Training Log Archive: Spike

Biking on bike paths, roads and some gravel. I went out to Clinton and past Bromelsick. I'm putting together a basemap for Eric S to use at Bromelsick.

Weather was cool (maybe mid/upper 60s) and a mix of mist/drizzle/light rain/no rain.

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A few notes from the trip to Laramie.

I was mostly satisfied with how I managed the altitude. 3 out of 4 days was good. Of course, that one bad day was really bad. I went too hard at the start, made a big mistake, had trouble breathing, went too hard again, and made another mistake.

I tried a few things in the weeks before we went to get my navigating/orienteering mind to work. That experiment was successful, except I should figure out a better way to prep for the altitude (I have a few ideas that I'll try before the next opportunity).

A couple of new travel items worked well (water bottle for flight replacing one I lost/broke; new noise cancelling ear buds; and small pillow). I still had a lot of trouble sleeping in Laramie. I usually do. I need to work on that.

Laramie is a lot of fun. We had a very nice AirBNB. We had a few good meals. The orienteering was mostly interesting. Weather was pleasant (cooler would have been ideal, but it was a very welcome change from home). Good company.

Gene got a nice award/recognition through OUSA (Golden Service Award or something like that). It was well deserved.

C • Melatonin 3

Finally enough gap in the rain to get the lawn mowed. It was deep.

Jogging on West Campus. I need to mow the lawn, but it is too wet.

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C • KU 3

Green course at _____ map (I can't remember the name and don't have a copy handy).

I had a mostly clean run. I might have lost some time on a couple of route choices.

I wasn't moving quickly, but I think I was moving about as well as I can at altitude and given my current shape.

I watched people at the start. You could see them for most of the first leg. You could see a fence and a fence corner on the way to the first leg. I watched people on my course and saw that they headed just right of the fence corner, so I was surprised when I started running and saw that actually I wanted to go left of the fence corner. I think a couple of the other courses went a bit more to the right, so maybe the green course starters I watched were just pulled that way.

I looked at my h.r. during a run a bit. It seems like altitude makes a given h.r. (for me) have the effect of about an extra 10+ beats faster. So running at 160 h.r. was more like running at 170 h.r.

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Western States Day 3 Green - Splits

Twin Boulders green course. I managed today much better than yesterday. Running uphill and in some of the sage was really just walking. I can't currently do better at the altitude.

My mind was working much better than yesterday. That was kind of surprising because I slept poorly last night.

Navigation was ok. A couple of weaker route choices, but otherwise ok.

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Western States Day 2 Green - Splits