Training Log Archive: RLShadow

More LPGA walking. No GPS today, distance is an estimate. Time is also an estimate of the actual walking time.

About 30 minutes and maybe a mile of walking before I went on duty as a standard bearer, then about 5 miles and approx 2 hours of walking during the round itself.

I really lucked out, mine was the third from the last duo to tee off, which meant they were definitely competitive (competing for 2nd place, that is; there was no competition for first, as Tseng finished something like 19 under par). My two golfers were Christie Kerr who finished tied for 3rd with 8 under (thanks in large part to an eagle she got on hole 17), and Stacy Lewis, who was looking very good on the front 9, improving from 5 under at the start of the round to 8 under at the turn, but then she shot 2 over par on the back 9 to finish at 6 under, in a tie for 5th place.

This round was SO much more pleasant than the grueling pro-am round I had to work, which took 5.5 hours, and featured some really bad golf. This round, in contrast, was a speedy 4 hours in length, and had two quite excellent golfers. Much easier to watch.

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Morning run, mostly on trails, with trailsnail. First run in what seems like ages.

Another day at the LPGA, as standard bearer. This was way more enjoyable and less tedious than the pro-am, although by its nature, golf isn't very fast-moving, so there was inevitably lots of standing around still. The time is a very rough estimate of the amount of time actually moving. The total time was a little over 5 hours, including time spent walking to and from my car.

Lots of time spent in the sun, with some walking in between time spent standing. Actual time was 5:47, but I tried to estimate the time spent actually walking (even though the standing around part was pretty tiring by itself).

Volunteering at the LPGA as a standard bearer (carrying around a sign giving the golfers' names and their current score vs par). Normally I like this task; this is my 4th or 5th year of doing it. But today was the pro-am, which meant one pro with four amateurs (in the case of the group I was with today, VERY amateur). This meant the play was quite slow, with the round taking about 5.5 hours (in actual competition, it's more like 4.5 hours).

The volunteer who I was paired with turned out to be a runner (the topic came up immediately upon us meeting each other, when he saw the Forerunner on my wrist), who did his first marathon 10 years ago when he was 50, and at this point has done 40 marathons. His goal is to do a marathon in all 50 states; he says he has 16 left. So at least we had some interesting conversation.

It was really a brutally tough day, even though only 5 miles was covered. I remarked to him at the end that this seemed as hard as any marathon or marathon training. Probably due to a combination of a lot of standing around, and the lack of being able to really exert yourself, but yet getting totally drained for no real training benefit.

I'm on duty Thursday (first day of competition) and Sunday (final day), both of which I'm sure will be far more enjoyable than today (well, barring getting caught in a thunderstorm or anything like that, which is definitely a possibility). On Sunday, my tee time is around 1:30 pm which should put me with a very competitive pair of golfers.

Very short mapping outing, checking out one area in particular at Highland that I wasn't too happy with.

Running from Highland Park after mapping. Through the U of R campus, out to Mt Hope, over to South, and back to Highland Park.

Stopped at John's Tex-Mex on South Ave and Alexander after the run, to get two tacos to take home for dinner. So fine!