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Training Log Archive: Tundra/Desert

In the 7 days ending May 3, 2003:

activity	#	time	miles		km		+m
Orienteering	2	2:52:38	15.16	(11:23)	24.4	(7:05)	778	28 /	34c	82%
Easy running	3	1:31:31	11.5	(7:58)	18.5	(4:57)	160
Running with weights	2	7:16	0.87	(8:21)	1.4	(5:11)
Strides	1	4:29	0.68	(6:34)	1.1	(4:05)	18
Warmup	1	4:02
Total	5	4:39:56	28.21	(9:55)	45.4	(6:10)	956	28 /	34c	82%

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Saturday May 3, 2003 #

Easy running 11:41 [2] 2.7 km (4:20 / km) +25m 4:08 / km

Warming up before the prologue of the Short Course Champs. Pretty up-tempo.

Warmup (Stretching) 2:00 [1] 0.0 km

Strides 2:06 [3] 0.5 km (4:12 / km) +8m 3:53 / km

2×(0:20 easy + 0:40 stride), pushing it! Start to the finish, and back.

Orienteering 9:09 [5] 1.8 km (5:05 / km) +60m 4:21 / km
ahr:176 max:181 spiked:7/7c

US Short Course Champs: The Prolog. I had a great run, pushing the pace up and using as little map contact as I wanted to. I throttled the pace down for the last two legs, and jogged the run-in, preparing for the final.

Easy running 7:43 [2] 1.4 km (5:31 / km) +20m 5:09 / km

Warming up before the Short-O Final.

Warmup (Stretching + Skips) 2:02 [1] 0.0 km

Strides 2:23 [4] 0.6 km (3:58 / km) +10m 3:40 / km

0:20 easy + 0:40 stride + jogged back downhill.

Orienteering 28:17 [4] 4.9 km (5:46 / km) +108m 5:12 / km
ahr:173 max:179 spiked:11/12c

Short Champs: The Final. I had high hopes for this... but was so stupid last weekend to venture out on the course... anyway. Started well, and really pushed it on the long leg. Splits show that I was 6th after it. Made a small bobble on #5, but was not too upset about it. The area with slash came as a near-total surprise for me; I did not expect this footing. Still, I endured through the "more technical" part, through #8, without large physical problems, and clean. Was again 6th at #6 and 10th at #8. It all started to fall apart on the leg to #9: I slowed down, just as the slashy area ended. I knew I needed to push through the remaining longish, easy legs, but the desire wasn't there—it's hard to analyze now whether the physical capability was there or not. I cheered myself up by thinking that I am clean and everyone else must be making mistakes; but they weren't, and even if they were, they were going much faster. The leg to #11 was atrocious, I lost 30 seconds without making any mistakes. I felt good as I finished, but as I was learning of others' times, the happy quickly gave way to doom. 4 minutes down and almost-clean. What was all this training for?

Friday May 2, 2003 #

Running with weights 2:53 [2] 0.6 km (4:48 / km)

Ran to light rail, on to SFO.
As the light rail passed Moffett, W43's plane was there. The security looked <CENSORED> One lady had a sign.

Thursday May 1, 2003 #

Note

The arrhythmia today was very clear and near-continuous for a few minutes during lunchtime. It is now quite different from what I felt 2–3 weeks ago—no rapid beats anymore, but 1–2 skipped beats preceded by flutter. Strangely, I worry about it less and less, but I couldn't help noticing.

Running with weights 4:23 [2] 0.8 km (5:29 / km)

Ran to Albertsons at night.

Wednesday Apr 30, 2003 #

Note

The quads were almost OK this morning.

Note

Work day today: 9:30–1:00 (am).

Tuesday Apr 29, 2003 #

Easy running 3:06 [2] 0.6 km (5:10 / km)

Ran to light rail. Survived.

Easy running 1:06:55 [2] 13.3 km (5:02 / km) +115m 4:49 / km

From work to home. Quads hurt just as badly as on Sunday when I walked around the office, but felt just fine while running.

Sunday Apr 27, 2003 #

Easy running 2:06 [2] 0.5 km (4:12 / km)

Ran from the parking to the start of Day 2. Could already feel this would be no fun.

Orienteering 2:15:12 [3] 17.7 km (7:38 / km) +610m 6:31 / km
ahr:161 max:176 spiked:10/15c

(Calculate climb!) The optimum climb was 610 m. I died.

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