Training Log Archive: Nadim

In Greenbelt Park, MD for PGRC's run. Mostly beginners showed-up. I ran the Perimeter Trail by myself from the Sweetgum parking lot. Felt good starting out but struggled in the last few miles as the humidity made me sweat a lot.

Test riding my new bike around the University of MD campus.

In Reno, NV. From 5th & West St. to Keystone St. to Bike Trail #2 along the Truckee River, upstream and west to Riviera Rd. turnaround, then down the trail to Virginia Ave. to 5th & West St. I started slower but verified my pace by the quarter mile markers on the trail. I probably was running faster the previous days.

In Reno, NV. From 5th & Sierra St. to Keystone Ave., to the Truckee River, to Lake St. via Bike Route #2, then to 5th & Sierra St. I felt a little better than yesterday but didn't have much time before I had to get to my meeting. After the meeting, a few of us drove over to Lake Tahoe.

In Reno, NV. From 5th & Sierra N. St. to Virginia Ave. to the Truckee River, then downstream to an overpass & back. Quads are still sore so I started slowly to warm-up. The streets to the river are paved with a type of stone or hard concrete over which it's been painted shiney black--very hot and hard. Walking around at night I think it was done to make sparkles and reflect the many lights.

Using the Health Spa in the Silver Legacy hotel, Barry Hodge and I came here after our meetings. I did a repetition on just about all the machines, did 40 situps on an incline board, and also used a kind of running machine that uses your ams too for 5:00.

From 5th & Virginia St. (Silver Legacy) in Reno, NV to the Truckee River, upstream on Bike Route#2 to Keystone Bridge and back. My legs have a rubbery sore feeling like I've been running too much. I don't think it's the altitude and am hard put to explain it. I'm here for work meetings and as a side experience am seeing much more of the gambling sub-culture than I did in Atlantic City.

At Patuxent River Park, Jug Bay Wetlands. Back to the park to pickup controls I set out for the QOC Summer Short Series the day before. It was too dark to pick them up after the training yesterday. I tried approaching things from angles I was less comfortable with. On the way to #2, it was best to go through the marsh--the running was good with almost no climb. Going over the top on #5 was not as good as going around to the left like I did yesterday. Going straight out to the road rather than crossing the marsh was better on the way to #6. I tried to go straight to #7L but got the reentrants mixed-up--the road was safer and faster for me. Going to #7S, I crossed the road in a different place and didn't hit the attack point of the two parallel ditches--subsequently I missed to the right and had to relocate on the knoll to the west. Going to #8, I went straight and spiked it! There was still no sign of the man-made feature. Going to #9, I tried Mihai Siribu's route of crossing both trails--I missed to the right but knew where I was right away because I saw the trail at the stream crossing.