Wednesday Nov 30 |
 | Cross Training (elliptical) 34:00 [3] | |
| shoes: engelbert humperdinck |
| Chez 100 Mem. Too much cleaning going on today for any other exercise. |
Monday Nov 28 |
| Running 1:04:00 [3] 8.93 mi (7:09 / mi) | |
| shoes: michael |
| Standard Memorial Park time trial - untimed - with a few little diversions to investigate other unmarked trails leading off. All turned out to be small and uninteresting. One armadillo and many, many squirrels.
Weather (the whole reason for the trip out there: too nice not to run there today): 63F dropping to 57F, clear, still, dewpoint 28F: much better running weather (Houston traffic, on the other hand...). |
Sunday Nov 27 |
| Running 52:00 [3] 7.17 mi (7:14 / mi) | |
| shoes: michael |
| Memorial Park: southwest closed trails, out and back, then a lap of the jogging trail, extended eastwards to run in a new forest compartment on the northeast corner (not particularly interesting; indeed, completely flat, but new). Darkening, mostly cloudy, warm, breezy and humid (76F, dewpoint 67F, SW winds at 15mph). A bit of a struggle. Speed is an average: slower through the woods at the beginning (I took some off-trail sections), faster on the made trails.
On the jogging trail, I played 'joggerlek' for a while. This is fartlek where you speed up for 50m, starting 2m behind somebody you wish to pass (in Houston these are usually walkers or joggers doing around 15 minute miles) and extending until they can't really tell whether you've kept it up or slowed down slightly. |
Saturday Nov 26 |
| Cross Training (elliptical) 40:00 [3] | |
| shoes: gabriel |
| It rained in Houston today, and so Memorial Park's trails would be closed. Hence, elliptical (16/76). |
Friday Nov 25 |
| Running 1:15:00 [3] 10.71 mi (7:00 / mi) | |
| shoes: michael |
| Memorial Park. First non-orienteering run in the morning for quite some time (after dropping off Peter at the airport for an early flight). A little humid for ideal running conditions: 64F, dewpoint 61F, not foggy at ground level but the tops of the mid-rise buildings were in the clouds. Did a lot of my less-frequently used trails - the Memorial/Woodway block loop, then the horse trails, then out and back in the brashings along the railway and back in the ditch (nice terrain intervals, actually), then across the tracks and out to I-10 again on the other side of the tracks, then round the back of the jogging trail, in through some thick woods to the green trail and back along the red trail and the blue trail. |
Tuesday Nov 22 |
| Running 51:47 [3] 7.23 mi (7:09 / mi) | |
| shoes: michael |
| Memorial Park, with Peter. Two armadillos; beautiful running weather (70F dropping to 62F, sunny, still, dewpoint 41F). The woods smelt nice, all was right with the world. |
Sunday Nov 20 |
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| Event: Blue Hills Traverse
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| Orienteering 1:49:52 [3] *** 13.3 km (8:16 / km) +570m 6:48 / km | |
| spiked:16/24c shoes: sarva |
| Blue Hills Traverse. Screwed up numbers 1 and 3 in the circle, then left 4 the wrong way and managed to catch Peter Gagarin, Joe, Samantha and Pavlina at 4. This made me irritated, and I stormed up the hill to 5 only to get a little confused by the vague mapping. A jog down to 6 and a 30 second rest stop for a drink and a gu solved the brain failure problem, and I sped up. A wrong route choice to 8 (too high) and a careless drift to the right on 11 were the only errors after that until I was slightly too low on 23. John Frederickson and I were together from 8 to 14, the latest I've been running with someone in a Traverse since the 2001 version (when it was only 3 controls from the end, on the leg over Great Blue Hill, that I dusted Kenny). However, he lost 2 1/2 minutes on the long leg to 15, long enough that I wasn't in sight to show him that 'over the hill' is always the best route choice here...
