Training Archive: BoojumsIn the 7 days ending 2008-06-15:
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Sunday Jun 15 | ||
| Orienteering race 2:00:35 | |
| 9c shoes: Paul | ||
| Final event, another score-o, this one decided by universal consent to be only 2-hours instead of 4. What a smart bunch of folks.
I was excited to do a little more speedy stuff today and drew up a nice runnable course from the offerings. Unfortunately, I felt like doo-doo. I managed to run - downhill - to my first control, gingerly. I was pretty sore. Once I got onto flat/rising terrain I discovered that I could only take 10 or 20 steps before my head started screaming at me. I guess it was the mix of questionable hydration, sun, altitude, the long day yesterday, etc., etc., excuses, excuses... | ||
| Note | |
| Whatever it was, it didn't get better and for most of the course I was like a zombie. It was really pathetic. I guess it's evidence that there is a limit to how much I can do and still be able to move well and concentrate. To top it all off, I bailed on going for one last control right near the finish so that I could make it in on time... but didn't! I was 35 seconds late. I should have spent a few minutes nabbing it. Or maybe I should have bailed an hour sooner.
I think the only reason I managed to make it through was because I found a nylon smiley face balloon about halfway through. It looked pretty fresh, still had some float left in it, so I tied it to my watch to keep my company while I dragged it to its death. | ||
| Orienteering 1:00:00 [1] | |
| Control retrieval. Yes, I went out again. How could I not? I walked, really slowly, and grabbed four controls.
It was just as beautiful out there today as it was yesterday, I just didn't find myself making note of it as often. It would be really super awesome great if we could get that stuff properly mapped. And if maybe it was a few hours closer to civilization. | ||
Saturday Jun 14 | ||
| Orienteering race 5:58:47 | |
| 28c shoes: Asics B&Y | ||
| TSN White Mountains weekend. John Maier did some phenomenal work to put together a full weekend of orienteering... and we only had 9 people go. Of course, it was a weekend of Score-Os (not my favorite), and a 5 hour drive from Tucson. But it was absolutely phenomenally gorgeous up there, and the aerial photo + contour lines maps were actually quite nice to orienteer on.
First event was a 6 hour score-o. Twenty-eight controls, all worth the same, over a large 1:15000 aerial/contour. I enjoy the challenge of execution more than the challenge of planning, but I think I managed to come up with a decent plan and sub-plans in case I had to bail short. Nothing too tricky, plenty of meadows and clearings with hi-vis. And did I mention that it was frickin' gorgeous? I managed to clean the course with a minute and 13 seconds to spare. | ||
| C • weekend 2 | ||
| C • White Mountains rock! 9 | ||
| Note | |
| I can't seem to write long entries and get them to submit (is this a sign from the AP gods that I write too much?) so here's the rest:
Didn't see anyone out there except Ron at the 4-hour mark. We both had 8 controls left, so the race was on. I managed to goof up the next two (I was getting pretty tired) but fortunately I had planned some road running for the end, whereas he had to cross a really steep valley twice. He missed one and had some late penalties, so victory was mine... though not without an atrocious amount of sweat, mud, and sunburn. I think I ran probably about 2 hours worth, much of it in the last hour or so. Maybe a little more. Whatever it was, I didn't stop at all and kept up a strong pace, which probably isn't the best way to prep for more orienteering that day. | ||
| Orienteering race (night) 1:09:13 | |
| 7c shoes: Paul | ||
| Night-O Score-O.
All I really wanted to do when it got dark was to crawl into my tent and sleep. We were at almost 9000', and though the days were warm (80s) the nights were cold (30s)... and I was damn tired. I decided to do the night-o for two reasons. 1) it's good for me, and 2) John worked hard to put the whole weekend together. Only 10 controls, and I decided to do only 30 minutes or so instead of the whole 70. I picked out a really easy loop of 5 controls in hi-vis open areas and set out. Once I got going I felt good, probably because it was cool out. Then I had trouble with my second control, expecting it to be trickier than it was and walking on the wrong side of my tree, standing within 5m of the control and not realizing it. Lost a lot of time there, but after that felt good again. Decided to pick up a few more at the end and ran it in with seconds to spare. I didn't even threaten for the win against Ron tonight. | ||
| Note | |
| After the night-o John set up his fancy-schmancy telescope and we looked at cool stuff - the moon, Saturn, a pair of colorful stars, and then Jupiter as it got high enough off the horizon. It was really neat. Unfortunately, none of this star stuff ever sticks in my brain.
