Training Archive: kupackmanIn the 7 days ending 2008-04-13:
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Sunday Apr 13 | ||
| Note | |
| Softball starts Monday! (and a doubleheader!) (and I haven't thrown a pitch since September!)
Royals-Mariners on Tuesday! (and the Royals are guaranteed to be a winning team!) Dad is in town on Wednesday! Leave to Hawaii on Thursday! | ||
| C • 0 for 2 so far... 3 | ||
| C • 1 for 3 1 | ||
Saturday Apr 12 | ||
| Note | |
| Just a few more hours until go time, my first chance at orienteering at race pace in almost 3 months.
It'll be interesting to see how the ankle does... I wonder which ankle brace (I now have four) I should wear. The event will be at night, so my footing won't be as confident as I'd like it to be. | ||
| C • ankle status 1 | ||
| Orienteering race 48:10 [3]*** 2.7 km (17:50 / km) | |
| spiked:11/17c shoes: Vasque Lightspeed | ||
| Ultimate-O #2: Night-O, Lynndale Park
Finally, orienteering at somewhat of a race pace, though 18 min/km is pretty slow. But there are a lot of factors into that slow pace: a big 5+ minute error on #1, it was at night, I was rusty, the course-setter is notorious for hiding controls, and I was running very cautiously because of my ankle. If Eric was the winner, it looks like I'll come out with 700+ points, my highest night-o score so far. Start to #1: Jeebers, big mistake (5+ minutes) to start off. I was rusty... and it was dark... and it took me 40 seconds before I really started moving well... and I was still a bit off in direction. My plan was sound, but the mapping was not, and my attack point (a nub trail at the bend of a large trail) was not there in real life. I back-tracked to the next closest thing, and hunted around, didn't see anything. Hunting, hunting... nothing. Relocated and attacked again. Same result. Sigh. Eventually I found it. (I scoped out this control again after the race... map was definitely crap here. #1 to #2: This was a fairly clean leg, but I hesitate a lot at night because I lose track of my bearings when it's dark. After I'm finished punching, I turn around and I don't have a hunch as to where to go, because I don't see anything. This leg had a lot of log-jumping, which was a good test for my ankle. #2 to #3: Again, clean, but slow. #3 to #4: I was pretty happy with this leg. I quickly lined up my compass, saw some uphill in that direction, and went straight there, not caring about the trails. Worked like a charm. #4 to #5: This is the "Patrick's an idiot and thinks he knows this park pretty well leg." I just wanted to plow down the hill to the open area. But instead of running north... I ran east. When I got to the bottom of the hill, I was still in the woods. I didn't really want to just stand there and figure out what I did, so I re-aimed north, ran up and over a little ridge... and popped out just south of #6. Then it was easy... though Dave putting the center on the wrong side of the rock wall was annoying. I made a stupid mistake, but at least I was moving. #5 to #6: Easy, because I just ran by #6 on the way to #5. #6 to #7: One of the longer legs of the course, and I had to change my route a bit when I realized that the trail I wanted didn't cut through. Lots of trail junctions on this one, but it was still pretty easy. Run up hill, run down hill to junction. Go straight to hill. Turn right, It'll curve easy to the left... keep going until you hit the power line. Now attack! #7 to #8: Got turned around at the control, but once I got my bearings back, this one was pretty easy. #8 to #9: Another long one, with several hesitations over the first 50m to make sure I was taking the correct trails. Then some decent speed for a while. I had trouble attacking, as the nub trail didn't seem to be mapped correctly, and the re-entrant's location relative to the trail junction seemed off. It might have been correct and I was just distracted by all of the people near the control that weren't actually at the contol. #9 to #10: Pretty short, quick, and easy leg. #10 to #11: I didn't notice that #11 was on the front side of the map, so I flipped it over, and #11 was there also. However, I made the mistake of navigating to (and punching) #17, which was about 50m away. It was kinda on the way, but I lost probably a minute. #11 to #12: I think I back-tracked my way to #17, and then exited to the paved path, around to the curve, and to the control, which should be right there, 20m from the path. I'd visited Vampire-O controls here before, so I knew exactly where it was... but I didn't, because I had to hunt and peck my way to the control. #12 to #13: Pretty quick start to the leg, and then I tried to hack my way down this hill with undergrowth... and I feel a few times. Not pleasant. I remember that I was nervous on this leg because I didn't see anyone, and I was expecting vampires to run out and bite me. #13 to #14: I could have stayed high and run along the ridge, but I figured that it would be faster and easier to run low by the playground. IT worked out ok. I wonder what my time would have been otherwise. #14 to #15: Again, another route choice and I took a safe option. Fast though the open area, and then along the fence