Not my best run, but nice to stay at 5/5 in this race (I didn't run last year). |
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Traverse - Splits |
Saturday Nov 19 |
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| Mt Carrigain with Bilal. 13.3 miles, 3600' (the road was still open at the base; back via Desolation Trail and Carrigain Notch). About 1" of snow above 2000', a bit deeper on the descent on the north side. No need for anything but summer hiking boots. Temperatures around 15F on top, almost still. 7 hours of hiking time. Slowed due to trees down from the 10/25 snow storm, mainly between 3000' and 3500', it seemed. |
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| C • 2 |
Thursday Nov 17 |
| Running 50:44 [3] 7.42 mi (6:50 / mi) | |
| shoes: engelbert humperdinck |
| Fens to Netherlands Rd, then back to Mass Ave and along the Esplanade to the Longfellow Bridge. Clear, sunset, breezy, 42F. |
Sunday Nov 13 |
| Orienteering 2:31:11 [3] *** 22.2 km (6:49 / km) +695m 5:53 / km | |
| spiked:26/29c shoes: sarva |
| Long course champs. Nice day; orienteering extremely easy, with only a few route choices to keep the brain on (I got at least one of them wrong). Distance a bit far for my current fitness level... |
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| C • Glad you're still here by the way. 3 |
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Blue Long - Splits |
Saturday Nov 12 |
| Orienteering 1:02:25 [3] ** 9.9 km (6:18 / km) +225m 5:40 / km | |
| spiked:19/21c shoes: sarva |
| DVOA Fair Hill. Sunny, mid 50s. Fairly easy orienteering (the first time I've ranked a nominally 'blue' course at two stars for technical intensity) - the only trick being not to get caught in the briars around the field edges. Managed to avoid this all but once, on the last long leg, where I managed to run about the same net pace as people 30 years older than me, and overtake them twice... (it was mapped as light green, but turned out to be impenetrable dark green). |
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Blue 1 - Splits |
Friday Nov 11 |
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| Event: US Long Course Champs
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Thursday Nov 10 |
| Running 35:00 [3] 4.7 mi (7:27 / mi) | |
| shoes: engelbert humperdinck |
| treadmill at 100 Mem. boring boring. the Weather Channel without sound was the best thing on. 4.52mi in 30 min plus warmdown.
I hope to return to reality next week some time. |
Sunday Nov 6 |
| Running 50:00 [3] 6.45 mi (7:45 / mi) | |
| shoes: bruce |
| Memorial Park. 82F dropping to 78F, dewpoint 66F, sunny, a light breeze. Today appeared to be armadillo season in Memorial Park: between the two of us we saw four of them (three for me), after never having seen one in many runs here over the last sixteen months. Also it was slow mtb season - never have I overtaken more than five of the things inside the first five minutes. And finally, it remains asthma season and sore shoulder season (I think I blame Continental's seat pitch for the second and their cleaning products for the first), which was a bit of a dampener on the whole affair. |
Saturday Nov 5 |
| Cross Training (elliptical) 35:00 [3] | |
| shoes: gabriel |
| In Houston; suffering a bit from the air quality; no exercise outside today. (Temperature in the high 80s...). |
Friday Nov 4 |
| Running 26:44 [3] 3.85 mi (6:56 / mi) | |
| shoes: engelbert humperdinck |
| museum - mass ave loop. sunset; beautiful weather, perfect for running. |
Thursday Nov 3 |
| Running 40:30 [2] 5.52 mi (7:20 / mi) | |
| shoes: engelbert humperdinck |
| museum-common loop. sunset. |
Tuesday Nov 1 |
| Cross Training (elliptical) 40:00 [3] | |
| shoes: michael |
| evening chez 100 Mem. Larry King talking to Ambassador Wilson. a repetition, if one were ever needed, of the paucity of content despite the mulitplicity of channels. like the mouth of the Amazon in drought, really.
a real media outlet would have been covering something like the big news of the day: male mice sing upon smelling the urine of female mice. try the clips:
clip 1 (full speed, pitch reduced 4 octaves)
clip 2 (slowed down 16-fold) |