Training Archive: CristinaIn the 7 days ending 2008-03-16:
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Sunday Mar 16 | ||
| Event: TSN: Ironwood | ||
| Running warm up/down (road) 5:00 [1] | |
| Short warmup. | ||
| Orienteering 1:25:20 [3] *** 8 km (10:40 / km) +80m 10:10 / km | |
| 16c weight:144lbs shoes: Integrators (orange) | ||
| TSN meet at Ironwood, a new (and not quite finished) map. Driving in to the meet site I was a little worried about runnability, but it was actually pretty good. Not quite as easy to dodge around prickly stuff as in Arthur Pack, but good enough. It's also mostly quite flat - almost as flat as AP - but is sans mapped saguaros. Instead, the key visible features are the green washes, which stand out because they are filled with trees. Since they are linear features rather than point features they are easier to see than single saguaros. However, they're really long and don't make it as easy to know exactly where you are...
Red course was a good test of concentration. I passed the test, though I am still in need of further improvement. I started moving very carefully after 4 because I could see that relocation would be a real bitch. Worked great, nailed the next few, and then I got to 9... I started going straight like I had on the rest, and then realized that there really wasn't any attackpoint or good way of fixing my position that way. Then I got confused by a patch of green that made me think I was way right of the line, decided to cut way back to the left, and then was lucky enough to see the yellow patch and hit the control from there. Had real difficulty keeping my concentration on the next few, too. No big mistakes, but I had trouble with the de facto plan of going in a straight line and checking things off. I was moving more like a bowling ball in a bumper lane, catching myself on major linear features off on the sides instead of looking ahead to keep the line. In all only a couple minutes lost, but I should be able to run here much faster. My FR wouldn't turn on, so I have no splits, HR, or QR. I also had a major failure of the cactus needle proximity sensor, getting cholla'd on both legs simultaneously when I picked a particularly bad moment to read the map. Feeling pretty tired again today. Slept again in the afternoon, even though I had a good night's sleep last night. Maybe it's the weather... | ||
| C • I think it is ok to be catc... 2 | ||
Saturday Mar 15 | ||
| Running (trail) 45:00 [1] * 4.0 mi (11:14 / mi) +50m 6:44 / km | |
| ahr:161 max:180 weight:145lbs shoes: Asics B&Y | ||
| I feel like there might be something wrong with me. I got home from work yesterday at about 4pm and was I was pretty beat. Enough that I couldn't concentrate on anything serious at all, so I crawled into bed with a book. I read for a bit, then fell asleep and woke up 12 hours later. The only word that comes to mind is "absurd". That happened to be just in time to eat breakfast with seabass before she left for work. However, I was *still* tired, so back to the book and 2 whole more hours of sleep. The last time I slept that much was after pulling an all-nighter (or two).
Once I was finally up and settled I went for a run in Saguaro East (DS trailhead). You'd think that with all the nice rest and timely food and three days off of running that I'd be able to run for an easy hour as planned, no problem. But after five minutes I was considering just making it 20. I did force myself to go out a bit farther so that I'd have to come back, walking if not running. Just after 40 minutes of running I felt completely drained. Luckily I was right by the horse trailhead and decided to bail to the road the few minutes back rather than around on the trails. I was exhausted. I guess it could feel like this from the stupid schedule last week in combination with not ideal food/drink, but this seems a little extreme. Hopefully that's all it is and not the beginning of some virus or something. Off to work for a bit so that next week won't suck. I love it! | ||
| C • Uh oh. 4 | ||
Friday Mar 14 | ||
| Cycling (road) 25:00 [2] | |
| weight:145lbs | ||
| Ride in, 0430 again. I love my job! | ||
| Cycling (road) 20:00 [2] | |
| Home. Thank goodness. | ||
| C • SAR? 3 | ||
Thursday Mar 13 | ||
| Cycling (road) 20:00 [2] | |
| weight:144.5lbs | ||
| Hurried ride in, 0830. Practically sinful.
