Training Archive: Cristina

In the 30 days ending 2008-06-30:

activity	#	time	miles	km	+m
Orienteering	8	14:37:25	12.8	20.6	275	5 /	102c	3%
Running	11	5:27:05	31.22	50.24	300
Other Cardio	4	4:30:00
Cycling	11	4:15:00	13.5	21.73	130
Climbing	1	15:00
Strength/Core	1	10:00
Total	36	29:14:30	57.52	92.56	705	5 /	102c	3%

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Monday Jun 30
	Cycling (road) 55:00 [2] 13.5 mi (4:04 / mi) +130m 2:27 / km

	Evening ride after work. Back is still bothering me but only when I twist it, which I think is nature's way of saying, "Don't twist, stupid." Not too ferociously hot out by the time I left, about 98, with the sun already getting out of the way. Wanted to do a loop out to Sabino but it was going to get dark so I just went up and down Swan. Not that exciting. FR wouldn't turn on. Again. WTF? I haven't abused it enough to deserve the unreliability. Seriously. Time based on phone time, with subtraction for lights a total wag.

	C • FR 5

	C • conspiracy theory 2
Sunday Jun 29
	Orienteering race 49:15 [3] *** 8.3 km (5:56 / km)
	ahr:176 max:198 22c shoes: Gus
	The first of what will hopefully be a tradition of Street-O in Tucson. Peg hosted and the course started near her house, covering the 'hood to the East (Barrio Peg, in her words). One-hour score-o format, with questions to answer rather than controls to punch, and an aerial for a map. Nice morning, nice course. I was sometimes a little confused about what I was supposed to be looking for - like, which side of the street. I guess that's part of the trick of these things. Had to go pretty hard to get them all. Mook cleaned it in about 45, Ludwig a few minutes behind me (and then some, since he forgot to answer a question and had to go back). I think Brucker managed to nab them in just under the hour. Distance logged is actual traveled. I'll try measuring straight line to see how much difference there is. Here's the map. No fortuitous meetings for me today. Wrong side of the country, I guess. And I tweaked my back something fierce. Hurt right when I started running, but only on and off. Much worse when I hopped in the car to go home. Pretty unpleasant to move right now. Boris and Cristina are both weakening in the Pacific.

	C • WTF? 3

	C • Whoa! 4

	C • Street O 6
	Note

	Now that my internets are working properly: White Mountains day 1 north and south. Burton Creek middle and classic. Sometimes you just need to know: is California on fire?

	C • Is California on fire? 1
Saturday Jun 28
	Orienteering 45:00 [2] ***
	15c shoes: Paul
	Morning training at Arthur Pack. Drew a short course and tried to nail them, working on keeping a good direction and looking ahead - basically the only way to get around here. I managed pretty well. I tried to pick some control locations that were more distinct (like stumps instead of saguaros) since I didn't have streamers or another person so that I could run through them instead of taking time to verify my position. I also tried to pick up the speed towards the end. It's amazing how quickly you can lose track of where you are if you drift. Good practice. This was supposed to be group training but I only got one taker, Ludwig, and I forgot that not everyone checks their email as much as I do... so I ended up alone.

	C • Noticed that the two curren... 7
Friday Jun 27
	Other Cardio 30:00 [2]

	Morning PT. We played ultimate and it was actually fun - we only had 4 or 5 on a team at a time, and it wasn't a jockfest. Still not something I'd want to do all the time, but at least it wasn't a negative experience. I was supposed to play a bunch last night but there was mucho agua all over the place, flash flood warnings, lightning, etc., and supposedly fields were closed. Not sure if people played anyway, but I was on a roll at home, so I stayed.
Thursday Jun 26
	Note

	It's raining! A lot!
Wednesday Jun 25
	Other Cardio (ultimate) 1:30:00 [3]
	shoes: Paul
	Ultimate with the league team. Our name this week was "Lightning Shitz" because there was lots of lightning around. It was actually really cool, spectacular sunset and some rain that we could pretend was cooling us off. First storm of the summer. And no one died. We won both games (again). We totally rock. I think I'm getting used to all these short spurts of really fast running. It has to be useful from a strength building perspective, and I'm serious in that. Fun too, of course. Old Chicago afterward and I treated myself to my own promotion goodies. I got through the whole day without calling myself "Lt Luis" on the phone. It's pretty easy to kick a four-year habit if the change is so welcome.

