Training Log Archive: Charlie

Putting out controls and water at Pond Mt. Bill and I rode out together, reasonably efficient operation. Lovely day to be in the woods, and Pond Mt is a fine place for it.

Family ride from Pleasant Valley. Jess and Jonathan are here for the weekend and the five of us took a leisurely spin around the river roads. That are taking Zack fly fishing tomorrow.

limber series. I have been feeling particularly weak, vulnerable and sore since the traction yesterday, but this improved me enough to be able to walk straight.

dog loop with R & S

10 ring pullups, 5 ring dips, 10 pushups, 10 ring pullups. Careful with the dips, they are pretty stressful on my shoulders. Not for every day at this point.

Last night I was showing Zack where I was doing some laurel wrangling and he asked why I didn't just use the brushmower on it. Why is often a pretty loaded question with Zack. I tried to explain the reasons: rocks and sticks in the way, the stress of trying to cut things bigger than about an inch in diameter, my unwillingness to cut anything else. He was undeterred. Or at least undeterred until the drive chain and the mower spindle both broke. The chain is an easier repair. Broken enough that I will just get a new one. I have broken the spindle before. That is more of a hassle. It is hard to get apart, and then I have to take it to a welding shop to get it put back together. I will need to take it apart also to see what other parts I might need before I order the chain.

Annual golf outing, a rousing success, with PG and Zack. We had some adventurous shots, some fine weather and companionship, and finished like it was an easy game, PG just missing holing out in 2 from a trap, and I missing about a 10 foot birdie putt, but two pars on the last hole aren't bad. Zack didn't get a par there, but had an awesome finish regardless.

And then home to a fine dinner with PG and Gail, Rhonda and Zack.

Probably the first time I have played with PG in five or six years, remarkably enough.

Didn't do as many of the exercises today because we did traction instead. Felt pretty good while it was happening, but kind of unsettled after, and more or less uncomfortable the rest of the day. Hard to know what to think.

half an hour or so of laurel wrangling. Hard to ever catch up with any significant amount of it, but I do feel accomplishment when I clear a patch, no matter how small.

Annual dermatologist check. Not bad. Got about five little spots frozen off, sort of less than average for recent years. Nothing of note. So good news.

Rhonda's morning class

Walking around with folks from DEEP, checking some places for a potential New England Cottontail habitat project. They want 10 acres, which is more or less ok with me, but there are apparently several layers of people they need to line up to get the project authorized. I just want to kill mountain laurel, which is not that interesting to them.

C • Cottontail 2

2 x 4 ring dips. practice helps

PT appointment, lots of exercises, some harder than others.

8 ring pull-ups, 2.5 ring dips. Could have done more pull-ups.

Event: NEOC: Mt. Tom
 

intense but abbreviated limber session before heading off to Mt Tom

Green Course at Mt Tom. This was the best effort so far this year in terms of my back. First time I didn't seize up half way around. Still a long way to go. Limber session before leaving this morning probably helped. Saw a lot of nice people there, including the usual gang and a few more, perhaps drawn by the challenge series. Had a nice chat with Marcello, both of us happy to have someone to speak with in Italian. Navigation was good up through 7, but then really struggling with 8 and to a lesser extent 9. Also dropped a minute or so on 12, not finding the little depression. So maybe 20 or so minutes lost in total.

Click on map for DOMA view

Since my back wasn't totally destroyed by O today, finished the job by fixing the tractor, mowing some grass and rototilling some of the garden. Now it is ready for some vitamin I and some stretching.

Green - Splits