Training Archive: CristinaIn the 7 days ending 2007-10-21:
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Sunday Oct 21 | ||
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| Today was the local meet at Box Canyon, real course setting experience #2. Didn't have to do much, just showed up with the maps and list of "pre-registered" runners and mostly hung around. Went pretty smoothly - no mis-set alarms and hurrying to hang controls.
The courses were not prepared with the same kind of attention, love, and tenderness as the last meet, but they were still well received. One group saw a rattlesnake and that was about it for wildlife reports. I guess everything else was pretty inconsequential. Anyway, they're here. And yes, I like the easy controls at the end of the advanced courses, and so did the people who like to run fast. ;-) | ||
| C • Any 6 | ||
Saturday Oct 20 | ||
| Running (trail) 1:42:00 | |
| shoes: Asics Trail | ||
| Mid-morning attempt at a longish run in Saguaro East on the Douglas Spring trail. Couldn't get out as early as I'd planned, but it was pretty nice (under the shade of the porch)when I left the house. Not so much once I got started. Unusually warm for late October, high in the 90s today, and I just didn't have the legs for the climb. Managed to keep running through the first mile, but that first steep section seems to have zapped my zip. Ran on and off (the steep stuff) through the next 2.5 miles until I hit one hour and then turned around. Did run the whole way back, though some parts are actually pretty slow going down, too.
I did make it further than I ever have before, well past Bridal Falls. Some day I'll make it all the way to the campground, but I think that some day will be a cold one. I wore my waist camelbak thingy today and was very happy that I had water with me. When I started it was close to full (over a liter of water) and was not very comfortable. It was much better later on, but I guess I'd need to take a full, large, over the shoulder style bladder (2 or 3 liters) if I were going to do something much longer. Drank almost all of it, and that was holding back because I thought I was running out on the way up! Og, I just looked at the forecast and the high tomorrow is only 81! It's almost too bad I'll be down at Box Canyon all day, would have been a much better day to try. | ||
| Note | |
| Contacts update: Uh, yeah, I haven't even touched them in a couple of weeks. I haven't given up, I was just taking a little break. Things should be calm enough over the next week that I can try again. Maybe Kissy and I should just trade eyes. | ||
| C • I wish we could 2 | ||
Friday Oct 19 | ||
| Orienteering 1:30:00 | |
| shoes: Integrators (orange) | ||
| Down to Box Canyon to finalize the courses for Sunday. Grass is all yellow now. :-( I used duct tape on my shoes today, and wore gaiters, but my ankles were still left exposed, not to mention my calves. Pretty spectacular collection of plant material on the floor of my car now.
Brodsky was there to hang bags where I'd already streamered. He'll be back tomorrow to finish hanging, which is awesome. Means all I have to worry about is getting the maps done and printed. | ||
Thursday Oct 18 | ||
| Note | |
| I'm back from Gila Bend, a bit later than I thought. I got up nice and early this morning and wanted to run, but thought that I'd be back in time for WOG. Stuff took longer than we expected (surprise, surprise) and, well, now it's late and I am going to go to bed... but only after updating my log, of course.
I wonder how long it will take to read 6 days worth of AP logs and how many people will be purged from my favorites in the process. ;-) | ||
| C • Took me about 5 minutes... ... 4 | ||
Wednesday Oct 17 | ||
| Running (road/dirt) 45:00 [2] 4.5 mi (10:00 / mi) | |
| shoes: Kayano XII (pink) | ||
| A pretty noneventful night run. I had to wait a while because we'd had a big cookout - we got the "resupply mission" to bring us burgers and chips and charcoal so that we could stuff our faces with non-MRE fatty, greasy, goodness. (Yeah, this is the AF, not the Army, we don't do "hardcore".) I ate a lot. So, even though I ran hours after eating, I could steal feel it. At about the 41 minute mark I felt like I should stop, before the Myanmar situation in my stomach got worse, but I really wanted a solid number, like 45... so I kept going (slowly) until 45 minutes and then walked back in. It was a pretty glorious night so it was nice even walking.
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Tuesday Oct 16 | ||
| Note | |
| Knocked Up (0)
I tried. It tried. But it wasn't nearly as funny as 40 Year Old Virgin. Not sure what everyone thought was so good about this one. Yeah, someone brought a projector (ostensibly for briefings), someone else brought a laptop, and someone else brought movies. And yeah, we had power. What can I say, we're aircrew... | ||
Monday Oct 15 | ||
| Running (dirt) 1:36:00 [3] 10.1 mi (9:29 / mi) | |
| shoes: Kayano XII (pink) | ||
| This was a sunset loop around the whole "base". Or rather, it started as a sunset run and turned into a "holy crap it's really dark out and I'm on the wrong side of the runway and I just have to keep going and that creosote bush really just looked like a javelina I better run faster" run.
I ran out to the gate, as I did the past two days, but this time stopped to talk to the guards and ask where the dirt roads went and whether I could run on them. They told me it was a perimeter road and as long as they know that I'm doing it it's okay to run around it. I guess they want to make sure none of the guards confuse a runner for a Mexican drug runner, wearing a neon yellow hat, a bright blue running tank, and white and pink running shoes. I'm sure that happens all the time. They disagreed over the length of the road, one saying he thought it was 13 miles and the other said it had to be shorter, more like 7 or 8. The only thing definitive that they could tell me was that it took them about 50 minutes to drive it at 10mph when they did their perimeter check. Since I could bail out near the tents, I figured I'd give it a try with the 40 min of light remaining. I ended up feeling good and enjoying running somewhere different and it got very dark and spooky. A pretty satisfying run, especially since the length was totally unplanned. I think I psyche myself out sometimes before a long run, thinking about how long and unpleasant it will be, and thus feeling worn out after only a few miles. But this was great, I got peppier and peppier as I ran. Good stuff. | ||