Training Log Archive: Rosstopher

Biking to work. not quite as muggy as yesterday.

Alex invited people to join her for a Hill workout and I hadn't done my Monday hills, so I skipped out on the CSU running section tonight and biked out to join Alex and Sam in Newton.

Bit of a warmup around newton before the hills. Alex had maps of pawtuckaway to use for training, modifying a training that Sandra had written about. We were to memorize a short course of 4 controls as we ran up the hill, then draw the 4 controls on the blank map at the top. Pretty fun. After those 4 mini courses we were to plan our route on the short courses and then flip the map over and draw what we'd use to navigate said route on just a skeleton of the course lines and circles.

This hill was more gradual than Summit Ave and it gave a different feeling to running uphill. It didn't hurt as much, but that may be a sign that I was running a little slower because I was reading the map too.

I did 7 reps, which covered all of the exercises that Alex had planned. I didn't quite sweat enough to disintegrate the whole map.... it was in a plastic case fortunately.... but I came close.