Training Archive: CristinaIn the 7 days ending 2007-07-01:
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Sunday Jul 1 | ||
| Hiking 3:02:00 | |
| shoes: Asics Trail Attack III | ||
| Whew. Hiked up Finger Rock Trail this morning, starting at about the same time as yesterday's run (8ish).
This is yet another great hike with awesome views. But quite steep. Very rough. Some shade because the trail goes up the west-facing wall of the canyon and there was a breeze, so the whole 90s thing wasn't too bad. But it was really slow going. I knew it was about 5 miles to Mt. Kimball and I figured that if I really moved I could make it and not fry. After 2 miles (which took over an hour) I modified my plan. I went for another 45 minutes or so and stopped for a granola bar, the view, and to evaluate. Just then saw a hiker on his way down and I asked how much further and he said, "a good ways". We both agreed I was just past halfway and that, since I obviously wasn't going to get to the top today without turning into a shishkabob, this was a good place to turn around. So I did. Saw the usual wildlife plus what I assume was a hawk circling around in the canyon and a snake curled up under a rock. Carried about 10 lbs again, but a lot of it's water so it was much lighter by the time I finished. And Seabass is working so it really was 10 and not 110. I need to add this hike to my list of activities NOT to suggest to any out of shape visitors. They can just look at some some pictures. Just looked at the map (should have done that before, I guess) and it's a little over 3000 ft from the trailhead to where I stopped - less than 3 miles. Yikes. | ||
| C • Finger Rock Canyon 7 | ||
Saturday Jun 30 | ||
| Running (trail) 48:00 | |
| shoes: Asics Trail Attack III | ||
| Saguaro East this morning... didn't manage to get there until just before 8. Parked at the Douglas Spring trailhead and ran to the Garwood dam and back. It was in the upper 80s but the sun was already beating down and there wasn't even the slightest breeze. I'm not used to this yet, so I wasn't very zippy. Serves me right for sleeping in.
Saw one ginormous jackrabbit. He was watching me run. I think he was thinking that if it weren't so hot maybe I'd have a chance against him. Or maybe he was just chuckling to himself about the fact that I accumulating was sweat despite the dry air. | ||
| C • ginormous 1 | ||
Thursday Jun 28 | ||
| Hiking 1:30:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Asics Trail Attack III | ||
| Went for a hike with Seabass after work. We zipped up to Sabino Canyon to hit the Esperanza trail. Gets steeper quicker than Bear Canyon, though I don't think we went far enough for the really steep stuff to start. Throughout the hike we couldn't help but both talk about how awesome it was that we could just "zip up" to a place like this after work. So phenomenally gorgeous. On the way down there were some postcard perfect views of an almost full moon behind a ridge with giant saguaros. Too bad I didn't have my camera. :-(
Most of the hike we were shaded from the sun by ridges or plants. Amazingly, 102 is actually very pleasant like that, especially with a bit of a breeze. Carried ~10 pounds. Probably a good estimate for next weekend. Busy day at work. While I was gone the squadron went through a mini-reorganization and now I actually have a job, plus some non-trivial additional duties. It's nice to actually have work to do besides flying, believe it or not. I think that's supposed to make me weird. | ||
| C • 10 lbs. 8 | ||
| C • Sabino Canyon 2 | ||
Wednesday Jun 27 | ||
| Running (road/dirt) 37:40 [2] 4.1 mi (9:12 / mi) | |
| shoes: Kayano XII (pink) | ||
| Morning run, the usual. Legs feeling progressively better, though still not up to something like intervals. I wonder if living in Tucson might lend itself to having a schedule of hard workouts over the winter, with little traveling, and then mntx miles and travel over the summer. Hmm.
This box seems bigger than usual. Did the size of this box change? Anyone? It was almost 80 at 6am. Which means it will likely be almost 110 this afternoon. Yessssss. | ||
| C • mntx miles? 2 | ||
| C • Box size 12 | ||
Tuesday Jun 26 | ||
| Running (road) 20:10 [2] 2.13 mi (9:28 / mi) | |
| shoes: Kayano XII (pink) | ||
| Made it out for a quick run before work, about 5:15. Better. Was up earlier (couldn't help it, kitties were eating my feet) and even opened the door to make sure it was really nice out, but took me a while to convince myself I actually had time for a run. Of course, had I just run right away there wouldn't have been a question. ;-) | ||
| Note | |
| I'm not sure what happened to me this afternoon. I got home from work (interesting day - my first emergency ground egress!) and sat on my bed to take my boots off. An hour later I woke up, still in my flight suit, sideways on the bed, legs off the side by my boots. I guess I was tired.
I actually kept sleeping after that, which would explain why I felt poopy all evening. Still time for some exercise, but basically this further proves that that naps = evil. Not evil are Vadim's pics from the Jukola trip! | ||
Monday Jun 25 | ||
| Running (road/dirt) 40:00 [2] 4.1 mi (9:45 / mi) | |
| shoes: Asics Trail Attack III | ||
| Ugh. Hardest 4 miles ever? My legs were like lead and I seriously considered turning around after five minutes. I didn't because I figured it would get better as I ran, and heck, it was in the 70s, how could I pass that up? Unfortunately, my legs never sprang to life and this felt very very long.
Planned on going out nice and early but didn't make it out the door until ~6:40. It's still nice out, but I know it's about 1000x awesomer two hours earlier. (Yes, Sandra, that's 4:40, which is definitely before breakfast.) | ||
| C • 4.30am 10 | ||