Saturday Jul 21 |
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| Zeroing before the race for 30 mins and afterwards had a clinic that ended up lasting for 1.5 hours. Very productive and given lots of advice with drills to improve shooting. Did some shooting, but somewhat tired from the early race. A few experienced biathloners/coaches ran the clinic so felt good about the advice. tooks lots of notes now to try it all.... this if the first time I have been coached with shooting always been by reading and people watching. |
| Running warm up/down 30:00 [1]2.5 mi (11:59 / mi) | |
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| Running 24:16 [4]4 km (6:04 / km) +150m 5:07 / km | |
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| Another biathlon to get experience. Shot poorly and once attending the clinic knew why. Finished second only to be beat by a women on the Czech national team. If I shot better would have beat her since I can out run her. Got up early to drive up so that may not have helped since I don't have much vacation left had to do this. Well worth the drive. |
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| Volunteered for two + hours at the Twilighter in Rockville. Already committed to volunteering so did not want to skip out. Short volunteers so we all worked hard. |
| Yard work 1:00:00 [1] | |
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| Very tempting to take a nap just not enough time so worked on the yard which needed some care. Mowed, weeded and raked up the backyard. Not enough time to tackle the front. |
Friday Jul 20 |
| Running 34:00 [1]4.0 mi (8:30 / mi) | |
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| Ran to the gym and back. |
| Weightlifting 25:00 [2] | |
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| all the time I had for the gym. The lifting made my knee feel better. |
| Shooting 10:00 [0] | |
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| Did some dry firing. After going to Fort Kent found out is fine to dry fire my gun. |
Thursday Jul 19 |
| Running 54:00 [1]6.3 mi (8:34 / mi) | |
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| Ran on the C & O canal. Very hot again, but OK with the heat. |
| Core Training 10:00 [1] | |
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| Did some odds and ends drills waiting for others before the run. Need to use as much of my spare time as possible training. |
Wednesday Jul 18 |
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| Press coverage of the event included the Bangor Daily Times which had my picture in it and also the Montgomery County Gazette. Told the USBA I plan to compete in Estonia. |
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| Running 57:00 [1]7.0 mi (8:09 / mi) | |
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| Wanted to go to the shooting range just the luggage was delayed by two hours so lost part of the day waiting. Did not want to leave without the gun. After some good experiences with Airtran this did not make me that happy especially when my gun case was returned heavily damaged. they banged it around like it was a piece of junk. Additionally the baggage claim women told us the luggage would be here in another five mins and it ended up being an addtional 20 mins. I told her that the luggage must have gone to the wrong carousel and she said that never happened well today that is what happened and that airline never made a phone call. All we were offered was one $25 coupon for our next trip. Ended up napping later in the day and going to a massage at night. After this long of a trip had lots of house and bills to deal with. Just ran easy to acclimate to the heat. |
Tuesday Jul 17 |
| Hiking 1:25:00 [1]5.0 mi (17:00 / mi) +500m 8:04 / km | |
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| Went to Arcadia Park and hiked some of the trails including Cadillac mountain. Wow! the views of the ocean were spectacilar. Legs felt really good and a very steep in places so had to be flexible along with the strength. Also balanced much better going along the rocks so this enabled me to move faster. |
Monday Jul 16 |
| Shooting 45:00 [0] | |
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| The range in Fort Kent was open for competitors to use so went back and shot 75 rounds. Did not stay that long since we wanted to get to Bar Harbor for the tour. Shot 4 out of 5 targets off hand twice. |
Sunday Jul 15 |
| Running warm up/down 28:00 [2]2.5 mi (11:12 / mi) | |
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| Warm up with 2 X 400 plus some walking. Ran the course loop again. |
| Running 29:16 [5]5.4 km (5:25 / km) | |
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| Last day so ran all out to use what energy I had left. Mass start so all of the women started on the line at the same time. Position changed in the race from 2nd to fourth throughout the race with finally fnishing second. Shot the best so far with 5 out of 20 and only lost by four seconds. The women that beat me shot 7 out of 20 thus had two less penalty laps to run. First place Masters so have six nice ribbons plus three boquets of flowers. Distance does not include running penalty laps which for me added some distance. Ran each K in about 4:00. Unlike other events you were allowed to run through the chute area with your gun. |
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| After the race was over selected for drug testing so had to be watched for 1.5 hours before I could go. Selected for the National team that will compete in Estonia in September. It has still not sunk in yet; probably will take a couple of days. |
| Shooting 30:00 [0] | |
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| Zereod again. With the rain storms that passed through had to change my sights a little. |