Training Log Archive: kissy

Went for a bicycle ride on the C&O Canal with Meg. Beautiful evening and wonderful company.

I ran some hill intervals today. I parked at the pool and ran about a mile warm-up, then 5 hill intervals at about 2:10 per interval, and then the cool down back to the car. This felt pretty good, although I could definitely feel it in my legs on the last interval.

The Hood Loop. I almost didn't run this morning, but as I was opening my front door to check the weather, a perfect V of geese was flying overhead, and it filled me with such a good feeling, that I decided it was a sign for me to go running. And it was fine Tuesday morning run. I was especially delighted to find that my knee is still feeling good. I think it is the weirdest thing that after Sunday's run, I didn't feel any pain. It's almost like I knocked something out of place in my knee during my run at Hemlock, and then it fell back into place on this past Sunday.

Another weird happening today was my trash sightings...10 empty cigarette packs. That's 10 packs in only 4.6 miles. That seems like a lot to me, especially since all you hear is that smoking is on the decline. I also learned that Newport seems to be a popular brand.

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Just an easy session of yoga to stretch everything out from the weekend. My knee was remarkably not sore this morning, for which I am eternally grateful.

Boulder Dash, Bow, NH. Red course. Today went much better, thank goodness. My knee was still pretty stiff this morning, and I was contemplating not even going out. Then I decided I would walk the Green course just to work on my navigational skills. After I did a short jog around the parking area, I decided I could walk the Red course. So, I started out fast walking, and was hitting each control pretty cleanly. About 1/3 of the way through the course, my knee was loosening up, so I started jogging. Then, about 1/2 way through, it felt pretty good, so I started running, and still managed to find the controls with no major disasters. I had a bit of trouble on #11 when I drifted too far right and hit the field right by the houses. But, I headed straight down towards the big marsh, and hit right on the control. I guess the powers to be figured I had been punished enough yesterday.

I was very happy that I decided to go out on Red and was able to redeem myself, somewhat. I would have hated to leave NH on such a sour note. These were definitely challenging courses, in challenging terrain. Nice work by Bob Lux and UNO. Thanks!

Red Day 2 - Splits