Training Log Archive: YvonneIn the 7 days ending Dec 5, 2015:
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| « | » |
| » now | ||||||||||
|
|
|
|
| |||||||||
| Su | Mo | Tu | We | Th | Fr | Sa | |||||||
Saturday Dec 5, 2015 #
7 AM
Race 5:09:00 [3]
Castlewood 8-hr w/ my favorite lady cougars. Ha! Lots of good feelings about this race. We had fabulous teamwork and made the best use of everyone's strengths: Carrie's canoe skills and uber experience/street smarts, Mary's rabbit-fast punching, Laura's super-legs on the hill climbs, and my nav. We stuck by each other to the finish and had a blast.
My low points: Ugg, the canoe. So much for thinking my arms were strong, I felt like I was lily dipping the whole way (lily dipping with a very high perceived exertion). Carrie picked good, efficient lines - all squandered by my lack of power. She kept us in the game. I felt powerless and very uncomfortable the whole time.
My high points: Many! I felt quite strong on the bike hill climbs which surprised me. I felt pretty good about my nav. Not stellar, but solid with only a couple minutes here and there that were truly time wasted. Spiked most controls in the last O' section. The woods were so open and wonderful! And this is sort of silly, but I really liked my map handling system. I ditched the giant, unwieldy, thick AR-style map case for the tried and true minimalist O' style "map case" (i.e. flat poly bag). I had two: one 12"x18" that I used for the maps that were handed out on the course and a second 18"x24" that perfectly fit the big topo. It was so easy to handle in the boat and once we got to the bikes, it took mere seconds to clip to my rotating map board and away we went. The map board was sort of a risky experiment (I made it the day before), but it worked great. It was composed of the front and back of a standard white vinyl 3-ring binder (binder part cut off), a brass prong paper fastener through the center of both pieces, and some thin metal washers for reinforcement. It was fastened to the handlebars with wire pipe cleaners and stabilized with sticky industrial Velcro on my stem and headset (removable w/ GooGone). The map went on to the top portion with metal binder clips and it only took mere moments to remove and re-fold to a new section. It was SO EASY to stay oriented and fully in touch with the map at a glance while on the bike. Since I highlighted our optimal route and wrote the clues on the map by each CP, it only took a quick downward glance to call out to the gals what to look for and we clicked off the CPs one by one. It was even stable when bombing down the hill into Allenton. A bonus: easily removable and disposable if necessary. The bike nav wasn't technical, but the board was fun to use anyway. An aside: somebody told me that Jeff R. doesn't orient his map, he always holds it w/ the map's N pointing forward and he's used to it that way from his pilot training. That is totally fascinating, but I could never do that many mental gyrations under stress so for the rest of us mere mortals, the easier you can make it to orient the map properly, the better. Anyway, enough on that. Obviously, I liked the map system!
Other high points included the beautiful river scenery (which I did manage to enjoy despite my achy arms), Carrie's DK pep talk that just may have me signing up the for 200 in Jan. (dang, she's good!), and fun course with all sorts of other like-minded folks enjoying a challenge. It was really great to see so many folks new to AR. Nice job EK!!
My low points: Ugg, the canoe. So much for thinking my arms were strong, I felt like I was lily dipping the whole way (lily dipping with a very high perceived exertion). Carrie picked good, efficient lines - all squandered by my lack of power. She kept us in the game. I felt powerless and very uncomfortable the whole time.
My high points: Many! I felt quite strong on the bike hill climbs which surprised me. I felt pretty good about my nav. Not stellar, but solid with only a couple minutes here and there that were truly time wasted. Spiked most controls in the last O' section. The woods were so open and wonderful! And this is sort of silly, but I really liked my map handling system. I ditched the giant, unwieldy, thick AR-style map case for the tried and true minimalist O' style "map case" (i.e. flat poly bag). I had two: one 12"x18" that I used for the maps that were handed out on the course and a second 18"x24" that perfectly fit the big topo. It was so easy to handle in the boat and once we got to the bikes, it took mere seconds to clip to my rotating map board and away we went. The map board was sort of a risky experiment (I made it the day before), but it worked great. It was composed of the front and back of a standard white vinyl 3-ring binder (binder part cut off), a brass prong paper fastener through the center of both pieces, and some thin metal washers for reinforcement. It was fastened to the handlebars with wire pipe cleaners and stabilized with sticky industrial Velcro on my stem and headset (removable w/ GooGone). The map went on to the top portion with metal binder clips and it only took mere moments to remove and re-fold to a new section. It was SO EASY to stay oriented and fully in touch with the map at a glance while on the bike. Since I highlighted our optimal route and wrote the clues on the map by each CP, it only took a quick downward glance to call out to the gals what to look for and we clicked off the CPs one by one. It was even stable when bombing down the hill into Allenton. A bonus: easily removable and disposable if necessary. The bike nav wasn't technical, but the board was fun to use anyway. An aside: somebody told me that Jeff R. doesn't orient his map, he always holds it w/ the map's N pointing forward and he's used to it that way from his pilot training. That is totally fascinating, but I could never do that many mental gyrations under stress so for the rest of us mere mortals, the easier you can make it to orient the map properly, the better. Anyway, enough on that. Obviously, I liked the map system!
Other high points included the beautiful river scenery (which I did manage to enjoy despite my achy arms), Carrie's DK pep talk that just may have me signing up the for 200 in Jan. (dang, she's good!), and fun course with all sorts of other like-minded folks enjoying a challenge. It was really great to see so many folks new to AR. Nice job EK!!
C • DK 3
Wednesday Dec 2, 2015 #
9 AM
Hiking 1:00:00 [1]
Several hours more of super low intensity hiking. Wellfield, quarry (with a hump up to the rim which got the heart going a bit), etc.
Tuesday Dec 1, 2015 #
9 AM
Hiking 1:00:00 [1]
Annual inspection time at work -- our once a year hike down the Southeast Drainage in Weldon Spring Conservation Area (from site to Mo. River). We were out for over several hours so obviously moving snail-like but since this was honest-to-gosh woods travel and I brought my topo/thumb compass to follow along, I figured it was legit to log at least some of it. Played "count the reentrants", "how many contour lines tall is that hillside", "spot the saddle" and other fun games as we poked along.
Monday Nov 30, 2015 #
10 PM
Run (gravel) 25:22 [3] 2.5 mi (10:09 / mi) +206ft 9:25 / mi
shoes: Hoka One One Kailua Trail
Dark and drizzly jog -- stuck to our driveway/road. Several out and backs. Silly-face pose in front of hubby's "super secret" night wildlife camera. Hee hee.
Sunday Nov 29, 2015 #
12 PM
Bike (gravel, grass and paved) 2:07:48 [3] 26.28 mi (12.3 mph) +1551ft
shoes: Trek Superfly 100
Chilly, rainy, gritty/muddy ride around the neighborhood. Hwy right of way out and back, Callaway Fork Rd. out and back x2, plus some subdivision pavement. Made it to the 5th low water crossing on CF Rd. before wimping out and making that my turnaround point. Can't say I've ever seen that particular crossing so swift and deep. Really fun ride - so quiet and peaceful.
Soft, squishy hwy ROW: 2 mi.
Gloppy gravel road w/ water crossings: 12 mi.
Pavement: 12 mi.
Soft, squishy hwy ROW: 2 mi.
Gloppy gravel road w/ water crossings: 12 mi.
Pavement: 12 mi.