Training Archive: iamsinhtIn the 7 days ending 2008-01-26:
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Friday Jan 25 | ||
| Road running 1:15:00 [3] ** 7.5 mi (10:00 / mi) | |
| shoes: NB ABZORB EX 11.5 | ||
| CSU Training; Brendan set up a street-o with a map of Cambridge with some contours and buildings. Ross, Brendan, Lori and I ran the course in north Cambridge at 7:30 PM. Note that the 7.5 miles was actual distance; I computed my route on google pedometer.
On my performance, I started strong, but I faded and my concentration wavered. Ross and Brendan finished the course in about an hour. My map reading on the fly/moving point was fairly strong, which is partly to be expected given a street-o. I'm not sure how long these links are active, but my route: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=1581974 | ||
Thursday Jan 24 | ||
| Skiing 5:00:00 [3] | |
| Caveat: while not formally training, the following was of sufficient interest and was sufficiently demanding to warrant a log entry.
Lori and I, after some weeks of planning and conjecture, drove to the Cranmore ski resort in North Conway, New Hampshire, for alpine skiing. The day was enjoyable. I was pleasantly surprised with: - How much fun it is to ride ski lifts (especially if you're acrophobic) - What a terrible idea it is to travel down the gradient of a large hill with your skis parallel, minimizing kinetic energy loss due to friction - The thrill of wiping out completely out of control I started the day with a complete disdain for snow plow, canting my skis inward at perhaps a 5' angle. After doing well on three green courses, I attempted a blue - and skied straight down a gradient to my wipe-out doom. I finished that course, heavily employing the snow plow technique. For the rest of the day, I focused on controlling my turns, particularly on slopes with a very high upper bound on speed, more so constrained by collisions than by friction. Lori and I later successfully ran a few blue courses; I did not run any black diamonds, but nor did I injure myself. While skiing is enjoyable, I don't foresee pursuing it as anything but a highly intermittent pasttime. The logistics of a ski trip are somewhat overwhelming; I invested 3-4 minutes of planning for each minute at the ski slope, and probably 15-20 times as much planning, traveling, and ski lifting for each minute skiing on a trail. In contrast, orienteering requires perhaps 3 minutes of logistics and organization for every minute on a course at a meet, and orienteering training is a reward in itself (whereas driving to a ski facility, renting skis, and researching ski facilities on the internet are not). | ||