Training Archive: bigginsIn the 31 days ending 2005-03-31:
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Thursday Mar 31 | ||
| soccer 1:00:00 [3] | |
Wednesday Mar 30 | ||
| road bike 1:10:12 [3]17.7 mi (3:58 / mi) | |
| windy, but very clear (for LA anyway) | ||
Tuesday Mar 29 | ||
| soccer 1:00:00 [3] | |
| got an elbow to the nose pretty hard today. no blood, but it hurts to snotrocket. | ||
Monday Mar 28 | ||
| run 34:10 [3]4.1 mi (8:20 / mi) | |
| ahr:166 | ||
| morning and very humid (raining on and off). felt pretty crappy. | ||
Sunday Mar 27 | ||
| road bike 1:40:00 [3]26.8 mi (3:43 / mi) | |
Saturday Mar 26 | ||
| Note | |
| had a long week at work for the latest deadline. was planning on doing something useful this afternoon, but was too busy sorting out tax stuff and playing with the new toy. Its like the ipod of stoves: its not the smallest or the fastest or the best, but it does its job really well, its indestructable, and it looks dead sexy.
been playing a lot of CF comps lately, so I guess that counts as map training. | ||
Friday Mar 25 | ||
| road bike 53:00 [3]14.2 mi (3:43 / mi) | |
| downright chilly this morning: 49F | ||
Thursday Mar 24 | ||
| soccer 1:00:00 [3] | |
Tuesday Mar 22 | ||
| soccer 1:00:00 [3] | |
Monday Mar 21 | ||
| run 28:55 [1]3.3 mi (8:46 / mi) | |
| ahr:146 | ||
Sunday Mar 20 | ||
| skate ski 3:27:03 [3]42 km (4:56 / km) | |
| Royal Gorge Gold Rush 50k skate.
worst day ever. ever. Got up at 4am from my motel in Reno with a headache. They had messed up the reservation so I got a smoking room. So I didn't feel too bad about waxing my skis on top of their TV. As I left, I had a half a tank of gas, which is more than enough to get to the race and back down the other side to Sacramento, but I had this ominous feeling I should fill it up anyway. This would prove useful later. Five miles out of reno it starts snowing crazily and The Man enforces chain law. He says I should be ok going up since a plow team just left in front of me about 15 mins ago. Its easy to tell where they plowed since thats the side with only 4 inches of snow on it. After two hours I'm almost up to donner pass (30 miles) and a gravy train of 4 suvs comes up behind me and tries to pass on the left (12" deep) side. Just as they get in front of me the first one loses it and goes in the ditch on the left. Second guys swerves around him ok, but the third guy panics and swerves into my lane right in front of me, so I panic and hit the breaks (probably a little to hard). Fortunately he went all the way through to the ditch on the right side so I just slide right past him in my lane with minimal fishtailing. Didn't see what happened to the fourth guy but it looked like he stopped ok. Everybody lived, and nobody actually hit another car, but they royally dented up their pretty cars on the snow banks and guard rails. At the race it had been snowing a bit, in addition to the 6" yesterday they got another 10" overnight. So they modified the course from 3 laps of a 17k loop, to 6 laps of a 7k loop. Problem is, if you look at the profile for the full course, they cut out the nice flat section in the middle. So instead of going up and down the huge hill 3 times, we did it 6. Conditions were about 30 degrees, snowing hard, with winds that varied from mildy breezy to blinding whiteout. I had to stop once because I couldn't see the trail. First lap sucked since it was all loose powder, and I was almost ready to quit after it. Second lap was actually better since a track had started to get packed down, so I figured I could do a few more laps. Third one was probably the best, the track was actually pretty hard, though narrow and definitely not smooth. By the fourth all the other shorter races had finished, and the elite guys were done too, so there were fewer people packing it down (since it was still snowing really hard). five and six sucked again. Probably 2-3" on the trail again when I finished. Splits (7+ km each) 37.44 33.13 32.24 31.48 35.28 36.23 total 3:27:03 for something over 42k So after the race I run back to the car, which is hard to find since its covered in 6" of snow, start the car and crank up the defroster, and open the back hatch to bag the skis. I throw the ski bag in along the right wall between the door and the passenger seat, and one of the ski tips through the bag lands on the electric door lock on the passenger door. I don't realize this until I slam the back hatch and the car gives one of those short reassuring thank-you-for-locking-your-car-and-all-your-warm-clothes-inside type of honks. So there's me standing in a blizzard in my sopping wet race clothes, with my car locked and running. Fortunately it had a full tank of gas. Two fairly hypothermic hours later (at least huddled in the ski lodge) the tow truck guy comes by with a coat hanger and an inflatable arm cuff from a blood pressure thing. slides the arm cuff into the door jam, pumps it a few times to pry the door a bit, and reaches in to pull the door handle with the coat hanger. takes 30 seconds tops. aren't you glad you bother to lock your car at all? The actual drive home went pretty smooth comparatively, except for the still-whiteout blizzard that turned into the flooding downpour at lower altitude. But that part was a piece of cake. | ||
| C • 5 | ||
Saturday Mar 19 | ||
| skate ski 1:00:00 [2]10 km (6:00 / km) | |
| easy loop at Royal Gorge in a few inches of fresh snow. fairly windy. | ||
Thursday Mar 17 | ||
| road bike 55:00 [3]14.5 mi (3:46 / mi) | |
Tuesday Mar 15 | ||
| run 33:09 [3]4.1 mi (8:04 / mi) | |
| ahr:159 | ||
Sunday Mar 13 | ||
| orienteering 1:23:00 [2]5.5 km (15:05 / km) | |
| ahr:159 | ||
| laoc local meet at Schabarum. I got the impression that this map started pretty green, and two solid months of rain didn't help it any. A number of places I got completly stuck because a section just wasn't passable, and had to backtrack a long way around. One of those turned a 250m leg into a 1200m one.
