Training Log Archive: Charlie

Event: Five +Five Days Sicily - First Five
 

Jet lag! Arrived in Catania around noon. Slept more than usual on the plane, but still pretty logy after the long ride. The hotel is quite nice, on the water, but no beach, just big chunks of lava. I had quite a nice lunch of risotto alla pescatore, full of clams, mussels, shrimp and crab. Then a nap, and a short walk into Santa Tecla to see what was there. Not much. First race is tomorrow late afternoon.

C • Fantastic schedule 3

Ann loop with Rhonda. G is in mid-winter form, alas.

Good session in the gym with Eric, including deadlifts and goblet squats and generally feeling a bit better in the back.

with Rhonda, from PV. Felt slow., like the brake was on. But probably not. More a combination of tired legs from the squats this morning and a nice fresh headwind on the way out, because the way back was much easier.

With Rhonda and Sassy at Lake McDonough

C • Buon viaggio per la Sicillia! 4

In the gym with Eric. Quite sore in the lower back today, so mostly stretching and core, although a few sets of goblet squats.

Uncustomary activity this morning - went golfing with Zack and my neighbor Tom. I used to golf with Tom quite a bit several years back. Zack prefers to get a cart, and there was no way it was going to work for me to carry my bag, so that was pretty satisfactory, stashing it on the cart and walking along. An inauspicious beginning, not making any kind of contact on woods and 11 over on the first 4 holes, but then settled in and was only 3 over on the last 5, parring both the par 3s. Very satisfactory, but plenty sore by the end and no way I would have wanted to play any more.

Event: WCOC Huntington State Park
 

Subsequent events yesterday left the back quite sore. Splitting and stacking a bunch more of the dead oak Zack has been scavenging, then rototilling the garden and planting a cover crop, and one last hike in to swim with the dog at LM left me very tender. Will try to gentle myself up for some orienteering today.

Green course at Huntington. Nice ride down and back with Bill D. Good navigation up until I got off track on the way to 8 and then just made a hash of it and 9. Very sore back to start out, and tired in the 90 degree heat.

Map and route.

Navigation was fine up through #7, more or less hitting them right on. On the way to #8 I thought I was being careful to avoid getting sucked up the reentrant to the right and when I got to the trail I just couldn't believe I was at that trail. Rookie mistake. Anyway, once I didn't know where I was I made a bunch more errors before (sort of) figuring it out. Then I couldn't seem to keep a straight line going to 9, just kept wandering off. No trouble finding it, just couldn't keep the discipline to keep going in more or less the right direction. Really slow and uncomfortable, though.

4x12 goblet squats; 3x12 bench presses, after getting back from a quick dip at Lake McD with the dog.

Green - Splits