Training Log Archive: CharlieIn the 7 days ending Jun 8, 2020:
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Monday Jun 8, 2020 #
6 AM
Gym (Yoga) 40:00 [3]
slept:7.0 weight:165.8lbs
Rhonda’s morning class with Karen and Glen. Glen’s first time.
7 AM
Hike 35:43 2.08 mi (17:10 / mi) +108m 14:47 / mi
ahr:102 max:124 shoes: 2020 White Gel Kayanos
Walking over to Karen’s house and back.
4 PM
Orienteering 1:24:08 4.12 mi (20:25 / mi) +151m 18:20 / mi
ahr:134 max:186 shoes: 2019 Icebug Aurora BUGrip
Huntington SP Green course. A pretty good outing for me. Mostly in good contact. I knew Phil and Dave had done about 1:24, and that seemed like a reasonable goal, but I was getting tired toward the end and then missed 13 high and had to look a bit. Tweaked my right Achilles early, maybe on the way to 2, but it didn’t start to really bug me until leg 10. A couple of small bobbles at 5, 6 and 7, all quickly corrected. Then leaving 9 I kept trying to go SW, but the terrain kept pushing me S, and then I climbed over all those ridge lines, in fine contact, but just physically difficult and slow. Good to 11 and 12 and thought I had 1:24 easily, but the Achilles was complaining enough that I took the trail around to 13, and once on the hill I saw what appeared to be a cliff and ran to it - no flag, looked around a bit and spotted it lower down. By then I had to hustle to get as close as I did. But a good outing, icing the Achilles when I got home.
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Sunday Jun 7, 2020 #
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A lot more in the garden, weeding, planting more basil and about 200 sunflower seeds. The yellow-bellied sapsucker has been relentless, banging away all day on the fence posts, the sound amplified by the vibrating of the wire fence strands. I was thinking that working so hard on cedar posts was an inferior strategy, but then I got close enough to realize that the clever fellow was actually banging on the plastic insulators that the fence wires go through. The sides of each one are concerned with rough spots composed of thousands of tiny holes. He certainly is persistent.
7 AM
Hike 2:00:43 6.32 mi (19:06 / mi) +151m 17:47 / mi
ahr:95 max:114 slept:7.5 weight:167.2lbs shoes: 2020 White Gel Kayanos
With Rhonda, Tullio and Elaine at the lake, first outing with Tullio in months. He claims not to have been walking at all, and the pace was definitely slower than when we were walking before. Saw a nice ribbon snake, who skedaddled much too fast to get his picture, and then another species of wildlife: a young man jogging purposefully with a weight vest, looked to be about 20 lbs.
3 PM
cycling (Light blue bike) 56:47 12.33 mi (4:36 / mi) +78m 4:31 / mi
ahr:117 max:157
5 PM
Gym (Yoga) 21:00 [3]
Saturday Jun 6, 2020 #
7 AM
Gym (Yoga) 21:00 [3]
slept:6.25 weight:166.8lbs
I had in mind to go running early today, but got up even earlier, and felt sore and sluggish, like not running today, and maybe not running for a long time. Who knows?
1 PM
Hike 46:53 1.57 mi (29:51 / mi) +60m 26:41 / mi
ahr:86 max:133 shoes: 2019 Blue Gel Kayanos
Down to check out the beaver situation at the Little Down Marsh. It’s been dry and they haven’t recovered from the last time Zack lowered it. We were greeted by a chorus of green frogs. Saw a few jumping in, but mostly just heard them.
4 PM
Hike 28:48 1.27 mi (22:41 / mi) +40m 20:38 / mi
ahr:103 max:140
Dog loop with Rhonda, brought some clippers and got some of the new growth moving into the trail at face height.
Friday Jun 5, 2020 #
6 AM
Hike 34:52 1.81 mi (19:16 / mi) +97m 16:30 / mi
ahr:101 max:143 slept:7.25 weight:165.8lbs
With Rhonda over to meet Karen and back.
Gym (Yoga) 40:00 [3]
Rhonda’s erstwhile yoga class with Karen. First time in many months.
Gym (Weights) 20:00 [3]
Not all I had planned. Bird dips, one set of 10 each side with 12#, too much. Goblet squats with 25#, 1x 20. Single leg stand ups from 16@ bench, 5 each side. Bulgarian squats one set of 10 each side with 12#, definitely too much. Thought hard before doing one set of Romanian DLs with 75#, but clearly the hamstrings were too stressed, so all the subsequent sets I had planned didn’t happen. Some easy pull downs and light weight dumbbell bps.
