Thursday Jul 31 |
 | running 25:00 [2] 3.0 mi (8:20 / mi) | |
| shoes: Mizuno WR VI 07 |
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| stretching warm up/down 5:00 [0] | |
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Monday Jul 28 |
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| Event: WUOC 2008
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| soccer (grass) 1:00:00 [2] | |
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Sunday Jul 27 |
| strength 5:00 [5] | |
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Thursday Jul 24 |
| running (road) 30:00 [2] 3.5 mi (8:34 / mi) | |
| shoes: Blue WR X 2008 |
| Over to Tufts and back, at night. Some pain from my back/hip, but not nearly as bad as it was last week/on the weekend. |
| strength 5:00 [5] | |
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| Back/core. Trying to make this a habit. |
Wednesday Jul 23 |
| strength 5:00 [5] | |
| (rest day) |
| Unplanned rest day; lots of stuff going on in lab, and back also still a bit sore. |
Tuesday Jul 22 |
| cycling warm up/down 1:00:00 [2] | |
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| To/from Hammond Pond. |
| Orienteering 30:00 [2] 3.5 km (8:34 / km) | |
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| Pia and Mark set up a nice course at Hammond Pond. Got there at 7:20(?) so it was getting dark fast. Started out backwards, by accident, but realized after 3 controls and went back to do it forwards. Got to #17 before deciding it was getting too dark. About the same time, my hip started hurting a bit, but not too bad. Time is a complete guess. |
Monday Jul 21 |
| strength 5:00 [5] | |
| (rest day) |
| Back/core stuff. Back is pretty painful today. |
Sunday Jul 20 |
| cycling 1:00:00 [2] | |
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| To/from Boojum. |
| Orienteering 45:00  *** 4.5 km (10:00 / km) | |
| 10c shoes: Nike Terra Ridge 07 |
| Ian and I went out to Boojum and did a partner run around a short course (~4.5km, I guess?) This pinched nerve thing was bothering me a lot by the end. |
| stretching warm up/down 10:00 [0] | |
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Saturday Jul 19 |
| soccer (grass) 1:03:00  | |
| slept:7.0 shoes: Nike 90 cleats |
| Got up at 8 to finally fix my bike, then headed over to Danehy for a cup game with WTR against the team that has won the top league for the past 3 years. They were not as good as I would have thought, but we still lost 3-1. I don't think anyone had much, but I was certainly dragging the whole time. Same pain in my right leg is still bothering me; feels like a pinched nerve somewhere near the base of the spine or hip or something like that. Stretched out a lot, but it didn't help at all. |
| stretching warm up/down 7:00 [0] | |
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Friday Jul 18 |
| strength 3:00 [5] | |
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| Some core in the morning. |
| running (road/dirt) 33:15 [2] 3.8 mi (8:44 / mi) | |
| shoes: Mizuno WR VI 07 |
| Ran with Ian; Eliot-Western. |
Wednesday Jul 16 |
| soccer (turf) 1:05:00  | |
| slept:6.0 shoes: Nike 90 cleats |
| Game with the West Town Rockets vs. Kendall Wanderers B (Irish guys). Won 3-0, after a couple of early goals, one of them the result of the opposing goalie coming out of the box and handling the ball, which also sent him off the field with a red card. Scored the final goal in the last minute or so, when a defender was chasing the ball down towards the corner and saved it from going out. I scoped it up and put it in the net; basically a free goal.
