Training Archive: bbrookeIn the 7 days ending 2008-06-07:
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Saturday Jun 7 | ||
| Orienteering tempo (Long Orange Course) 1:07:56 [3]4.6 mi (14:46 / mi) | |
| slept:8.0 shoes: Vasque Adrenaline | ||
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The course setter called this a Sprint, but it was really a long Orange (~4 miles, with a winning time around 41 minutes). I hadn't planned to go at all, since this is my all-time least favorite RMOC map (pervasive stench from the nearby dog park; stinky, stagnant, unavoidable water crossings, etc.) But we went after all. Things were going GREAT until the very end. I had opened up a big lead on two of my competitors at #10 -- but then I lost my mind, lost contact with the map, and got totally mixed up at #15 and #16. It's pretty embarassing to take off running from a control, and then the family carrying a baby that you just left behind beats you to the next control. Sigh... 
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| C • least favorite 4 | ||
| C • Lost mind 2 | ||
Friday Jun 6 | ||
| Cycling tempo 33:00 [3]6.4 mi (5:08 / mi) | |
| slept:8.0 weight:122lbs | ||
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Bike to work. I'm kinda dreading the headwind on the way home... Why do some runners like to run in the road (more specifically, why do they like to run the wrong direction in the bike lane), when there's a perfectly nice sidewalk just a few feet away? I don't get it, and it's annoying. Get out of my bike lane! | ||
| C • guilty 6 | ||
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My hometown occasionally makes the national news -- and usually for "bubba gone bad" stories like this one. The quote from the fire/rescue guy totally cracks me up... Man Sets Alabama House Ablaze Trying to Kill Bees Thursday, June 05, 2008 MOBILE, Ala. -- Joshua Mullen just wanted to kill the bees swarming around his utility shed. When Mullen, 26, walked away from the gasoline-soaked towels he was using, he heard a "whoosh" and turned around to see the shed in flames that spread to his rented home and wound up causing some $80,000 in damage. 'There were no injuries, unless you count the bees,' Mobile Fire-Rescue spokesman Steve Huffman said. Huffman said the fire appears to have started when the pilot light of a hot-water heater in the shed ignited fumes from the gas. ... A trained mechanic, Mullen said he has been trained on gasoline flash points and flammability but didn't expect the gas to put off enough fumes to catch fire. 'Looking at all this, there might have been a better way,' Mullen said while a few surviving bees buzzed around the ashes of the shed. 'It was a mistake. I wish I hadn't done it, but I did.' http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,363561,00.html... | ||
| Cycling tempo 33:38 [3]6.4 mi (5:15 / mi) | |
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Bike home from work. The wind wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be... | ||
| C • I liked the quote by the gu... 2 | ||
Wednesday Jun 4 | ||
| Soccer intervals (indoor) 25:00 [3] | |
| slept:8.0 weight:124lbs | ||
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I scored one goal in our ridiculous 17-5 loss. | ||
Tuesday Jun 3 | ||
| Cycling tempo 35:09 [3]6.43 mi (5:28 / mi) | |
| slept:5.0 weight:124lbs | ||
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Bike to work. It seems to be prairie dog baby season. They're everywhere -- including smashed in the road all over the place. I have to avert my eyes... | ||
| C • smashed 3 | ||
| Cycling 35:53 [3]7.1 mi (5:02 / mi) | |
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Bike home, with a stop by the store for dinner supplies. I didn't think I had room in my backpack, but I didn't like the idea of biking home and then getting into my car to go out for groceries. The junky store near my house actually had something cool: baby blue potatoes. 
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Sunday Jun 1 | ||
| Orienteering tempo (Red course) 1:33:30 [3]5.26 mi (17:46 / mi) | |
| slept:8.0 shoes: Vasque Adrenaline | ||
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Red course at Peaceful Valley Scout Ranch (site of the 2007 Colorado Five-Day meet). I struggled to get ahead of b0be on the first five or six controls. I did eventually open up a gap, but then I wandered at #8 and he caught me. We took different routes to #9, and I was able to open another gap from that point forward. I ended up third in a small field (most of my usual competition did the Blue course today). I would've been second if I had been about a minute faster... I wandered at #8 and I made a dumb route choice into #9 (wasted effort up and over a steep hill that was unnecessary, because I misread the map). Other than that, I was pretty happy. GPS Tracks: 
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