Training Log Archive: Charlie

Event: World Masters Orienteering Championships 2018
 

It was our intention to do a weight workout without Eric, who is busy entertaining his fiancee. Some stretching and warmups, several set of deadlifts at 135#, then I was doing some dumbbell bench presses (themselves fine) but strained my back sitting up with the weights on my legs, so that was the end of the session. Not terrible, but will probably take a day or so to calm down.

I was contemplating the deliciousness of sandwiches today as I was having one, and I am recording some of the most delicious

1. The most delicious was one I had today, and it will only be getting better over the next month or so. Tomato and cucumber with a little mayonnaise and salt. Good bread is essential. I am partial to that of Alavarado St. Bakery, somewhat hard to come by in these parts, toasted. This, in my opinion, is the most delicious sandwich of all, but it would not be worth the trouble to eat one once the good tomatoes are gone.

2. Grilled cheese. Different kinds of cheese are good. We had some particularly nice ones with Brie the other day. Even better is to have some thinly sliced red onion in it, or some sliced kalamata olives. Again, excellent bread is required, and the Alvarado St Bakery bread is perfect. We have them here cooked in a pan with olive oil on the bread.

3. This was close, and might edge out #2. Pane Cunzatu. You could look it up. We first had these in Sicily. A tasty chewy bread, sort of a flattish ciabatta, sliced the long way, toasted and rubbed liberally with garlic cloves. A good drizzle of olive oil. Rucola, mozzarella, roasted peppers, a bit of tomato, olives and/or capers, and anchovies. Good Sicilian ones. You need a lot of paper towels to deal with the dripping olive oil.

4. Tuna salad. Got to be the good imported stuff, packed in oil. No bumble bee or star-kist. A little mayonnaise, capers, good toasted bread.

Of course there are other delicious sandwiches, but these are the ones I seem to like the best.

C • Sandwiches 15

With R&S at Lake McDonough. I was wearing a pair of water shoes because I thought we were going for a short walk and a swim, but I was mistaken. Anyway, they ended up blistering the top of a few toes on my left foot, so the left shoe came off for the last 3/4 of a mile or so.

Long travel day to RI for the rate hearings. Good news is I was let go around 4:30 and went home. An all-time record.

Very pleasant visit last night and this morning with George and Leslie and sister-in-law Linda, all on their way to meet up with George's brother on his AT through hike somewhere near Hanover NH. They will visit with him at road crossing, re-supply him and the like for a week.

Finally got around to putting my maps from the Italian 5-day together:

stage 1
stage 2
stage 3
stage 4
stage 5 part 1
stage 5 part 2

C • Stage 5, Part 2: #'s 12 and 15 4

C • Maps 6

Pretty nice out. Rhonda was going to Stanclift to swim, so we negotiated a pickup there. I overestimated the time and arrived early which was good, since Rhonda decided there were too many people in the water for swimming to be interesting and one quick look confirmed it. A hot day, but pleasant enough riding on shady country roads. Only hot spot was coming across the dam.

Good session with Eric, back feeling about as good as it has in the last few years, but still a bit tired from the travel. Really good on the DLs and goblet squats.

Long travel day yesterday, thought I would sleep this morning, but up at 3:30. Will probably crash later.

Stopped by Francesca's for a short visit with Tullio and Giulia, who are headed home today.

A little gentle swim at Stanclift with Rhonda, who moves a fair amount faster these days.

Best race of the week, city sprint in Pinzolo, 15k down the mountain from MdC. We got early starts so we could get on our way to Milano after the race. They had advertised it as a mixture of forest and town, but it was instead two town sections separated by 1 km along the road. Very fun, 3 small bobbles, starting to turn one street too soon on the way to 7 but corrected pretty quickly, a little confused on the way to 11 because the map numbering was wrong and I was trying to figure out whether I was supposed to go to 12 or 15 next (it was 15), and suddenly found them had lost count of intersections, and finally went by the entrance to a parking lot and came around from the other side. The last was the worst, probably 40 seconds or so. Not bad, and ended up 14th out of 45 or so. Then a little visit with Daria, Peppino , Renato and the kids and on our way down the valley, arriving in Dormelletto at Matt and Sheryl’s around 3:15. Excellent.

Checking results after, Katia won W40!

stage 5 part 1
stage 5 part 2

C • W40 2