Training Archive: barbIn the 30 days ending 2007-04-30:
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Monday Apr 30 | ||
| Bicycling 24:00 [1] | |
| school to dentist to work to school | ||
| Note | |
| DDR in the news | ||
Sunday Apr 29 | ||
| Orienteering race 3:48:00 [3]14.3 km (15:57 / km) | |
| green and blue courses at Long Pond East (West Point meet). | ||
| Note | |
| Isabel was really sick Saturday, and had kept nothing down for a couple of days by the time she went out on the white course Sunday. So she was pretty weak and had to sit down a couple of times, but she made it through the course OK.
I was proud of David for hanging in there on his first competitive yellow course - at West Point, no less. It was, needless to say, harder than your typical yellow. He had to do some serious relocating a few times. He got all but one control Saturday and all on Sunday. I told him before going out Sunday to slow down whenever he saw someone else, to "monkey bar" between features, and to orient his map at controls... He's easily cowed by how well the other kids do, so I hope he doesn't completely give up hope. | ||
Saturday Apr 28 | ||
| Event: West Point A-Meet | ||
Thursday Apr 26 | ||
| Note | |
| Won't make it to saturday at West Point. Kid stuff. Isabel needs her mommy. Will drive down on Saturday evening. | ||
Wednesday Apr 25 | ||
| Note | |
| Tomorrow (Thursday) I'll be directing two orienteering field trips, one for 1st and 2nd graders, and the other for 4th graders. I accidentally scheduled them for the exact same time, so Isabel is going to run one of them for me. Isabel, and my detailed written instructions. It's like programming...
In both cases, this is one part of a series of lessons and adventures. The 1st and 2nd graders are working up to an O outing to George's Island. We're hoping to include the Jessica Rykken invertebrate biodiversity survey again this year. The 4th graders' experience will culminate in a field trip to a forest with a real O map. Ahead of time, they'll learn about contour lines and predict where there will be streams and standing water. Their current science unit is weathering and erosion, so at each control location they'll pause and observe/record something related to this. Tomorrow, the 4th graders will do a Street-O and a Park-O. The Street-O portion will involve decoding a secret message, which I will share with you, as a little gift, without you having to decode it or anything, in honor of Bad Poetry in General and Anapestic Tetrameter in Particular: One day you will go as a class to the Wild. Compared to that challenge, this game was quite mild: Instead of just streets youll use tons of map features And study the rocks, and the plants, and the creatures. Youve taken Step One in your trip preparation By passing the test of good map navigation. Step Two will be done when you all understand How a flat map can show you the shape of the land. But that will be next week; for now Ill just say What a good job youve done orienteering today! 
