Training Log Archive: kissy

I spent about 5 hours in my garden, digging out bushes, planting new bushes, digging out perennials, planting new perennials...well, you get the picture. I haven't been too, too happy with my front yard since I moved in, and this is the weekend that I'm fixing that.

The first thing I wanted to do was prune some holly bushes that had gotten wildly out of control. But, just as I was about to start on the first bush, I saw this guy curled up on a branch:



I screamed, jumped, and proceeded to whack the bush with my rake in hopes of getting it to move. It did, but I'm not sure where it went, so I was on high alert the rest of the day.

C • huh? 22

I stepped up the intensity of the intervals. I was definitely sweating.

Long Red Course at the Team Trials on Jackie Jones Mt. This was a long, physical course that severely tested the limits of my knee. Originally, I was planning on finishing only some of the course, thinking that I couldn't complete the entire 8.1 km. But, by the time I decided I had had enough, there was no good way back to the finish, so I decided just to do the whole thing.

I was extremely slow, and made some bigger errors on #8 (got confused by the presence of more rock features than were mapped) and #15 (where I headed too far left to begin with and had to circle back to the road and start again). But mostly it was just difficult to move through the rocks and blueberry. Time to get serious about strengthening my quads.

11.1 km actual distance

Red Long - Splits