Saturday Sep 13 |
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| Event: QOC: Lake Accotink
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 | Running (Trail) 30:25 [3] 3.14 mi (9:40 / mi) | |
| slept:6.5 weight:180lbs (injured) |
| Rock Creek Park, MD/DC. After walking along side of Max while he rode his bike up to Candy Cane Park, and after waiting for Peggy to finish up her run, it was my turn. I ran slowly mostly along the dirt trails down to West Beach Dr. and to Grubb Rd., then back over the ridge to the DC/MD border. I also added on a couple of small loops to time my finish at the DC/MD border with the arrival of Peggy and Max. I ran the informal and unblazed trails that parallel the creek much of the time. They were fairly dry considering the recent rains. It was however a bit on the humid side. I kept my pace down to minimize knee pain. Whenever I tried to speed up it hurt more. Our intentions to go to Lake Accotink in Virginia for National Orienteering Day were muddled by questions of the weather and things to do at and for the home. |
Thursday Sep 11 |
| Bicycling (Commute) 48:15 [3] 12.95 mi (3:43 / mi) | |
| slept:6.0 weight:179.5lbs (injured) |
| From Northfield Rd., Bethesda, MD to Montgomery Ave. via Bethesda Ave. and the Georgetown Branch Trail, to 12th St. SW, Washington, D.C. via the Georgetown Branch Trail and the Capital Crescent Trail. I was a little quicker at gettting out of the house this cooler morning but seemed to run into a lot of traffic in Bethesda from school buses, construction vehicles, and commuting drivers. After getting Max to school, I kept a steady but tired pace. I passed a seemingly older guy with a commuting bag strapped to a child seat as he got on the trail at Potomac Palisades. He blew by me on the trestle bridge over Canal Rd. a mile later and got 150m up on me before I reeled him in at Georgetown. The headwinds got increasingly difficult as I got closer to work. A better tuned rear derailer made the ride a bit better than the day before. |
| Bicycling (Commute) 45:51  12.74 mi (3:35 / mi) | |
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| From 12th St. SW, Washington, D.C. to Northfield Rd., Bethesda, MD. I left work anticipating a slow and easier ride home. Hitting some traffic lights just right, a tailwind rounding the Jefferson Memorial, and drafting off a Honda minivan driven by tourists from NY got me off to a quick start. In Georgetown, I hit Water St. about the same time that another commuting rider with a sleek bike did. I tucked in behind him along with another behind me and a tailwind kept our leader moving fast. He slowed just a bit going up the hill. When he started to tire two miles later, I took over for a brief while but he charged ahead as the grade changed. We stayed together until Falls Rd. and I got to Max's day care school in 35:55 (10.73 miles); the fastest I've been all year. This was closer to the times that I rode on my own 4 and 5 years ago when I was in better shape and not so heavy. I cooled down going home. |
Wednesday Sep 10 |
| Bicycling (Commute) 48:45 [3] 12.95 mi (3:45 / mi) | |
| slept:5.75 weight:179.5lbs (injured) |
| From Northfield Rd., Bethesda, MD to Montgomery Ave. via Bethesda Ave. and the Georgetown Branch Trail, to 12th St. SW, Washington, D.C. via the Georgetown Branch Trail and the Capital Crescent Trail. I was late getting started; it was cool and cloudy. Max and I saw Bob Angell on his run through the tunnel. I felt tired riding much of the way so I took it easier. Though the weather reported winds from the north an hour earlier, they definately were blowing in from the east when I rode. That meant headwinds. The winds were strongest in the West Potomac Park areas along the water and really slowed me when rounding the Jefferson Memorial. I need to tune the rear derailer to stop the incessant squeaking. |
| Bicycling (Commute) 49:39 [3] 12.73 mi (3:53 / mi) | |
| (injured) |
| From 12th St. SW, Washington, D.C. to Northfield Rd., Bethesda, MD. I seemed to have headwinds most of the way. I guess that's the price to pay for what became a nice sunny day. I was around 38:30 at Max's day care. I again took it easy pulling his trailer home. My neck is loosening a little. |
Tuesday Sep 9 |
| Bicycling (Commute) 47:43  12.95 mi (3:40 / mi) | |
| slept:5.25 weight:179lbs (injured) |
