Training Log Archive: Ari-o

Orienteering-ish!

Melanie wanted to try orienteering (verdict: likes the trail parts more than the woods parts, seems pretty good at navigating, should go find somewhere with nice open not-rocky woods and fewer trails to run). After a couple of ideas, I said we should run the 2015 traverse course 6->1, but we were cold, so we ran to the triangle and then ran back. We found the controls; mostly I let her plan the route and I helped on the circle and with the compass. It was the long-leg-split-apart-the-field portion of the race, so lots of trails, and she avoided some good route choices because "I don't want to run through that" which I can understand.

Also her knee feels good. Beautiful day in the woods! At some point this week I am going to head down there at sunrise and rerun 2019. Perfect O weather. Too bad not ski weather.

Turns out moving is hard and takes time, but I successfully spent all of yesterday carrying things up and down (mostly down) stairs. My phone said I climbed 43 flights of stairs! It took all day and I was le tired. So not great for training, but at least it's the year of not really training for anything. Didn't go to skitter around at Jxn, or Wville, or Dublin.

Also, if anyone wants a Franconia Notch poster I'm running a special: $5 shipping and it's yours. Venmo me the money and I'll get it out. Or if you're local: next to the recycling bins at 8 Lawrence St until Thursday.

Weird, track is offset by quite a bit today (20m or so).

Destress run. Ran around State House.

Weston. There's not much there, but what is there is not too bad. Didn't get charged (how many DCR staff does it take to change a lightbulb? IDK, but it takes two to not charge people money) and took some easy laps on the pink skis.

They were slow. But then I changed to the hard track Salomons. They were fast!

Attackpoint not finding any climb tonight?

World Championships are less fun as an interval start, but still fun to go out fast and hard. Conditions were fine, I had forgotten my triacs so I had soft poles and big baskets which were weird on the corners, but the skis were pretty speedy. This works pretty well. Course tonight was 5 laps, and really a sprint (about 2km) and I still almost lost count; had to check my distance on the last one to make sure. Some more snow would be nice.

Cool down, a bit faster.