Training Log Archive: Sandy

Decided around 11am that I wanted to go orienteering since it was such a nice day so drew up a course on Lost Lakes and headed out. It's still a bit of a rush realizing that I can do that!

It turned out to be a good course - I made several errors but they were all my own fault for not being careful - and it was straightforward to figure out what I'd done and either correct or relocate. Really, really enjoyed myself. But I am definitely rusty and will need to do some practicing before masters nationals.

I'm not sure why the track stops where it does.

Quick morning hike with a teeny tiny bit of jogging right at the end. It wasn't horrible.

Well, what do you know. I can actually still jog. I decided to go for a walk and was taking it very easy given the high temperature - about 90 I think - when part way around, the sky got very dark and the wind really picked up. i was fine with getting rained on but I didn't really want to be out in a real storm since branches have been coming down all throughout the development during the afternoon/evening thunderstorms we've been having this week. So I decided to jog a little and see what that felt like. It wasn't too bad so I kept it up, off and on for a while. There was no real way to cut the loop short given where I was so I just kept going, jogging a bit here and there. And then the wind blew everything away and it all calmed down and the sun came out so I just walked from then on. It's pretty funny how the gps track shows exactly where the jogging took place!

But, I guess that means that I need to start doing some jogging again. Unless, of course, I wake up tomorrow with swollen knees.

C • Nice! 2

Dropped a slate paver on my toes. Didn't do much damage except to my pride, but it gave me an excuse not to do much else for the day. Still struggling with not wanting to do much.

C • Sounds like 2

Worked hard. I think all the eating and drinking I did over my weekend off caught up with me.

I got in kind of a funk over the weekend and just didn't want to do anything. The weather was beautiful and I could have done lots of things but I just didn't want to. So I didn't. Finally, today, I decided to go for a walk. The streets in the HOA are just really pleasant - it's almost all shaded and hardly any traffic and there are lots of undeveloped plots of woods scattered between all the houses. And I didn't push the pace - just walked.

I'm not regretting my decision to not attend the US Champs but I was feeling a bit envious of everyone getting together out there.

C • Exactly right 2