	C • Congrats, again... 14
Tuesday Jun 24
	Running tempo (road/dirt) 40:00 4.4 mi (9:05 / mi)
	ahr:180 max:196 shoes: Gus
	Morning tempo run in the form of 3x6 min cruise intervals. One minute easy jog between. Dragged myself out of bed an hour later than I had wanted. Mid-80s and... sunny! Legs felt awful warming up. I think it's just not being in a morning routine. Ten minutes warmup out to the bike path, then launched in. I was shooting for 7:30-7:40 pace, which I managed for the first two. Key word is 'managed' - they were clearly too fast for tempo today (see MHR of 196). Last one was significantly slower (8ish?), but still tried to keep the tempo feel, which should be good enough. Still a high HR, too.
	Note

	Pic of the weekend: That's my sister drawing her route on her map on Saturday.
Monday Jun 23
	Note

	Apparently I now generate a false positive match for someone on the FAA No-Fly list. This means that someone with my name (my name? seriously? wtf?) is on the No-Fly list, and now I have to prove that I am not that person by checking in with a real person at the ticket counter and... providing proof. So I can't check-in for a flight online, curbside, or at a kiosk. Didn't happen this weekend, but I could be subject to additional searches and delays if I can't prove to their satisfaction that I am not the person on the list. So much for probable cause. I suppose this means that my days of showing up 30min before take-off are over. Same with A group boarding on Southwest. (!) Could be worse, considering this whole No-Fly list business is, in my mind, unconstitutional. I can't imagine my wrath if I ended up on the actual list.

	C • No fly 20
Sunday Jun 22
	Running warm up/down (trail) 10:00 [2]
	shoes: Paul
	Before.
	Orienteering race 1:42:00 [3] *** 7.1 km (14:22 / km) +165m 12:52 / km
	12c shoes: Paul
	Today was better until it was worse. In day 2 of Cristina vs. vague terrain, I did exceptionally well (for me) for about 85 continuous minutes. I was very pleased with myself, picking attackpoints and walking when necessary to make sure I didn't blow anything. And then, with two controls left, I got cocky at the end of a leg and just sort of ran, which wasn't a good strategy for finding a "1m" boulder in the midst of several 1-2m tree stumps on a bland hillside. Really blew it on that one. At least I had equally confused company (Tapio) for the last 5 minutes of my goof. (For the record, I found it first!) I give my orienteering for the weekend a grade of D. It would be an F except for the fact that I really did run the rest of the course on Sunday much better than I would have in the past. I did it slowly, but I think starting slow and clean and gradually racheting up the speed in stuff like this is a better plan than fast and messy and trying to get cleaner.
	Note

	A note about the weekend. 1. I enjoyed it. A good challenge for me. 2. Saturday was advertised as "middle distance". It wasn't. 3. A .5m knoll in a rough field of 1-2m stumps? Really? 4. I didn't see any goshawks. Bummer.

	C • MIddle Distance 3
Saturday Jun 21
	Orienteering race 1:12:35 [3] *** 5.2 km (13:58 / km) +110m 12:37 / km
	ahr:183 max:195 spiked:5/9c
	Well, tomorrow's another day. Took it carefully on the long first leg all the way out to my clearing attackpoint. Then I took a bad fall, slipping sideways on a log and landing on my right knee. You know that soft part on the front outside of your knee? There's a log at Burton Creek that fits there perfectly. Got up and realized that limping was the best I could do, at least right then. I'm not sure what happened from there, but I was only 200 m from the control and I completely missed it. Saw another boulder with a flag and tried to relocate off of that, but no luck. I decided to bail back out to the road and on the way I ran into my third control, also about 200 m away. I missed it again. Turned around and started back because I knew I'd gone too far and saw it 50 m behind me. I can't entirely blame the distraction of fall and getting hurt, especially since I was expecting a much bigger boulder and screwed up multiple times. Lost about 13 minutes (!) on that one. I'm pretty sure I went by the rock more than once, it'll be interesting to see the tracks. I could more or less run again after that and did just fine for the next five controls. Careful with good attackpoints. Couldn't run very fast, which I guess is the altitude and the junky woods. It still felt abnormally difficult. I know there are lots of things wrong with me. But at least I can usually run. Good on 7, too, another few minutes. Not a good day at all.

