Training Log Archive: Becks

Oh my god. Warm up and then Cindy. 20 mins cycling through as many sets as possible of 5 pull ups (jumping in my case), 10 strict press ups, 15 air squats. I got 14. It hurt. A lot. You have to do 15 (with jumping pulls up, 8 if strict) to become an intermediate athlete. Pull ups are my downfall.

C • Cindy 6

Ran home. It felt good despite Cindy, so I decided to see whether I could make it back in my allotted 23 minutes. I got to the end of the street, which was waaaaay better than I anticipated. Nice. I scared a bunny.

Nice to know I can still sprint. I wasn't crazy fast but my tired legs moved fine and I really enjoyed the course. A bit befuddled when the path to 4 disappeared, but other than that pretty clean - a lot cleaner than Iliana in the middle section who was light years faster but running all over the place. Had fun watching the relay and was very proud of acampbell for her fantastic weekend. Good times.

RedY - Sprint - Splits

Little jog. Legs not full of spring.

Meh. I need to do some specific training or stop doing this. I'm erring towards the latter. One big mistake at 4, went too low, then scrappy after the spectator but mostly because I was exhausted. The Long leg took me forever. Ho hum. I did enjoy today more though, despite having leaden legs, and it was a lot less frustrating.

Afterwards we went to see Bushkill falls, the "Niagara of Pennsylvania" and it was really great, beautiful falls and gorge and some pretty incredible infrastructure. Very very busy though, lots of comical non outdoors people.

RedY Long - Splits

Oh dear. I didn't expect that today would go well, but I was impressed by just how badly a small number of controls went. It started well because I knew it was going to be tricky and thick, and I had good plans but slightly low confidence. Went high for one but then fuddled the descent, but didn't waste a huge amount there. It went okay to three, didn't like the scrub much, but then it went really well to five. Then it went very, very wrong.

I hit the path halfway to six and just didn't attack from any kind of ap. threw myself into the green and wandered around. Knew I should go back out to the track but kept convincing myself everything fit when it clearly didn't. Eventually went back and was way way high, came back in carefully along the veg boundary and got it. Wasted about seven minutes though. Bah.

After that struggled to get head in the right place, 7,8,9 were great but easy controls, 10 easy as I revisited many of the locations I'd seen at 6. 11 I was too far north and the control was much further south than I wanted to go. The rest was scrappy as I knew I was way off pace, and then I really screwed 18, probably losing another six mins. Parallel error, complete lack of height judgement. It was pretty miserable. That awful relocation moment of "I can't really be there, can I?"

Physically things were alright though, apart from the hill to 17, so that was okay. Pretty annoyed to be so rubbish, interested to see if the splits that felt good were actually okay. Focus on planning tomorrow. Hopefully things can only get better.

Warm up. Got a map out of the Rubbish bag and found the hill and jogged about a bit. I miss my garmin.

Middle - RedY - Splits

Event: 2012 North American Orienteering Championships
 

Just did my first cycle commute...my legs really are dead. Also, I need a faster bike for this purpose.

Eurgh, still very tired this morning and legs shattered. This weekend is going to be a struggle. It has been totally worth it though, I love the new place, and it's a better space for my parents to share for the next couple of weeks. Today I tried the espresso machine that one of Rob's amazing friends donated to us when she went back to Israel, and I am already better at making lattes than Dunkin Donuts. Starbucks, I'm coming after you next!

Cycle to Cross Fit. Doesn't take long!

First time I've been pretty bored in a workout today. Went at 5pm and it wasn't the usual crew. We did deadlifts, DB rows, back extensions and rope ring rows. I used low weights and just enjoyed the range of movement, but there was lots of rest and it was just a bit dull.

First run round the new neighbourhood on a gorgeous sunny morning. Lovely place, there's pavements everywhere which is great, and very little traffic (I was probably a bit late for the school runs). I spotted two Republicans and ran for ages through the remnants of a serious skunk party from last night. There's even a couple of good proper hills for hill reps!