went up to Gettysburg to show some out-of-town friends around. Afterwards, my friend, Meg, and I did a lollipop loop out of the Visitor's Center, over Little and Big Round Top, down to Sickles Ave. and back over towards the Visitor's Center. On the way back, it was getting later than we thought, so we tried to take a shortcut across a former wheat field. Instead of feeling like Civil War soldiers, however, we felt like water buffalo as we slogged through swamp-like conditions in an area where we should not have been. Maybe we were channeling Francis Marion, instead. Definitely a Lucy move!

C • You are lucky the Park Service... 1

My legs were still pretty tired from the weekend, so I did a relatively easy trainer session.

QOC meet at Little Bennett Regional Park, Clarksburg, MD. I wasn't sure which course I wanted to run today, but when I found out Peggy was out on Blue, I figured I needed to run Blue, too. It was a good day. It started out a little rough because my stomach was acting up, and by the 4th control, I was in a bit of gastric distress. But the gods were looking out for me because on the way to #6, while coming out of the woods and into a field, I spied two port-a-potties, and one of them had my name on it! Yahoo!! After that, I felt much better and could concentrate on the course. The biggest trouble I had was on #9...I contoured around from #8, but stayed too high, didn't see the field and hit the stream on the far side of the ridge. I just circled to the NW, saw the field and found the cliff. Not too bad. I also missed the last control because I had shut down my concentration, thinking the race was just about over, and overshot the control by a bit. Rats! There was some significant climb towards the end of the course, and I could feel it in my legs after yesterday's run. All in all, though, I was pleased, and it was most excellent training for Fair Hill. Tanner and Graham had great runs, too!

Blue - Splits

I decided that I liked that run last weekend so much, I wanted to do another 10 miler. I tried to rope Valerie into doing it with me, but she was already promised to her husband...something about being a yard work slave for the day. As luck would have it, my neighbor, Carol, e-mailed me to see if I was interested in doing our neighborhood run this morning. I managed to convince her to do a 10 mile trail run at Fountainhead instead of a 4.6 mile road run...see, I'm a good salesperson. It was another grey morning, a not so good morning after all. But, we made it through in quite good time, and Carol likes to chit-chat, so that makes the time go by faster. I'm not always a big fan of chit-chat, but on a run, it's fine. Other times, it's not so fine.

I went on a little ride around the new Marriott Residential Inn that's going up, through the new office park with all of the parked office buildings, down Rt. 1 past the new hospital that will take of the injured weekend warriors with aching hips, a quick spin through muscle beach with a touch of eye-candy and then home just in time for Drs. McDreamy and McSteamy. Yum!

C • Ahem... 2

Sorry, Peggy, Now you're an hour and one and a half minutes behind me. I couldn't resist. Yea, you really got me going, you got me so I can't stop exercising.

C • Training 2

I spent the last two days in Boston on a business trip, and now I'm trying to catch up with things at home. So, this was all I could get in for the day.