Training Log Archive: bgallup

Event: NEOC: Prospect Hill
 

Setting a fistful of controls for Magnus - and seeing how things are going in the engine room. Fine while running, but this awesome honking cough when stopped. Didn't really plan on running while doing it, but got carried away, depite wearing carhartts, two layers, and a jacket.

Green at Prospect Hill. Actual time was 61 minutes, ish - left the watch running to see if sick recovery is any slower (way slower. turns out your HR jumps 15-30bpm during a coughing fit). Still hoping for that catastrophe-free race, wasn't today. I'd chalk ten minutes of delay up to being beplagued, and ten to drifting downhill on the way to four. It was a pretty bad route choice for a few reasons - I was thinking it crossed fewer contours than an end run over the hill - and the flatter course would be easier. Unfortunately, I was only looking at the first 80-90% of the leg - after which it plows up another four or so contours. On top of that, while i knew it meant side hill running, I didn't really realize a) how annoying it is, and b) how easy it is to drift downhill at each individual choice around each boulder/tree/whatever. To top it off, I found a little T of rock wall that looked uncannily like where the control should be - took awhile to shake the idea of being close, and a little while longer to find the T I was on. Total brain fart after 5 (or 6?), little bobble coming out of 8, and then underestimated the marsh before 10.

It was kind of an health experiment to run - but like at Pawtuckaway, I felt aces while on the move, and had the aforementioned massive honking coughs when I stopped. Only this time, recovery after uphills was distinctly slow, and got slower. I'd like to say the total lapse in judgement coming out of the water station at 5 (6?) was oxygen deprivation, but who knows.

Oh yeah, found two ticks in the shower, just about to set up shop. Tick season ain't over, folks!

Green - Splits

Event: NEOC: Breakheart
 

just got back from the doc for this nagging (2wk) chest cough - came back with scripts for antibiotics (zithromax, the nuclear option. seems like overkill to me - time to buy some yogurt, if you catch my drift), opiated cough syrup (hooray uninterrupted sleep!), and an albuterol inhaler - which brings back memories. thinking my aspirations for the blue hill traverse might get pushed back a year

C • Bummer 5

hideous bouldering, semi-competent toproping (9,9+,10b,10a,'10',10a,10b - more than half clean). lead an 8 - made it look desperate, but cleaned it. amazing how hard it is to keep your head in check even though the climbing's no different, just the consequences - even if the consequences are almost nil in the gym. that said, i really don't dig the 'get used to falling' thinking that seems gym standard, and dig the old-school 'just don't fall' ethic. finished off with some passable slacklining

good solid set of bouldering - a pair of v1's and then waltzed all the v2's they had. there's a wall between here and v3's still, though. which is annoying - i keep thinking of those v4's i was getting three months back. some semi-decent slacklining, a total crap rendition of a stemmy 5.10b, and then cruised a 5.9+ on the prow. similar wall between 10a and 10b - need to lead/top[rope more.