Training Log Archive: Sandy

Event: Canadian Orienteering Championships
 

HR course setting stuff.

I looked at the weather reports on Friday and I swear it said both Saturday and Sunday were going to be mid 70s and partly cloudy. So I decided that Sunday worked better for HR. So I watched the WOC relays and then headed on north despite the overcast skies. It started pouring on the drive up but for some reason it never occurred to me to turn around. It was raining but not hard when I got there and I decided to head on out. I keep several 99 cent rain ponchos in my car and put one on and was fine. It rained off and on the whole time but never poured and I actually had a marvelous time. Never got my compass out, just sort of wandered and read the terrain only messing up a few times.

The highlight was getting a phone call while at one of the control sites. I was pleased that I got reception - I was on pretty high stuff not down in a valley so not too surprising but I wasn't sure where in the park you can get reception. But it took several minutes to dig my phone out of my pack, and then I still have no clue that a certain sequence of beeps means that while I am calling someone, someone else or in fact that person, is calling me and that I can do something to pick up. One of these days I'll figure that out.

Spent some time going back and forth through some high blueberry bushes and hummocky terrain just to get that WOC-like feeling. :) But I was just walking so not terribly taxing.

The long courses are shaping up nicely and one or two more visits will have everything nailed down. I'll be curious to see how long it will take me to place all the stakes for the stands as that will help determine how long it will take to put out the controls and then do the morning-of vetting.

I'm still smiling at how much I enjoyed myself today despite the rain.

C • Great outlook! 1

40,15

C • Are you? 3

Jog down to the drive, 1/2 mile easy jog to warm up, 1/4 mile walk after the hard mile, jog to the gelato store.

1 mile hard on the drive

hike home through the meadows eating gelato

core dvd

short hill loop; despite the nice weather, felt really lousy

36, 13

C • ok 3

Yoga DVD

36, 13

Running in the soft sand. I really don't know how long this was since my watch has died. But I covered about the same distance as yesterday. The tide was in though and so I couldn't run along the edge of the surf since it's very slanted and so the whole run was in the softer packed sand.

Core DVD

TNT - Jose's last TNT before returning to Spain so glad I was able to make it. Had a nice little farewell celebration.

Hiked the Indian loop with Sandy.

36, 13 a la Karl

ran on the beach; 8 minutes in the soft stuff, 10 minutes along the edge of the surf, 2 minutes in the soft stuff.

Rodney Yee DVD. Stopped when he started doing all the stuff on the knees.