Training Archive: CristinaIn the 30 days ending 2007-04-30:
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Saturday Apr 28 | ||
| Note | |
| (sick) | ||
| Okay, clicked "sick" since I'm being prevented from doing any training. Don't quite feel like I've been hit by bus... maybe just a minivan. But I did manage to sleep for about 5 hours in the afternoon, so obviously my system is quite out of whack. Quite disappointing to be sick on a weekend! Grrr. | ||
Friday Apr 27 | ||
| Note | |
| (rest day) | ||
| Planned rest day. Also day 1 as a homeowner. Funny, I don't feel any different with 30 years of debt as I did with none.
Unfortunately, also day 1 of some kind of illness, I think. Just a sore throat for now. Blergh. | ||
| C • You will... 11 | ||
Thursday Apr 26 | ||
| Skating (inline skating) 36:30 [2] 6.0 mi (6:05 / mi) | |
| Had to give Seabass a ride into work this morning so I decided to do some early morning PT. Stopped off at Reid on the way back from the hospital and skated two laps. Quite a bit quicker this time. About 18:45 for the first and 17:45 for the second. Soon I'll have to do three laps to make it a worthwhile outing!
Nice morning, 60s, and more and more people out on the path as it got a little later. Saw two dog-like critters out on the golf course romping around. Didn't get a good look at them but I'd have to guess they were coyotes. I guess they like golf. | ||
| Running (road and dirt) 53:00 [2] 5.2 mi (10:11 / mi) | |
| shoes: Kayano XII (pink) | ||
| First meeting of the new Tucson Orienteering Club training group! There were only three of us meeting at Peg's but it was a good start. I ran with Brucker in and along the arroyo to the Reid bike path for a bit and back.
Backing up a bit... before that I drove to Safeway to buy some foodstuffs. Stepped out of the car and realized that I had locked my keys inside. While standing there wondering WTF to do I brilliantly realized that I was less than a mile from Peg's place, so I just ran there. I wasn't even late! So then, of course, we had this conversation about lost keys and keeping spares and wouldn't you know it but Brucker's car key fell out of his pocket during the run! He's smart enough to have a spare on the car, making me feel especially silly. But still making for a very high percentage of key incidents for one outing. | ||
| Strength/Core (stretching) 8:00 [1] | |
| Some much needed stretching after the run. I've used my legs good.
But what I really need to do (aside from orienteer more) is play some StepMania. Can't wait to be able to pull the dance pad out of storage! | ||
Wednesday Apr 25 | ||
| Cycling (road) 2:24:00 [2] 45.5 km (3:10 / km) +400m 3:02 / km | |
| Pre- and post-rush hour ride to Gates Pass. 80s, not much wind (thank goodness). Very nice ride. Lots of lights and stop signs this side of the river. About 1:20 out and up and 1:04 back, even with a more relaxed route back from the U of A to the hotel. Had to sit in basically my lowest gears for the climb. But hey, I made it. (It's really not that bad, but it always impresses non-cyclists.)
I spooked a bird at one point and of course that spooked me, which caused me to swerve out into the road, which spooked the car that was about to pass me, which of course caused him to swerve into the road and, well, it's just good no one was coming the other way. All for a stupid bird! I'm a wuss. This was essentially a pre-burn to prepare myself in case I get some good eats tonight. | ||
Tuesday Apr 24 | ||
| Running (dirt) 34:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Kayano XII (pink) | ||
| WoG session. About 10 min warmup, strides, then a light workout - 4x400 "hardish" (I ran them at 7min/mi pace) with 400 recovery. Then a short cooldown. Nice out. 70s, I think.
The number of bizarre small world encounters I've had in the past week is somewhat alarming. I'm almost afraid that I'm going to run into myself. | ||
| C • Back to the future? 6 | ||
| Strength/Core (stretching) 10:00 [1] | |
| Stretching before and after running plus some pushups and crunches again. | ||
Monday Apr 23 | ||
| Note | |
| Sheesh, I'm falling behind. They're all ones, but I'll put them in order of preference to make it a little more informative:
9/Tenths (1) The Wild (1) The Story of the Weeping Camel (1) | ||
| C • "The Story of the Weeping Came... 3 | ||
| Running (trail) 44:00 [2] 6 km (7:20 / km) +120m 6:40 / km | |
| ahr:156 max:184 shoes: Asics Trail Attack III | ||
| Well, I'm in love. Went running in Saguaro East starting from the Douglas Springs trailhead. Awesome. I don't know if I'll always feel like it is such a spectacular place to run or if it was just a combination of the weather, the flowering cacti, the sunset, my chipper mood, the company, whatever. But it was really great running. Sweet trails and gorgeous views.
