Training Log Archive: Sandy

Green course at Patuxent in QOC land. Great course in white woods almost all the time. Had memories of much, much more green at that park which was my first ever A event about 10 years ago. A decent race with one small error and two less than stellar route choices. But a few legs were really good as well. Another great day; glad I made the drive down and made a weekend of it.

First mountain biking of the year (won't count the five minutes around the neighborhood on roads yesterday just to test out that everything was working). Biked with Brad W. at Rocky Ridge in preparation for the adventure race. Easy ride, nothing too, too steep or rocky. Almost made it all the way up the big hill at the end but slid on some loose leaves, fell off and had to walk about 20 feet to a place level enough to get going again. Absolutely gorgeous day, lots of fun.

Very discouraging. Felt awful.

Rest day today. Gave blood this morning. Finally my iron levels were high enough that I wasn't rejected. Although they weren't too happy about my low blood pressure and pulse either.

My knees feel pretty good. Unfortunately I think I know why they weren't feeling so great the last few weeks. I had been very bad about wearing the knee brace except when exercising and I really need to wear it most of the time. Now that I've worn it all day for a few days, they feel fine again. Bleah.

A quick run after getting home from school. It's so nice that at 6:30 I can head out the door and still have an hour or more of light! I only did two miles along the drive at a little over 10 minutes plus the jog down and walk home. I just went straight down through the woods to the drive and then straight back up the hill home in an effort to save time instead of taking the more round about trails. Not a big workout by any means but a moral victory that I even got out at all since I was pretty tired from the weekend. But I know I won't have any time tomorrow and maybe not Wednesday either so glad I did something today. It was a beautiful spring day today, but quite cold down in the valley where the sun had long since gone by the time I was down there and I never did get completely warm.