Letters carved in wooden pole: (J) E82 YFF 9# 3-21 (R) W87 SPP 8# 2-40 (N) T17 SNE 4# 1-83 Number on utility pole: (H) 34 (E) 97 (H) 10 (O) 3 Color of fence at end of road: (N) green (D) red (Y) white (E) blue What color are the chairs next to the play structure? (A) green (N) red (S) yellow (E) white What number can you call to rent a portable toilet? (T) 866-686-4538 (A) 617-349-6577 (E) 800-292-4200 What is the number on the pole? (T) 40 (N) 20 (B) 46 What is the number on the fire alarm station? (H) 65 (T) 99 (A) 23 (V) 42 What is near the corner? (E) bicycle rack (F) mailbox (G) fire hydrant (H) lemonade stand Etc... 12 14 7 16 28 22 22 12 5 8 2 6 30 4 12 18 1 18 15 6 32 1 23 21 12 29 17 7 8 2 6 16 15 12 3 13 32 9 27 16 35 12 29 36 28 35 15 17 18 6 6 27 33 4 7 21 36 2 1 4 18 3 31 8 18 1 5 2 21 27 3 2 6 16 Etc... | ||
Tuesday Apr 24 | ||
| Note | |
Giovanni invited me to wear his GPS recorder on Saturday's blue course. He warped the resulting track onto the map [click on the image for the "high-res" version]:
Giovanni's route is labeled "G". The other, thinner, reddish route I think belongs to the winner (from OK-Linne). I drew mine in using a blue pen, and the dashed lines are the GPS. I think it was a little off around 13, but otherwise pretty instructive as to how lame my memory is in drawing my route in. Roughly right; some issues with the details. Or perhaps the GPS was inaccurate everywhere. Yeah, that's it. heh heh. I wonder if Giovanni can color code the GPS track to indicate my "speed" of travel. | ||
Monday Apr 23 | ||
| Bicycling 8:00 [1] | |
| OK, I'm taking a little break from training to catch up on some other things. The alphabet has eloped to Alabama anyway. | ||
Sunday Apr 22 | ||
| Orienteering race 1:03:24 [3]4.8 km (13:12 / km) +175m 11:10 / km | |
| Green course at Harriman | ||
| Orienteering race 2:21:17 [3]8.1 km (17:27 / km) +280m 14:52 / km | |
| Blue course at Harriman | ||
Saturday Apr 21 | ||
| Event: HVO A-Meet | ||
| Orienteering race 1:28:26 [3]5.2 km (17:00 / km) +220m 14:02 / km | |
| Green course at Harriman | ||
| Orienteering race 2:41:27 [3]8.5 km (19:00 / km) +300m 16:09 / km | |
| Blue course at Harriman | ||
Friday Apr 20 | ||
| Yoga 55:00 [1] | |
| I think Mai is my favorite yoga teacher. Nice and gentle - a good morning ease-into-it kind of session. Each of my half dozen yoga teachers has a different pace and style. | ||
| Running 23:00 [1] | |
| This was hard. It was the first nice day. I run better in storms. It was hot and boring. | ||
Thursday Apr 19 | ||
| Yoga 1:00:00 [1] | |
| I really did not feel like going. It was hard to be there, too. | ||
| Bicycling 8:00 [1] | |
Wednesday Apr 18 | ||
| Running 47:00 [1]4.0 mi (11:44 / mi) | |
| Part 1 of commute. Fought a powerful headwind on Long Beach. Still rainy and windy from the nor'easter, though the wind has clearly shifted its direction. | ||
| Running 28:00 [1]2.6 mi (10:46 / mi) | |
| Part 3 of commute. | ||
| C • What happened to Part 2 of the commute? 4 | ||
| Yoga 40:00 [1] | |
| Bicycling 16:00 [1] | |
| commutes... | ||
Tuesday Apr 17 | ||
| Strength 40:00 [2] | |
| weight:131lbs | ||
| Conditioning class. | ||
| Bicycling 8:00 [1] | |
| commute | ||
| Yoga 1:00:00 [1] | |
| Note | |
| How does this terrain look? | ||
Monday Apr 16 | ||
| Running 3:24:00 [2]17.1 mi (11:56 / mi) | |
| 7 am. I did my own version of a marathon: about 26k. Ran from Nahant to MIT, where I'd left my bike. Route includes 1 mile of biking at the end.