	C • Sorry about your orienteeri... 4
	Running warm up/down 10:00 [2]

	Before the race.
Friday Jun 20

	Event: Tahoe 3 Day
Wednesday Jun 18
	Other Cardio (Ultimate) 1:30:00
	shoes: Paul
	Summer league again. We won both games. Again. We rock. Unfortunately, I can't really share any of our team names tonight. They're just not family friendly. I'm starting to get the hang of how to take advantage of my running speed. And the (severe) limitations of my throwing. Old Chicago afterwards. We never got our free pizza because no one bothered to order it. Even so, frisbee people are way cooler than AF people. 7 days.
Monday Jun 16
	Cycling (road) 20:00 [2]

	In to work. A little less spring in my step this morning.

	C • For seabass 4
	Cycling (road) 20:00 [2]

	Home. It was hot by any definition of the word today - 107F when I left work. For some reason 107 seems a lot hotter than 101 or 100. There must be some magic breakpoint somewhere in between those two where all of a sudden my body says, "um, dude, it's hot. slow the f down". Realized that I totally forgot to tell the story of the world's biggest asshole. I met him this weekend as he was "camped" a few hundred meters from our meet hq this weekend. I'll see if I can do the story justice in a bit.

	C • oh boy! 3
	Note

	I'll give it a try, but I don't think that I can do this guy justice. Not even in a live reenactment. Peg and I arrived pretty late to the site on Friday, pretty close to midnight. We pulled through to where we figured we were supposed to be. It was pretty empty but there was a very large RV/bus camped out on one side of the forest road. Didn't really look like an orienteer, but it was the right place... and you never know. So we pulled up across the road and started to set up camp. About 10 minutes later a dog starts barking wildly from across the way. I'm psyched already. A few minutes after that someone in the RV turns on an outside light, something like 5000 watts behind it. Finally there is a voice. It's just a voice because we can't see anything but light. WBA: "I don't think that's gonna work." I'm a little surprised by this comment, and trying to figure out if it is the voice of an orienteer just trying to be funny. Or maybe actual helpful information, like our chosen campsite is in the middle of an elk mating location or something.
	Note

	Me: "Excuse me?" WBA: "I said, I don't think that's gonna work." Me: "Why not?" WBA: "You're gonna have to move. This dog is going to keep all of us up until you get out of line of site." At this point I realize that we're going to end up having to move because there's no reason to be close to this guy. But it irks me that he's not being nice.
	Note

	Peg starts to explain that there's an orienteering meet, to let him know that there will be a bunch more people, and he cuts her off. He says, "I know what's going on here," like it's some conspiracy meeting. He goes on about how we're idiots to put our campsite so close when there's so much room, and how he's there to enjoy the solitude, not to have neighbors, and how we should have had the decency to set up further away, and how we can move the start because any decent orienteer would be able to find the new location if we put up a sign. This is said with a lot of anger, and in a way that says, "I'm not asking, I'm ordering." He is nothing but rude, and I tell him so after he cuts me off for the third time. There is finally a pause and I say, "Hi, nice to meet you, my name's Cristina," with the idea that a fresh start might make the experience more pleasant. He actually responds with the same, but then goes right back into railing us for being so inconsiderate.
	Note

