Training Archive: RosstopherIn the 7 days ending 2008-07-12:
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Friday Jul 11 | ||
| orienteering 1:00:00 [3] | |
| Training in Relay and Middle relevant terrain in Nemcice. Sandra had planned forked relay loops and Joe and Leif went out to hang streamer tape at the control locations. For the warm up Sandra marked out a series of 8 control locations from the car parking to the start of the orienteering training. Eddie and I did these warm up controls by alternating leading between each one.
My first time on the maps out here, and I initially was getting easily confused by the contours. started to feel more confident as we were out there more. The woods today were pretty awesome, pretty clear and with high visibility. They tell me that these are the best woods so far. The relay loops were also fun. I started at the same time as Clem and Eddie, and was within sight of Clem for most of the 2 k loop. we drifted left on the first control, and then I was too far right on the 2nd. I hope the orienteering flags will be easier to see than tiny blue streamer tape :) Clem had a hard time finding the tapes at 4, so I passed him there but then I missed the tapes at 5 and he got ahead and stayed ahead. the second loop was just Clem and I, and again we were together most of the way. I had the shorter ( just a little) forking so I had the advantage coming into the finish :) and even though I had some trouble finding the last pit I was able to stay in front of him this time. A hot sweaty day. Very good to be orienteering with friends in pretty woods. | ||
| C • Great run! 2 | ||
Thursday Jul 10 | ||
| Note | |
| The brautigams managed to pack all of the luggage into their tiny car and the six of us arrived at the event center without too much hassle. I feel much closer with the team already, especially Clem and Viktoria with whom I shared the backseat.
unpacking and dinner in the food court, AOWN saw some canadians also eating in the food court. Then a team meeting and time for bed. | ||
| C • Canadians qualify for AOWN ... 1 | ||
Wednesday Jul 9 | ||
| orienteering 24:26 [3]4.1 km (5:58 / km) | |
| CSU training, Menotomy rocks - set by Ian Smith. apart from me showing up 30 minutes late this was an ideal training. lots of points, so criss-crossing all over the map. Brendan cheered me on like six separate occasions in the forest. I was in sneakers which made some of the climb a bit more challenging.
after the sprint, there was a lot of chatting to be done, and a quick cool-down run with Alex, Alexei and Brendan to the water fountain and around the trails. Then Alex waded into the lake and it looked too good to refuse. | ||
| Note | |
| Travel day- met Clem at the Airport no problems with security. Someone drove a staircar into the side of our plane and that delayed us for 30 mins or so until everything was cleared and checked for possible disaster status.
short stop in Munich before we continued on to Vienna. Pavi and her friend met us at the airport and then it was off to Czech republic. | ||
Tuesday Jul 8 | ||
| biking 1:50:00 [3]21.5 mi (5:07 / mi) | |
| biking to work, biking from work to CSU training ( already behind schedule), biking from watertown square where Alex dropped me off (thanks Alex) to the Arsenal mall, and then from the mall home.
wore pants on the way home, because I didn't want to change after shopping at old navy and radio shack. Man is it way to hot to bike in Carhartts! | ||
Monday Jul 7 | ||
| biking 58:00 [3]12.0 mi (4:49 / mi) | |
| Sigh, super busy today at work, so the track workout just wasn't in the cards. maybe I should be thinking about tapering anyway. There really isn't enough time to finish all the stuff I want to get done at work before I leave.... then there is the question of whether I will finish all the stuff that my boss(es) want me to finish before I leave :) ha.
anyway, the lights flip off in the mouse facility at just past 7, which cut short my evening of work, and then I hit up my bike at about 8:30 arriving home at 9pm. I got passed by another biker while I waited at a red light. This other guy was going slower than I was, but was running red lights so I wasn't able to get back ahead of him until cleveland circle. Then he stayed right behind me for awhile ( couple of feet), which was incentive enough for me to really work on the hill so that I could drop him. Starting to pack. I leave on Wednesday.l | ||
| C • Starting to pack? 11 | ||
| C • Good Luck at WOC 6 | ||
Sunday Jul 6 | ||
| road run 48:51 [3]6.5 mi (7:30 / mi) | |
| Went to a party at a co-workers house on the T, but stayed well past when the T stops running. Of course, I never stop running ( wow, that metaphor alone is enough to knock my socks off) so after the party I just ran home. I had my shuffle for company and it was quite nice. Roads were pleasantly empty, temperature was pleasantly cool, and ross was pleasantly inebriated at 3 am this morning. | ||
| C • co-worker 2 | ||
| canoe-o 1:00:00 [3] | |
| Spent 3 hours out on the Charles River in rented Canoes this afternoon. It was a friend's birthday so we had a picnic with strawberries, cherries, beer bread and whipped cream chocolate wafer cake. then we paddled up the river a ways, past the Weston golf course/ski track before working our way back to the rental place.
I have forgotten how to effectively J-stroke but I remember how much fun it is to spend all afternoon on the river :) | ||
| C • Canoe = love 2 | ||