I woke up this morning in the house on the ocean, and the bed was shaking from the nor'easter. The water was angry grey green, with big rollers breaking far out. Running along the beaches was a lot of fun: I had the wind at my back. I just leaned into it and moved my feet up and down. The rain felt like little pebbles hitting my coat. I wore the thick fleece tights, which worked fine. As J-J says, "Haakendukanlaaginakahookalaleemanana." (There is no bad weather, only bad gear.) I stopped at numerous Dunkin Donutses to use the facilities and have a drink. Others I scouted but they lacked bathrooms. Right Achilles tendon is acting up. | ||
| C • Or actually... 3 | ||
| Bicycling 5:00 [1]1.0 mi (4:59 / mi) | |
| Bicycling 1:10:00 [2] | |
| To appointment in Arlington then home. | ||
| Note | |
| (Kids are away until Sunday night.) | ||
Sunday Apr 15 | ||
| Orienteering race 1:05:00 [2]4.5 km (14:27 / km) | |
| Hale reservation, green. Rainy. This is the pace we'd need to maintain in the Billygoat, I guess. | ||
| Note | |
| 40 days left: I enter the lenten period prior to the rogaine... | ||
Saturday Apr 14 | ||
| Running 38:00 [1] | |
| Saw some furners getting ready for the marathon | ||
| Strength 45:00 [2] | |
| Conditioning class | ||
| Note | |
| Bill was in town. We watched Isabel at her second session with special needs gymnasts - mostly Downs Syndrome kids, I think. She's tried out two roles with them: one where she is instructing, and the other where she is partnered with one girl and practicing together. The program is pretty cool - apparently the coaches decided a few years ago to treat these kids as serious gymnasts, and it's one of the few places where they don't get "talked down" to as if they're little children. The director told us Saturday that she overheard the kids talking about Isabel when she wasn't there, saying how helpful she was. | ||
| C • Love this 1 | ||
Friday Apr 13 | ||
| Bicycling 35:00 [2] | |
| work school work home | ||
| Walking 25:00 [1] | |
| Walked David home from his dance performance. | ||
Thursday Apr 12 | ||
| Bicycling 8:00 [1] | |
Wednesday Apr 11 | ||
| Bicycling 8:00 [1] | |
| Yoga 40:00 [1] | |
| weight:130.5lbs | ||
| New teacher, new time.
Weight is at the gym, which seems to be the kinder scale these days. | ||
| Note | |
| On our trip to Canada for the RAID, I picked up "Loved Walked In" by Marisa de los Santos and spent every free minute reading it, and a not insignificant fraction of that time I was crying, which is not unusual. I liked the book. People actually told each other stuff, and that I really really liked. I had a small epiphany, which was that a lot of good things can happen in a story and that doesn't have to make it boring!
Come to think of it, "Love Walked In" and "Central Station" have a lot in common in their plots! A whole lot. Kind of makes me want to host a book+movie club. | ||
| Running 41:00 [2] | |
| 7 pm, 8:30 pm. To and from a school district meeting. | ||
Tuesday Apr 10 | ||
| Bicycling 5:00 [1] | |
| (sick) | ||
| Walking 30:00 [1] | |
| Not feeling very well today, so walking was loggable. To C Sq T with the 'rents, then between work, soccer practice, Mary Chung's (closed - doh) with Isabel & Rachael. | ||
| Note | |
| Central Station (1=recommended). Brazilian movie; need to tell Peg Davis since she's hot on Brazil these days.
