Training Archive: CristinaIn the 7 days ending 2007-09-30:
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Sunday Sep 30 | ||
| Running long 1:56:00 [3] 9.0 mi (12:54 / mi) +250m 7:22 / km | |
| shoes: Asics Trail Attack III | ||
| Early morning run at Sabino Canyon. Today was the re-opening day for the Phoneline Trail, washed out in the massive debris flow ("landslide") last year. I started before sunrise in order to beat the sun and the crowds. It worked - I was in the shade almost the entire time and there were only a few other runners on the way up. Lots more hikers as I came back down.
The trail goes along the east wall of the canyon, more or less contouring once you get up a few hundred feet. It's pretty sweet, I can see why it's a favorite. I guess all the other runners ran up the trail, which ends at the top of the road that follows the stream, and run the road back to the parking lot. No, thanks. If you're going to drive over there, why run on the road? (I may eat my words at some point, simply because it's considered a classic road run... but still.) I couldn't find any of the hand-holder thingies for my water bottles so I just went without, figuring it was cool enough (68 when I started) that I would be fine for two hours. I was, but I think I would have enjoyed the run down more had I had some nice cool sips of water. I might invest in one of those ridiculous looking mini-squeeze bottle things. On the way up I passed a small group that had started running just a couple of minutes before I had. As I passed by, one woman said, "See, I want to be like that." I don't think I've ever heard anyone say they wanted to be able to run like me, so that was certainly a feel-good moment. Finished in time to meet seabass for breakfast after her shift. We debated over which one of us had more right to complain about tired legs. :-) | ||
| C • Ridiculous looking mini-squeeze bottle things 10 | ||
| Note | |
| Contact update: I thought I had lost my right contact but it was actually stuck behind my eyelid or rolled up there or something. At least now I know what that feels like. | ||
| C • contact 9 | ||
Saturday Sep 29 | ||
| Orienteering 2:30:00 | |
| shoes: Asics Trail Attack III | ||
| Scouting out Box Canyon for this month's meet. Box Canyon is in the Santa Rita foothills, not too far from our Kentucky Camp/Greaterville maps, site of the Feb A-meet, which will be really fun (hint, hint). It was totally gorgeous out there today, temperature was divine (76° on the watch as I left) and the grass was green. Of course, the grass is one reason our A-meet is in the winter and not the fall - those in the northeast may have FDFs, but we have FGSs. Ouch.
Got some ideas for courses and good legs. This map is very good, unlike Bear Wallow, is almost all open or lightly wooded, and has lots of contour detail and few trails... which means endless possibilities for courses. Sort of the opposite problem as last time, and I could see spending way too much time on this. Or I could just set a score-o and be done with it. Spooked a couple of white-tailed deer out of a steep valley and a widdle bunny wabbit that I almost stepped on. Also found the beef critters to be rather more intimidating than usual, especially when they managed to surround me and give me the evil glare. Had trouble with the contacts today. Managed - with a lot of effort - to get the right one in, but then couldn't get the left in. So I gave up and wore glasses. Bummer. | ||
Friday Sep 28 | ||
| Note | |
| I Capture the Castle (0)
Haven't been rating too many movies lately because I was busy with a mini-project (or at least that's what it seemed like) of watching all five seasons of Upstairs, Downstairs, one episode at a time. Okay, sometimes I'd watch two in a row on a weekend. I figure that's like ~45 movies I haven't watched instead. ;-) In any case, even though it's a tv show I have to rate it, as it's almost like one really long movie: Upstairs, Downstairs (1) and that goes for every episode except one, which only gets a zero because I'm sappy. | ||
| C • Which episode? 2 | ||
| Cycling (road) 22:00 [2] | |
| In to work! Contacts took a little longer this morning. Frustrating. | ||
| Running (road) 33:00 [2] 3.3 mi (10:00 / mi) | |
| shoes: Kayano XII (pink) | ||
| Morning "PT". I had thought it would be nice to swim, since we were meeting at the gym, but then I realized that that would require me to take out my contacts and most likey put them back in again afterwards. I'm just not there yet. So I went for a run instead. Ran around the 1.5 mile loop by the golf course to check it out. I mean, if you like that kind of thing I guess it's nice. | ||
| Cycling (road) 18:00 [2] | |
| Ride home. | ||
Thursday Sep 27 | ||
| Cycling (road) 22:00 [2] | |
| Ride in. Got both contacts in in less than 3 minutes! | ||
| C • ...and there was much rejoi... 3 | ||
| Cycling (road) 18:00 [2] | |
| Ride home! | ||
| Running warm up/down (mixed) 25:00 [2] 2.78 mi (8:59 / mi) | |
| shoes: Kayano XII (pink) | ||
| WOG beginning and end. Ran a lap plus a stadium loop to warmup, then a stadium loop to cool down. Also biked to/from at warming/cooling pace (not logged). | ||
| Running intervals (grass) 29:00 | |
| shoes: Kayano XII (pink) | ||
| Agenda:
6 strides 4x200 not-too-fast with ~200 back running drills 4x200 again | ||
| Strength/Core 10:00 [1] | |
| Stretching, pushups, crunches, etc.