	The guy had a reasonable request, and if he'd just walked over and said, "hi, my name's dave... would you guys mind moving down the road a hundred yards?" then it would have been no problem. The thing is, he didn't, and he continued to be a problem even after our rude introduction. His crazy dog, that he insisted wouldn't attack anyone, was left unleashed and started going for Pete Cowgill, aged 82, during the event on Saturday. It wasn't until Pete said, "if he gets closer I'll kill him" that WBA called the dog back. On top of the attitude, this guy seems to be permanently camped at his location, probably violating FS policy. Peg took pictures and turned them into the FS and they are checking him out. I just hope I never see him again. And that was definitely not a deserving portrait. He was indescribably rude. I have pushed so much of the conversation out of my mind that I just can't recreate it.
Sunday Jun 15
	Orienteering race 2:00:35 ***
	9c shoes: Paul
	Final event, another score-o, this one decided by universal consent to be only 2-hours instead of 4. What a smart bunch of folks. I was excited to do a little more speedy stuff today and drew up a nice runnable course from the offerings. Unfortunately, I felt like doo-doo. I managed to run - downhill - to my first control, gingerly. I was pretty sore. Once I got onto flat/rising terrain I discovered that I could only take 10 or 20 steps before my head started screaming at me. I guess it was the mix of questionable hydration, sun, altitude, the long day yesterday, etc., etc., excuses, excuses...
	Note

	Whatever it was, it didn't get better and for most of the course I was like a zombie. It was really pathetic. I guess it's evidence that there is a limit to how much I can do and still be able to move well and concentrate. To top it all off, I bailed on going for one last control right near the finish so that I could make it in on time... but didn't! I was 35 seconds late. I should have spent a few minutes nabbing it. Or maybe I should have bailed an hour sooner. I think the only reason I managed to make it through was because I found a nylon smiley face balloon about halfway through. It looked pretty fresh, still had some float left in it, so I tied it to my watch to keep my company while I dragged it to its death.
	Orienteering 1:00:00 [1]

	Control retrieval. Yes, I went out again. How could I not? I walked, really slowly, and grabbed four controls. It was just as beautiful out there today as it was yesterday, I just didn't find myself making note of it as often. It would be really super awesome great if we could get that stuff properly mapped. And if maybe it was a few hours closer to civilization.
Saturday Jun 14
	Orienteering race 5:58:47 ***
	28c shoes: Asics B&Y
	TSN White Mountains weekend. John Maier did some phenomenal work to put together a full weekend of orienteering... and we only had 9 people go. Of course, it was a weekend of Score-Os (not my favorite), and a 5 hour drive from Tucson. But it was absolutely phenomenally gorgeous up there, and the aerial photo + contour lines maps were actually quite nice to orienteer on. First event was a 6 hour score-o. Twenty-eight controls, all worth the same, over a large 1:15000 aerial/contour. I enjoy the challenge of execution more than the challenge of planning, but I think I managed to come up with a decent plan and sub-plans in case I had to bail short. Nothing too tricky, plenty of meadows and clearings with hi-vis. And did I mention that it was frickin' gorgeous? I managed to clean the course with a minute and 13 seconds to spare.

	C • weekend 2

	C • White Mountains rock! 9
	Note

	I can't seem to write long entries and get them to submit (is this a sign from the AP gods that I write too much?) so here's the rest: Didn't see anyone out there except Ron at the 4-hour mark. We both had 8 controls left, so the race was on. I managed to goof up the next two (I was getting pretty tired) but fortunately I had planned some road running for the end, whereas he had to cross a really steep valley twice. He missed one and had some late penalties, so victory was mine... though not without an atrocious amount of sweat, mud, and sunburn. I think I ran probably about 2 hours worth, much of it in the last hour or so. Maybe a little more. Whatever it was, I didn't stop at all and kept up a strong pace, which probably isn't the best way to prep for more orienteering that day.
	Orienteering race (night) 1:09:13 ***
	7c shoes: Paul
	Night-O Score-O. All I really wanted to do when it got dark was to crawl into my tent and sleep. We were at almost 9000', and though the days were warm (80s) the nights were cold (30s)... and I was damn tired. I decided to do the night-o for two reasons. 1) it's good for me, and 2) John worked hard to put the whole weekend together. Only 10 controls, and I decided to do only 30 minutes or so instead of the whole 70. I picked out a really easy loop of 5 controls in hi-vis open areas and set out. Once I got going I felt good, probably because it was cool out. Then I had trouble with my second control, expecting it to be trickier than it was and walking on the wrong side of my tree, standing within 5m of the control and not realizing it. Lost a lot of time there, but after that felt good again. Decided to pick up a few more at the end and ran it in with seconds to spare. I didn't even threaten for the win against Ron tonight.
	Note

