Training Archive: Spike

running 10:00 [2]

Jogging around a bit to warm up.

orienteering 1:10:00 [4] *** 5.83 mi (12:00 / mi)
ahr:167 max:177 13c

Day 1 red course at Hard Labor Creek State Park. Ran pretty well until the last four controls when I started struggling to concentrate and let my focus shift to how I was running rather than where I was running. Lots of fun. Cool and rainy.

Red Day 1 - Splits

orienteering 20:00 [0]

Fairly bogus training to keep the 31 day challenge alive. Mary drove me part of the way to work and I walked the rest. I did a fast walk on the downtown Lawrence map. It was fun except for all the icy sidewalks. I took one fall. The course I'd designed was too long, so I ended up cutting it short by doing some iso-vist training for the last few legs. I arrived at work on time.

I'd probably have had time to do the entire course if we hadn't been rear-ended at Lawrence and Clinton Parkway. We were sitting at the red light for a while and suddenly - boom. Hit from behind.

Leaving mid-day for trip to Atlanta.

cycling 35:00 [1]

Bike commute - to work and part of the return trip.

The roads are in good shape, but there are a bunch of new potholes to watch out for. Classes started at KU today, so there are lots of clueless students to watch out for, too.

orienteering 35:00 [1] *
11c

Bike orienteering using an Open Orienteering Map. More fun and interesting than I'd expected. It got dark during the course. In the beginning I could glance at the map whenever I wanted. In the end, I could only read the map when I was under a street light.

If I get around to it, I'll upload the map to the DOMA archive.

I spotted one or two errors on the map. That gives me more inspiration to work on OSM. I'm thinking we might need to have a mapping party in Lawrence.

I was inspired to do something different after reading Marianne Andersen's story about her workout (in Norwegian):

http://www.marianne-andersen.com/Artikler/Snopulso...

Note

This evening's bike orienteering training:

http://www.sprintseries.org/doma/show_map.php?user...

cycling 45:00 [1]

Back on the bike to commute to/from work! There was still some frozen slush, ice and packed snow on the trip to work. A lot of the snowy stuff on the roads melted during the day (temp got up over 40+) and the return trip was much less sketchy.

Disappointing how my legs felt out of biking-shape even if it is just an easy ride and it hasn't really been all that long since I last biked.

orienteering 25:00 [2]

Night line orienteering on the KU Mount Oread map. Much of the time I was on pavement, but I had to go through a bit of snow, too.

Really fun.

orienteering 55:00 [2] ***

Night + snow at Clinton overlook.

The first half of the run was a bit like a one-person beaver O'...sort of. I set my watch to beep every few minutes and jogged along without looking at the map, when the watch beeped, I'd orient the map, pick out my location, and identify a couple of features to confirm my location.

The second half was LAM intervals at an easy effort (i.e. high LAM frequency for a few minutes, then some easy jogging, then repeat).

The session was interesting. Not sure if it was useful training but it felt like I concentrated well and the time passed quickly.

I had an encounter with a big bird. It must have been a turkey. I was just running along and then suddenly something came dropping down right on top of me. I instinctively ducked and caught sight of lots of black. I heard loud flapping sounds. It was over in a few seconds, but it was a bit scary until it was over and I realized what was going on. Lots of adrenaline. Very strange.

Note

OOM now covers the world:

http://oobrien.com/oom/

This might inspire me to do some more Open Street Map fieldchecking.

running 10:00 [2]

Jogging around a bit to warm up and get home.

orienteering 15:00 [2] ***
14c

I did a short night sprint on the west campus map. I set the course to have lots of direction changes and short legs. It turned out to be a lot more interesting than expected (especially given that I spent probably less than 60 seconds setting the course). The deep snow made for a lot more route choices and the slick footing (ice, packed snow and frozen slush) made it a bit tricky, too.

Legs felt a bit shot from yesterday's run.

orienteering 1:45:00 [2] *** 8.0 km (13:07 / km)
ahr:133 max:159 8c

I ran a course on the Clinton SP map with contours and trails only. The main challenge was running in the snow. Some places it was not so bad - mainly the trails nearest the overlook. Some places it was quite deep - where drifts had formed. For the most part it was like this (another phone video):

http://img64.yfrog.com/i/4gc.mp4/

Near the end I encountered two unleased dogs. One big and a bit scary. The other square headed and very scary. The owner showed up after a minute or so and assured me that they were harmless. That always reminds me that four of the dogs that have bitten me have never bitten anyone before.

Warmest weather in quite a while. Low 20s and sunny.

All in all a very fun day out in the woods.