We had three new people today. Two of them, independent newcomers, were Ukrainian. What are the odds? | ||
| Note | |
| Okay, so I just did a quick lookie at the stats so far for the USOF Survey and noticed that there are more responses from Kentucky than there are from Massachusetts or Pennsylvania. Now, I really appreciate the overwhelming participation numbers from Kentucky orienteers... but I don't think I've ever met an orienteer from Kentucky. And I know lots and lots of orienteers in MA and PA. Sheesh. | ||
| C • KY Orienteers 4 | ||
Wednesday Sep 26 | ||
| Note | |
| Hm, it appears I'm about to pass a significant hits landmark. You guys are nuts! | ||
| C • Are you offering a grand prize to your Nth visitor? 21 | ||
| Running (road) 39:00 | |
| shoes: Kayano XII (pink) | ||
| Night run around the golf course with Seabass. We did 4 pickups towards the end, but otherwise easy Seabass pace the whole way. I felt pretty awful because I ate more than a sensible handful of kettle corn early today and my stomach was staging a coup.
Dark out, but with a great moon. Mid-80s. And dry. Very dry. | ||
Tuesday Sep 25 | ||
| Cycling (road) 22:00 [2] | |
| Ride in, beautiful morning. And I slept! Boy did I sleep. Didn't manage to get the contacts in before I had to leave, though. This is going to take some serious practice. | ||
| C • Sleep 1 | ||
| C • Practice 4 | ||
| Cycling (road) 18:00 [2] | |
| Home from work. Things are going to be very busy the next few weeks. | ||
| Running hills (grass) 40:00 | |
| shoes: Kayano XII (pink) | ||
| WoG. Very nice to go when it's in the 80s instead of 90s. We did a stadium loop to warmup and then ran the "hill" loop for 25 minutes. Now, the Tucson area has more than its fair share of big mountains and even a few significant and prominent hills right in the city. But Reid Park is not blessed with anything like that. The "hill" is really a lump a few meters high. But we run up and down all four sides of it (if you imagine it's square...) and then run a lap around the pond. I think the whole circuit is about a half mile. We did this for 25 minutes, though I went longer to finish up my 6th loop. The hill, though short, is certainly steeper than most roads and is grass, making it a nice little surging lump for O.
Had to jet out as soon as I finished my last loop to get to the TSN board meeting... | ||
| Strength/Core 5:00 [1] | |
| Stretching, pushups, situps, etc. | ||
| Note | |
| So, once again I find myself as a last-minute course setter for a local meet just so that it won't be canceled. I don't think this is a good habit to make, nor is it really fun, nor does it really address the issue of why we have such an issue with getting course setters and meet directors... not to mention pretty piss poor turnout most of the time. I'm sure there are really good ideas out there for club development, and I'm sure I've even heard some of these ideas from other people before, but I don't know what to suggest. It just seems like there is so much work to do to make the club really active (or at least back to being able to run 12 meets a year without multiple cancellations) and no one knows where to start. It is very frustrating.
I do have some ideas - I really think we should run a lot of low-key, city meets. Street-O, Park-O, sprints, whatever. Easy to get to, easy to set, appealing to, oh, I don't know, maybe runners or other athletes. I'm perfectly willing to do this, but there is some resistance. Anyway, I have to eat dinner and am liable to write for a long time if I keep going now, so I'll stop. | ||
| C • Feeling Empathy 2 | ||
Monday Sep 24 | ||
| Cycling (road) 30:00 [2] | |
| Ride in, with a not-so-brief stop at the optometry clinic. Rode back to the squadron with my glasses in my pocket and these things in my eyes that make me see better. | ||
| Cycling (road) 20:00 [2] | |
| Ride home. It wasn't hot! I likey.
First day with contacts was fine, and I was looking forward to going for a little run this afternoon with some kind of map to see how running and reading would go... I felt tired all day (no kidding) but the decision point was on the ride home when I actually felt woozy. And then I almost fell over in the shower. I think it's safe to say that the 1.5 weeks of inadequate sleep has caught up to me and I should take it easy and sleep a lot tonight, since I have the chance! More on the contacts - the fit is great and visual acuity of the left eye is stellar. Right eye is supposedly 20/20 but a fuzzy 20/20 at best. I guess this is an astigmatism issue, with the lenses only coming in 10° increments for the axis correction (or whatever, I'm sort of lost on terminology here) and my axis in that eye is 96°... so I've got a 90° in now and am going to try a 100° next to see if it's less fuzzy. As far as wear goes, I can get them out okay but I'm going to have to get up a bit earlier tomorrow to make sure I have time to get them in. :-) I think I've done enough poking of my finger in my eye for today... | ||