Saturday Jun 2 |
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| Genesis Adventure Sprint Race in Wawayanda SPk, NJ. Great race with Kristoffer Nielsen, who stepped in for Brad, still stuck in Hawaii (yeah right!). 1st masters, but well behind Joe and Erin, who won overall. |
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| C • Masters? 4 |
| Bicycling (Mtb bike segment) 1:58:00 [5]12.3 mi (9:36 / mi) | |
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| Kristoffer did the nav on this section as his bike skills are far superior. Hit all the controls cleanly. Time only limited by my ability to jump logs and ride the rocky trails. Good network of trails with careful attention needed on the turns. |
| Kayaking (Wawayanda Lake) 57:00 [4]4.5 km (12:40 / km) | |
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| Held our own on this section. Straight forward paddle to end of lake and back, collecting a few controls on the way. The far control was obscured by bushes, and a group of us ran around looking for it for a few minutes. |
| O - competition (Wawayanda Park) 2:04:30 [5]9.7 km (12:50 / km) | |
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| Good nav to first 3 controls. Lost maybe a half hour looking for last control, which we found 150 m down the reentrant from the UTM coordinates given. Lots of teams wandered around on this one; our loss was not exceptional, but still frustrating. |
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| weight:159lbs |
| Kristoffer gets a compliment on his patience at the slow (for him) pace. I enjoyed pushing myself to the limit, as I knew he could certainly keep up with any pace I would set. Between the heat and the pace, I was pretty well bonked on the run in. |
Thursday May 31 |
| Cross Training (Cutting firewood) 1:00:00 [3] | |
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| Couple hours cutting the last of the sugar maple that blew down last year. Top of the tree got hung up in smaller saplings and had to cut them down to get everything on the ground. |
Wednesday May 30 |
| Track workout warm up/down 18:00 [3]1.5 mi (11:59 / mi) | |
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| R knee is sore behind the joint -- soft tissue, not joint itself. Gets stiff whenever it's immobile for a while -- sitting, driving. We'll see how a bit faster pace works out. |
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| C • Knee 2 |
| Track workout (6 x 400 m) 10:00 [5]1.5 mi (6:40 / mi) | |
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| Working on increasing tempo of runs. What better place than on the track -- the watch doesn't lie!
Target was 1:40. Actual:
1.43, 1.42, 1.39, 1.36, 1.38, 1.33 |
Tuesday May 29 |
| Bicycling (Butternut Hill loop) 1:55:00 [3]16.5 mi (6:58 / mi) +500m 3:57 / km | |
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| Mtn bike CCW out Lovers Lane via Baileys Mill. Took the side road off the top of Butternut Hill and climbed another hundred meters elevation to the dead end on Ingraham Hill at 1800'. Checked out the snowmobile trails in the Town forest, but still too soft for riding.
Have lowered the bike seat 1" and it rides much better. Can drop my weight back on the steep downhills and not feel like I'm going to dive over the handlebars. Also running at lower tire pressure (40#); that seems to reduce bouncing off the rocky trails. |
Monday May 28 |
| Cross Training (Cutting firewood) 3:00:00 [2] | |
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| Clearing downed tree at end of logging road and cutting down all the saplings around the perimeter. Bucking to firewood length.
Then enlarged and graded the turnaround, but that involved mechanical equipment and was more a workout for the hydraulics. |
| Bicycling (Kingdom Valley trails) 35:00 [3]2.6 mi (13:27 / mi) | |
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| Laps around the trails w/Casey on the bike. Actually, I was on the bike, she was running rampant. |
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| Pulled the black plastic off the graden to plant veggies and found 3 snakes coiled up and very snug under the warm blanket. One was a typical garden snake and not sure about the other two -- have to check the reptile book. Mottled two-tone tan like a copperhead. But didn't have the triangular head of a venom snake, so wasn't worried about them. |
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| C • Milk snakes, perhaps. 2 |
Sunday May 27 |
| Bicycling (Mt Snow Area, VT) 1:01:00 [3]7.0 mi (8:43 / mi) | |
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| Checking venue for AR. |
| O-course Training (Mt Snow Area, VT) 3:35:00 [3]15 km (14:20 / km) | |
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| Checking control locations. Couple neat spots, photos to follow in two weeks. |