Training Archive: arcticQnIn the 31 days ending 2007-03-31:
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Thursday Mar 29 | ||
| Note | |
| And here's a link to the ARFE blog, where you can read Kristoffer's race report | ||
| Soccer 50:00 [3] | |
| quite relaxed game tonight, won 9-3. | ||
Wednesday Mar 28 | ||
| Note | |
| Here are some photos that our wonderful crew took for us!
(phew! I finally got that link thing down!) | ||
| C • I'd also like to know that!!
... 5 | ||
| Running 49:00 [3] | |
| Evening run w/ K and L down the road and back along the old railroad bed. This time the snow was nearly gone and thus no snowmobilers to deal with!!! However, I think we're going to have issues with ATVs next.. oh well.
There's still plenty of beauty along the trail, and we even saw a coyote! He was big, but Loki managed to scare him off without a big brawl. | ||
Sunday Mar 25 | ||
| Running ((CP0 Adventure Race)) 11:00:00 [3] | |
| 2:30am - Loooong trek BACK up to Tray Mountain where we had just come from. First CP was up a touristy paved road (and paved walking trail!) to a waterfall. Then straight up a 30deg slope to a ridge where walking was slightly less difficult. At this point one of our teammates had begun bonking hard and we couldn't continue without resting. So we made "camp", pulled out our trusty spaceblankets that saved us in FL and "slept" or rested, for 2 hours until daybreak where we would have an easier time navigating anyway. After this rest Chris was much more alive and we made nearly record time around the rest of teh CPs, especially considering the pace that Chris was setting. We just kept in mind that as long as we got all the CP's and finished before 2pm (race cutoff) we would get top 5, and we did it! It was a hard push to the end, not stopping for water, though we ended up running the last few CPs (2 hours) without any liquid at all, which made Chris that much worse, and certainly Kristoffer and I weren't in that high of spirits either. But we made it wiht time to spare, comign to teh finish at 1:26pm and in unofficial 4th place!
This was a tough race and at the beginning we didn't think that there was going to be much route choice, but we were wrong! The Georgia terrain is much more impressive than I ever believed and the steepness, roads and trails were not what I expected. There was a lot of opportunity for routechoices and I think we made a lot of correct decisions. Kristoffer and I worked very well as a team of navigators, switching off and on when the other needed a break, and checking each other when we were in doubt. Also, we had some cherished caffeine pills this time which paid off dearly as we were all able to stay alert! 4th place isn't that impressive, but considering the circumstances that Chris was in, and the unforesseen difficulty of this course, I think 4th place is quite admirable and the fact that we never gave an inch towards quitting, or backing down and not getting a CP gave us a new respect for ourselves. I hope! | ||
| C • wow! 14 | ||
Saturday Mar 24 | ||
| Paddling race ((CP0 Adventure Race)) 4:00:00 [3] | |
| Race started off with a 1 mile prologue run, but only one teammate had to do it, so Kristoffer did it, and came back to the start area in the top 5! Then it was a 600m portage (thankfully we had wheels!) to lake Burton, a nice Sunapee-esque lake with huge lakehouses and really nice boathouses! The water was a thick milky blue green and the weather was warm and sunny. Not too much to complain about here! | ||
| Mtn Biking race ((CP0 Adventure Race)) 14:30:00 [3] | |
| 12:00pm
Then onto a long mountain bike leg split up near the beginning by an hour long (3CP) "orienteering" section that we absolutely crushed everyone on! Then back on the bikes through lots and lots of climbing on gravely roads up and over the Appalachian Trail, back down the other side, then back up on another road, a bike-whack to CP13, then onto a "trail" that consisted of nastyness and blowdown every 5 feet, then back on the road, then another bike-whack down to CP15, bike-whack back up (we lost an hour on this CP becuase I was being an idiot and didn't check the map well enough and sent us down a parallel reentrant first..yea, stupid.) Then up and over Tray Mountain (back across the AT) and then down a loooooong singletrack and dirt road trail to the Transition area. Here again we lost an hour, lost the trail behind some shot up old van and didn't get on track until another team found the trail and we saw their headlights, damn! | ||
Friday Mar 23 | ||
| Running 47:00 [3] | |
| After waking up in Atlanta at a friends house, we decided it would be good to go for a run and losen up the joints and muscles after such a long road trip. Good idea! We explored the ATL 'burbs and even found a trail and some railraod tracks to run along. Felt much more alive after this! | ||
Wednesday Mar 14 | ||
| Spinning bike 1:00:00 [3] | |
| ahr:135 max:160 | ||
| Morning ride. Legs felt quite a bit better, but I still couldn't push as much as usual so the heartrate stil didn't stay very high. Oh well.