| From Northfield Rd., Bethesda, MD to Montgomery Ave. via Bethesda Ave. and the Georgetown Branch Trail, to 12th St. SW, Washington, D.C. via the Georgetown Branch Trail and the Capital Crescent Trail. I had my rear wheel replaced with a slightly nicer one and I tuned/cleaned-up the bike before going in. With a lot nicer space to do such work at home now, I was able to examine the bike much more carefully. The freewheel and chain rings are grossly distorted from wear, making the chain loose. I think it contributed the to squeak-squeak in most gears. The The front brakes were rubbing, unbeknownst to me earlier. Still, the bike was in a little better shape than last week. The ride today was slowish. I felt a bit sore from the orienteering on Sunday. My knee hurt a bit more on Monday but overall wasn't bad then. The almost constant warm humid headwinds today really made the difference. I kept the pace manageable going 21-22mph down the grade and about 20 on the flats. It got a little faster in Georgetown when a guy I had caught who had been drafting on me, took the lead. After splitting up and heading along the river the winds were more severe and I cruised in more slowly. My total cycling mileage in 2008 has finally exceeded the total for 2007. |
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| C • Sounds like you're healing ... 2 |
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| C • House 2 |
| Bicycling (Commute) 48:39 [3] 12.7 mi (3:50 / mi) | |
| (injured) |
| From 12th St. SW, Washington, D.C. to Northfield Rd., Bethesda, MD. Somewhere during the day I got a stiff neck. It made it hard to look left. I had to twist my torso to do so. I had some fast company on the ride home. Three to four of us pounded away. I felt a bit tired and not used to riding. We broke up around the Dalecarlia Reservoir. I let one guy who had been following get ahead when another turned off. We broke contact but I ended up trailing him about the same 100m all the way to Bethesda. I was 37:29 at Max's day care and I took it easy towing the trailer home. |
Sunday Sep 7 |
| Orienteering race (Foot) 1:10:19 [3] *** 5.9 km (11:55 / km) | |
| ahr:148 max:170 spiked:15/18c slept:7.0 weight:180.5lbs (injured) |
| QOC: Bowie State University/Fran Uhler Park. For my first try at an orienteering race since the spring, I waivered but ultimately chose to run Green. I figured that Bowie was flat enough and 5.9K short enough that if I got to the point of needing to walk, I would. I started off a little rusty. Though I spiked #1, I misread #2-- I'd drawn the circle on my map incorrectly, went to the wrong side of a knoll and passed the control. It was a smallish error. After that I was pretty much on target for a long while. I played it a little safe given the low visibility at this time of the year. However, I read the subtle and sometimes dry wet ditches in the green areas well. My familiarity with the park certainly helped. Coming back toward the RR underpass a second time, I headed to where I'd drawn my control circle (for #13 ) again but I should have circled the boulder instead of a very small reentrant. It seemed that the reentrant was central to the circle on the master map. Leaving that control and heading out right to the RR underpass, I heard a plea from behind me. Someone young and perhaps military (from the "Sir") was looking for the control that I'd just left. I felt pity and with it being our first local meet of the year I told him it was behind him a bit and that I couldn't really help more. I had this in my mind still as I passed the easy control in the water pit just after the RR underpass. This was the type of control that was about 15m from a road and only there to force people to cross under the underpass. I just was not focusing on it and this breakdown in process technique probably was an underscoring to my lack of recent racing and training. I hit everything else on the button though I got hung up in some unmapped green in places (leg 9-10 after going around a bit, and leg 15-16). My mispunch would have added not much more than 45 seconds but I think I would have won the Green course otherwise. The next closest time that I saw was 17 minutes back but results were not in for all who ran at that point.
I was rather pleased on this outing despite the mispunch since I was accurate AND I could run. Jan set a good and fun course. Running was and perhaps still is the big question. I was sore starting out but by #2 I felt more confident and able to trust my step later. The knee pain went away nearly the rest of the way and I was just slow from being out of shape and heavy. I expect that the recent pattern will hold up so that I'll be pretty sore in the knee tomorrow but this day was encouraging. My GPS track indicates that I ran 4.44 miles. |