Training Log Archive: AliC

Bishop Lake

White Course/Yellow Course/Orange Course streamering and testing, joined by Barbara! I did them as real courses instead of all-controlling it so I could see if all the trail junctions and such would make sense from the way I intended folks to come from. White is ok, I think. Yellow and Orange need some work + lengthening... Plus I found a bonus indistinct trail that's in a helpful for course-planning place. And a rockpile that is maybe similar to other mapped rock piles. Or maybe it's just sub-mappable, unsure.

Afterwards, Barbara fed me scrumptious pot roast and brownies and let me shower at hers before heading out to a salsa lesson in Farmington- my first in this territory! Was amazingly like Amherst: at an American Legion hall, lesson first, then dancing and very friendly people. Yay! Intermediate lesson was the right level, learned a good combo that I kinda had the hang of by the end. (Basic, cross-body with inner spin, leader right-turn, follower right-turn (or double), leader half turn, break to copa, leader spins into hammerlock, break back and then 'around the world'.) But my left toe wasn't too happy about dancing. More icing and ibuprofen for it, I guess continually...

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Judged science fair posters for Northwest Ohio this morning. Half of my six 7th graders did experiments involving freezing/boiling sports equipment and seeing what happened - baseball speed vs. temp, hockey puck distance vs. temp and golf ball bounce vs. temp. Hockey puck had the most solid results. Don't play hockey with a hot hockey puck...

C • Don't play hockey with a hot hockey puck... 5

Maybury State Park

Yeehaw, first o-training of the season! Met up with work4Justice and we went around mostly together, doing Igor's streamered course backwards. I seriously tripped up being on a trail instead of the road from 11 -> 10, others were largely ok, but wow is it thick in some places! Need to up the tough meter for sure for foot o-season -less stuff hits you in ski-o!

Start -> 11: a bit inefficient because I read the contours badly/didn't listen to my compass, so I bailed to the trail too early when I should have cut straight to the control.
11 -> 10: I had wanted to do it ignoring the road, but then I got caught against a fence, so ended up on a trail and decided that was the road. Relocated on the giant marsh/pond and then headed up hill to the control, although still not smooth, Barbara helped by indicating that no, the little clearing with an earth drop-off on one side wasn't the nice big yellow open...
10 -> 9: We got separated heading into 10, but found each other in the big yellow open and continued on. 9 was much easier with the trails on the map I think =)
9 -> 8: Probably should have gone around on the right. Came through trail on the left and momentarily confused by trail junction at the bottom. But the trails are clearly not 100% done, so I should have just gone on contours!
8 -> 7 Cut cut cut, again thought the big unmapped trail was the road for a bit (c'mon, get it through your head!!), but continued on as I should have, then made sense of things when I actually hit the road. Then time to plunge into the green... quickly learned that the bike paths are the way forward, even if wiggly and ended up nicely at the reentrant that led me to 7.
7 -> 6 Fighting through veg. Found it slightly clearer higher up so hit the trail right of the control and then pegged it down to its depression.
6 -> 5 Ha, finally used an unmapped trail for good, to cruise on the N side of the hill under the line.
5 -> 4 Weee! Met Barbara at 5 and then said I was really going to go for it the next controls in. This leg was great fun. =)
4 -> 3 Trhough the marsh, really should have stayed in it longer, was perfectly nice running. Tried to come at 3 from the road bend. And it pretty much worked, except I wanted 3 to be at the bottom of the form-line reentrant, but it was to it's NE edge, so took me awhile to find, including one loop back to the nearby trail to be firmly located.
3 -> 2 Fun, some openish meadow-like sections and then an old foundation out of nowhere right by the control.
2 -> 1 Using the trail mostly, a nice depression =)
1 -> Finish. Spiked it going through the woods. Oh yeah =)

Great to have a training partner and also just to start getting back into the woods! Only 2 weeks until an A-meet, yikes-a-roni!

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Garmin isn't uploading, I hit the garmin upload link, the little 'Data Import' window appears, but nothing on it. Tried different browsers (Safari, Firefox), restarting my computer and soft resetting the Garmin. Anyone have any ideas of what to try next?

C • Garmin 8

TED talks on water in Qatar (desalination, currently powered by oil, hopefully in the near future by solar), biohacking centers and meditation.

Ankle plyos! Just a single set to get body back used to them.

2 x 10 min tempo, mostly in Wildwood, a bit on the bikepath way out/back. A gorgeous afternoon!

Back in Toledo! Red eye from LA only took 3.40h flight time! (Good tailwind, but also it's just not that long of a flight.) So nabbed some further sleep upon arrival home =)

Wanted to break up all the running, so a rollerski out and around Wildwood. Mixing up 10 min of no-poles with 10 min of normal. It was cold and snowed on me, hard adjustment from warm Pasadena mornings...

Eep! Didn't wake up to alarm at 5am, so had less time to finish my stats project (more on that later - found the opposite of what I expected!) and then go for a mini-run before the last day of the conference.

So out California then arroyo hill intervals, just coming in and out of the valley. Each was about 30s, did 8.

Little morning toodle out to the Arroyo again, this time towards the Rose Bowl. But it was boring once I got close to it, tons of parking lots instead of a cool little trail amongst trees and such. It really is nice running on the trail!

Wahoo! Finally found some trail running in Pasadena! Went West on California until I hit Arroyo Seco and lo and behold, there was a trail down into it and then a trail along the bottom! Awesome. Although it is smoggy, breathing was kinda hard.

Did some fartleky type stuff up any hill I found. Nice to have hills =)

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