Training Log Archive: AliC

Yeah trails! And holy moly hills! Went up for 2 miles to start, to a hilltop called Council Crest. Good views and if it were less hazy, apparently can see Mts. Hood, St. Helens, Rainer and hm, a 4th I forget right now. Then kept following the Marquam trail over to Hoyt Arboretum which had a whole network of trails and labels their trees, being an arboretum, so probably a good place to go and figure out all these foreign-to-me tree species!

C • It appears 4

12 min core

Hiking up Eagle Creek to Punchbowl Falls with Mark and Katherine. Hike took longer, but probably about 20 min were in L1, so I'll count those!

Night before we went to a Pink Martini concert at the Portland Zoo and got to sit in the front row, center. It was really awesome.

C • Pink Martini! 3

Springwater Trail loop, with the Bluff trail.

Really got going doing a 7 min or under pace after the first mile, which felt perfectly fine. They have already repaired the bridge on the Bluff trail from the car that crashed into it 2 weeks ago, woo! Makes it much nicer to be on the unpaved single track than the bike path!

Ankle plyo drills.

Yay! Morning orienteering! CROC had a Zero-O training/meet at Reed last eve, but I was too full from department BBQ to run, so I ran this morning. Fun times, although it was already easier from just my week here at Reed already.

Still, very nice and good training to have the loose control descriptions and to have to read which side of tree/bush to punch the not-there control. Need to keep those skills sharp!

I didn't stick around long enough at #2 to diagnose exact trees, since I heard there was maybe not a tree where it was supposed to be from last night. And I took the bridge route to #3. Not too much longer, saves climb, no time wasted looking for little paths and can read ahead on the bridge where it's impossible to go the wrong way. I think I found the little knoll towards the end, but would have liked to double check it was on the far side of the little trail off to the right...

And did visit the cute feature of the little baby tree that's a direct descendant of the first apple tree of the Pacific NW. Doesn't look big enough to have apples yet this year...

C • yay for morning orienteering! 2

Normal running drills. Sadly without Tom to comment on my ARing skills. (Assistant Refereeing, after the side-skip that they have to do that's part of my drill set.)

1-2-3-4-5-4-3-2-1 minute interval pyramid. With half as much rest as previous interval. Just out a the Reed track, what better way to start one's 30s. Eep!

C • Happy Birthday 7

10 min abs, 2 min back

Arrived back home in Porland at 2am and mostly made it through the workday before totally hitting the brain-dead wall. First faculty meeting and first draft of my syllabus. Then went out for a joggeroo twice around the canyon, nice!

And the plan!

Monday - Morningjog, core, afternoon mountain bike.
Tuesday - Optional two canyon laps if the lack of sleep isn't too bad.
Wed - Birthday-tervals! 5 min pyramid on Reed track in the morning with drills.
Thurs - Reed zero-o a day late? Core.
Fri - Springwater loop. Running drills.
Sat - Morning hills, afternoon hike with Mark + Katherine. Core.
Sunday - Long. Ankle plyo drills.

Note: Did ok with last week, the mega-driving interfered a bit, but caught up other days.

Easy morning jog with a sore-from-first-squats-in-awhile Tom. But even with that, he was spontaneously inspired by the delightfully open woods to just start bushwhacking up a hill. So we got some off-trail time in for the ankles!

10 min abs, 2 min back

Hah! Just squeezed in between the two monsoon storms of the afternoon, perfect! I headed out just as the last of the drizzle was ending and then scurried back in when I heard the first big thunder claps. Went up to the plateau three times, the front-side climb has some really steep sections that I wasn't sure I was going to make it up without tipping backwards the first time!