right to the control. Heading straight at it would have been a lot shorter, and the woods were white, and there was a small hill to the right I could have used.... I think I just wanted to find it as easy as possible, without hunting around. I was tired of hunting around for Dave's controls at this point in the course... #15 to #16: I got 95% of the way there really fast... and spent a lot of time hunting for it again. #16 to #17: I overran a bit on the trail. The ampitheater came a lot quicker than I was expecting. #17 to F: Not much of a sprint here, as my ankle doesn't really allow for much sprinting. Eric finished in 34-something. If you take away our mistakes on #1, I was only 9 minutes back of him from #1 to the finish. Peteris finished in 48-something, we didn't chat much about what happened. Scott finished in 53-something, but he left before I finished. Tyler was in 59-something, Nick & Angela in 1:30:xx, and Mike way behind them (maybe a DNF?). I saw Jon Church, Targo, the Bresemans, and Matej there.. no idea how those guys did. According to Gina, Scott seemed to really enjoy the course, which is good since it was frustrating at times for me. I still think Scott has a lot of potential in this sport. He's fast, and he's pretty smart, and he's 3+ years younger than me. | ||
| C • you know it's a tough course when... 1 | ||
Friday Apr 11 | ||
| Note | |
| I keep a chart of my and Gina's overtime since Gina started working in January 2007. This past pay period (two weeks) was the first time that we both logged at least 100 hours in a pay period, at the same time. | ||
Thursday Apr 10 | ||
| Note | |
| Geez, I never knew that MRI machines were so loud. It sounded like a cross between the loudest (digital) alarm clock in the world, the day that that hatch imploded and the sky turned purple on Lost and the backbeat to that Nike "my better is better than your better" commercial that aired incessantly throughout the NCAA tourney. | ||
Wednesday Apr 9 | ||
| Note | |
| MRI tomorrow!
I went to the doctor today, and he thinks that all of my ligaments/tendons are doing really well. But we both want to get to the bottom of the lingering swelling issues and pain, and he wants to take a look at the joint from a bone/cartilage perspective. It could be a contusion or something. That's what the MRI is for. I'm hoping that it's something that will just take some time and that's it. MRI tomorrow, analysis next Wednesday! | ||
| Note | |
| REACH t-shirt design is final (finally). ~20 shirts will be ordered tomorrow morning. (Green and orange were popular colors this year.)
Street Scramble t-shirt design is getting closer to final. Speaking of Scrambles... trying to get Scott to run with me at U-District, since Gina and Nick will both be out of town. Nick and I haven't Scrambled together in almost two years! For shame! | ||
| C • update 1 | ||
Tuesday Apr 8 | ||
| Note | |
| When was the last time it was outside the temperature range of 30-60 degrees here? | ||
| C • I looked it up and... 9 | ||
| Volleyball 2:00:00 [2] | |
| Everett Co-Ed Volleyball, Week #2.
We're getting much better as a team, and we won one game out of six. I seemed to be jumping a lot higher this week, and I even brought back my jump serve, which led to three service errors, but also about seven or eight service points. My hitting also improved a lot. I still hit a few into the net, but I had a lot of really hard spikes. I still have the uncanny ability to spike it right at people, so they can dig them with ease. I can hit with more power these days, but I really can't aim them very well (the same can be said for my serve, and even going back to high school, my tennis serve). The ankle did pretty well, except for one collision with Gina after a loose ball. And that pain was only because the ankle was over-compressed. The one thing that really limits me is diving. I have a hard time diving forward for a dig with my ankle, because it's hard to spring forward without compressing my ankle. What happens is that my body reacts, but doesn't go anywhere, and the ball lands, and then I move. I'm about a step too slow. I feel like my overall playing condition is at around 90% or so... maybe higher. We'll see how orienteering goes on Saturday night. | ||
Monday Apr 7 | ||
| Note | |
| 3 hours until game time.
I was calm up until I got out of my 2pm meeting and I had nothing else to look forward to at work. Now I'm jittery. At least we got through Holly's team Saturday. I don't know anyone that went to (or will go to) school at Memphis. Saturday night was a lot of fun. As soon as the game ended, I went over to the Hops & Props event, with 2500 people in attendance. I was wearing both my KU ballcap and "Rock Chalk Jayhawk" shirt, since I'm a KU basketball > beer person. At least 70 people asked me how the game turned out, since you know, they are beer > basketball people and arrived at 7pm. The best part was when another guy about my age, and wearing a "Rock Chalk Jayhawk" sweatshirt came up to me. He just said "dude" and he gave me a huge hug. Best part of the night. | ||
| C • Nervousness journal 7 | ||
| Note | |
Yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss! | ||