In negative news I have to take my fitness test next week and it doesn't look good from the strength side of the house. Even crunches! | ||
Sunday Apr 22 | ||
| Cycling (road) 1:50:00 [1] 34 km (3:14 / km) +200m 3:09 / km | |
| ahr:127 max:164 | ||
| My bike has been revived from the dead so it was time for his born again baptism. Leisurely ride with Melissa out to Saguaro Nat'l Park East. Took Broadway to Old Spanish Trail. 70's and sunny. OST used to be pretty low traffic even along the first few miles but it seems there's been something of a construction boom out there and now it's crazy suburbia-like. Next time I'll vote to continue on to Colossal Cave to get more empty road.
Now that I have my bike back I'll have to seriously scope out the commuting issues. Should be easy enough to do once I settle in (at work and at home). First I should figure out exactly who my boss is and exactly where I am supposed to be working (it's a big mystery). | ||
Saturday Apr 21 | ||
| Running warm up/down (dirt) 20:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Asics Trail Attack III | ||
| Mostly warm up before the race around the park, still raining. Then a little bit of cool down afterwards including meeting up with Seabass and running in with her. | ||
| Running race (dirt and sand) 24:55 [4] 5 km (4:59 / km) +80m 4:37 / km | |
| ahr:191 max:196 slept:6.5 shoes: Asics Trail Attack III | ||
| Spring Cross Country Classic at Lincoln Park. Weather was very uncharacteristically gloomy this morning - 50s and raining! Luckily the earth drains so fast here that it wasn't muddy even though it'd rained pretty good all morning.
The course looped through the western half of the park twice, staying on the dirt trails and in the sandy washes. A section of grass, too, which was slow. The course was slightly rolling with one short killer hill (on the loop, so we hit it twice). It was tough running but a fun course. Based on previous years' results it looked like the top runners would go close to 2 min slower than their road times, so I figured under 25 min would be good. Using that metric this was a fine result. But I really don't think I raced well at all. It sure looks like I started too fast from the splits, but even without that there's the fact that I held my position (14th) for the first two miles and then let 3 people pass me... and I felt like I had no kick, even though I wasn't hurting nearly as much as I should have been for the last mile of a 5k. I think I need to race more if I expect to race better. First mile 7:30, then 7:48. Note: FR says 5.1km and suggests slightly more climb. | ||
| Skating 42:00 [2] 6.0 mi (7:00 / mi) | |
| Skated two laps at a modest pace around Reid in the evening with Melissa. First outing with the new skates that we bought last night (oops!). Very nice. | ||
Thursday Apr 19 | ||
| Running (dirt) 40:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Kayano XII (pink) | ||
| First run with WoG (The Workout Group) at The Track. The Track is a loop along the warning tracks of the 4 practice baseball fields at Reid Park. It is a very nice dirt running surface and happens to measure ~799 meters. The WoG meets on T days for track workouts, led by a guy who really seems to know what the heck he's doing. Good stuff.
Randy (the coach) gave us four newbies an easy workout: 4x(400 faster than jogging + 400 easy). We started with warmups including stretching and 6 strides, then did the track stuff. I hope I can do this regularly! Oh right, ran the warmup with Seabass at an easy pace and the "faster than jogging" sections at ~7:30 pace. | ||
| Strength/Core 10:00 [1] | |
| Streching + some crunches and pushups. | ||
| Note | |
| I found out today that my commander gives a 1-day pass to anyone scoring an "excellent" or above on their fitness tests. I believe an "excellent" is 92 points, which means that if I get max points for the run, BMI and situps (all basically a given) then I'd only have to do 3 pushups to get a 1 day pass! Ha! | ||
| C • pushups 3 | ||
Wednesday Apr 18 | ||
| Running (road) 32:40 [1] 3.0 mi (10:53 / mi) | |
| shoes: Kayano XII (pink) | ||
| Sunsettime run around Reid with Seabass. Still in the 80s. I did not have a good day food and hydration-wise - ate a big lunch and drank plenty of diet soda and not much water. This meant that I felt pretty crappy running and couldn't move any faster without stitching up. (Quite conveniently.)