Oh!!! I got new bike shoes!!!! Sidi Dominator mountain shoes! They are SO SWEET! Like I'm wearing slippers. Now my toes won't go numb! | ||
| Soccer 50:00 [4] | |
| Won 8-2. A much more pleasant game than the few previous. Calm and controlled. I ended up playing fairly agressive though, despite not wanting to get injured a week before a race. | ||
Tuesday Mar 13 | ||
| Spinning bike 1:06:00 [2] | |
| ahr:132 max:154 | ||
| Recovery ride. Legs felt dead so I just did a lot of high cadence spinning. Heartrate couldn't climb beacuse I couldn't get my legs working at all! | ||
Monday Mar 12 | ||
| Running 2:57:00 [3] 12.8 mi (13:50 / mi) | |
| After a lazy day on Sunday, we decided to do this long run tonight, after work. Got home around 6:30, changed, packed up some food, water and warmer jackets (just in case) and headed out on the road to Black Mountain. About 4.5miles to the trailhead, 1.9 up, 1.9 down, and 4.5 back home. Loki pulled me most of the way up to the trailhead, then we let him off his leash and he took off like the crazed dog that he is. The summit was surprisingly warm and calm, with only a mild wind blowing from the south over the false-peak, the actual summit was totally calm due to some brushy trees to the south view.
The run down was awesome, skiing on our shoes most of the way (Very steep trail!) Then the long run home (half gravel/half paved, but nearly all downhill, ok, the last mile or two is uphill.) Even Loki was tired and wasn't pulling us over anymore! All in all a wicked good training session and I'm not even sore now (Tues.)...too bad anyway. Kristoffer has written a little thing on this training on our team's blog if you care to take a look. The past few race reports are in there as well. http://blog.arfe.org/ | ||
| C • Wicked Good!!!! I love that e... 1 | ||
Sunday Mar 11 | ||
| Note | |
| We were supposed to do a long run from our house to Black Mtn, up and back, (about 3 hours) but instead, we got up, ate breakfast, watched soccer until we digested breakfast, but then were hungry again, so ate lunch, then too full to run...and so on. So, obviously, the run never happened. Lesson: just do it and get it over with. | ||
Saturday Mar 10 | ||
| Running 45:00 [3] | |
| Morning run w/ K and Loki, down the road and back on the railroad bed. Beautiful morning, what a place in which we live...views into Vermont and the mountains and Conn. River valley.
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Thursday Mar 8 | ||
| Spinning bike 45:00 [3] | |
| ahr:139 max:161 | ||
| I really really did not want to get up this morning, but I did. I felt fatigued when I first started riding, but somewhere along the 1' ladder I was doing, I started feeling better. Kristoffer didn't start feeling better though, so we decided to cut the ride off at 45', ... fine by me!! We have soccer tonight anyway. | ||
| Soccer 50:00 [5] | |
| Tie game 2-2. We were down 2 players so we had no subs and I played forward all game, therefore it was a very good speed workout!
Much less frustrating game than the previous two weeks! | ||
Wednesday Mar 7 | ||
| Spinning bike 1:00:00 [3] | |
| ahr:138 max:164 | ||
| We were both tired this morning, but managed to drag our carcases out of bed anyway. I thought I was goign to fall asleep on the bike, but Loki's rampaging and eating of kitty litter kept me awake yelling at him.
Hopefully it warms up in the next few days and we can actually get outside for a run, it was -20F this morning!!! (not to mention wind chill!) No thanks! | ||
Tuesday Mar 6 | ||
| Spinning bike 1:00:00 [3] | |
| ahr:142 max:160 | ||
| Morning ride, legs felt tired today so I took it a bit easier. No intervals really, just steady cranking. | ||
| Note | |
| Also, check out our team's blog !!!
http://blog.arfe.org/ Kristoffer posted a race report for the Frigid Infliction this past weekend, and there's one a few weeks ago from Swamp Stomp if you scroll down a ways.. | ||
Monday Mar 5 | ||
| Spinning bike 57:00 [4] | |
| ahr:142 max:160 | ||
| Another early morning ride. It's certainly getting easier to get up this early, after this weekend and doing this for most of last week. We watched Bill Maher, which was kind of hard to pay close attention to with all the intervals.