Thursday Jun 4, 2020 #
7 AM
Gym (Yoga) 21:00 [3]
slept:7.5 weight:166lbs
Hike 1:22:25 4.38 mi (18:49 / mi) +108m 17:29 / mi
ahr:106 max:177
At the lake, where we met up with this guy. I am guessing he is a painted turtle, although he doesn't look all that painted. It strikes me that turtles is a good nature photography subject for me. Don't need any fancy telephoto lens, plenty of time to get out the iPhone and find the camera app. These guys aren't going anywhere fast.
2 PM
cycling (ebike) 36:12 8.64 mi (4:11 / mi) +46m 4:07 / mi
ahr:117 max:163
hot.
Wednesday Jun 3, 2020 #
6 AM
Gym (weights) 5:00 [3]
slept:7.75 weight:165.8lbs
Just a short session, 5 x 10 Romanian DLs with 75#, wake up the hamstrings.
7 AM
Rowing Machine 9:27 [3] 2.0 km (4:44 / km)
shoes: 2020 Merrell Trail Glove 5
Watched the hummingbird cavorting in the purple rhododendron flowers out the window.
9 AM
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Off and on a lot of garden work today, weeding, planting a couple of rows of sweet potatoes, fence work.
A few of the fence strands weren’t tied together, so a lot of the fence was not getting power. Took care of that with an extra piece of fence wire I found lying around. The fence was kind of saggy, and I remembered I had a eucalyptus fence post I had found in the woods stashed someplace. Turns out it was in the shed and there are two of them. I installed them, and tightened up some of the tighteners, and things are looking much better. Still only getting about 2500 volts, soI will have to investigate some more.
I had company in the garden, a yellow-bellied sapsucker intently hammering on the cedar fence posts, but not letting me close enough to snap an iPhone photo.
A few of the fence strands weren’t tied together, so a lot of the fence was not getting power. Took care of that with an extra piece of fence wire I found lying around. The fence was kind of saggy, and I remembered I had a eucalyptus fence post I had found in the woods stashed someplace. Turns out it was in the shed and there are two of them. I installed them, and tightened up some of the tighteners, and things are looking much better. Still only getting about 2500 volts, soI will have to investigate some more.
I had company in the garden, a yellow-bellied sapsucker intently hammering on the cedar fence posts, but not letting me close enough to snap an iPhone photo.
3 PM
Gym (Yoga) 21:00 [3]
8 PM
Note
Two bears in the yard, under the beech tree, apparently eating something and not in any hurry, one quite large (maybe the mom), the other looked like a yearling. Zack was observing them from the driveway that goes to the barn, I was opposite, near the house, so each of us was about 50 M away. Eventually they wandered off past the blueberry bushes and in the general direction of the back field. Zack said they went behind the shed and headed behind the barn.
Tuesday Jun 2, 2020 #
8 AM
Orienteering 1:06:37 3.04 mi (21:55 / mi) +105m 19:47 / mi
ahr:118 max:165 slept:7.0 weight:167lbs shoes: 2019 Icebug Aurora BUGrip
Huntington bonus Brown course. Generally entertaining, but a little trouble navigating. 1 was fine, saw the flag from a distance. 2 was basically ok, but I found myself pushed off to the right more than I wanted to be. 3 I was following the wrong stone wall for a while, and ended up going by 4 on the way, so 4 turned out to be easy. Got a stick in the face on the way to 5, knocked my glasses off, then was having trouble seeing for a while until I rubbed the lenses with a handkerchief, but the control wasn’t hard, just along the wall. 6 was another case of getting pulled off to the right, slow progress, but no trouble finding it. 7 I did have a little trouble. Got to the area, but I was one knoll S and had to hunt a bit. 8 was fine, although I cut over too soon and had to see where I was relative to the marsh below. 9 was just a loss of focus. Maybe the easiest leg of all, but I didn’t read the map well, and whatever I was looking at I was expecting a stone wall. finally just went back to 8 and did it over. Probably at least a 5 min error. Then on the way to 10 I was pulled off a bit to the right, surprised to be on the trail, then at the end I got pulled up to another boulder farther up the hill, so maybe another minute or so.
When I got back to the car, there was Joe, apparently finishing up a mountain bike ride. While I considered the protocol these days for going over to say hi to a friend and secured my mask, he was packing up and gone. It sure if he saw me, and too late to go try to say hi to him.
I got tired the last few legs, but the hardest part of this is always the ride home. After about 45 minutes the L leg was throbbing. Next time I will remember to pull off the highway and walk around for a minute or two.
When I got back to the car, there was Joe, apparently finishing up a mountain bike ride. While I considered the protocol these days for going over to say hi to a friend and secured my mask, he was packing up and gone. It sure if he saw me, and too late to go try to say hi to him.
I got tired the last few legs, but the hardest part of this is always the ride home. After about 45 minutes the L leg was throbbing. Next time I will remember to pull off the highway and walk around for a minute or two.
1 PM
Note
A couple of hours in the garden weeding.