	After the night-o John set up his fancy-schmancy telescope and we looked at cool stuff - the moon, Saturn, a pair of colorful stars, and then Jupiter as it got high enough off the horizon. It was really neat. Unfortunately, none of this star stuff ever sticks in my brain. Then I crawled into my tent and hoped that I wouldn't have to wake up at 1am to pee in the cold.
Thursday Jun 12
	Cycling (road) 20:00 [2]

	Ride in. Thinking about the new GI Bill. I don't see what the problem is - obviously being a veteran of the GWOT isn't enough. Clearly the Senior (ahem) Senator from Arizona should propose an ammendment that adds to the bill the requirement to give up golf in order to cash in on the benifits. That should do it.
	Cycling (road) 20:00 [2]

	Ride home, quite late. I'm amazed at how dangerous the people I work with seem to think it is for me to commute by bike, especially when you consider what they do in the airplane.
Wednesday Jun 11
	Other Cardio (Ultimate) 1:00:00 [3]
	shoes: Paul
	Ultimate frisbee with my Tucson summer league team, name TBD. We went through about 17 names last night, mostly all a variation on "Raging Antigen-5". I played in this league 5 or 6 years ago, and apparently the sport has evolved since then. What is now considered basic vocabulary and strategy is like Finnish to me. I think I'll pick up on it quickly, but it will take a little longer for my skills to develop... and I thought that I'd be able to run circles around people, but I think that would only be true if we played on a several miles long field and the game lasted like 3 hours. As it is it seems most people can sprint around for short periods of time, unhindered by the occasional beer. Maybe I'll wake up some fast twitch muscles. I was there for 3.5 hours, and spent much of that time on the field, but there's a lot of standing around. Maybe an hour is generous.
	Note

	Small world for the night- bumped into two people at the fields that I went to grad school with. One I wasn't too surprised to see, since I knew he was still in town; the other I was totally surprised to see. Forearms are not sore today from the climbing last night. I bet I won't be able to say that tomorrow. Since I dropped off some uniforms today to get new rank sewn on them, I think it's legit to start my countdown to Captain: 14 days. This is not as exciting as the Texas countdown, but it is still exciting because soon I will at least be able to pretend to be respectable.

	C • Captain Cristina 7
Tuesday Jun 10
	Cycling (road) 20:00 [2]

	In to work. So tired.
	Cycling (road) 20:00 [2]

	Ride home. Temp on base was 104.4F as I left. Take that, you double-digit, east coast weenies!

	C • digits 9
	Climbing 15:00 [3]

	Finally went to Rocks and Ropes with Dave and his wife. Lots of fun, but stamina is definitely near zero. I was there for almost two hours but only completed two routes (my first two) (or maybe it was three) and then sort of flailed around a lot the next few attempts. I should have been buying plane tickets. Whoops.

	C • Plane tickets 3
Monday Jun 9
	Cycling (road) 20:00 [2]

	In to work, zombie-like. My secondary alarms didn't work this morning, probably because they've realized that I'm in no hurry to buy them more wet food for their morning treat, so I was a few minutes late this morning. My foot hurts.
	Cycling (road) 20:00 [2]

	Home. Considerably warmer, but nothing what like those poor suckers on the right coast are dealing with.