On a happy note the back is feeling good again, even after yesterday and today with no advil. Its still got that weak post-hurt uneasyness to it, but no pain anymore. | ||
| Note | |
| tshirts: http://www.cafepress.com/catchingfeature
get them before they're in style. | ||
Saturday Mar 12 | ||
| skate ski (skate) 2:05:00 [3]23 km (5:26 / km) | |
| Green Valley nordic. socal at its finest. trails were crap and snow was slushy by 10am. but at 70 degrees with a tshirt and shorts you can't complain too much. | ||
Thursday Mar 10 | ||
| Note | |
| photos from alaska.
greatest t-shirt ever. you want one. | ||
| C • 4 | ||
Tuesday Mar 8 | ||
| Note | |
| I drove a couple hours south to Seward and took one of those cruise tours around the fjords. It was raining and stormy, and for a couple points we were out of the protection of the coastline and the boat was in some pretty big swells. Not really sure how big, but I was on the second story deck and looking up at water. | ||
| skate ski 1:20:00 [3]17 km (4:42 / km) | |
| Plane doesn't leave until midnight, everything else in Anchorage closes after dinner, nothing to do but ski! Another couple trails around Kincaid under the lights. I could get used to this. Fresh moose tracks all over the trails. | ||
Monday Mar 7 | ||
| skate ski 2:00:00 [2]10 km (12:00 / km) | |
| Hatcher Pass, about an hour north of Anchorage.
Its an old mining town up about 3500ft in the mountains, and somebody grooms some trails through the old ghost town and around the snowfields every so often. Not really perfect, there was a few inches of new snow on the trail, but you couldn't complain about the views. | ||
| skate ski 1:15:00 [3]18 km (4:10 / km) | |
| Night ski around Kincaid Park after dinner. This place has more lighted trails than socal has normal trails. Warm, icy and fast. | ||
Sunday Mar 6 | ||
| skate ski race 3:10:10 [4]50 km (3:48 / km) | |
| Tour of Anchorage. Pretty good race. A little tired from last week and felt a bit sluggish from resting the back all week. Back felt ok though which was good. Most of the course was flat and downhill, which was pretty fast but monotonously tiring.
Temps started at 30 and ended at 36. Had on LF8 + BD8, which was ok but seemed a little sluggish at times, maybe that was just my legs. The course goes under/over about 30 bridges and tunnels, most of which were really dirty and slow snow. Most of the trail was in pretty good shape though, except the last hill to the finish which was shredded. On the big hills between 5-10k everyone was still in a pack, and the trail was only single width so you couldn't pass anyone. So that split was a little slower. Didn't see any distance markers between 25k and 45k, they either didn't put them out or the moose ate them. 18:46 (5k) 26:23 (10k) 12:28 (15k) 17:07 (20k) 18.28 (25k) 76:09 (45k) (ave 19:02 / 5k) 20:47 (50k) | ||
| C • 2 | ||
Saturday Mar 5 | ||
| skate ski 45:00 [1]7 km (6:26 / km) | |
| Kincaid park in Anchorage. Just loosening up after the plane ride. | ||
Thursday Mar 3 | ||
| Note | |
| so my back hurts again tonight. which is a little worrying since I haven't done anything all week. it felt fine tuesday after soccer and all day yesterday. | ||
Tuesday Mar 1 | ||
| soccer 1:00:00 [1] | |
| took it very easy. its hot here. | ||
