Training Log Archive: BP

A final walk along the strand
Collect the chattles
And homeward bound
Another journey, place and time
Reposing life's timeless band
(Poetic attempt inspired by bl and RF)

Corkscrew swamp sanctuary boardwalk on way to airport. Ibis, heron, snakes and alligators with babies all sighted.

Another good session with Sergey- class gender balanced today. Legs and arms working the front side with 3x12s and pushing the weight

Back arms and legs

Bit of variety along beach. Warm up / down 1/2 mile each and in between 13 work periods of 30 to 90 second duration @ 85% effort with equal recovery - hitting 5 to 5:15 per mile pace. Quite hot out and sand running required focus- tiring.

Post breakfast walk on beach- no dolphin sightings sadly

Fine beach weather 89 and breezy

Before core - sweaty conditions outside

Another tough one with Sergey - this is a vacation :-)

Good stretch out for back and legs

very pleasant out :-)

Offshore breeze today

Arms and legs 3x12 with Sergey - otherwise lone male in class today

legs and back

Another hectic day- beach followed by Fine Arts Musuem, followed by movie (Barney's Version).

Naples botanical garden- caught in a rain squall :-(

Class led by a former NHLer- made us work but quite enjoyable. 5mins on aerobic @75% effort and 5 mins on core- 4 of each station

Legs and back

Travel day and another early start - sunshine here we come.
A quick reflection on FP weekend just gone- very enjoyable and some planetary/stars alignment in the form of 3 solid (not perfect) runs which I will savor. A few factors likely came into play:
1. Mental focus and race plan. Banished work distractions for once and used visualization for each race- adapted to rhythms of campus sprint intensity to long concentration-needed forest legs
2.Lost - 10lbs on the "under the radar screen" diet modification plan- every bit helps
3. Found- my running legs. Indoor track comp on Jan/Feb certainly helped hone speed and manged some decent endurance as well - maybe a decent 5k time in the offing this year.
Sustainable? Who knows as life has a habit of getting in the way :-)

One memory- having a post race beer with tp and bl in an Oxford (OH) beer keller and noting that 4 UL golds came from Carlisle- 3 current residents (Tim, Meg and myself) and1 former resident in Bob - how small is the world at times?

C • Besides 7

Feet in the sand, sun on the face- albeit jet weary from too much flying recently. Other than sun, sadly FL reminds me of why I prefer to live in New England :-)

C • Today 2

Before O race plus stretching and drills

Good race and probably best of 3- maybe no more than 60 seconds left out there which was goal. Took it steady and conservative route choice to 1. Identified problem controls , executed well and generally zoned right in on circle and flag. So 3 of 3 wins on green for weekend and 6 mins up on second on day. Legs were pretty good today and will be interesting to see splits over last 3 parkland controls.

Managed to get an earlier flight back to Boston for a small fee- but got home around 6pm and 5 hours earlier than scheduled- now to pack and head to FL.

Sunday Green - Splits