Training Archive: Suzanne

run 1:00:00 [3]

Ran from home to the ocean. Some plyos on the beach. Tossing a disc. Watched some ultimate.

run 20:00 [3]

Panhandle run
Stretching, stability after

run 20:00 [3]

Ran on the treadmill for 5 minutes and then decided that running in a cold ran in the dark was still preferable to the treadmill. Actually really lovely. Just cold when I was done and missed my shuttle by a minute.

run 15:00 [3]

jogged back from PT to my office

Note

pt for my shoulder - an hour

run 1:00:00 [3]

evening run in the rain, down to the track to try and meet the Impala racing group. Found them and ran some cool down laps with a couple of them - and hope to join the club sometime soonish if they'll take me.

Note

Not sure how I feel that the vision statement for USOF and for US Lacrosse are almost identical (not sure why the word 'shared' was dropped... or the comma before the 'and').

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From the strategic plan: The United States Orienteering Federation envisions a future that offers people throughout the United States the opportunity to discover, learn, participate in, enjoy and ultimately embrace the passion of orienteering.

From US Lacrosse: http://www.uslacrosse.org/info/aboutus.phtml
We envision a future which offers people everywhere the opportunity to discover, learn, participate in, enjoy, and ultimately embrace the shared passion of the lacrosse experience.

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That said, the plans themselves are different and focus in different areas.

However, I want us to be competitive. I worry that embracing the image of 'love the land' perspective we would just miss the 'adventurous athletes' and hard core runners. I'd do like the big outdoors, but I love racing.

I don't want our organization to be afraid of being competitive. The races are timed. It just is competitive. And that should be embraced. It's a valuable part of what we do. I love the club culture in Sweden where 60 people would come out on a freezing cold night to train together. The club model is a good one - but it should include more striving together for some shared goal (like the relay champs). I don't go to races to be alone in the woods, I go to races to see friends and to race fast.

I have the same complaint with USOF's 'One with Nature.'

Also, I find that many of my non-orienteering friends are much more curious about the sport when they realize that it's a sport where they have to make tough, quick decisions than when they think it's just walking on bearing blindly.

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