Training Archive: RosstopherIn the 7 days ending 2008-07-05:
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Saturday Jul 5 | ||
| road run 51:00 [3]7.2 mi (7:04 / mi) | |
| Run around town. I was feeling lazy, but forced myself to go for a run. My left foot had been hurting a little bit since just about dinner time last night, and for the first 5 minutes of today's run it was sore still. But then it disappeared and it felt great. started out at a pretty relaxed pace but by the end I was pushing a bit harder because it felt so very good to be running. I guess the endorphins kicked in. I tagged on a lap of crystal lake at the end to make the run a bit longer. | ||
Friday Jul 4 | ||
| track 52:00 [3] | |
| Track workout with Hill and Jeff. drove to dedham and jogged over to the track talking about the Juniors over in Sweden and the Masters over in Portugal and the upcoming WOC.... lots of orienteering related stuff to discuss...
my plan was 8 x 400 with 2 mins rest between. Jeff had sent this article earlier this week and so I'm feeling inspired to really work on these 400s but will try to work my way up to this level. I think that I'm probably giving myself too much rest between each 400. anyways, splits were: 1) 69 2) 70 3) 68 4) 70 5) 69 6) 71 7) 71 8) 67 Jeff cheered me on from the 200 and 300 mark on the last one, which helped a whole lot. I think my legs are strong and that mentally I need to push a bit harder. I think I can run these a bit faster, but it's been sort of a long week for me already and not a really typical time of day for me to run. I think I'd like to get one more set of 400s in before flying out next week. Monday I guess. | ||
| C • A Break 3 | ||
Thursday Jul 3 | ||
| biking 58:00 [3]12.0 mi (4:49 / mi) | |
| biking to work and home. The home version was harder because I ate an exceedingly large quantity of food at dinner. I was hungry when I ordered, but then all the other people at dinner couldn't finish their meals either, so I ate their food and most of my food, and still had a whole order of chicken wings that I brought home with me.
I weighed myself after work just because I was curious, 152 lb and then again after dinner on the same scale 154 lb. that's a successful meal in my estimation :) | ||
| road run 52:00 [3]6.0 mi (8:39 / mi) | |
| Running with Jared from work. headed south from the Joslin along the famed emerald necklace, and did a couple laps of jamaica pond, before heading back home. got caught by the storm in the last 5 minutes. a fun run, with a lot of talking going on. good way to end the work week. | ||
Wednesday Jul 2 | ||
| biking 58:00 [3]12.0 mi (4:49 / mi) | |
| To and Fro. legs feel kinda heavy today, probably an indication that I need to sleep more. body can't recover unless I get a few more z's every night.
The disappointing part of the day was that Wall-e was sold out before we could get tickets. We settled on seeing Iron Man instead. I will likely need to wait until after WOC and Oringen to see Wall-e now. I'm not generally a patient man, sigh. On the plus side chicken sandwiches were half price at the restaurant where I had dinner ( made it easy to rationalize eating two) and the positive peer pressure is already working! instead of taking the T home ( which would have been convenient for a sleepy ross) I hopped off at Longwood to get my bike for the commute home. roads are pleasantly empty at 11pm. | ||
Tuesday Jul 1 | ||
| biking 2:00:00 [3]25.0 mi (4:48 / mi) | |
| Biking in to work (6) --- late late late, not getting to sleep early enough these nights. makes waking up in time hard. luckily it doesn't really matter when I get in to work... honestly no one cares as long as I'm there by about 10ish and get enough done.
Then biking from work to CSU training at Pine Hill (7) --- brought a tail-light today having read in Brendan's log about the bike cops Finally biking home to Newton (12) --- knew sort of how I wanted to go... got lost though. I wanted to take common st down to watertown, but the map shows common street and not the names of Leonard and Concord streets the two streets that connect from 60 to common st. I remembered that something was funny with this intersection, but messed it up anyways. enjoyed exploring Watertown on the way home, will need to go back and check out the charles river swimming pool in watertown, I saw a sign and was intrigued | ||
| orienteering 38:00 [3] | |
| CSU training-- Pine Hill-- Line o set by Brendan. Best turnout so far I think!
Brendan, Sanne, Matt, Peter, Ian, Alexei, Lori, Dave, Alex, Audrun, Ross, and 3 adventure racers. Line o was set in a really enjoyable way, such that there were sections of trail where one could stretch out and run, and sections of trickier navigation where you had to stay on the line or risk missing one of the streamers Brendan had hung out in the woods. 13 streamers in total, I actually only saw 11 of them. I missed one at a trail junction that I'm sure I ran through and one in a reentrant near the end when it was getting dark, I coulda been off line on that one, but not by very much. I guess I don't hate line-o as much as I remember loathing it | ||
| C • are CSU trainings continuing? 10 | ||
Monday Jun 30 | ||
| road run 1:08:00 [3] | |
| Hill workout today. I was psyching myself up for it, since last night. I figure if I tell myself that I'm going to do something enough times then I'll feel too guilty skipping out. Wicked hot out there today though, and I was super sleepy and had a lot of good Cambodian food in my tummy from lunch. So I'm really pleased with how this workout went. especially how the first one felt. Much faster than last time. All this consistent exercise is paying off I suppose.
7 (!) reps up Summit Ave, starting from the pole at the bottom and making it to the mail box near the top. (warmup/rest/cooldown) (7:52) 1:54 (4:45) 1:59 (4:56) 1:59 (5:04) 2:03 (5:06) 2:05 (5:11) 2:10 (5:17) 2:09 (15:35) | ||
| C • Post plans 8 | ||
| biking 28:00 [3]6.0 mi (4:40 / mi) | |
| I was really tired after my hills, and couldn't motivate to bike home right away. I hung out at my desk and checked up on JWOC and WMOC. One could easily spend hours at a time trying to be a good spectator for these events. I was eyeball deep in sprint splits and realized that I should try to get home before it got too dark. Much much cooler at 8:30 than at 6:30. really pleasant.
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Sunday Jun 29 | ||
| orienteering 19:49 [3]*** 1.66 km (11:56 / km) | |
| spiked:10/12c | ||
| WCOC picnic- sprint A
was warned that the woods were thick and difficult. too true. The laurel is overwhelming at Ratlum Mt. Still no excuse for mispunching. I wasn't checking codes ( not worth unfolding the map, I foolishly thought) and I found a different rocky hill top for #4 than I was supposed to. This made finding 5 much trickier as well. didn't dawn on me until the finish that my mistake at 5 was more than just boneheadedness. didn't feel all that fast, but was doing my best to keep moving through tough terrain. | ||
| orienteering 23:29 [3]*** 2.49 km (9:26 / km) | |
| spiked:10/12c | ||
| WCOC picnic Sprint B
2nd sprint for me, and I think the one with the better woods. on the way to 5 chose to run through the woods instead of on the trail because it would be a challenge. It's very clear to me that the trail would have been the way to go, but the woods looked sort of white and I was being adventurous. managed to get back in before the thunderstorms started. ( great thunder and lightning for the food half of the picnic). legs feel okay from yesterday's track work. Food alone was worth the drive to CT! | ||