Training Log Archive: Charlie

Flow 1.0 with Leah

Quite tired today. Might have slept a long time if I hadn't promised to go to class this morning with Miss Rhonda. Class was good, though. Leah is pretty tough on us.

PT session at Brian's. The usual stim and exercises, plus he decided he wanted to do some dry needling. Not sure I have any confidence in it, or rather my confidence in it is low. The exercises are generally good, but I don't know that they are any real help for my problem. Also got an x-ray of the knee today, and maybe eventually I'll figure out what is wrong.

I had been thinking this was some sort of overuse injury, but over the weekend I had the epiphany that it seems likely it was a delayed effect from that nasty fall I took on December 4 at Coop's sawmill. I had already identified another delayed effect: bruised ribs that first showed up about 10 days later, and persisted until the latter part of February.

2 x 3 ring pullups

Brown X Day 2 course at QOC Royal Romp.

A better outing than yesterday, but again two terrible controls, and one small error. Part of this is my typical lack of adequate focus, and my typical difficulty relocating in an area that seems vague to me, but a big part also is how distracting pain can be, and my leg is not doing at all well.

1. Not going particularly fast, and heading along on compass reasonably well. Crossed the stream and saw the rootstock that had the control, but the control was hidden and the rootstock looked so skimpy that I discounted it. Just thought I was looking for something bigger, and then convinced myself that the ditch I was at was the northern one, and went up and down a bit, until it clicked that it was the southern one, and that that scrawny rootstock was in fact the right one. So 2 minutes lost.
2. More or less straight on compass, up and over and down to the stream, a little slow to cross, then up and over again. No trouble finding it, but thinking that I would have been happier going south to the road and then along the road to the control.
3. Trying to go straight, again some difficult up and down, and then ended up bending around north of part of the hill and approaching from below. No trouble finding the control. but regretting again not just going right out to the road and around on pavement. Obviously longer, but probably faster and certainly easier on my body.
4. This was bad. Contouring around the hill and down to the stream. Saw the rootstock at the bottom of the reentrant, but somehow got myself in the reentrant one further W, that is, between 4 and 5, and then wandered when there was nothing there. Eventually saw Peter from a distance and divined that he was going from 4 to 5, which gave me enough info to relocate. A good 10 minutes lost here.
5. AP gives me about a 30 second error here. Fair enough. I was headed up the reentrant, not as sharp seeming as mapped, and saw the larger hill R of the line, aimed to be just left of it, but no small hill when I got up there. Stood there for a bit, then realized that there was supposed to be a thicket and looked around, saw it to my left and then the bag.
6. Right of the line around the green. No problem, but might have been faster going left and through the thinner green there.
7. Aiming for the sharp road bend, keeping an eye on the fence on the right off and on, and past the small cemetery and to the road. Short road segment and then up on the ridge, angling down to the big tree.
8. More or less straight. Sore and moving slowly.
9. Again more or less straight, moving slowly, gave the ditch before the control a look to make sure, but was pretty sure it was the next one, and it was.
10. Hard fall, getting a beech sapling stub tangled in my shoelace, second day in a row! Then very slow and tentative and in.
F. picking it up a bit, but not all that much. Well back on Brown X, 2nd on M-75, but Rick would have beaten me, too, if he had just punched the go control.

And then pretty quickly into the car and heading home, with one small adventure in the park on the way out. Peter again doing awesome driving and me in the back, occasionally leaning in to participate in the conversations between Peter and Phil. Great to travel with good friends.



Day 2 Map

Day 2 - Brown X - Splits

Event: QOC Royal Romp 2-Day Classic
 

Royal Romp Brown X Day 1.