[...She had already seen the movie and thought it so-so :-)] | ||
Monday Apr 9 | ||
| Note | |
| weight:133lbs | ||
| Home scale, clothes on. | ||
| Yoga 55:00 [1] | |
| I feel very very tired. | ||
| Bicycling 16:00 [1] | |
| work home work home | ||
Sunday Apr 8 | ||
| Running 1:39:00 [1]8.3 mi (11:56 / mi) | |
| 7 pm. Route. | ||
| Running 8:00 [1] | |
| Home from the T. | ||
| Note | |
| abcDefG. Pastry at breakfast & Dad's birthday cake at dinner... | ||
Saturday Apr 7 | ||
| Event: Giant's Rib Raid | ||
| Orienteering race 4:50:00 [3] | |
| RAID. Fun. Flurries - I like Oing in falling snow. Below freezing - marshes still wet but starting to freeze; mud like 2-day-old chocolate frosting. | ||
| C • team name? 4 | ||
| Note | |
| ABCDeFG. Adam brought a tasty Canadian IPA; went well with the post-race pizza. | ||
Friday Apr 6 | ||
| Bicycling 8:00 [1] | |
| Walking 40:00 [1] | |
| Nahant w/family | ||
| Yoga 16:00 [1] | |
Thursday Apr 5 | ||
| Bicycling 48:00 [2] | |
| 5:37 am. Biked to the Fells | ||
| Running 11:00 [1] | |
| Ran around in the Fells, on rocky path, 1" snow, ice bugs. | ||
| C • Ice bugs? 3 | ||
| Bicycling 9:00 [1] | |
| Fells to Bolton Engineering | ||
| Running 19:00 [1] | |
| Up and down hilly road. | ||
| Bicycling 34:00 [2] | |
| Bolton to work | ||
| Note | |
| weight:130.5lbs | ||
| C • 130.5! Are you fasting? 4 | ||
| Yoga 54:00 [1] | |
| Note | |
| So I'm reading a draft of an abstract we're submitting tomorrow, and I find this at the bottom, added by my colleague: "the use of any type of DNA microarrays for the purpose of orienteering is questionable at best. Turn-around time from hybridization to data analysis results is still not fast enough to warrant a competitive edge in the field, and data consistency is bound to take a severe hit by adverse conditions like rain, darkness, and negotiating untrimmed vegetables in rough terrain."
Ah, nerd orienteering jokes... | ||
| C • Abstract 7 | ||
| Bicycling 4:00 [1] | |
| home | ||
Wednesday Apr 4 | ||
| Bicycling 34:00 [1] | |
| to work, MIT, opera house, work, home. Weather was pretty nasty for biking, wet snow coming down. Now it's rain. | ||
| Note | |
| From another mother whose family we somehow convinced to attend the Prospect Hill meet: "had a great time orienteering -- who knew? your delight is contagious and your mom is a jewel -- lucky you! our whole family had a good time. we'd love to join you again, i even feel a compulsion to solo. eventually." Another F45 candidate? And it's true, my mom is a jewel... | ||
| Yoga 17:00 [1] | |
| Running 10:00 [1] | |
| Went out for some groceries. | ||
| Note | |
| abcdefg | ||
Tuesday Apr 3 | ||
| Running 28:32 [1]2.23 mi (12:47 / mi) | |
| 5:45 am. First leg. Before I left the house, I removed the opera rehearsal music from the iPod shuffle, and added all sorts of other things. I was excited - first time running to non-opera. Then, 3 minutes into the run, the iPod totally died. It won't turn on; it's not responsive, and no it didn't just run out of battery power. | ||
| Running 24:51 [3]2.6 mi (9:32 / mi) | |
| Faster. Decided that I'd try running slow first, then fast, and maybe that would help with the asthma. And it did. | ||
| Stair climbing 4:00 [3] | |
| Two sets | ||
| Soccer 40:00 [2] | |
| Isabel's team soccer practice - just 4 girls showed up, so coach Jarlath and I played with them. | ||
| Note | |
| I had put some time into mulling over when to bring up the rogaine again with my partner. I didn't want to do it too soon, while he was still feeling low, and I figured he might feel better in not too long. I ended up deciding I'd wait until just after April 15/17. So it's good to see that the mood is improving.
