Training Log Archive: Charlie

Event: US S/M/L Champs 2011 & WRE
 

Sml champs green sprint. A little long and technical for a sprint, but a nice park and a good course otherwise. Alas several mistakes, including one where I thought I was going to a different control for a while. I'll post map and routes when I get home, as I just have iPad here.

Update: my route.

Not helped by waking up at 2 and not being able to get back to sleep.

C • iPad 2

Green Sprint - Splits

Dog walk plus a trip to the beaver dam near the bridge at Big Down Marsh, with R & S and Dennis and Louise, visiting from CA. Clearing, on the verge of some nice weather. Beavers are causing a lot of mischief, with a pretty good jump required to get across to the bridge without getting wet feet. Later I found the beavers have also moved back into my little pond, a situation I find intolerable.

C • Intolerable... 1

Still sore from Monday. Workout today was 6 rounds of 5 front squats (with DB), 10 situps, 5 jump squats, 6 pullups. Made first two rounds of pullups, then switched to ring rows. Much warmup and stretching, then hung around after jumping rope until it was time to go to hand therapy.

dog walk with the girls

Too sore for crossfit today. Just three loops around the upper trail, with about a 1 minute break. Sassy came along for all three. Third loop 15 seconds faster than first two. It's good to warm up.

Nice workout. Some deadlifts to start, then 15 minutes to do as many rounds as possible of 5 DLs, 13 pushups, 9 box jumps. Have to modify considerably, of course. did my DLs with 105, because the grip is weak and the wrist a little tweaky. Pushups on knees and on parallettes. First time pushups in 3 months. Don't go nuts. Sore knee, so did box step ups, but at 30" to make it challenging. Got 8 rounds.

down to the bridge and back with R & S. Beavers are having a field day down there. Lots of water. They'll pay.

Event: NEOC: Norwottuck
 

Norwottuck green course. Brown can't come soon enough. This was physically difficult and pretty scary on steep hillsides with pointy rocks. Also extremely difficult for me to find some of the controls. Three major walkabouts at #3, #5 and #9. Many unmapped trails, many unmapped large rock features. I stopped too soon on #3 on a pretty convincing looking reentrant on a hill, relocated a few times from the power line, almost gave up. #5 I found fine once I got there, but I had a real walkabout trying to figure out where I was along the way, and finally relocated from a trail well beyond where I might have thought I would have catching features. #9 was the worst, a 2 meter cliff in an area full of unmapped 3 meter cliffs. By the time I found it, there were 7 people milling around in sight looking for it. I might never have found it except I looked up - way up, much higher than I could have imagined, and up several cliff levels. Luckily or not, the Garmin ran out of battery while I was looking for 3, so it will remain a mystery where I was on the way to 5.

Green - Splits

Walked out to the Big Down Marsh with a conservation officer this morning to check up on some guys hunting ducks there without permission. Kind of interesting. It's been so warm that the ducks are still up north, so they weren't actually shooting, but they did get written up for trespassing. I had seen these guys other years and this year I called ahead, this being the first Saturday of duck season.

Mt Tom control picking exercise. Set up by Ali and Alex as part of a training day, but this was enough training for me. I had a lot of difficulty with it, both physically and navigationally. It started to rain toward the end and I got very cold and couldn't see, so the next activity, the corridor, just wasn't much fun anymore and I headed in.

Gave PG about a 30 second head start which was plenty. He was gone quickly. I got passed quickly also by Hannah just after #1. Ali's friend Eric caught up between 1 and 2 and I saw a lot of him after that. He was generally faster, but we seemed to take different routes and meet up at controls. In addition to everything else, for some reason I wasn't seeing the streamers. Perfectly good pink streamers but there were several I stood next to for a while before picking them up. I had the worst time trying to find #8. Back and forth on the trail trying to make sense of it, fooled by the rather robust stream that is not mapped, and finally on top of the cliff with the control and a devil of a time getting down from it. Leaving there was no better, drifting way off to the north to a streamer on an unmapped boulder, then going by #9 and feeling perplexed at the trail, since I was expecting to be at 10 already. Gail bailed me out. After that I was generally finding them, although I had to go relocate to find 19, even though I had been standing on the dot knoll earlier and hadn't seen the streamer.

My route.

Then I walked and jogged along a bit of the corridor route, but too cold and too blind. Back along the road.

Control picking course - Splits