Training Log Archive: Sandy

Event: DVOA Hickory Run State Park
 

Red course at HR. I thought the course was fabulous and the map unbelievably accurate for being 35 years old. I walked just about the whole course knowing that I was on tired legs and perhaps that saved me from making mistakes since I was always pretty much where I thought I was. I was only slighty off on #2 when I started looking a little too far north not reading the broad reentrant correctly, #4 when I got fooled by an extra clearing to the southwest, and #5 when I started down a parallel ridge but quickly realized I wasn't really on a spur and bounced over to the correct one not really loosing much time. Other than that the controls were exactly where I expected them to be. I was being careful and as a result felt really confident and things were looking just as I expected them to.

I thought the woods were glorious but I was apparently in a minority of one.

Didn't really feel tired but glad there was water at three controls (I drank at all of them) and glad that I took some shot blocks with me.

C • Woods were quite nice! 1

C • Woods 3

Red - Splits

Another outing to FCN. Found lots more nice woods and only had a few quibbles with the map. Another two outings and I'll be ready to start streamering I think. I know where the good woods are for the most part and now just need to check some places where I may need to take the blue and possibly red courses to get the distance I need.

Tripped rather badly near the end prompting me to call it a day and hike up the hill to my car instead of doing another loop that I was debating about doing.

Getting gnats stuck in my eyes when I blink is really gross; it was happening fairly regularly. At least those were the only annoying bugs.

Meandering around FCN. Saw lots of nice woods again but also a few fern covered hillsides. Hard to find platforms and boulders and visualize what it'll look like in November - especially in the places where the ferns were up to my waist.

Nowhere near as miserable as last time - guess it was a good bit cooler and not as humid. It was definitely just as buggy! Those little gnats would not stay out of my eyes.

Treadmill workout.
5 minutes warmup slowly increasing the speed to 3.7 mph and the incline to 5%. Then something like
5 min 3.7 mph 6%
5 min 3.7 mph 7%
5 min 3.7 mph 8%
5 min 3.7 mph 9%
5 min 3.6 mph 10%
5 min 3.5 mph 11%
5 min 3.5 mph 12%
5 min 3.6 mph 10%
5 min 3.7 mph 8%
5 min 3.7 mph 5%
5 min cool down

Know the middle few are right but don't exactly remember the build up and build down sequences.

Little bit of stretching at the end.

C • wow 5

TNT - nice hike with Sandy; Alison ran on her own.

RTP - increased # of reps on a few, but still went faster. Guess I'm getting used to them. Need to get some weights.

Morning hike plus some stair repeats. My left ("good") knee was painful going downstairs so I opted to just stick to two repeats of 5 minutes.