Cross training report

Yes, paintball is cross training.

The original plan for the weekend was to ride on Saturday and play paintball on Sunday.  The weather on Saturday was inhospitable, so instead of postponing the ride to Sunday I scrubbed it all together expecting Sunday to be more of the same.

Next time I won’t be so hasty—and I’ll actually watch the weather reports.

Anyway, paintball was 3 hours on Sunday afternoon with me and 8 other guys on some property out in Crosby.  Heavy underbrush, lots of palmettos, thorns, and generally crappy visibility.  You could literally vanish 5 feet away from somebody simply by dropping down to your belly and laying perfectly still.

What fun.

It was kind of an open scenario field where everybody went out and basically teamed up as they saw fit.  You started a new game by shooting at someone as they walked off the “field”.

I bagged 5 “kills”; I was “killed” 1 time—and it took 2 of them to do it.

 

We are pretty close to the 6 week mark for the MS150.  Plans are still to log about 300 miles training in preparation for the big ride.  For those of you keeping score, that’s twice the number of miles ran in preparation for the marathon in a quarter of the time.