	C • humidity - yuck 4
	Running (road/dirt) 29:00 [2] 3.2 mi (9:03 / mi)
	shoes: Gus
	Running to Peg's for the TSN meeting. Yep, still hot. Legs felt a little like I'd just been riding, but they loosened up. Otherwise felt good. Some shade along the route, so a shady mid-90s. Not too shabby. This evening running thing isn't too terrible, except for the whole dehydration thing. Went to the bike path, south around the golf course, north to the Arroyo Chico trail and across to Peg's (route). When I got to her street there was a guy driving the other way and I thought I knew him, so I waved. He waved back and pulled over. I went to the window and said, "Hey, what's up?" and he said, "Hey, want some water?" and offered me a bottle of water. Then we both realized that we didn't know each other. I said, "I'm sorry, I thought you were someone else." Though I don't actually know who I thought it was, just that I thought I recognized him. He said, "I thought you were someone else, too!" The offer of water still stood, and he asked me if I was a U of A distance runner. That was a good one, he's a funny guy. Lives right down the street from Peg if I ever need anything. A friendly encounter, so I guess I'll wave again if I ever think I know someone. Unless he's actually a stalker and I should be more careful about who I talk to on the street.
	Running (road/dirt) 30:00 [2] 3.2 mi (9:23 / mi)
	shoes: Gus
	Run home. I had two popsicle's at Peg's. It was dark and cooler, but I had to run more slowly on the trail because I couldn't see. Twinges in my left knee at first, disappeared after a bit.
Sunday Jun 8
	Running (trail) 1:00:00 [3] 7.9 km (7:36 / km) +300m 6:23 / km
	ahr:172 max:188 shoes: Paul
	Sunset run at Sabino Canyon, Esperero Trail. Same conditions as last night except bigger mountains = more shade, plus there was a breeze. Felt pretty good today, no sign of having raced last night, and the heat didn't seem to slow me down. Trying to run peppier and shorter for my "long" trail runs. This was meant to be longer but I was limited by sunlight and I'm still afraid of mountain lions. Wore my Inov-8s since they are becoming my primary O shoe and I want to make them one with me feet. They are a nice alternative to my usual Asics trail shoes because they are less shoe. But I think they're almost as little shoe as I'd like to do on rocky stuff like this - I can't imagine going almost barefoot there. I also wore, for the very first time, the dorky fuel belt that I bought back in December. It's much more comfortable than any camelbak-type system I've ever worn, especially the waistbelt ones that ride up and require corset level squeezing to stay put. I didn't mind having it on at all, and I actually drank about 15oz of water, which is 15oz more than I usually do for an hour of running. It wouldn't have been fun to run without water tonight. I'm glad I've found a comfortable solution... too bad it took me this long to try it.
Saturday Jun 7
	Note

	Meet Me Downtown 5k
	Running warm up/down (road) 5:00 [1]
	shoes: Gus
	"Warming" up for the Meet Me Downtown 5k. It was still about 94 out, so I chose to keep this very short.
	Running race (road) 23:05 [4] 5 km (4:37 / km) vdot: 42.1
	shoes: Gus
	Meet Me Downtown 5k, second edition. Last year's race was a lot of fun, even though it was really hot, I blew up after the first mile, and almost puked at the finish. No way I was going to miss it this year! An evening in June in Tucson is not the day to shoot for a PR. I left the FR at home (well, it wouldn't turn on, so I didn't have much reason to take it) and just wanted to run faster than last year (24+), which meant I was out there to have fun. It was hot but, believe it or not, with the sun hiding behind most of the buildings and maybe some mountains, low 90's really isn't bad for a road race. Just kidding, ha! Not sure what my splits were, not even sure if this is the right finish time. First mile was quick, second was slower, and I have no idea about the third. With they had km markers instead of miles. The finish was nice, not deathly painful, except for the fact that my lips were stuck together. The band that was playing (The Tryst) was great. The lead trumpet player is a guy I played with in the U of A Wind Ensemble in 02-03. Small town. Free showing at the Fox: Spirit of the Marathon (1) and not just for the oh-so-short glimpse of Sara Mae in her CSU shirt. Sat with jingo6390's clan for an even bigger O-related experience. For my reference, the Meet Me Downtown 5k YouTube video.
Friday Jun 6
	Running (road) 30:00 [2] 3.0 mi (10:00 / mi)
	shoes: Gus
	Two laps around the golf course running path on base for morning PT. Fairly nice out (70s) with a good breeze. I had to pry myself out of bed this morning because I was actually solidly asleep past 6. Probably has something to do with the drugs labeled "sleep aid" that I took last night. If that's the only way I'm getting good sleep then I think it makes sense for me to go mattress shopping this weekend.
	Strength/Core (stretching) 10:00 [1]