Having some lower back issues, which is giving me shooting pains in my legs; probably need to do core stuff more regularly. |
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| C • lower back pain 1 |
| stretching warm up/down 5:00 [0] | |
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| strength 5:00 [5] | |
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| Some core stuff. Not a super-big workout, but probably a less-intense workout every day is better than one big one each week. |
Tuesday Jul 15 |
| Orienteering 51:00 [2] *** 6.18 mi (8:15 / mi) | |
| spiked:17/19c shoes: Blue WR X 2008 |
| Barb's street-o. I think I went to all of them, but I couldn't find #13 or #9. It was good to see Katia, who's in town for a week. |
| stretching warm up/down 2:00 [0] | |
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| Really not enough. |
Monday Jul 14 |
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| (rest day) |
| Signed up for the COCs today. I thought the NAOCs in Ontario were expensive, but apparently the standard for Canadian events is 175% the cost of US events. I certainly hope my high expectations are met. |
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| C • Expense 7 |
Sunday Jul 13 |
| running long (road) 1:25:45 [2] 9.8 mi (8:44 / mi) | |
| shoes: Blue WR X 2008 |
| Ran from Lyman down to JFK and then a science museum loop, clockwise, picking up Ian at the science museum, and dropping him off at River St. Hadn't eaten since lunch, and ran at ~6pm, which was somewhat problematic. Hamstrings were really tired by the end; left arch a bit tight in the beginning but loosed up by the end. |
| stretching warm up/down 7:00 [0] | |
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Thursday Jul 10 |
| soccer (grass) 20:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Nike 90 cleats |
| Realized that there was WTR practice today, so I went over at around 6:30, but unfortunately forgot to bring a second pair of socks. Ergo, I now have no skin on the balls of my feet. Nice. |
| strength 15:00 [5] | |
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| Since I left the practice early, I decided to go to the gym and do some core/upper stuff. Pretty good workout, probably will feel it in places tomorrow. |
| stretching 2:00 [0] | |
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| Really not enough of this. |
Wednesday Jul 9 |
| strength 10:00 [5] | |
| slept:8.0 |
| "Black-jack workout". Back when I was in college, I had a friend who was training for the marines who started his day out each day by shuffling a deck of cards, then flipping them over one-by-one and doing the number of push-ups that each card is worth in black-jack. I'm not training for the marines but it seemed like a good idea for a workout, so I tried it with a set of core exercises. I guess it was somewhat good for motivation, but I think I'll stick to a less stochastic prescription. |
Tuesday Jul 8 |
| running warm up/down (road/trail) 25:30 [2] 3.0 mi (8:30 / mi) | |
| slept:8.0 shoes: Mizuno WR VI 07 |
| Ran from Alewife to the CSU training at Menotomy Rocks, then jogged a loop of the park with Alexei afterwards. |
| Orienteering 25:00 [4] *** 4.3 km (5:49 / km) | |
| spiked:14/14c shoes: Mizuno WR VI 07 |
| CSU training at Menotomy Rocks by iamsinht. The course criss-crossed the map a bunch of times and I got a good workout going up the hill ... 4 times? Felt pretty good, even the hot, humid weather. Reminded me of pleasant childhood memories playing soccer in the North Carolina summer.
Time is a guess (watch still broken, oops). |
| stretching warm up/down 5:00 [0] | |
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Monday Jul 7 |
| running (road/track) 41:15  5.2 mi (7:56 / mi) | |
| shoes: Blue WR X 2008 |
| Got out of lab late (9:45), but somehow managed to pull out some motivation for a late-night run. Over to Tufts, 6x30sec strides on the track, back. |
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| C • now I feel guilty :) 4 |
| stretching warm up/down 10:00 [0] | |
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Sunday Jul 6 |
| running long (road) 59:23 7.0 mi (8:28 / mi) | |
| shoes: Blue WR X 2008 |
| Over to Tufts, around twice, 5x30sec strides on the track, back. Slow and lethargic. New shoes feel good. |
| stretching warm up/down 5:00 [0] | |
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Saturday Jul 5 |
| soccer (grass) 1:00:00 [3] | |
| slept:8.0 shoes: Nike 90 cleats |
| Practice with the West Town Rockets. Basically playing some higher-intensity monkey-in-the-middle, then some scrimmaging. Pretty good workout. |
| stretching warm up/down 5:00 [0] | |
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Friday Jul 4 |
| Other long (walking) 1:00:00 [1] | |
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| Ordinarily I wouldn't log walking, but today I took the T down to Aquarium at 10am to go out to the Boston Harbor Islands with Ed, walked all over Georges and Spectacle, then took the ferry back, walked all over the North End trying to find Ed's favorite pizza place, then walked back from there to MIT to watch the fireworks, then walked back to Somerville from MIT. Net walking time ~10hrs. |
| running 15:00 [2] | |
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| Running to the top of spectacle and back down in time to just miss the water taxi back to the mainland. |
Tuesday Jul 1 |
| Orienteering (line-o) 45:00 [2] *** 3.5 km (12:51 / km) | |
| shoes: Nike Terra Ridge 07 |
| Setting out streamers for the CSU line-o at Pine Hill. We had 14 people for this week's training. Pine hill is less green than I was expecting. |
| Orienteering 10:00 [2] ** | |
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| Running around on trails after dark trying to locate Ian's friend, Peter. |
| stretching warm up/down 10:00 [0] | |
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