Training Archive: kupackmanIn the 7 days ending 2008-06-29:
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Sunday Jun 29 | ||
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| 1) I've decided that this business trip is like an all-expenses-paid vacation to Charleston for 11 days, but with one catch: that I sit in this office for up to 10 hours a day. Consider: airfare, meals, hotel, car + gas all paid for. I've been downtown several times for food and shopping and I've been on two different beaches. I'll go over to Columbia on Tuesday afternoon to see an old college friend, too.
Though, I still haven't seen a lot of the history of Charleston. Haven't been to Fort Sumter nor inside any of the old historic homes or museums downtown yet. I need to break about from the "crew" to see these things, I think, as they've already seen them... 2) Good lord, I'm gonna get big. Here's a rundown of all of the meals I've eaten since Seattle. Monday lunch: airplane snacks Monday dinner: chicken burrito, mission style (Qdoba) Tuesday lunch: chicken club sandwich w/ potato salad, sweet tea (McAlister's Deli) Tuesday dinner: nachos, quesadillas, bbq brisket, mac & cheese, stewed okra and tomatoes, and a Georgia Peach tea (Jim & Nick's BBQ) Wednesday lunch: chips & salsa asian zing chicken tender wrap, sweet tea (Buffalo Wild Wings) Wednesday dinner: chicken sandwich, lemonade (Chik-Fil-A) Thursday lunch: chips & salsa, two pork tapatillos (La Hacienda) Thursday dinner: yellowfin tuna and mahi mahi fish tacos, Blue Moon (Poe's Tavern) Friday lunch: basil rolls, creamy chicken soup, pud see mow w/chicken, thai iced tea (Basil) Friday dinner: raw oysters, coconut shrimp, seafood au gratin, daiquiri of some sort (Noisy Oyster) Saturday lunch: sweet onion chicken teriyaki sub, lemonade (Subway) Saturday dinner: chicken wings and peel 'n' eat shrimp, margaritas (Jimmy Buffet's Margaritaville) Sunday lunch: cornbread, crab cakes, fried flounder, mac & cheese, okra gumbo, banana pudding (Jestine's) 3) Visiting Hawaii a few months ago completed my visits to all 50 states. After looking back at all of my travels dating back to 1993, I determined that South Carolina had waited the longest for me to return. I haven't been here since 1988. Currently, I've been to all 50 states in the last 13 years. Next on the waiting-the-longest list are Maryland and Delaware (1995). Incidentally, Delaware is the state with the sketchiest visitation. I think we drove to the beach and stopped and looked around, and then got back in the car and kept going. I don't count airport layovers as visitations, so this is as sketchy as it gets. 4) Holly runs at something like 3:53am local time here (the earliest of the girls. I don't think I'll be up to catch that. Sorry Holly and Tori. 5) The REACH Silent Xylophones (Kate & Mic) have completed all 4 of the Street Scrambles so far this year! That's more than the REACH Hi-Liters (my team) have done! And, not only that, they finished 2nd overall this past weekend! Bonus) This log should hit a milestone in the next couple of days. | ||
| C • 50 States 4 | ||
| C • Your gastrologue 1 | ||
Saturday Jun 28 | ||
| Note | |
| 1) Looks like the "crew" is going to Myrtle Beach today because we caught a break. Today is family day for the suppliers here, so once noon hits, they are shutting down the factory and having a big bbq. We're gonna jump in the car and head north. The "crew" is our little support team of flight test engineers: I'm the ME, and the IE and DE are about my age. And then there's the manager, who's 45 or so. We pretty much do everything together...
2) Speaking of which... we went downtown for dinner last night (raw oysters + seafood au gratin), and afterward we went to this saloon that's supposedly straight out of coyote ugly. We got there around 10pm, and it was pretty much dead. Sure enough, the bartenders could be simplified down to tight jeans, makeup, and cleavage, and they even did some choreographed dances on the bar to southern rock music. But the whole thing was pretty lame. As the place started to fill up, it seemed like it was a bunch of redneck guys, middle-aged women, or middle-age to older married couples. Basically, this place is known for being a gimmick, so people show up out of curiosity. Apparently, from the guys who've been down here before, it's a lot crazier there during the schoolyear, when all of the college girls go there and go crazy. Definitely not like that last night. Ha! 3) Everyone in the Seattle office says that Charleston fattens you up, and they are right. The "crew" goes out to lunch and dinner everyday, and since we've got the corporate cards, we're not really paying for food. Our on-site manager is an enabler, ordering us appetizers, drinks, desserts, all sorts of stuff. And the food is pretty good.. I just feel like a glutton! 4) There's an outlet mall near my hotel, and I've been needing some new jeans, pants, and shorts. I'm usually get 32's, but they all felt too tight, so I got 33's instead. I got back to the hotel to compare the 33's with my old 32's, and they look exactly the same. Weird. 5) I need to go run across the huge bridge while I'm out here. It's a 6-mile round trip, I think. Too bad there's no Charleston Street Scramble. I think it'd be fun. | ||
| Other 1:00:00 [2] | |
| Went to Myrtle Beach on Saturday after a morning of work. Tried to do some boogie boarding, but the waves were too big and fast... I couldn't catch any waves, despite trying really hard. Plus, the current kept pushing me farther and farther down the beach. I decided to ditch the board and just run out there and jump in the waves. I would jump and get smashed and sloshed around. It was fun, but exhausting!
