Training Archive: barbIn the 7 days ending 2007-05-26:
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Saturday May 26 | ||
| Event: Big Muddy Ranch Rogaine #4 | ||
| Note | |
Pre-event photos:
Vlad & Peter 
Sharon 
Moi, with pepper 
John & Jeff I wasn't as camera-happy as at last year's Big Muddy (where I also documented the now traditional Dog Mountain hike and apres-rogaine camping). | ||
| C • peeps 5 | ||
| Rogaining race 13:00:00 [2] | |
| First 13 hours of the Big Muddy rogaine. The pleasant part, biding our time before the race really kicked in, with all its tribulations and challenges.
An intensely pleasurable experience! First of all there was the environment. Sweet-smelling spring flowers - lupens, irises, many more. The distant velvet of the hills. Cool breezes blowing the green grass heads. Birdsong, and at night crickets. The moon. Navigation was fun. Open, highly readable terrain. At night we could pick out the shapes of the hills against the sky. But most pleasurable of all was the new team working so well together. I'm used to being the prime navigator (though I'm not sure that my partners would characterize it that way :-). But for this race I had been worried that I would not have much to contribute, with Peter being faster and an elite navigator. I was afraid that I would be intimidated because I didn't know him very well and might be afraid to speak up because he is such an O god. But it felt quite companionable and I was comfortable talking about each leg's route. I love how he described clearly, concisely and creatively exactly where we were or where he thought we should go. Being able to exchange detailed thoughts about route and location without stopping to point at each other's map obviously is a win. We were also in pretty good communication about how we were each doing physically. We were attuned to finding small efficiencies, whether it was how we were moving over the terrain or me leaving the control while he was still punching and signing in, or minimizing time at the water stops. Being part of a good team is a great feeling. | ||
Friday May 25 | ||
| Running 20:00 [2] | |
| 4:50 am - to school to get the bike. | ||
| Bicycling 8:00 [2] | |
| home from school. Then baked cookies and we headed out for the airport around 6:00 am. | ||
| Hiking 1:40:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Red Ice Bugs | ||
Dog Mountain. North side of the Columbia River. One last trial for the Ice Bugs, and a chance to loosen up the legs after a long flight.
PG was bummed I forgot to bring the trail map with me. I think he gets a bit nudgy if he doesn't have a map with him at all times. | ||
Thursday May 24 | ||
| Note | |
| Well, the fruits of my most recent un-decaffeinated ice coffee are available for your reading pleasure. There are a number of inaccuracies (the front page of the printed paper had a banner reading "9-year-old girl wins race"), but the flavor has been captured, I think! I was hoping orienteering would sound fun, and attractive for school groups. | ||
| Bicycling 20:00 [1] | |
| work home school | ||
| Running 20:00 [2] | |
| school to home | ||
Wednesday May 23 | ||
| Bicycling 20:00 [3] | |
| Into Boston and back. | ||
Tuesday May 22 | ||
| Running 25:00 [1]2.2 mi (11:22 / mi) | |
| Dentist to home.
Haven't been logging training but haven't been doing much either. Trying to fight off that sore throat with extra rest... Or perhaps I should say I've been tapering off for the past 4 weeks... | ||
| Running 26:00 [1] | |
| To REI and back. | ||
| Running 55:10 [3]4.65 mi (11:51 / mi) | |
| Home from the park-O | ||
| Orienteering 36:09 [3] | |
| I don't have any idea how long I actually took. I think this was about 3k. | ||
| C • distance 1 | ||
Sunday May 20 | ||
| Orienteering race 3:20:00 [2] | |
| Yay! We made it! I'm grateful that it was only 12.5k- made it possible for us to finish... Isabel's sore throat is still progressing, but it didn't keep her from doing an awesome job. During the first couple of legs, she got frustrated about not knowing where she was on the map, and insisted that I show her. I finally told her that I needed a little time to get oriented myself and think about our skip control, and could she just follow me for a little while. She took things into her own hands then, and figured it out herself. I realized from comments she was making that she was on the map, and she made a couple of good navigational suggestions that I hadn't thought about. Afterward she was able to remember most of our route. We even have a difference of opinion about where we came down the hill after 20.
We skipped 3. When we got to 2 I felt she was moving way better on trails than in the woods, and climb was an issue, so I wanted to take the high trail route from 2. Also briefly considered skipping 9 and going way around on the roads, but I'm very glad we didn't do that. She didn't complain at all about the muddy trails or fighting through vegetation. About 10 minutes into the race, she said her calves were tired and could we please train for the Billygoat next time. 
Before 
After | ||
| C • Also awesome 5 | ||