1. Heading down the spur on compass, and maybe best would have been to keep the green on my left and find that rootstock, but instead I decided to drop down to above the stream and attack from below, and then I got beyond it and into the broader re-entrant, so knew I had to go back one. About 2 minutes lost.
2. Straight, across the stream, up the spur, highest ground on my right, across the top of the reentrant and spur, and there it was right in front of me.
3. Not sure why I did this, but apparently straight through all the green. It was yucky, and seemed to take forever. Long enough that I was despairing of vevenr coming to the reentrant before the control. Eventually I did get there, and got up on the spur thinking I would see the hill to my right. I didn't, so got a bit further down and headed back up, and there it was. So at least another 2-3 minutes here.
4. Straight up the small reentrant and right to it.
5. Thinking I was on compass, but getting mightily distracted by all the green, by lots of unmapped ditches, and by so many beech branches whacking me in the face. Apparently I was off t o the left, and once I was past the area of the control, just wandering, trying to relocate on something. Ran into Rick W, who reported having seen Peter go by, but he didn't know where it was either, so we went our separate ways. After a bit of an excursion, found the N/S stream SE of the control and followed it down, and when I was convinced that it was really the stream I thought it was, headed NW up the spur toward the control, and eventually got up to the ditch across the saddle, and looked for a fair amount of time at the hillside across unable to see the flag. And then Greg Ahlswede came by at high speed, not going to my control, but running by it and I could see it. Not a really distinctive location. I figure 29 minutes lost wandering here.
6. Careful to get across the reentrant in the right direction and across the small spur and into the right reentrant beyond. Saw Rick a bit ahead an thought maybe I could catch up, but he was pulling away. I was a bit high on the slope coming into the control, and saw him leaving it and heading up toward 7, but he was well out of sight by the time I punched.
7. Up and over, no problem.
8. More or less straight, bending left a bit to contour, and hit the stream and up the spur from which I had finally found #5, so feeling pretty confident, across the reentrant and along the edge of the spur, looking a little too soon as it turned out, but kept going and then saw Rick coming in from another direction,.
9. Really tired and sore by now, Thinking I was going a little R of the lineand just NW of the stream junction, but in fact I was a little L of the line and crossed E of the junction. Took a hard fall when my shoelace got caught by a downed branch, smacking the sore knee pretty hard, but got up and up the stream, Maybe a compass check would have helped. came to a control at the stream junction, and puzzled over that for a bit, since there was not a stream junction on the stream I thought I was on, and then came to a control on a bridge, which caused some real soul searching, and some disappointment when I figure out where I was and what I had done. Nothing much to do for it but climb across, bumping though green and through reentrants, eventually dropping down to the stream and trying to make sense of things. The ditch was actually pretty far away from the stream, so more or less lucky ever to find it. Probably about 12 minutes more lost here.
F. Then too tired to put up any kind of pace, just trying to get out of there and out to the road.
So pretty lame. Well back in last place in M-75, roughly double Peter's time, and a full hour behind the best time on Brown.

Once we were back at our house, a little lunch and then straight to bed. Steve woke me up a couple of hours later so we could go out to dinner,.

All 7 of us from the house (J-J, Nancy, Steve, Jim A, Peter, Phil and me) and Clint for dinner at Armetta's restaurant nearby. Very good service, pleasant surroundings, not too crowded, not noisy. Food not wonderful. The decor was pleasing to me, lots of Italian theme paintings and other decorations, including a large plate on the wall across from me depicting two guys in medieval armor fighting on horseback, and I was delighted to recognize exactly who they were: Ruggiero and Rodomonte, fighting out the ultimate battle in the last Canto of the epic poem, Orland Furioso. Ruggiero wins the battle and marries the warrior maiden Bradamante, becoming the mythical forefather of the d;Este line, the noble family that ruled over Ferrara, and incidentally the Duke of Este was the patron of the poet who wrote the epic.

Day 1 Map

Day 1 - Brown X - Splits

Long day. Left the house at 7am for Pilates, then off to Italian class at the senior center. After class a visit with my friend Renée and her husband Dick for a bit, until it was time to go to the commuter parking lot in Waterbury to meet up with Peter, Phil and Bridget and head down to Virginia for the QOC meet. Peter still has his ultra-game, driving all the way. I was happy to be in the back seat. And eventually got to our AirBnB, arranged by Nancy. Quite fine.

Reformer 1.5 with Yi

Reformer 1.0 with Leah

Walking the dog. Slippery, as the snow had warmed up.

PT appt for my leg.

With the dog. Snow is diminishing, and a little firmer, so boots were fine.

Reformer 1, with the excellent Leah.

Similar to the other day, from PV, out to the 2 mile mark, then turn back to meet up with Rhonda who was walking, and then walk back with her.

with Rhonda (and Luna, who is not much help).