Training Log Archive: possum

Another tough day, starting with 3-minutes on the battle ropes. I spent over half the time in the yellow zone, with a bunch of red and a smaller amount of green. The gym was really busy, and my legs were some from yesterday.

Mapping at Park University. Mostly finished with the northwest corner, which includes most of the ball fields.

A tough day for legs. An extra challenge at Round 4--total round kicks in three minutes. I got 220 and really got the heart rate going. Got it going again at round 7 when we alternated jumping lunges with a set of 50 alternating donkey kicks. By the third set, my heart rate spiked and my legs were toast.

Riverfront trail to the new tennis courts and back. When we got back to the car, no one was in the skateboard park, so I let Elray loose and we ran around the park

Workout with Jared. I used arms only to pull the sled and jog up the ramp and walked down. Lots of upper body and footwork. Finished with rowing 250 meters, then onto the air bike for 5 HIIT repetitions.

A good sparring session with Bailey.

Not as aerobic, but lots of jumps and tough moves.

Mack Porter Park. They were reapplying asphalt to the road that goes to the bridge, so we reevaluated our route, and walked back around the playground, the woods trail, and came back on the one-way road. I let Elray do lots of sniffing, since she doesn't get to sniff at home. She only wants to annoy the fox that lives in the culvert, and we won't let her. I also didn't do any running today because I took a Benadryl last night for my itchy foot, and was still a bit groggy.

I stayed in the yellow zone a lot this morning. The CHOW was punching the speed bag. I got 407 hits in three minutes.

Elray and I went to Jesse James Park and did the main loop. I incorporated some running, but after the third run, her tongue was hanging out, so we walked the rest of it. Beautiful day, but we saw no one except for park workers.

I was glad to see that my fenix is working again. I got laps, and downloads. The GPS in the car, however, is still very screwed up.

Restorative.

Sunflower Games at Washburn University. I helped setting up, ran the course, then did results. Paul designed a really good course, and I knew he would have some tricky controls, so I was ready for them. I was really pleased with my navigation--no errors. Some route choices may have been slightly better. I only ran a little coming from the last control to the finish. This was a mistake. Susie beat me by a minute and a half, and I beat her twin, Sandy by less than a minute. I need to start running again, and work on my breathing.

The good part (besides good navigation) was spending the night at my daughter's. The bad part: I don't know if was sunspots or something, but all my GPS stuff went haywire. The fine Swedish GPS has no listing for schools, and there is no way to enter a name. Fortunately, I had looked at the map the day before, and had an idea of where it was. I entered the intersecting streets, and it got me off at the correct exit, but then started taking me in circles. So I found 19th street, and went in the correct direction until intersecting with Maciver. Coming home was even worse. It screwed up right away, taking me around blocks, so I headed northeast until I came across a sign indicating I-70. The GPS had no idea where it was, and when I hit the driveway, it indicated that I was 145 miles from home.

My Garmin fenix also screwed up. It didn't record the laps, although, since the control numbers were consecutive, it wasn't beeded, When I finished, I hit stop and save, as always, and it kept going through save mode. After about 15 minutes, I finally managed to stop it and restart. It did not save the activity.