Training Log Archive: JanetT

Weights with a focus on upper body including shoulders and triceps.

I sat up during the relaxation period after triceps to stretch them because if I don't I know they'll be sore later; and one was still a bit sore from last weekend.

Two miles walking (30:36), then 5.5 laps jogging (5:03, ~0.38 mi); then 0.2 mi cool down (3:24). Jogging probably wasn't that much faster than walking...

Right hip and outer part of right calf sore at times. I wonder if that's a remnant of my fence tripping over the weekend (about which I cannot even remember if I fell any of the 3 tripping episodes...).

Maps from the weekend. What I find bizarre is that my track from Saturday doesn't show me going near Sunday's #10 though I was at the control; on Sunday it doesn't show me going right by Saturday's #11 (220) that I had trouble with, though I was close enough to read the number.

Saturday --

From Track jpg files

Sunday --

From Track jpg files

Upper body is sore. Didn't do down dogs for as long as the others.

I strained triceps on one arm when I stumbled over old fencing in the Harris Center woods on Sunday (which may be the same bit I tripped over on Saturday. I was very tempted then to go back out with some flagging tape...).

Elliptical. 11 minutes on the "weight loss" program then 10 on the hill interval program, 1.03 distance units.

Then, because right foot wasn't happy on the elliptical, did a half mile on the track plus 0.2 mi cool down. A mish-mash of a workout...

We enjoyed the Bundschuhs' hospitality last night at their cabin near the Harris Center where a bunch of meet workers stayed Sat. night. Then we headed up to Hanover so Glen could do some field checking for next year's NAOC middle. Since I want to run that race next year I took myself away and visited the St Gaudens Nat'l Historic Site a half hour or so south in Cornish, NH. Augustus Saint-Gaudens was well known for cameos, bas reliefs, and full sculptures, having started an apprenticeship at age 9. He was carving cameos at at 13, and outdoing his teacher. He designed the images for the early 20th century dollar coins (double eagle) and various medals. And he was well known in his time for several sculptures including the Shaw memorial, in memory of the young leader of the Mass. regiment featured in the movie Glory, the first sculpture to feature serious depictions of African Americans.

Most intriguiging to me was a plaster version of The Puritan* whose original bronze stands near the Springfield Library in Massachusetts. Though not modeled on the man himself the statue is supposed to represent one of the city's founders, Deacon Samuel Chapin. Chapin had 16 children who among them had numerous descendants, including me and my siblings and descendants. :-) We probably number in the many thousands. Finding the documentation of his connection/line to my mom's grandmother was the start of my parents' many years of enjoyment in researching their genealogy.

*The Pilgrim statue in Philadelphia is a smaller version of the Puritan sculpture.

Boulder Dash Brown day 2, course by Alar Ruutopold ("LR")
3.4 km, 130m, similar weather as Saturday warming up a bit more in the afternoon.

Good on 9 controls, with a slight miss on 6, a bigger miss on 2 because I couldn't quite read what was going on even with bifocals, a magnifier, *and* a 1:7500 map....and total headless chickening on number 10 (code 156), which I had actually stumbled upon on Saturday trying to relocate to find #11. D'oh!!! Attacked twice from the double boulders due north at the south end of the green marsh but must have been off line one way or the other and never saw the bag. After the second miss I relocated from where the trail meets the clearing just north of the Go control, and *still* missed it, hitting Green's reentrant control east of the marsh. A 5 minute leg turned into almost 29. Dropped from 2nd F60 to 5th.

I enjoyed the rest of the course: the "between a rock and a hard place" location of #3, the scenery at the water control #7 on the bare rock in mid-stream (though technically it was a yellow control), and properly reading what was happening at #8. The award prizes of mesh bags with the Boulder Dash logo look really nice (Glen got one).

The elusive "two good days" weekend wasn't happening this time. The GPS track should be interesting.

Sunday - Day 2 - Brown - Splits