Sunday Jan 7 |
 | Hang gliding! (Morningside) 30:00 [4] +220m | |
| shoes: Wal*Mart Carson |
| Hang Gliding! In January! In New Hampshire! Yes!
An excellent day, with appropriate wind speeds and reasonable wind direction. And warm! Six HG pilots showed up for a fine outing. Carried up to the 150' for 5 flights, then rode the ATV to the 250' for 6 more. My first two flights were terrible, attributable perhaps to the fact that these were my first experiences with my new harness, which is rather different from the training harnesses and takes a little getting used to. Really botched the landings. But after that, it was sweet, I got my groove back, managed to get my feet in the harness and go fully prone, and had a truly fine time. Nancy came along and took pictures, some of which I might try to post later on. Woohoo! (Not to be confused with Yowzah!; there was none of that.) |
| Push-ups 25 [5] | |
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| Sit-ups 50 [5] | |
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| Pull-ups 6 [5] | |
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| The exercises (this one in particular) were pretty tough tonight, because wrestling 170 square feet of airfoil around all day left me pretty wiped. |
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| Photography by Nancy:
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| C • Great picture! 6 |
Saturday Jan 6 |
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| Things are looking absolutely, totally awesome. Stay tuned! |
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| C • Regarding the weather? Or a re... 2 |
| Running in terrain 44:57 [3] 7.3 km (6:09 / km) | |
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| Lane-Horse-Seaver-Howl loop. Just a T-shirt on top, and that was plenty -- a half hour later, at a little after 4 PM, I got a reading of 68 F on the thermometer in my car. Very pleasant day to be outdoors. |
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Friday Jan 5 |
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| Push-ups 25 [5] | |
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Thursday Jan 4 |
| Running in terrain 43:08 [3] | |
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| Willard Brook SE loop. Increase in speed from two days ago can probably be attributed to the fact that I knew where I was going, and didn't slow down at each decision point to consider which way looked more interesting. Quite a pleasant loop. And definitely minimal as far as infrastructure is concerned (just one culvert on the weird old part of Old City Road). |
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| Pull-ups 6 [5] | |
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| Garage bar. |
Wednesday Jan 3 |
| Pull-ups 6 [5] | |
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| Wooden bar in the garage. Nails are a little loose, but this might be a reasonable long-term choice if I hammer them in better (and/or put in some screws). |
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| C • The Hulk? 3 |
| Push-ups 25 [5] | |
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| My muscles hurt. Don't know what they're called. Just inboard from the shoulder. Complaining about this sudden pushup regimen. |
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Tuesday Jan 2 |
| Running in terrain 45:08 [3] | |
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| Exploration of ATV trails of various sizes in the Willard Brook southeast area. Nice timing, got back to the car just as it was getting dark. The woods were nicer (i.e. more free from laurel) than I was expecting, good enough that I'll be doing some off-trail running there in the future. I had dismissed this state forest years ago as far as orienteering potential, but I had never been down in this section. Parking would be available at Pearl Hill, easier courses could stay in the campground area, and advanced courses could cross the road. Certainly worth further investigation to determine if there's enough good terrain to make this worthwhile. |
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| Pull-ups 4 [5] | |
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| Foyer doorframe, fingertip. Need to find something better, because I don't think the doorframe is really strong enough. |
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Monday Jan 1 |
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| Everybody seems to be summarizing 2006, so I might as well do so as well. This was my first full year of logging training on here, so I don't have any prior years to compare with. Looks like I put in just under 197 hours, of which 76 hours was orienteering competitions, and a bunch more was related stuff (course setting and mapping). 2006 started with the longest hiatus from orienteering that I've had in a long time, so my orienteering volume was down quite a bit from recent years.
I will note that I logged more unicycling than canoeing this year, even though all of the unicycling was near the end. Basically, I didn't paddle much -- if memory serves, I didn't do any regular canoe races at all (just canoe-O).
My orienteering "spike rate" is 82%. That's interesting. I don't know whether I'm a really sloppy orienteer, or if I've got stricter standards for what constitutes a spike than other people have. Maybe some of both. No question that there's considerable time to be saved when I'm orienteering in terms of improved navigation.
10 hang gliding sessions, totaling up to about 4.5 hours. I expect that in 2007, I will have more days of hang gliding, but less time logged, since I log only the time I spend carrying the glider up the hill, and that should drop dramatically, now that I'm flying from higher and riding the ATV to launch. All together, I got maybe 45 minutes of airtime in 2006, but that was mostly in snippets of less than 30 seconds each. My flight durations (and total fight time) should increase considerably from this point forward.
I had 9 CMC sessions, for a total of 42 whacks, in 2006. Goal is to reduce that dramatically (ideally to zero) in 2007.
Every year I start out by doing some simple exercises on a daily basis, though that has always fallen by the wayside after a few months. Let's see what happens when I try logging it on Attackpoint. |
| Push-ups 25 [5] | |
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| Sit-ups 50 [5] | |
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| Pull-ups 4 [5] | |
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| Foyer doorframe, fingertip. |