Training Log Archive: Sandy

Event: 2016 US Two-Day Classic Championships and Sprint Relay
 

Sloppy and slow. Still feeling really tired, my knees are pretty achy and my hip/butt injury has resurfaced. Still, no excuse for wandering a bit at a few controls.

Saturday - Brown X - Splits

Model event. Copied the controls from one course to the map of the other course and then just visited a random set. Walked - no energy. Hills seemed huge and I really didn't want to climb which is unlike me.

A not very inspired outing but better than nothing.

Went in to school today and was reminded why I used to like my job (had some great conversations with several students and colleagues) and why I started to not like it anymore (attended a reception for the scholarship program I am no longer directing and interacted with several people who made that job stressful and difficult). I'm glad I'm on leave this semester but am hopeful that when I go back in the spring I can avoid all the non-fun stuff.

Why did this seem so hard??? Nice to catch up with Sandy though.

Intermittent jog/walk around the meadow loop.

I am definitely not in any kind of shape for the O events coming up but am in a great mental state after two weeks of rafting down the Grand Canyon with no access to the outside world. Super fun trip - will add some descriptions and pictures at some point but am still working my way through emails and getting sand out of everything.

C • Welcome back! 5

And then a flight home and back to cell phones and news and technology.

I really loved this trip - for some of the same reasons I liked the Kilimanjaro trip. There was a lot of time to just let your mind wander and you didn't have to think too hard about what you were going to do. Everything was done at a leisurely pace but there was always something to do. Camping for 11 nights wasn't bad and I got used to having sand in everything after a day or two and it didn't bother me as much as some of the others. I learned to not listen to the guides when they said the hike was easy and I could do them in my sandals - I just carried my trail shoes in my day pack and put them on whenever there was anything with rock scrambling involved which was most of the hikes. Just like Kili, the weather couldn't have been better so I think we got lucky on that front. All of the guides were great, each for different reasons, and while I didn't make any fast friends, I did met several people I really liked and it was easy to avoid those that I didn't. Definitely glad I did this!