Training Log Archive: Charlie

Reformer 1.5 with Yi.

Foot is gradually improving, but still a ways to go. Cut this short.

Dog walk with Rhonda

Original strength reset exercises

Control &Balance 1 with Yi.

This is something of a struggle with the sore foot. Better to keep it to 1/2 hour at a go.

1/2 hour of gentle laurel wrangling.

Cardio sculpt 1 with Susannah. This is the one with jumping, and not sure how my injured foot would like it. Not much, but certainly bearable. Then off across the street to urgent care.

Urgent care. The doc there is really nice, really good. We've seen him several times now. Anyway, confirmed that there is nothing stuck there in my foot, gave me a tetanus shot (last one was in 2016), prescribed 3 days with Cipro, told me to lay off of it a bit. Apparently cipro is not good for your tendons, so he cautioned me not to do anything too strenuous. Ha!

C • cipro 2

Maps from West Point this past weekend:

Brown X Middle

Brown Sprint

Brown X Long

At the lake with Rhonda, George and Leslie.

Down to the bridge with Rhonda and Leslie

3x10 back squats at 75#

Went down to the little pond to listen for frogs, stepped on a small sharp stick that went right through the sole of my shoe. Foot is really sore.

Brown X Long

Long walk to the start with George. Legs felt pretty tired from yesterday.
1. Started 2 min behind George, caught up to him around #1, just along the trail to what seemed like a good attack and on compass. No problem.
2. Leaving the control, my compass was giving me problems, pointing north when I got to the trail headed W, which panicked me a bit and I turned around, before settling down. The hill forms were pretty easy to read, and the control was in a nice spot. So maybe 30 seconds lost on the trail trying to figure out which direction I was going.
3. Fought my way out to the trail much farther E than I wanted, pushed that way by laurel. Once I got to the trail it was easy enough to get down to the long knoll and go in.
4. Long trail leg, frustrating because I couldn't make my legs go. Stayed with the trail figuring it was best to have the shortest forest to cross to the control.
5. Not my best work. Headed in the right general direction, but I thought the green would be more apparent, so I wasn't paying enough attention to the rocks and contours. Got into the general area, saw people coming from my left and it looked greener there, so drifted. Finally found some rocks, but I was way down by the marsh, so navigated from there. By then looking at the splits I was about 5 minutes down on Dave Cady.
6. Up the reentrant, Karen Muffatti was up ahead and a bit to the right. Went past what turned out to be a Brown Y control in the reentrant, kept going looking for the marsh behind it and then my control on the cliff just to the right.
7. Seemed like it took a while. Across the reentrant, under the cliffs, kept going until I could see the green marsh growth, looked around and spied the control to my left.
8. Up across the spur and under the cliffs, planning to go to the really big boulder and downhill from there, but I could see things opening up earlier, and saw the boulder way down the hill. Checked off the big boulder in front of me, then angled downhill. Hard getting down there, rocky and slippery, and the flag was right around the far side of the boulder.
9. More or less on compass, aiming for being just above the pond corner, followed the stream for a bit, and saw the big boulder just across the trail.
10. Straight. Clint was taking pictures. Arrived just behind Jim Arsenault.
F. Passed Jim and worked pretty hard to keep running. As it turned out, I made up 19 seconds on Dave Cady on the run-in, beating him by 4 seconds for the race and 7 seconds for the three race total, so we were pretty closely matched.

Long - Brown-X - Splits