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| C • At this point I'm assuming we'... 7 | ||
| Note | |
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And it's time to get seriouser about a few things, starting with the weight thing. Definitely want to remain sub-G, which means having a goal of 130 by the end of the month, and adding a "g/G" to my alphabet - starting tomorrow. I'm not sure if I'm going to achieve a strict definition, or leave it loosy goosy. It's something like: not much food at dinner; mostly fruits & veggies; lots of liquids, soups and salads; easy on the carbs. And let's take a quick look at those goals from January: Major goals: win the Big Muddy rogaine, feel great all the time, be organized, focus on friends & family. Hmmm... Physical training: * Slow running is fine for now. One long run (>1.5 hrs) each week; one faster session each week (> 1 mile). Work up to a couple 50-mile weeks in May/June, and 2 miles at 8:30/mile. Well, I'm not doing the long run, and it would be good to do that. Don't know what's up with "June" since I'll be done with the rogaine in May. * strength & flexibility. Take baseline this week, and aim to improve strength measurably. Work with personal trainer on machines; yoga class; core conditioning / weights class. I have been doing this off and on; not sure what the baseline was though. * train a minimum of an hour each day; multiple sessions in a day better than single session Maintaining a minimum for the most part. * climb stairs at work. * toughen the feet (by going barefoot some) Need to get going with both of these. Physical training highlights: * hiking+ trip in February (Tucson) * red & blue at a couple of A meets Both are happening, but substitute green for red. Works better logistically. Limit these things: sugar, caffeine, alcohol, etc. Generally, I get to party once a week with things on the Bad list. Reduce meat and dairy. Need strategy for what to do when tired and tempted in the evenings. Emphasize veggies, fruit, nuts, whole grains; unlimited snacking on these. Take my vitamins. Current weight 136; goal 129. Well, I'm at 135 right now. My alphabet count is something like DDDEE. Schedule: aim at sleeping 9-5. Be working or training by 6 each day. Generally, skip the morning with the family in favor of the evening (get their agreement!). I am getting up early, but not getting to bed until 10. And I've been choosing to hang with the family a lot in the morning, which I don't regret too much. | ||
| C • I think you are going to have ... 2 | ||
Monday Apr 2 | ||
| Note | |
| OK, this is random.
Here are two photos we recently found, one of me and one of my son David, taken at approximately the same age. Family resemblance? Is it obvious which is who? 
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| C • Who is who 4 | ||
| Walking 25:00 [1] | |
| A rest day, in the end. Kind of had a breakdown starting with one of my more-frequent-these-days brain farts resulting in a scheduling snafu, and it was a slow tired day all in all - due to two nights of suboptimal sleep - so in the end I bailed on running. But I walked to Central Square with Alice & Lucy in the morning, and then home from work.
abcdEf | ||
Sunday Apr 1 | ||
| Event: NEOC: Blue Hills West Sprints | ||
| Orienteering race 32:00 [3] | |
| Sprint at Blue Hills. Perfect rogaine training in that I assessed my competition (no women) and adjusted my pace accordingly (comfortable). :-)
Wore the ice bugs again - have been hoping that they might work for rogaining. They're a little loose though, and definitely not as lovely as O shoes for sidehilling. Good grip. A bit heavy. Thinking of getting ankle weights to run in. Starting to have a bit of anxiety about the shoe decision. Need to start training my bare feet now. | ||
| Orienteering 12:00 [4] | |
| Ran the white course with Dave, switching off legs. Dave has been running for months and is way faster than me. I was somewhat slowed down by the FIVE large cinnamon rolls I ate for breakfast. I got up early to make them. Getting up early was tough, because I had stomach pains so bad last night that I made Dave take me to the hospital at 3 am. I was doubled over talking to the intake guy, when suddenly I felt fine. So I apologized and said "April fool's" and we left. | ||
| Running 12:00 [1] | |
| Ran home from performance. Stopped to walk with Rob, Aviva and Aya when I came upon them. | ||
| Walking 20:00 [1] | |
| Along the way, made plans to do a short hike with Aviva & Aya sometime soon. | ||
| Note | |
| abcDef Cinnamon rolls. | ||
| Note | |
Photos from Blue Hills. It was the first kids' sprint I've seen put on - it was pretty cool; nice off-trail control locations. David and Isabel finishing:
Paige & Michael's girls are getting bigger. I heard one of them say to Michael that she wanted to do the course herself, with him shadowing her. They enjoyed playing in the puddles too. 
My dad came along and did all but one of the controls on the regular sprint: 
The cousins are visiting; David & Isabel took Lucy out on the white course. 
Charlie stayed home and hung out with David after we got back. 
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