Wednesday Dec 26 |
 | Orienteering (Woods) 39:00 [2]*** | |
| 9c |
| Warmup (27 min) and down.
I didn't want Monday's session to be the last time in the woods for the year - better to go out on a high note. Clearly, some HTFU training was in order so there was only one remedy: a PR attempt on the Emmennegger Test Loop. |
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| C • Carols Team 2 |
| Orienteering (Woods) 18:40 [5]*** 2.5 km (7:28 / km) +95m 6:16 / km | |
| 14c |
| Bam!
Quite a year. |
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Test Loop - Splits |
Tuesday Dec 25 |
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| A rather loud Christmas morning (not too suprising with Baby-O being augmented by her 5 and 6-year-old cousins). In the afternoon, four dogs were added to the mix. About an hour of that was all we could take so we loaded up and headed back to St. Louis. |
Monday Dec 24 |
| Orienteering (Woods) 1:27:00 [2]*** | |
| 16c |
| Temps in the 20's, light wind, and only a touch of new snow made for some pretty ideal conditions. Went to Deer Grove (CAOC 1:10) to run an old blue course. Went without a warmup so I started slow, but my head never really got into it. I tried pushing the pace, backing off, taking safe routes, taking aggressive routes, and all through it my brain just refused to turn on. Hit 6K at just over an hour and decided that this just wasn't the day so I bailed straight back to the car. As pennance for such a lame effort, I went through about 1K of medium green, which is no small undertaking at Deer Grove. Ironically, that was probably the best running I did all day - maybe I should have done that for a warmup. |
Sunday Dec 23 |
| Terrain (Trail) 35:00 [2]* | |
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| Busse South to Busse North and back.
Sure, I could have done some terrain training yesterday when it was 50 degrees and calm, but instead I spent yesterday indoors with the girls (Baby-O and her two cousins) and went out today when it was 15 degrees with a 20-30mph wind. That wouldn't have been too bad except that the parking lots at Busse North were closed, so I had to run about a mile across open fields to get to the woods. Once in the woods, it wasn't so bad, although my gloves were woefully inadequate and I guess I need to start wearing a hat rather than headband in the winter because what little hair I have left on the top of my head doesn't do much to hold heat in. |
| Orienteering (Woods) 37:00 [3]*** 4.5 km (8:13 / km) +19m 8:03 / km | |
| 14c |
| Green course from the Big Blues Ramble at Busse Woods (CAOC 1:10). Wasn't trying to run for time, but I pushed a little just to generate some more heat. Despite the sun coming up, the temperature actually dropped during the run. Reasonably clean. I love this area; looking forward to the map with the LIDAR contours. |
| Orienteering (Woods) 28:00 [4]*** | |
| 23c |
| Followed with 12x200@55-70 (varied with vegetation - all were about threshold effort) with equal recovery in the terrain. |
Friday Dec 21 |
| Cycling (Road) 57:00 [2] | |
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| In to work. Not particularly motivated after another night of insufficient sleep, but it was either ride or run since Kate's picking me up and we're heading directly to Chicago. The ride in was actually fine. Cool and wet, but no big puddles and almost all the ice is gone. No suprise that traffic was quite light. |
Thursday Dec 20 |
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| Should have gone for a run, but the 14-hour days at work this week, coupled with not much sleep had me wanting to just veg out this evening. |