Training Archive: CristinaIn the 7 days ending 2007-11-18:
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Sunday Nov 18 | ||
| Orienteering 1:30:00 [2] *** | |
| 5c shoes: Integrators (orange) | ||
| Awful map and really atrocious terrain. I mean it, I really do. I've never had less fun orienteering, and that's even though I found all the controls I wanted to find.
I have now written and re-written a few descriptions of what was so bad and how little fun I had but I just can't put it into words. | ||
| C • map 22 | ||
| Note | |
| Almost forgot the reviews for the weekend. Friday night saw:
The Sentinel (1) but it's a different kind of 1 than the last movie, which would have received a way higher number if I were to use more numbers to rate movies, which I don't, so it doesn't. Saw the ART production of Candide on Saturday night, which was most excellent, especially the performance by the young lady playing Cunegonde. I would give it a good rating if I could, but it's not a movie so I won't. | ||
Saturday Nov 17 | ||
| Orienteering race 35:20 | |
| 11c shoes: Integrators (Red) | ||
| Tucson local meet at Catalina State Park. First of the "Scott & Drumm" sprints which turned out to be a pair of short advanced courses and a wee bit too long for a sprint. Still fun, and Scott warned us plenty that the runability was way lower than he expected when he set the courses on paper...in Oregon. He didn't expect us to take less than 45 minutes, so I guess we were pleasantly surprised. Fair enough.
This one went pretty well. It's a little weird to run on a 1:5000 map with 5m contours - seems to make it harder to determine up and down and see the shape of the terrain with it all spread out like that. Made a few mistakes, but still almost caught Ludwig and passed Leif in the middle. Beat Max, too, which doesn't happen very often, for 1st of 5. Not many people showed up today. Saturday meet instead of our usual Sunday, late start window on a hot day for November (hi was 81), and it was El Tour de Tucson day. The ride goes right by the entrance to the park. I don't think many of our usual participants were riding (maybe a few), but plenty of people just don't want to drive around when there are 10,000 cyclists on the road. | ||
| Orienteering race 38:20 | |
| 10c shoes: Integrators (Red) | ||
| Stopped for a good rest and some water before heading out for the second one. This one didn't go quite as well. Had a little confusion with up and down and contours on the second leg and then had that same dehydrated/sun-drenched feeling from last Saturday in Phoenix. Again, middle of the day, no shade, and I guess not enough water. Bah. Walked a few legs to regain my brain power and finished okay, almost almost catching Leif at the very very end.
Max won, pretty sure Ludwig was 2nd with me third. | ||
| Orienteering 35:00 [2] *** | |
| 6c shoes: Integrators (Red) | ||
| Control retrieval. Really didn't feel like going out again but it was just a few controls. Part of what makes the runability so low is that the things that look like they should be fast on paper - trails and drainages - are really sandy. So you get away from the desert plants grabbing at you but then have to slog through sand.
Tomorrow it's regular courses and potentially record high temps for the day (mid 80's), so I'll be wearing water. | ||
Friday Nov 16 | ||
| Cycling (road) 20:00 [2] | |
| Ride in, at the commencement of which our fearless protagonist discovered that her bicycle's rear illuminator had been illuminating all night. | ||
| C • Happened to me yesterday 2 | ||
| C • Breaking News 8 | ||
| Cycling (road) 20:00 [1] | |
| Ride home. | ||
Thursday Nov 15 | ||
| Cycling (road) 20:00 [2] | |
| Ride in, after trying to sleep in and failing miserably.
There were *grey* fluffy things in the sky today. Seabass even says she had to use the windshielf wipers on the car this morning. I didn't even know they still worked. | ||
| Cycling (road) 20:00 [2] | |
| Ride home, under the gray stuff. Cool. | ||
| Note | |
| No WOG tonight. I feel pre-sick. Meaning that it's not too late to stave off whatever is trying to attack me (die germs die!) but I don't want to encourage them, either. Since I was also time-crunched on both sides I decided to skip the running tonight. Did ride to and from Peg's for the TSN meeting (burn calories burn?), but that seems to be below the workout threshold because I instinctively clicked "add note" rather than "add training".
I think I'm clear for the Valley Forge weekend. Crikey, it's going to take me a long time. Almost paved the way for the NZ trip, but no tickets yet so it's not a done deal. Trying to figure out where to go and what to do before the event. It's not that there's any lack of stuff to see and do, it's that there's too much and I don't know where to start! | ||
Wednesday Nov 14 | ||
| Cycling (road) 22:00 [2] | |
| Ride in. Last night's workout knocked me out. Slept for a long time last night. Left knee is still a little quirky. No soreness or anything from yesterday, which I think is good. | ||
| Cycling (road) 20:00 [2] | |
| Ride home. I was really perky and awake for the first 15 min, but then I got hit with the "it's way past my bedtime" feeling, or something, and just wanted to hop off and curl up on the side of the road. Weird. | ||
Tuesday Nov 13 | ||
| Cycling (road) 20:00 [2] | |
| Ride in. Bit chilly today. Wore knee warmers! (And sandals.) | ||
| C • A photo you will like... 2 | ||
| Running intervals (dirt) 1:10:00 | |
| shoes: Kayano XII (pink) | ||
| Very good WOG. I think this resting stuff helps. Or maybe I'm getting faster. Both? Now if only I could get below the G.
We did the same workout as last Tuesday but I ran it at pace. Sets of 400 and 1000, with the 400s at 5k pace and the 1000s at about 10k pace. These were perhaps a wee bit faster than that, but they didn't feel fast. In fact, all but the last two 400s (which were too fast) felt way easier than intervals usually do. Of course, my legs have that satisfying used feeling, which is a good sign. Warm up + strides - ~12 min 2x400 (200) - 1:43, 1:45 2x1000 (400) - 4:33, 4:32 2x400 (200) - 1:45, 1:44 2x1000 (400) - 4:28, 4:28 2x400 (200) - 1:41, 1:38 Cool down - ~10 min Good stuff. It was creepy warm today for mid-november... still in the 70s after sunset while we ran. We'll probably do this once more next Tuesday and I'll shoot for the same paces, see if it feels the same. I've been thinking about how tempting that O-marathon is in December. Why does this country have to be so wide? | ||
| C • O marathon 7 | ||
| Strength/Core 15:00 [1] | |
| Stretching (and stuff) before and after. | ||
Monday Nov 12 | ||
| Note | |
| (rest day) | ||
| Woah, two rest rest days in one weekend!
Saturday was a sleep/energy kind of day. Today was a feet and knee recovery day. My feet are really beat up, never had a chance to recover from blisters at the LAOC meet, getting more (including very raw heels) at the US Champs, and then running on them all week (with elaborate tape and moleskin setups). Yesterday was a little much... the problem is shoes - the ones my feet were "used to" started falling apart, so I had to wear alternate pairs that caused pains in weird places. Anyway, I'll still run on them this week but they need to get better, same with the quirky knees. | ||
| C • yeah, it's a pity feet don'... 4 | ||