Training Log Archive: Spike

I drove to work. I was planning to bike, but Mary called just after she left for work and warned me that there was some ice. She was right. I don't bike when there is ice on the streets.

After work I did a short O' course (running with a headlamp) on my new map of the neighborhood and Holcom Park. Fun. I found a couple of things to tweak on the map.

I was thinking I might start 2016 with a 30-day challenge. If I do that, I'll probably use the map once a week or so.

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Work commute.

The trip to the office was in 35F and a steady rain. The trip home was 38F and dry. But, the trip home felt colder. Strange.

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Slogging around at Rockcrusher. I carried the map and ran a course, but it was really just a run with a little map reading thrown in. The legs were long and I was mostly just doing the course to have some structure to a long easy run.

Temp was 35F and a rain fell about half of the time. When it wasn't raining, it was misty. So, it was a wet run. We've had a bunch of rain the last few days, so there streams and ditches were full and there were a lot of puddles on the trails.

Around 90 minutes I started feeling tired and got a little cold.

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Some orienteering training at Rockcrusher. I set a series of short courses (mostly about 600 meters) with short jog/walk sections between each course.

It turned out to be pretty rough, with a mix of junky woods, deep grass and slippery hills. There was enough ice on rocks and trees to be a bit slick. For a few minutes some freezing ran fell.

I cut things a bit short when I realized I'd be late getting back to the car if I did the last bit.

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Jogging/walking between courses and then running back to meet Mary at the car.

A bit of warm up and jogging back to the house.

I figured it was a good idea to avoid driving today. We had some freezing rain. The streets look ok, but it also seemed like a good day to avoid driving.

I set a control picking course on West Campus. It was fun. With that many controls you need to read the map a lot even if the map reading isn't complicated.

I printed the map at 1:6000 so it'd fit on a single sheet of paper. That meant I needed a magnifier to read any detail.

I started in some sleet changing to mist and a little rain. But, it stopped about half way through the run.

Fun.

My right leg feels a bit strange. That started about half way through the Possum Trot. It is better, but still not normal.

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Running with a map at the riverfront area. It was cool (43F) and a steady rain fell. It was nice.

I was out on a sand bar and spotted a fossil/bone. That slowed me down and I started jogging along looking for more. I found 5: https://www.instagram.com/p/-j_-E4w05-/?taken-by=o...

I don't know what they are, but I know the river has everything from bison/horses that are just a few hundred years old, to various Pleistocene mamals (like bison, sloth and mastadons). A couple of the things I found seemed old, but I know there's no way to really know unless you really know something about fossils. I don't.

I'm updating the map a bit. I didn't take any notes, but I observed a few things that I will do to bring the map up to date.

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Work commute.

With the next four days away from work, I figure I'll do plenty of running on those days. So, I didn't go to the Trailhawks hill run.

On the way to work, I stopped to watch:

Boom. Time to update the map.

A video posted by @okansas on Nov 25, 2015 at 7:31am PST

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