Kicked off base. New digs off base are pretty nice. | ||
Tuesday Apr 17 | ||
| Cycling (road) 34:00 [2] 11.7 km (2:54 / km) +40m 2:51 / km | |
| ahr:135 max:152 | ||
| Easy midday spin around base. Had to wait until lunch time because it was too cold (!) this morning for the clothes I had managed to dig out from storage. In the 60s by noon, but still quite windy out.
I had to borrow Seabass' bike because mine is rather sickly and is in the shop until the end of the week. Unfortunately, I hadn't noticed until it was too late in the abduction process that she'd taken off her clipless pedals. And, well, I think it's clear how I feel about clips and straps. Not so bad on the road, though. Bike is a bit small but I think a too short top tube is less uncomfortable than a too long one... and my own bike is pretty close to that. | ||
| C • Too short top tube 6 | ||
Monday Apr 16 | ||
| Running (road) 34:00 [2] 5.9 km (5:46 / km) +30m 5:37 / km | |
| ahr:163 max:175 shoes: Kayano XII (pink) | ||
| Easy night run on base. Did an eastern loop this time, including down between the golf course and the boneyard. Unusually cool for April (50s) and a bit windy. Pretty quiet on those roads in the evening.
One half dose of Vitamin-I seemed to clear up the quirkiness in my r. knee during the day but I could feel it coming back during the run. Seems like it's actually the thingy that connects my r. quad with my knee. Whatever that is. Started inprocessing today, a process made even more exciting than usual by the fact that half of my squadron is in Alaska. Oh well. It just might take me a little longer. On the "neat-o" side, one of the goodies from the squadron was one of these suckers. Seems like a pretty cool watch, though I'm not sure what I'd do with it given all the other watches and gizmos I have. I guess I could wear them all at once to get the best cross section of information. | ||
| C • watch 4 | ||
Sunday Apr 15 | ||
| Orienteering race 1:10:08 [4] ** | |
| 10c shoes: Kayano XII (pink) | ||
| Tucson O club Hash-O meet at the U of A. This was approximately 5 zillion times more fun than I thought it would be. The course consisted of "hashing" legs that each led to a map with a control location circled (but not your current location). You copied the location on to your map (or memorized it) and then orienteered to the control. From there you followed the hash marks to the next map and so on, ten times. Since it was a staggered start event, the social and collaborative aspects of hashing were missing (though obviously people passed each other and clumped up a bit). It also added an element of luck, since you could end up going quite a ways down a bad trail all by yourself and have to turn around while the next guy makes a good guess or sees you coming back.
I didn't think I'd like it because of the luck element, and there were a few times when I said, "bastard!" under my breath at the end of particularly long bad trail (especially the ones on the top of parking garages), but it was still fun. It was also more fun because of the fact that your current location wasn't marked on the map, so you had to pay attention to the map the whole time. And it was a hell of a running workout, as it was long and you could run hard often. I started 2 and 4 minutes ahead of Brucker and Ludwig and they caught me pretty quickly in the beginning, as I tested out basically every bad trail. Eventually I had a streak of good guesses and dropped them both about halfway through, gaining a good 5 minutes on Ludwig and more like 10 on Brucker by the end of the course. Really pushing it at the end when I realized Ludwig was close to 4 minutes back and I had a chance to beat him. Knowledge of the campus certainly helped sometimes, especially with keeping track of where you were during the hashing legs. I was a little rusty in that respect, but couldn't have hurt. I think I ended up 2nd, only ~18 seconds behind Mark Everett. That's not likely to happen again soon, so I should make sure to celebrate hard now. ;-) | ||
| C • Cool! 6 | ||
| Strength/Core (stretching) 12:00 [1] | |
| Right knee is still tweaky. Totally unacceptable.
