Sunday Sep 2 |
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| Event: WCOC Trout Brook Valley
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 | Orienteering 1:43:39 [3] 8.3 km (12:29 / km) | |
| weight:133lbs |
| Trout Brook score-0 with 20 controls, by Pavlina, with a 5 control sprint course in the middle. (Joe was hanging out at 16; for bonus points, you could get map, a do the sprint while Joe timed it.) We had 100 minutes to get back before penalties; I got them all, including the sprint, but, alas, I was three minutes overtime. (Pavlina generously put 1:42 59 for my time.)
I shouldn't have taken so long. My navigation was good, with maybe three minutes total lost. But I messed up the order that I had planned to do the 20 controls in, which added 600 meters, or about 6 minutes. (The score-o was 7.5 k the way I did it, but should have been 6.9; the sprint was 800 meters.) My order was: 1,2,3,5,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,6,4,16,(sprint), 14,15,27,29,18,20. After 13, I should have done 14,15,16,6,4,17,18,19,20.
Physically, my energy was good for the first hour, then by 90 minutes I had totally bonked (not the usual, getting real tired; I mean bonked, where you can barely lift your legs.) Felt like dehydration: I had let myself get really dehydrated over the past couple days in NH, and there was no water on the course. When I got home, I weighed 135, and that was after drinking at least 2-3 pounds of liquid. So post-race I weighed no more than 133, my first sub-G experience. My feet, surprisingly, were fine. The four remaining "blisters" were well-bandaged, and didn't bother me. |
Saturday Sep 1 |
| Trail Run 1:08:50 [3] 5.4 mi (12:44 / mi) | |
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| With Adam, up to the fire tower on top of Red Hill (1300' of climb), after a two mile out and back on a nice grassy ski trail near the bottom (with probably another 300' of climb). We ran about two-thirds of the way up to the tower, which was challenging for Adam. Then he took it easy coming down for his old man's sake (and my hip was fine). But he took a good fall on the way down with some pretty good scrapes. His initiation to trail running. We kept right on going. |
Friday Aug 31 |
| Hike 4:00:00 [1] 8.6 mi (27:53 / mi) | |
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| Hike with Nora and Adam up Chocorua, on the Piper trail which approaches from route 16 to the east. A really nice outing: teaching some calculus to Adam on the way up; discoursing about "love" with Nora on the way down; and lots of bad jokes. Unfortunately, we were in a cloud at the top with no view (but no people either for most of it, which was nice), and we had rain all the back on wet, slippery rocks. Reminded me of ... |
Thursday Aug 30 |
| tennis 30:00 [1] | |
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| With Adam. I'll just log the games, since it's the only time I run for the balls. |
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| The mystery of the bloated feet and ankles seems to be solved: apparently, I was allergic to the rubbery (latex?) adhesive bandages that I had covered my feet with. Took them off one foot last night, and that foot was back to normal this morning. Took them off the other this morning, and that foot is now almost normal. Weird. |
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| C • Latex bandages 3 |
| Trail Run 11:19 [3] 0.95 mi (11:54 / mi) | |
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| Run up West Rattlesnake with Adam, about 500 feet of climb. Easy pace, which allowed him to be right behind me at the top. |
| Trail Run 7:46 [3] 0.95 mi (8:10 / mi) | |
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| Run down Rattlesnake, with Adam quickly disappearing in the distance. He finished about a minute ahead of me. I think he has potential to be a good downhill runner (unlike his Dad!). I was going plenty fast, fast enough to get my hip complaining. |
Wednesday Aug 29 |
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| In New Hampshire at Lake Winnepesaukee for 5 days. Not sure if I'll feel up to doing any 4,000 footers this trip.
Since yesterday, my feet and ankles have swollen up like balloons. Not sure what's going on, since neither my feet or ankles are hurting. So it doesn't bother me except when I look at them and see somebody else's feet (someone who weighs about double what I weigh). Probably, the massive swelling I had on my inner thighs from chafing (as Ken said, "think raw beef") has drained into my feet. |
| cycling 1:52:54 [3] | |
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| Loop from our house on Moultonborough Neck through Center Sandwich. Legs felt fine, though I took it easy. About 28-29 miles. |
| Kayak 30:00 [2] | |
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| To Long Island bridge and back. Felt like work for my arms, but not very aerobic. |