Wednesday Mar 30 |
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| Spent all day cleaning the old apt and spakling. This job sucks, and its worse being sick. Then drove to Harrisburg to meet Mike and start out for the Pig. Left a day early to get a day of training in the woods at Ft. Ancient before the sprint, but I felt terrible so just slept in the car while Mike went out for a 70 min trail run. |
Monday Mar 28 |
| weights 30:00 [2] | |
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| Ugh. More heavy lifting. Moved all the books tonight. I caught a cold yesterday...cough, fever, headache, congestion. I guess my number was finally up. Bad timing, as usual. |
Sunday Mar 27 |
| weights 12 [2] | |
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| 12s of lifting just so I can jump ahead of tko :)
Actually spent all morning moving the heavy furniture and more boxes. Moving is too much work. Still a little more packing to do, and then....cleaning, cleaning cleaning. |
Saturday Mar 26 |
| road run 58:19 [3] 13.9 km (4:12 / km) | |
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| Around the neighborhood, including a stop at Home Depot to check out the doly rental options. Highlights included a section of rough open along the light rail tracks, and a gas station fire that had York rd. closed conveniently just where I needed to cross. |
| weights 1:00:00 [2] | |
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| Moving to a new apartment. 4 forester-loads worth so far over the past 2 days. Moving the larger furniture tomorrow. |
Friday Mar 25 |
| road run 41:09 [3] 10.15 km (4:03 / km) | |
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| Roland Ave. |
Thursday Mar 24 |
| road run 58:35 [3] 14.2 km (4:08 / km) | |
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| Up the valley to Shawan Rd and back. Was home early because I had to sign the lease on my new apt. The new place was supposed to be quieter than where I am now. but in fact its much, *much* worse. The neighbor behind me has an atomic tv. I can't win. I just can't win. I'm stuck there for a year now. |
Tuesday Mar 22 |
| road run 55:47 [4] 14.4 km (3:52 / km) | |
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| Roland Park. |
Monday Mar 21 |
| road run 49:59 [4] 12.55 km (3:59 / km) | |
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| Sweet. |
Saturday Mar 19 |
| trail run long 5:11:23 [3] 50 km (6:14 / km) | |
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| HAT run at Susquehanna SP. My first ultra! (maybe counts as my first marathon too?). Weather and trail conditions were spectacular. 40F at start, 55F at finish, sunny, very little wind. Lots of climb. Ran with a friend from work. Luckily she set a pace I could manage. There's an O-map covering about 2/3 of the course, so I carried the map and read along during the first loop. Oreos! Got some sweet loot too. A longsleeve coolmaxish shirt with race logo, a mighty fine knit wool hat with embroidered logo, and a nice runner's mesh ball cap, also with embroidered logo. We finished about 70th in the field of 420. My friend was 8th female. Valerie Meyer was working finish and results. |
Thursday Mar 17 |
| trail run 31:23 [3] 7 km (4:29 / km) | |
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| Easy short run to stretch out. |
Tuesday Mar 15 |
| road run 56:04 [4] 14.4 km (3:54 / km) | |
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| Roland Park. |
Sunday Mar 13 |
| orienteering 1:24:27 [2] *** 6.2 km (13:37 / km) | |
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| Helping an SVO member with vetting and course setting at Rocky Ridge. |
| orienteering 9:42 [3] 1.8 km (5:23 / km) | |
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| Ran a couple more legs. There's a new *road* leading N out of center field near the Superfund site. |
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| Was almost late for vetting due to playing Catching Features (I finally have a machine that's up to the task). Time to get the full version. |
Saturday Mar 12 |
| orienteering 44:21 [2] *** 4.9 km (9:03 / km) | |
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| Vetting at Kings Gap with Brad. Some snow still on the ground. Feet got wet (the plastic bags shredded) and very cold. Had to switch to boots. More interesting new parts of the map. Hiking and jogging. |
| orienteering 18:00 [3] *** 2.5 km (7:12 / km) +140m 5:38 / km | |
