Sunday Jul 29 |
 | Orienteering 2:00:00  | |
| shoes: Asics Trail Attack III |
| Another day on the mountain. Lots of creepy clouds/fog but no killer lightening or even rain. Discovered that most of the trails that I thought had been obliterated in the fires actually do still exist, except for the 10s of meters at the end where I was looking for them. |
Saturday Jul 28 |
| Orienteering 1:30:00 [1] | |
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| More time at Bear Wallow. The map is really disappointing.
We took a lunch break in Summerhaven as a storm rumbled up, thinking we'd be able to go back to work. Instead what we witnessed was probably the longest continuous rainfall there in years. We ended up just leaving, storms still pumping away all the trip back. We now have a navigable pond for a back yard.
Added: Tonight's rainfall totals indicate that the Bear Wallow area was hit harder than almost anywhere else in Tucson today - 2.56 inches of rain in 24h. That's a lot of water. |
Friday Jul 27 |
| Cycling (road) 20:00 [2] | |
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| Ride in. Too early. Interrupted by... |
| Running (track) 13:22 [2] 1.5 mi (8:54 / mi) | |
| shoes: Kayano XII (pink) |
| Administering an early morning fitness test. I'm so nice to come in early when it's cooler. And to pace the guy for his 1.5 even though he had said he wouldn't want me to. I deserve a DDP. |
| Cycling (road) 20:00 [2] | |
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| Ride home. A little wet.
I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (1) |
Thursday Jul 26 |
| Cycling (road) 20:00 [2] | |
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| Ride home. I think it can get late enough that it just doesn't make sense to log the ride home on the same day as the ride there. How depressing.
Nice weather tonight/this morning. Felt like a cool (~70) tropical night. No rain today, actually pretty smooth air for flying... but that didn't stop the flight doc in the back from puking her guts out the whole time. Yum. |
| Cycling (road) 20:00 [2] | |
| ahr:159 max:175 |
| Ride in, early afternoon. Wore a HRM just to reassure myself that this really is exercise. Seems so. Actually, HR much higher than I would expect, probably because it was warm and I hardly slept and this is the ever-so-slightly uphill direction. |
| Cycling (road) 18:00 [2] | |
| ahr:143 max:160 |
| Ride home. It hadn't rained by the squadron and the roads were totally dry when I set out. A half-mile away the roads were flooded and I had to ride through several inches of water in most places. I'd just been up there ~45 minutes earlier and it was dry then. Sneaky storms. Crazy!
My already short commute seems to be taking me less time now. Shoot. |
Wednesday Jul 25 |
| Cycling (road) 20:00 [3] | |
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| In to work. Amazingly not hot. Strong headwind. |
Tuesday Jul 24 |
| Cycling (road) 35:00 [2] | |
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| In to work. Including a ridiculously unnecessary trip up to the group. |
| Cycling (road) 18:00 [2] | |
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| Ride home, mostly in the big ring (a rarity for me under any circumstance). A big storm was very quickly growing north from the south side of base and I a) wanted to get home before I got hailed on/blown over/lost in a flooded wash and b) had a phenomenal tailwind most of the time. It was fun, and I didn't get too wet. |
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| C • Rain? Wet? Aren't you in the desert... 2 |
Monday Jul 23 |
| Running (road/dirt) 38:36  4.1 mi (9:24 / mi) | |
| ahr:177 max:192 shoes: Kayano XII (pink) |
| Morning run, usual route but unusual weather. 77F, dp 68 (!) and rain(!). I guess the rain scared people off because there were far less than usual - saw a few dozen people at most.
Legs felt stiff again at the beginning of the run. I think it's my bed. I usually feel great for morning runs, even this past Saturday when I didn't have much sleep. It's hard to bring myself to say that my (new) bed isn't good enough. :-(
Did 5x(1mim H + 1 min E) just to spice things up and remind my legs what it's like to move a little faster. |
| Cycling (road) 45:00 [1] | |
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| To U of A and back with Seabass for Andy's dissertation defense. Still pretty cloudy out so it wasn't too hot. |
| Cycling (road) 40:00 [2] | |
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| Ride in to work.
And back. In the rain! Wuhu! |