	After running. I haven't been doing enough of this.
	Note

	I went to Summit Hut this evening fully intending to purchase a pair of Vibram Fivefingers for some barefooting. I've been pretty eager to do some barefoot or close-to-barefoot running for a while, but hadn't set out to get me some of these. Unfortunately, they just don't fit me. My feet are quite narrow and, more importantly, my toes are pretty f'd up. Vibram addresses the narrow size thing in their faq (they hope to offer narrow width in the future) but they say nothing about accommodating f'd up toes. Too bad.

	C • Vibram 9
Thursday Jun 5
	Running (trail) 51:00 5.3 mi (9:37 / mi)
	ahr:168 max:187 shoes: Asics B&Y
	Sunset run at Saguaro East. I got doubly lucky today. First, I got spared from having to spend my evening driving two hours out to a dirt strip, watching a plane land, then driving back. Numero dos, the weather was stupidly awesome today, high barely over 90, making a non-morning trail run possible. Sweetness. Felt good. Saw lots of critters. Did a bit of terrain running. Got my ticket from Prague to Oslo, so at least now I know that I can get from WOC to O-Ringen, though I'm not sure how I'm leaving or coming back to Tucson yet. I convinced seabass (who is wisely spending the summer away from Southern AZ) to meet me in the Czech Republic rather than in Sweden, and now she has a ticket... and the same problem of how to cross the pond.

	C • ...containing 4 Minuteman nose cone fuses? 2
Wednesday Jun 4
	Note

	This nights thing isn't working. I hate this.
Monday Jun 2
	Note

	We got the paper version of our two newsletters today! Thank goodness. New Tucson O Club website has been unleashed. Not yet complete, but ready for public consumption. I need graphics help if anyone wants to design a banner with our logo in it... I'll make chocolate cake.

	C • web site 3
	Cycling (road) 20:00 [2]

	In to work. Depending on your source of wx information, it was either Hot(97) or Very Hot (103). It didn't feel Very Hot, so I think the local amateur station is not to be trusted. Or they have their thermometer out in the sun. Have not been sleeping well at all lately. Well, for the past year or so, but it's been especially bad for the past few weeks. I sleep poorly and then wake up fairly consistently at 5:xx, before any alarms, regardless of how much and how good my sleep was. It's no fun. I'm doing night flights/duty this week, so we'll see if maybe I just get so tired that I have to have some good sleep.
	Cycling (road) 20:00 [2]

	Ride home. Almost chilly in my sleeveless shirt. Got through the flight with plenty of yawning but no nodding off, thankfully.
Sunday Jun 1
	Running (road/dirt) 39:00 [2] 4.1 mi (9:31 / mi)
	shoes: Gus
	Morning run around the bike path before work. Yes, that's right, it's Sunday. Just one of the perks. Sex and the City (1) Opening night, never seen a theater so full of women and never seen so many heels at the El Con. If you're not a fan, it's probably a 0.

	C • Sunday 1
	Note

	The Tucson Orienteering Club's 2007 income was $3020.82. The club spent more than it brought in, partially by way of sending $585.50 to USOF, expending a measly $448.38 on mapping, and throwing away a whopping $1203.73 on the newsletter. Twelve. Hundred. Dollars. It almost seems criminal to spend thirty-nine percent of our income on mailing out a paper newsletter. Do other clubs spend that much?

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