Training Log Archive: hamlet

Event: QOC Upper Marlboro
 

First time using a new epunch! let's see how long I can keep this one safe from Oliver.

I'm pretty happy with this run. I was 100% clean, save for two route choices that might not have been the best, but they worked. For the first 8 controls I really tried to run consistently, and I did. I really ran the first half of the course, but then from 8 to 9 I decided to just walk it. I ran a bit towards the end, too, but I was pretty slow on 9, and kinda slow going to 10 and 11. Also my pants started falling apart so I was chafing really bad, I fixed it temporarily going to 12 and because I was sweaty and sticky, it stuck like that until the end. But yeah, ouch.

course comments in my splits
Second again, let's gooo! I'm happy about that. Really wish I ran more in the second half though, but I guess I just need to work on my endurance. I was worried about overdoing it and then crashing on the last few controls and not having any kick left and getting dehydrated. But I still beat Lucka by 18 seconds, so I'm not complaining :)

Overall the course felt not necessarily easy navigationally, but on the easier side. Definitely felt like a long course, with the longer legs and more emphasis on running and route choices than quick, precise navigation. Given that longs are the bane of my existence, I'm glad I didn't stick to green and pushed myself to try. Definitely felt like it was a good run and I got a good result from it.

Slightly rolled my kind-of-sprained ankle attacking #6, but I kept running and being more careful with it and then it was fine. Icing it now and will put a heat pack on later to get the blood circulating.

Red - Splits

high gravity day but I climbed this super super fun 10d

hot n humid and with Oliver, so I was a bit concerned about him towards the end, but he did good, I'm proud of him. Definitely won't be taking him on many long runs in the heat.

some drills (teching kids how to do them) and walking around

1min on 1 min off fartlek, after 5 I had to tie oliver back up and give him water cuz it was too hot and humid for him, so I was about 10 seconds over the minute of rest, so I took 5 seconds off the sprint and the rest afterwards to make up for it. Ankle felt fine, I was on pavement so it wasn't that bad. But I defiinitely felt it when I was tryin to climb a rope. I'll see how it feels on climbing tomorrow and on orienteering on Sunday. I really hope it'll be okay. Like, it doesn't hurt enough for me to not be able to run and do stuff, but in certain angles it hurts enough that I'm a bit concerned about if I should be resting it more. I probably just pulled a muscle a bit so I'll just try to take it a bit easy on the ankle, stick to pavement for a lil bit, and hopefully it'll feel fine by next week.

C • nice work! 2

lots of bench and a little bit of shoulders

ended up taking a rest day because my ankle hurts and I was so extremely tired and overwhelmed and everything so that's fun

8x 40m sprints on the track on every minute

really probably didn't need to log it but why not

walking for the rest of the time and flipping my watch around, accidentally cracked the screen so whoops.... I gotta get glue to glue down the screen on my backup watch and it should be fine

takin it easy

I sprained my ankle when falling off of the beginning of a 12b becasue it was a running start and I missed and hit the edge of the wall and mat and rolled it and now it hurts so that's super fun... I want to give it enough rest for it to heal, but I don't wanna stop running and training?

C • Rest 1

incline bench, bent over DB rows, deadlifts, and pain

THE MORE I TRAIN THE MORE I WANT TO TRAIN AND THEN I CANT FOCUS ON ANYTHING ELSE HELP

update: I am now tired and want to do nothing else but sleep

eeeeeeuuuuwwwgghhhhh

25-30 sec uphill hard, and then 1 min down (first one I did 30 sec down and realized it wasn't nearly enough rest)
Really had a hard time pushing. Did 8 hills and was completely done, this weather fluctuating between hot and cold is annoying and I'm just tired from the weekend. Probably should do my long day on Mondays for biking and then do hills Wednesday and speed Friday or something, but on the other hand it's nice to get hills done with early in the week.

for the most part, top roping

5.10c - flashed, warmup
5.12b - got to the top! well I hit the finish hold by tapping it/almost grabbing it but slipping, but for me that's 100% close enough!! really proud of this - I made it over halfway before falling a ton (probably cuz the hard part started halfway up)
5.11d - same one I did on Saturday, disappointed that I fell 3 times. It's an improvement, but I really thought I could've done better.
5.11b - got up maybe 1/3 of the way until I slipped and fell and it would've been so much work to get back on the wall, I figured I'd rather just go bouldering
bouldering the rest of the time, got really close to doing this V5 with a crazy technical start.

10 sets of 10s hangboarding on easiest grip, rest of the minute rest. Then I tried to do 2 boulders but I couldn't hold on to anything anymore.

my mom got a new car! It's massive and I don't want to ride in it for a while because it stinks with newness and the new car smell makes me extremely carsick, when I suggested that we should get Oliver wet and muddy and have him shake in the car to get rid of the newness my mom didn't like the idea for some reason :( but it's a nice car, and it's my mom's dream car, and now we can fit so much crap in the car- time to rack up the mileage again! (we had almost 200,000 miles in the 2016 passat before, so we better get going!)