Saturday Apr 30 |
 | road bike 57:46 [3]14.5 mi (3:59 / mi) | |
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Wednesday Apr 27 |
| run 31:45 [3]4.1 mi (7:45 / mi) | |
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Tuesday Apr 26 |
| soccer 1:00:00 [3] | |
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Monday Apr 25 |
| run 32:47 [3]4.1 mi (7:59 / mi) | |
| ahr:151 |
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Sunday Apr 24 |
| hiking 3:00:00 [3]12.0 mi (14:59 / mi) | |
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| Joshua Tree
Did a few separate dayhikes around the central section of the park. Hiked a herd path up and back Queen Mt. Hiked up a jeep road to Lost Horse Mine, then climbed up the ridge to Lost Horse Mt, kept going on the ridge down the other side, and jogged back down the bottom of a sandy canyon. Then finally jogged up Inspriation peak from the Keys View road. Lots of wildflowers and lizards and things. Morning was hot in the sun, but very windy. It dropped to about 35 by sunset. pics. |
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Saturday Apr 23 |
| road bike 1:10:00 [3]17.7 mi (3:56 / mi) | |
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Friday Apr 22 |
| run 32:07 [3]4.1 mi (7:49 / mi) | |
| ahr:156 |
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Thursday Apr 21 |
| soccer 1:00:00 [3] | |
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Tuesday Apr 19 |
| run 32:42 [3]4.1 mi (7:57 / mi) | |
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| felt pretty crappy yesterday, I don't think I rehydrated from the long run saturday and the hot ride on sunday well enough. felt ok today though. |
Sunday Apr 17 |
| road bike 1:09:00 [3]18.0 mi (3:50 / mi) | |
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| deceptively warm this morning, though I guess it was a couple hours later than the usual pre-work rides. had at least three farmers markets shutting down the roads on the route, and had one near miss with a clown... |
Saturday Apr 16 |
| run 1:00:00 [3]5.0 mi (11:59 / mi) | |
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| Run up in the angeles forest. 2.5 miles of gradual trail climbing, then a pretty steep mile to the top of Strawberry Peak. Back down to the saddle, and up a trail to Mt. Lawlor. Came down a firebreak on a ridgeline that was really steep and loose dirt. While flailing around after slipping once I hit my arm into a big spikey yucca, and now have about two dozen quite painful holes from my little finger to my elbow. Only a couple of them broke off inside, so thats good I guess. |
| other (hiking) 1:00:00 [3]2.0 mi (29:59 / mi) | |
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| the steep up and down parts. |
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Thursday Apr 14 |
| soccer 1:00:00 [3] | |
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Wednesday Apr 13 |
| road bike 52:00 [3]14.5 mi (3:35 / mi) | |
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Tuesday Apr 12 |
| soccer 1:00:00 [3] | |
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| got buzzed by a stealth bomber (one of these I think) at the field today. they're not so stealthy when they fly right overhead, a freight train is probably quieter. |
Sunday Apr 10 |
| ski (downhill) (downhill) 2:00:00 [2] | |
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| downhill at Alta. pretty sweet place. lots of untouched powder (12") from the storm friday-saturday, and there was nobody here. sunny and clear in the morning, but clouded up and snowing by 11 or so. had to leave early to catch the planes home, but we still got in 28000 ft or so. |
Saturday Apr 9 |
| hiking 3:00:00 [3] | |
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| getting to UT the second time was not without incident, but I've already whined about that enough for one month.
climbed Mt Olympus just outside of Salt Lake City with Andrew. a few miles of trail hiking, then snowshoeing up a pretty deep powder glade for maybe 1500ft vertical, then a 500ft super steep gully to the summit. mostly snowshoes, but we switched to crampons for a few dicey sections of rock that were too clumsy in snowshoes. snowing a little almost the whole time, but we were right on the edge of the storm so now and then it would open up into good views of the city. left at noon, back at 8:30, still light. yea for daylight savings time. pics |
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Friday Apr 8 |
| run 1:10:38 [3]9.05 mi (7:48 / mi) | |
| ahr:162 |
| was supposed to fly to utah tonight to go climbing, but that didn't happen. United sucks. you think I would have learned this at christmas.
got to the airport more than an hour before the flight left, waited in line for half an hour since they had 20 self service kiosks, of which 17 were turned off, and one guy behind the counter taking bags. by the time I moved the 6 people forward up to a computer (40 mins until the flight left), it told me it couldn't check me in because my flight left in less than 45 mins, and that I should talk to an agent. ten minutes later when the one guy finally walked over he told me that he couldn't check me in either because he only had the eticket counter but the people at the other counter (non-eticket) could. of course there were only two agents over there, and about a hundred people in exactly the same situation as me. I got a hold of somebody on the phone at united and they were no help at all but assured me that three people was more than enough to handle an entire checkin system at lax during rush hour.
I got rebooked on a flight tomorrow morning in an effort to not waste the entire ticket, but it doesn't get in until noon, which kinda blows the climbing plan for the weekend
I did realize that I haven't been genuinely pissed off in quite a while, but maybe I should try it more often since it appears to be good for my training. |
Thursday Apr 7 |
| soccer 1:00:00 [3] | |
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| so Bono stopped by the office yesterday. not sure why, they were in town on tour last week and maybe he had nothing better to do than to hang out with us. |
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Wednesday Apr 6 |
| run 32:16 [3]4.1 mi (7:51 / mi) | |
| ahr:159 |
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Tuesday Apr 5 |
| soccer 1:00:00 [3] | |
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Monday Apr 4 |
| run 32:06 [3]4.1 mi (7:49 / mi) | |
| ahr:155 |
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| I think last weekend was it for skiing this year. total: 854.15 km
not quite up to daddy-o levels, but he lives a little closer to the white stuff. |
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Sunday Apr 3 |
| skate ski race 2:37:23 [4]42 km (3:45 / km) +800m 3:25 / km | |
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| Mammoth Marathon. good race. cloudy and windy, in places very windy. the weather report said "winds 20-30 mph, gusting to 90 mph over the ridges". we weren't up on any of the ridges, but up in the high lakes it was fairly gusty. If it was a headwind it would stop you dead (had to offset skate downhill), but where it was a tail wind I could stand up straight and it pushed me uphill. snow was solid and fast, about 25* the entire time.
A fun course, lots of long (1k) hills, but not too steep. the last 3k go from the highest point on the course to the lowest (the finish) while dropping about 600', a nice [crazy] fast finish down some winding trails.
Arms and legs pretty tired from fighting the wind too much, and the lungs were feeling the altitude since the entire course is at 9000', but still a good race. |
Saturday Apr 2 |
| skate ski 45:00 [3]9 km (5:00 / km) | |
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| at Mammoth. nice and sunny, about 60* |