The gmail people are geniuses. | ||
| C • Why? 17 | ||
| Cycling (road) 20:00 [1] | |
| Ride home, much later than anticipated. I had planned on a run this evening, mostly because I didn't realize how late we were landing, but also because I didn't expect to actually fly and not break today. But, for the first time in a long time, I actually flew the number of hours scheduled! And now it's already bedtime. Boo hiss. | ||
Wednesday Mar 12 | ||
| Cycling (road) 20:00 [2] | |
| weight:145lbs | ||
| Ride in, 0730 this time. Almost criminal how light it is. | ||
| Cycling (road) 25:00 [2] | |
| Ride home. Late. Tired. | ||
Tuesday Mar 11 | ||
| Cycling (road) 20:00 [2] | |
| weight:145.5lbs | ||
| Ride in, 0530. Practically sleeping in! At least there was a little bit of lighton the other side of the Rincons this morning. Sort of.
Stopped by the fitness center to pick up my memo for the Flying Pig and discovered that I had sent him the wrong memo! (It was for last year's team trials...) | ||
| Cycling (road) 20:00 [2] | |
| Ride home. Got the correct memo signed on the way... | ||
| Running intervals (grass/road) 1:10:00 | |
| ahr:168 max:192 shoes: Gus | ||
| I ate a decent snack before going to WoG because I figured I was in for a tough Tuesday workout. I wasn't disappointed. We ran a "hill" loop for a warmup, then did the hill loop four times for a "hill" workout (about 30 minutes, with 32 total small hill surges). And then, to make sure we're getting our money's worth, we were to do 1 or maybe 2x mile.
We started out and I was feeling pretty weak. I started to worry that I hadn't been eating enough these past few days and figured I wouldn't do very much of a workout. Then we started the hills and the guys I was running with started talking about the health care industry. I had a strong urge to, ahem, voice my disagreement with their ideas. Politely, of course. Instead, since we were supposed to be surging up hills and not chatting away, I dropped them. I felt better then. Shooting for 7:15 for one mile. Ran a 7:06 and then decided to do another, since that felt pretty good. Rested for a couple of minutes. Surprisingly, coming back felt even better (it is slightly more down) and I clocked a 6:58. Yeah, I have no idea where that came from. Could be all this WoG stuff is really working. Ten minutes easy to warm down. On the way home we stopped by a different grocery store to buy Naugle a cake for his going away lunch tomorrow. It's the grocery that was local to us in grad school. Back then it was really ghetto. Now it's, like, totally posh. | ||
| Note | |
| Okay, not only are there mountain lions around here, but some of them are rabid. Jeebus. Give me back my snakes. | ||
| Strength/Core (stretching) 10:00 [1] | |
Monday Mar 10 | ||
| Cycling (road) 25:00 [2] | |
| weight:146lbs | ||
| Ride in, 0430. What an awesome way to start the week! | ||
| Note | |
| So, that was really awesome. We all show at 0500 for a flight that... isn't on the schedule. At least, not on the one that counts. We don't find this out until *after* I've already done all my mission planning, but that's minor on a day like today. Mostly it's just amusing. | ||
| Cycling (road) 20:00 [2] | |
| Ride home. It's really nice out. I almost want to go back to Phoneline because the desert spring colors were popping up so much yesterday, but we'll probably stick to something flatter today. | ||
| Running (trail) 48:00 | |
| ahr:162 max:175 shoes: Asics B&Y | ||
| Over to Saguaro East in the late afternoon, with seabass, from the Broadway trailhead. Absolutely gorgeous. Seabass did a smaller loop than I did so that we'd meet up towards the end. Worked great. I carried the trail map, but the trail intersections are so far apart on that side that it's not that interesting. At least it's a step in forming the habit.
Saw one jackrabbit and several jillrabbits. Or whatever you call the normal ones. Also heard what I assume to be a pretty big pack of coyotes just over a hill. They stopped howling as I got closer. It was a little freaky at first because I was starting to have this weird panic feeling of, "What if I really *did* run into a mountain lion? What if it mauled me and seabass came up on my remains? What if it mauled seabass?" Sort of stressing, and then I hear all this weird howling and barking. Would have been really wild in the dark. Shockingly low HR for the effort. On the way home we stopped at a grocery store in a newer part of town and I was forced to realize that our local grocery is a little ghetto. But just a little. | ||