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| Ran this leg a little faster. In hiking boots. Ocassional heavy snow showers - Christmasy. Climbey. |
| terrain run 22:41 [3] *** 3.8 km (5:58 / km) +155m 4:57 / km | |
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| Ran a loop around Kings Gap with the map before the meeting. Heavy snow showers at times. Got a little wet. |
Friday Mar 11 |
| trail run 41:00 [3] 10.15 km (4:02 / km) | |
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| Muddy run in Roland park. Got rained on for the first time in a while, and even had a flash of lightning and thunder! |
Thursday Mar 10 |
| road run 58:31 [3] 14.4 km (4:04 / km) | |
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| Roland Park, with extension. Warmer out. |
Wednesday Mar 9 |
| road run 50:33 [3] 12.55 km (4:02 / km) | |
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| Roland park. I think the cold made me faster. Only had shorts and a sweatshirt with me today for the 32F and gusty winds. |
Monday Mar 7 |
| road run 51:44 [3] 12.55 km (4:07 / km) | |
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| Roland Park loop. My hamstrings complained the whole way - sore after the time trial yesterday.
"are we there yet?"
"no"
"are we there yet?"
"no"
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Sunday Mar 6 |
| trail run 10:00 [2] 2 km (5:00 / km) | |
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| Various warm-up, cooldown |
| orienteering 22:43 [3] 2.75 km (8:16 / km) | |
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| Route choice training at Nolde (loop 1) |
| orienteering 22:43 [3] 3.1 km (7:20 / km) | |
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| Route choice training at Nolde (loop 2). Note there was 2-10" of snow on the ground for these. |
| trail run 14:19 [5] 3.35 km (4:16 / km) | |
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| Uphill/downhill trail time trial, mass start with the whole group. This was an out and back on a snowpacked trail, with 105m of total climb. Very hard effort. |
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| This weekend was my first level 5 effort since...umm...the relay champs in late Sept. Thats 6 months! It shows. |
Saturday Mar 5 |
| road run 14:20 [3] 2 km (7:10 / km) | |
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| Warm up. |
| orienteering 15:41 [5] 3.55 km (4:25 / km) | |
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| Curly Sprint at Norristown. |
| road run 14:58 [2] 3 km (4:59 / km) | |
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| Cooldown/warm-up |
| orienteering 16:15 [5] 3.55 km (4:35 / km) | |
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| Larry Sprint at Norristown. |
| road run 10:00 [2] 1.5 km (6:40 / km) | |
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| Cooldown/Warm-up |
| orienteering 16:58 [5] 4 km (4:14 / km) | |
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| Moe Sprint at Norristown. |
| trail run 16:17 [2] 2 km (8:08 / km) | |
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| Cooldown/control pick-up |
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Curly (1) - Splits |
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Larry (2) - Splits |
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Moe (3) - Splits |
Friday Mar 4 |
| trail run 32:26 [3] 7.1 km (4:34 / km) | |
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| Trail run in Roland Park. Much warmer and muddier than yesterday. |
Thursday Mar 3 |
| road run 52:15 [3] 12.55 km (4:10 / km) | |
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| Roland Park. Snow, ice, mud, bare earth, puddles. Cold and windy. |
Wednesday Mar 2 |
| treadmill 30:00 [3] 7 km (4:17 / km) | |
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| Yeah... |
Tuesday Mar 1 |
| XC Skiing 1:08:21 [4] 6 km (11:24 / km) | |
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| Morning ski on the golf course. Got 6-10" of the usual heavy wet stuff (windblown on N sides of treelines was deeper). Breaking trail was a tough workout, but at least the tracks were skiable today. Need to measure the actual distance somehow. My usual loop is a rough figure-8 around the whole place, avoiding line-of-sight with the clubhouse, thus the pinch to a figure 8 in the middle. Track once around, then once more in the tracks. |