Back in the hotel room, I did about 50 pushups and 50 situps, because I think I'm eating way too much here. | ||
Thursday Jun 26 | ||
| Other 45:00 [2] | |
| Went to the beach with one of the guys here and did some boogie boarding. The waves were pretty good (bigger than the ones when we went swimming in Hawaii), so I did a lot of swimming out and trying to catch waves. I caught 3 or 4 really, really good ones. I caught many others, but not for very long.
Met up with another guy from work at Poe's tavern for a ton of fish tacos. Watched the NBA draft, too. There were some KU folks there, too. | ||
| C • Fish Tacos! 3 | ||
Wednesday Jun 25 | ||
| Note | |
| 1) After Tahoe, I'm over 160 km of "true" orienteering for the 2007-08 year, which is my highest ever. This is considerable, considering that I'm missing 3 months of results due to injury, and I still have 3 months to go before NOD.
I've also logged 120+ km of urban orienteering, 10+ km of "second course sprints" (where I run an easier second course at a local meet), 15+ km of "novelty" events (cell phone-o, memory-o, vampire-o, and scavenger-o), and 15+ km of "training" events (limping around the sprint-o camp). All told, I've logged 330+ km of various orienteering since last NOD. Last year, my grand total was 365+ km, but that includes 80+ km of rogaining. 2) My ankle has been really sore/painful since arriving in SC. I wonder why that is. 3) Went to downtown Charleston last night with some of the other people on temporary assignment. We ate BBQ at a place too fancy to be serving BBQ (it was good, though), and then over to an Irish pub. 4) Another day, another killer thunderstorm. Another day, another sweet tea. 5) Did I tell you that I rented a frickin' huge minivan? They ran out of little cars and this is all that they had. It's a joke. Bonus) The CEO of the entire company and the head of the entire airplane program are both visiting the site tomorrow. Should be interesting! | ||
Tuesday Jun 24 | ||
| Note | |
| 1) Southern Hospitality is in full effect. Today at lunch, we just went to a nice sandwich place for lunch. A minimum of five different staffers came outside to ask if we needed anything else. It was noticeable.
2) Sweet Tea. 3) There was a thunderstorm last night. Buckets of rain, lots of lightning. Ahhh.... finally some exciting weather! 4) One of the water stops on Sunday had been attacked by a bear. Either that, or an orienteer is further breaking USOF jug-drinking rules by biting and smashing them. 5) Saturday at the campground, there was the "mini show" orienteering, which was a lot of fun. Afterward, everyone was invited to a campfire. Unfortunately, Gina and I were the only people there that were between the ages of 15 and 40*. On our way back to our campsite, we walked by another campsite where the "cool kids" (the 20-40 year old fast runners) were hanging out. Why didn't they hang out with everyone else? Or offer us an invitation? It reminded me of the high school tennis team hierarchy. The coach would have the tennis team over for spaghetti dinners before big matches, but only for the top 10 ranked players on the team (of ~30). * Not entirely true. Rex arrived near the end, right as Gina and I were leaving. | ||
| C • 3) is quite excellent. Sout... 3 | ||
Monday Jun 23 | ||
| Note | |
| Busy trip since Friday, where I went from Seattle to Sacramento to Tahoe to Sacramento to Seattle to Atlanta to Charleston, where I'll be for the next 10 days.
Recap from Tahoe: sprint: decent run, lost 90 seconds middle: excellent run, lost ~4 minutes on one mistake-- probably my best A-meet run ever, considering the terrain long: hunted for the first one 10 minutes before finding it, bobbled the next three controls. after that, i pretty much didn't care anymore. it was long, at altitude, i'm out of shape, my ankle can't quite handle the 3rd race of a weekend. so I just started walking. and I walked most of the rest of the course. I had a massive brain fart on the way to #14, which carried over to #15. it was weird... i just did not feel like i had it, so it was a "meh" day. i wasn't really even mad or frustrated. i just felt "meh". | ||