A Good Year (0) Bride and Prejudice (1) | ||
Saturday Apr 14 | ||
| Running (road) 30:00 [1] | |
| slept:6.0 shoes: Kayano XII (pink) | ||
| Late evening run with Seabass around D-M, learning me the base a little bit. Really nice out (70s), though the whole darkness thing made it a little harder to see where stuff was.
Everything felt a little twingy, especially right hammy and left knee, but not in a bad way. Just in a "I feel neglected and you've been sitting in a car too long" kind of way. | ||
Friday Apr 13 | ||
| Note | |
Orders in hand. Boooyah. | ||
| C • wahoo! 5 | ||
Thursday Apr 12 | ||
| Note | |
| Okay, I'll be Estragon. Who wants to be Vladimir? | ||
| C • neither 3 | ||
Wednesday Apr 11 | ||
| Hiking 45:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Asics Trail Attack III | ||
This morning I called my new BFFL, the airman in San Antonio who's working out my paperwork issues, and he said my orders would probably be ready tomorrow, not today. So, realizing that I had another day to kill, I looked in my fridge. I saw this:
and decided to go out for a little adventure. Cranked up the Arctic Monkeys and headed up to the Jemez Mountains. I made several short stops at National Forest trailheads and picnic areas, Jemez State Monument and Valles Caldera National Preserve. And then a longer stop + hike at my final destination, Bandelier National Monument. I'd driven through here before from Los Alamos, but mostly in the dark. What I saw today was some pretty spectacular scenery (everywhere) and some really neat ruins (at the monuments). It was too bad that it was freakin' cold in the caldera. And that my right knee is tweaky, probably from that second running trip last night (no warm up, ran fast). I took some pictures. Stopped at Rudy's for dinner and watched the end of the tragic Red Sox game. | ||
| C • Nice pix 2 | ||
| C • Nice pix 1 | ||
Tuesday Apr 10 | ||
| Running (trail) 35:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Asics Trail Attack III | ||
| Two separate evening trips out to the foothills with my camera. Not sure how much I actually spent running. A little chilly today, quite windy. Did lots of short spurts. | ||
| C • Video 4 | ||
| Note | |
| ... and now the result of the camera adventure:
Now you can see what I mean when I say Running in the foothills. Largely inspired by Spike and his O videos. | ||
| C • teammate 12 | ||
| Strength/Core (stretching) 10:00 [1] | |
Monday Apr 9 | ||
| Note | |
| Update: Almost had a fit today when I raced over to the squadron to pick up the (finally) new paperwork fax and saw that it said... "You have been selected for reassignment to Moody AFB, GA".
Okay, I did have a fit. Started making phone calls and everything. And then, as I shakily re-read all the forms again, I realized that the first six pages were the original screwup from before Fair Hill... and tucked away in the last page was a correction form, changing "Moody" to "Davis-Monthan" and "GA" to "AZ". So I *think* this is finally the right paperwork. I guess I have to actually sign the blasted thing that says I'm going to GA so that they can then officially change it. How screwed up is that? Anyway, have to call TX tomorrow morning to make sure. Only a day or two left, it seems... Chizz. | ||
| Running (trail) 30:00 [2] 4.7 km (6:23 / km) +140m 5:33 / km | |
| ahr:169 max:184 shoes: Asics Trail Attack III | ||
| Afternoon run in the foothills, after the rain cleared off... since I have no jackets or long-sleeved shirts here.
Pretty nice out, 50s and not too too much wind. Legs were a little unzippy today. Flat? I guess from yesterday. That would be cool. Felt okay to run, it was just like my legs were ignoring my brain inputs to move faster. Almost exactly the same HR info as yesterday, which makes me feel justified in "just" hiking up and down that ridge. :-) | ||
Sunday Apr 8 | ||
| Hiking 1:50:00 [3] 10.4 km (10:35 / km) +680m 7:58 / km | |
| ahr:168 max:184 shoes: Asics Trail Attack III | ||
| No snow this afternoon, a little sun, pretty warm. So I scoped out some new territory, NW portion of the Sandias. Hiked up and over Juan Tabo Ridge via Piedra Lisa. Clouds a little dicey (threatening thunderstorms all afternoon) so I kept it short. I didn't want to be stuck on the wrong side of the ridge if a storm came.
