Training Log Archive: chitownclark

Drove out to Deer Grove, stopping at Walker Bros for pancakes at 7:30am with Kielo. Everything seemed to be melting, until we got to the trails and they were fine. Two loops of the perimeter trail - 3 hrs of fun! Saw Barry Coyne and Joe Sehnal. Barry hit by car while on bike 4 months ago in downtown Palatine - car hooked a left turn in front of another that had stopped in intersection to allow Barry to come by. Second car hit Barry square and he spent a week in hospital...can't remember what happened, but he's sueing. Good luck; without permanent bodily injury he won't get anything, even satisfaction.

Arrowhead Golf Course with Sari during the Northern Illinois Nordic 16km race. Then through the cut-off to Herrick Lake ski trails...very nice double-tracked looped trails meandering all over marsh, forest and prairie. Don't know why we haven't mapped this area. Back to meet Kielo (who was 2nd woman in NIN) and lunch at the GC bar with some good brews from Two Brothers.

Shoveling the 8" that fell last night. Most snow I can remember for at least ten years. My 50' frontage, and because it was so much fun, my neighbors' all the way to the corner. Made rental car reservations for the weekend: XC in Wheaton and Deer Grove!

Around town in sun and single digits, return home loaded with wallpaper, switches, gas pipe, drywall tape...all the fun things homeowners dote on. Rehabbing #11 kitchen.

Day 2 of UK workout. Tried to recommend program to walk who doesn't seem to be getting into C2.

Started the British training cycle: 4 erg workouts/wk of varying intensity, based upon a 2000m time of 8:19. Tonight's workout seemed very relaxed: 8min easy; 20min at ~2:20/500m pace; 8min cool-down.

I was pretty sore for 3 days after Friday's skiing...I think it was the falling down, not the skiing down, that made me so stiff. Being 67 is a drag, but better than the alternative.