My legs felt surprisingly good and so I decided to push this workout, though my heartrate didn't get very high despite how hard it felt like I was working...is this because my legs were tired and I wasn't really pushing as hard as it felt like I was, or am I actually getting to a better fitness level? | ||
Saturday Mar 3 | ||
| Adventure race 9:30:00 [3] | |
| The Frigid Infliction, Bolton Valley, VT
10 hour winter AR: Disciplines included postholing, snowshoeing and classic skiing as well as a tyrolean traverse. Yet another race preceded by poor preparation. ... The day before the race we got another dump of snow, so luckily, no work!! Which meant that we could get ready for the race all day in a relaxed fashion. Well, of course that didn't happen and up until a half hour before we really had to leave to get to registration in time, we were deciding whether we really wanted to go or not! Accomodations that were not Loki-friendly, lack of classic equipment for Kristoffer and a long drive in the snow all were factors in the decision process. Eventually we just said, ok, we're going, and started frantically throwing thigns together. We ended up having a decent and scenic drive over, only hitting one patch of black ice, then camping just outside the nordic center at Bolton and borrowing a pair of classic skis from my parents. (Camping, by the way, wasn't all that bad. I was toasty warm, with Loki curled up between us, and believe it or not, it was actually warmer than in Florida!!!!) So the race started at 5am, getting pre-plotted maps at 4:30 and we were off, postholing through 4feet of snow up the mountain to a small cabin, which we got to first along with my parents, then transitioning to snowshoes-finally! Next we had to get 4 more CP's up in the mountains there, in any order, then back to the cabin (where we found out that we were still in the lead), then a run down to get our skis, (which had NO KICK!!!! ARGH, what a pain in the ass, classic skis with no kick..oof.) So we got a good upper body workout, douple poling (which didn't work so well in 4 feet of powder) herring-bone up every single little (and big) hill. And sometimes we just gave up and put our snowshoes on and carrried the stupid skis. What a waste. (I thougth for sure that teams would catch us on the ski, but apparently everyone was having a hard time wtih the deep snow and lack of kick (even with fishscales!) Unfortunately, we had a lot of trouble with a CP towards the end (a complete bingo control and placed incorrectly as well!) So my parents and another 3 person coed team caught us and we searced for a while together, then split up. Kristoffer and I bailed to a large reentrant and then backtracked and found the CP, just after the 3 person team, who then followed us to the next CP - the tyrolean traverse, where we got in a HUGE bottleneck, since all the slower teams had been rerouted straight to this point and were clogging the system. So we waited for about 10 mins, fuming, especially when the 3 person team cut us in line!! unbelievable... But we finally got a line, and cruised across so fast!!! Then a long, 2km snowshoe up the road (on the snowbank), not knowing what possition we were in, so we were moving, passing teams left and right, to the finish back at the nordic center. We ended up finishing first! Thankfully, redeeming ourselves for the Swamp Stomp and then for breaking trail for everyone else in this race. | ||
| C • Congratulations on the win! W... 14 | ||
Thursday Mar 1 | ||
| Running 1:00:00 [3] | |
| Run down, along the rail trail and back up with K and Loki. It was cold! My hands felt like they were going to fall off. I felt really tired from yesterday's efforts I think and as I write this now at 9am I really feel like I need to take a nap. But instead, I'm heading out into the field again to do some septic topo in Sunapee. Good or bad, I can't decide, it's not hiking around, lugging equipment. nap....nap... ugh. | ||
| Note | |
| Ok, I'm back in the office now. I realized I left my coffee in the car when K dropped me off at work, but was able to stop and get more on the way to the jobsite. That woke me up enough and kept me going for the rest of the day. Turned out to be a beautiful day, 40 something degrees and sunny and just nice to be outside (like yesterday!) And the site we were working on was an acre of topo, simple and easy, and right across the road from a real farm so we had roosters crowing at us all day. Nice. I am looking forward to going home and making a good dinner and sitting my tired ass in front of the TV to watch American Idol! :o) | ||