Ran when I could, which wasn't too often - even going down it was often too steep to run comfortably. So it was mostly a brisk hike, which is just fine. | ||
| Note | |
| Seabass was here the past few days making me finish up the current semester's work. Slavedriver. Rewarded with two movies:
Blades of Glory (1) Crash (1) | ||
| C • Crash 6 | ||
Saturday Apr 7 | ||
| Note | |
| It's snowing. What the heck? I don't have clothes for this. All my warm stuff is already in Tucson. How Alanis. | ||
| C • Ironic 3 | ||
Thursday Apr 5 | ||
| Orienteering 2:40:00 [2] *** +800m | |
| ahr:165 max:187 32c shoes: Integrators (orange) | ||
| This weekend's NMO meet in the east mtns was canceled. No chance to reschedule, so I went back out there to pick up controls and take down tape. It was a gorgeous day, sort of what you think of in dry, western mtns in the summer. Emphasis on dry. I was quite thirsty by the end of this.
Yesterday marked three years of indentured servitu...er, I mean, employment with the USAF. Today marks 13 years since Kurt Cobain's death. I tried to draw a parallel but it just wasn't happening for me. | ||
| C • status 5 | ||
| Running 20:00 [2] | |
| ahr:167 max:187 shoes: Integrators (orange) | ||
| Running to and from the car. | ||
Tuesday Apr 3 | ||
| Running (terrain) 50:00 [3] | |
| ahr:169 max:185 shoes: Integrators (orange) | ||
| Headed over to the east mountains today for some terrain running. Really it was trail+terrain, since much of the area is too steep for running. I ran along Sulphur Canyon and Cienega Canyon Horse Bypass and hopped off to run some circles (or ovals) when it wasn't so steep. It was pretty nice out, 60's or so, though getting overcast.
Legs felt good, and amazingly my head didn't explode even though I was running through junipers. Orders update: It looks like it really was a mistake by Genius and she is going to fix it. Should have by now. I now feel about 90% confident that it will be fine. But I won't fully relax until I sign that paper. If I hadn't had a conversation on Thursday about people who'd been screwed by exactly this situation (and didn't manage to be unscrewed) I probably wouldn't be so worried. Meanwhile, time for some pizza. | ||
| C • Pizza 15 | ||
Monday Apr 2 | ||
| Note | |
| Well, my sister didn't find a man, but she did enjoy herself orienteering, which is actually a much more surprising result. That should tell you a bit about how confident we were that she'd have fun. If only she were hooked... she'd be sure to be kicking my ass in a year.
I tried to run today. I got all dressed up and everything. But I couldn't bring myself to get out the door. This is largely because I'm exhausted, which is a problem by itself, but also exacerbates any emotional fragilities. For those keeping score at home, my orders fiasco has gotten worse. I got a call Friday on the way to the airport. My orders were "fixed", I was happily informed. Only it turns out that in the process of fixing the date, the genius who works the orders changed the location. So, as of right now, the military personnel system thinks that I am going to Valdosta, GA instead of Tucson, AZ. This is, presumably, a fixable mistake. I'd rather not believe that this is on purpose, even though that is entirely plausible, because that would mean that they were trying to royally fuck with me, and that would make me angry. Once again, in the wide spectrum of "Ways the Military Can Fuck With You", this isn't really *that* bad, though certainly much worse than simply having a delay in moving. Nevertheless, it's quite upsetting. So, needless to say, I haven't signed the "fixed" orders and I am still in limbo status. I am going to get a lot of sleep and get in a good run tomorrow. I expect to be held to that. :-) | ||
| C • Geez 19 | ||
Sunday Apr 1 | ||
| Running warm up/down (trail) 12:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Integrators (orange) | ||
| Running to and from the porta-potties. And running to and from the porta-potties again. I was not one with my GI system this morning and I was afraid that was going to make for a seriously AOWN experience. | ||
| Orienteering race 1:26:05 [3] *** 9.1 km (9:28 / km) +300m 8:07 / km | |
| ahr:181 max:196 shoes: Integrators (orange) | ||
| Better today. Felt physically stronger the whole way, so I didn't fade. Had a few slow thinking moments that lost me some cumulative minutes on the course. But I think this was better over all than yesterday. | ||
Red - Day 2 - Splits | ||