Training Log Archive: jtorranc

Event: QOC Great Falls MD
 

QOC Great Falls Advanced - ecstatic orienteering in not very much snow, fortunately deep enough and with an irregular enough surface that footprints weren't much of an aid to navigation. Achilles tendons felt better than yesterday afternoon before, fine during, and not so great afterwards but still without any feeling that real structural damage had occurred.

C • Nice running 9

Advanced - Splits

Frozen Slopes XC 6K? Probably not - I'm running out of weekend days in which to do fieldwork at Greenbelt.

Half the time I spent walking around Greenbelt with the map and my GPS. Wanted to spend today making sure all my newly surveyed rootstocks, etc. were place sufficiently accurately but the rain changing to snow ruled that out so I settled for covering more ground and checking almost all of the old rootstocks to see whether they had decayed below any reasonable mapping threshhold.

Very pretty out once the snow started to accumulate but otherwise not the best time to be outside. I wonder if the Frozen Slopes XC race was called off.

Unpleasant surprise - walking this long in the boots I wore caused discomfort in both my achilles tendons. Not sure what the issue is exactly but it had me a little bit worried that my orienteering the next day would be affected.

Cycling to work. Home by way of the aquatic center.

Looks like it will be a spectacularly unpleasant day tomorrow - pity I plan on going out to Greenbelt for some field checking. Though likely not for quite as long as I had planned since rain changing to snow will severely restrict the taking of field notes in pencil. May restrict myself to visiting all the currently mapped rootstocks to see which ones still make the cut, GPSing stuff in the far north of the park that I haven't yet and GPSing the perimeters of currently unmapped thick vegetation.

Just breast, back and butterfly - took a break from front crawl.

Didn't actually time this - will have to do so later. Made a slight diversion on the way home and hammered up a hill from Beach Drive to the edge of the big field adjacent to Carter Barron. Figure this is one way to put in some leg strength work in a way that recruits muscles much as uphill running does. The hill climbs continuously, about 40 meters vertical in perhaps 600 horizontal.

Have now timed a subsequent attempt.

Nice, almost completely dry ride to work. Home by way of PCRM.

Will log these sessions this way just to be able to track how often I do them.

Rainy ride to work. Rainier ride home by way of the aquatic center.

Most delightful illustrated marginal note in one of my current reading projects thus far: 'symposium' is the ancient Greek word for 'drinking party'.

Breast, back, larger amounts of freestyle and a bit of butterfly.

Cycling to work. Home by way of the aquatic center.

Flutterkicking, mostly with but a little bit without flippers.

Did five minutes or so of ankle eversion strength exercises. Not sure whether I should log this stuff or not - it's certainly not relevant to my winter aerobic base training. Maybe at intensity zero - IIRC, that'll make AP track how often I do it but not count it towards my training volume. Also not sure whether it's really going to help for longer races in rocky terrain but it seems worth trying.

Rode home from work.