Saturday Feb 17 |
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| I guess what they say about hard week, hard week, easy week has some validity...I'm going with it. |
Friday Feb 16 |
| yoga 40:00 [1] | |
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| orienteering 20:00 [2] | |
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| urban adventure mini-rogaine: I had noticed this quite large patch of woods on an aerial photo, l-shaped 1/2 k x 1 k, across the street and behind the railroad tracks from the nursing home, apparently belonging to the cemetery, and had been excited about running it ever since. well, it was bent-over, honeysuckle infested running for the most part, but the navigation was fun enough and successful, and best of all its free! - built into my run home which I had been doing by another route anyway. |
| running 35:00 [3] | |
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| running the rest of the way back, on side streets from a street map, then through open ground at another cemetery (this whole area is chock full of them) skirting some woods, then into the trail sytem, to the river des peres, park, cemetery, home. |
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| been 'bonking' after outings a lot, think there's a need for some warmer weather. |
Wednesday Feb 14 |
| biking 1:50:00 [3] | |
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| bus aid and grants trail to and from meeting in kirkwood. slower going and requiring a certain awareness - no daydreaming - but not bad. Fun to go from smooth snow to slick ice to snowplow detritus to wet pavement, and feel the front and rear wheels wiggle almost imperceptibly wanting to wipe out and feel my body wiggle automatically in response to keep it smooth. On cross tires. |
| running 30:00 [3] | |
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| run through park w/ headlamp aiming at trees |
Tuesday Feb 13 |
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| I think it was exhaustion and a touch of a weird flu bug at the same time, with maybe a dash of late middle age... I'll try a short run in the new snow tonight. |
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| C • don't give in... 2 |
| running 43:00 [3] | |
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| 25 out, 18 in - to friends house thru wilmore park. tried running to some trees on the aerial on the way in, which was very satisfying when they were there, but there have been a lot of casualties around here.
Saw fox on return, no wonder the ducks are so skittish. |
Monday Feb 12 |
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| (rest day) |
| if I'm not sick, I'm totally exhausted. |
Sunday Feb 11 |
| orienteering 1:20:00 [2] | |
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| Running on the aerial photo of castlewood flats with the junipers and the clearings. The first photo I ran on was 1:3000, and a lot of control trees were too close together. Sometimes I could see the right tree from far away, sometimes I'd have to stop when I got there and puzzle out which tree I had marked, and sometimes I'd get to the general area and never see the tree, especially where the clearings were not distinct it would look rather confused on the ground. Hard to keep concentrating, sometimes in those situations I'd just blow it off and relocate to the large meadow.
Then ran a second loop on an aerial photo that was about 1:5000. That scale worked better for running, but some of the detail was hard to see. All in all a fun and productive exercise that I'd like to repeat, but the next course will have the controls farther apart, and I'll stay away from the confusing areas at least until I get as good as the deer. |
| biking 2:15:00 [2] | |
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| biking from meramec college to castlewood flats on the cross bike, and back to my father's house, and some misc. bits connected up w/ buses, trying to save my legs. |