Training Log Archive: Charlie

Brown course for US Long. Having a bit of a tough time. Left trail too soon to 1, then got on the wrong side of a patch of green and fell in a hole up to my knee. Otherwise ok. Wet and muddy to 2, then a little low and has to go back and up to 3, which seemed to be in the wrong place. 4 ok, going left and through the campgrounds. 5 I was headed right way, saw the bag and headed in, but then lost it and had to hunt a bit. Lots of trouble on the way to 6. Stuck on a slippery bank for a while crossing stream, tripping over vines, caught in briars and fell in another hole. Then control was badly misplaced, too far from river, not on a slope, and in white instead of green. But otherwise ok. Hamstring popped again just as I was punching. So pretty sore but thought I could walk. Long way to 7, seeing many more reentrants than mapped. Then thought I was right on for 8, but couldn't find it. Looked for a while, getting more and more sore, then just headed in, picking up 10 and 11 on the way in.

Event: US Individual Championships (Sprint/Middle/Long/Trail)
 

Hamstrings, modified for lack of a ball, did what I could on the edge of the bed.

US Sprint Champs, course 3. A bit anxious about how my leg would hold up. I wore compression tights, which were pretty hot but made me feel more secure. Also wore some sunscreen, perhaps not the best plan. A title slow out of the start, but then moving well 2-4. I wasn't sure about the crossable wall near 5, so I went around. Felt a little slow going up to 6, but still ok to 9. Left 9 going west and around the little square, for maybe another 5 or 10 seconds lost, but correctly saw the trap at 10 and went around. Slow going into the spectator controls to plan the leg around and went left. About that time sweat and sunscreen was dripping into my left eye, and I was having increasing trouble seeing the map. Missed a turn I wanted to make on the way to 13, but not much lost, as I could continue straight for a while. Then an inferior route to 14, not able to see the map well and going downstairs between buildings instead of around to the right, maybe 15 seconds. 15 ok despite poor vision, but missed a turn leaving there and ended up going past 14 again for about a minute loss. Then ok the rest of the way, with my vision calming down as I got under the trees the last few legs and stopped sweating so much. Remarkably enough I had the fastest split on Brown for the finish chute, although I didn't think I was going particularly fast. I need to practice punching at speed. I had to take 2 and 3 jabs at several of the control boxes. Another difficulty associated with oxygen debt.

Sprint - Brown - Splits

Hamstring set.

And then off to get a massage from the lovely Heather.

Otherwise a rest day, or as restful as a day with this much traveling can be. On to GA.

Hamstring series

Session with my oly lifting coach. A lot of mobility work, then into the weight room.
Extensive warmup, then back squats, front squats (which are getting much better), overhead squats(a very long term project), the. Quite a bit of work on power snatches. Pretty good progress. Very tiring, though.

Ali's hamstring series. Start somewhere.

Pretty tough workout today. 4 rounds - each round 5 clean and jerk, then 3X 5 ring rows, 10 pushups, 15 squats. Total time for all that 24:27. Used 65 for the C&J. Could certainly have jerked a lot more, but the cleans were very tough on my knees. Hard for me to get my weight far enough back to protect them.
Not as hard as what my cousin Matt did, though - ran from the house here and there ending up at crossfit. Checked the mileage on gmap-pedometer. 17.5. Not something I would try these days.

fairly lengthy warmup - 2X run 400, 10 KB swings, 10 goblet squats, 5 bridges, 5 pushups

Then main workout was three rounds of DL, BS, FS, DB PP. Weights - 165, 83, 83, 25s. Could have used more, but squats were bugging my knees, and a little anxious about my R adductor. But generally OK

With my cousin Matt at Stratton Brook, on the HS cross country course. A little much for my hamstring, maybe the last 500 M or so. In compression tights. I don't think I want to do too much running without them right now.

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Family outing to Indian Council Rocks. Too tired today for much else. Finished up taxes for me and for Rhonda's brother, so not a total loss.