Then I crawled into my tent and hoped that I wouldn't have to wake up at 1am to pee in the cold. | ||
Thursday Jun 12 | ||
| Cycling (road) 20:00 [2] | |
| Ride in.
Thinking about the new GI Bill. I don't see what the problem is - obviously being a veteran of the GWOT isn't enough. Clearly the Senior (ahem) Senator from Arizona should propose an ammendment that adds to the bill the requirement to give up golf in order to cash in on the benifits. That should do it. | ||
| Cycling (road) 20:00 [2] | |
| Ride home, quite late. I'm amazed at how dangerous the people I work with seem to think it is for me to commute by bike, especially when you consider what they do in the airplane. | ||
Wednesday Jun 11 | ||
| Other Cardio (Ultimate) 1:00:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Paul | ||
| Ultimate frisbee with my Tucson summer league team, name TBD. We went through about 17 names last night, mostly all a variation on "Raging Antigen-5". I played in this league 5 or 6 years ago, and apparently the sport has evolved since then. What is now considered basic vocabulary and strategy is like Finnish to me. I think I'll pick up on it quickly, but it will take a little longer for my skills to develop... and I thought that I'd be able to run circles around people, but I think that would only be true if we played on a several miles long field and the game lasted like 3 hours. As it is it seems most people can sprint around for short periods of time, unhindered by the occasional beer. Maybe I'll wake up some fast twitch muscles.
I was there for 3.5 hours, and spent much of that time on the field, but there's a lot of standing around. Maybe an hour is generous. | ||
| Note | |
| Small world for the night- bumped into two people at the fields that I went to grad school with. One I wasn't too surprised to see, since I knew he was still in town; the other I was totally surprised to see.
Forearms are not sore today from the climbing last night. I bet I won't be able to say that tomorrow. Since I dropped off some uniforms today to get new rank sewn on them, I think it's legit to start my countdown to Captain: 14 days. This is not as exciting as the Texas countdown, but it is still exciting because soon I will at least be able to pretend to be respectable. | ||
| C • Captain Cristina 7 | ||
Tuesday Jun 10 | ||
| Cycling (road) 20:00 [2] | |
| In to work. So tired. | ||
| Cycling (road) 20:00 [2] | |
| Ride home. Temp on base was 104.4F as I left. Take that, you double-digit, east coast weenies! | ||
| C • digits 9 | ||
| Climbing 15:00 [3] | |
| Finally went to Rocks and Ropes with Dave and his wife. Lots of fun, but stamina is definitely near zero. I was there for almost two hours but only completed two routes (my first two) (or maybe it was three) and then sort of flailed around a lot the next few attempts. I should have been buying plane tickets. Whoops. | ||
| C • Plane tickets 3 | ||
Monday Jun 9 | ||
| Cycling (road) 20:00 [2] | |
| In to work, zombie-like. My secondary alarms didn't work this morning, probably because they've realized that I'm in no hurry to buy them more wet food for their morning treat, so I was a few minutes late this morning.
My foot hurts. | ||
| Cycling (road) 20:00 [2] | |
| Home. Considerably warmer, but nothing what like those poor suckers on the right coast are dealing with. | ||
| C • humidity - yuck 4 | ||
| Running (road/dirt) 29:00 [2]3.2 mi (9:03 / mi) | |
| shoes: Gus | ||
| Running to Peg's for the TSN meeting. Yep, still hot. Legs felt a little like I'd just been riding, but they loosened up. Otherwise felt good. Some shade along the route, so a shady mid-90s. Not too shabby. This evening running thing isn't too terrible, except for the whole dehydration thing.
Went to the bike path, south around the golf course, north to the Arroyo Chico trail and across to Peg's (route). When I got to her street there was a guy driving the other way and I thought I knew him, so I waved. He waved back and pulled over. I went to the window and said, "Hey, what's up?" and he said, "Hey, want some water?" and offered me a bottle of water. Then we both realized that we didn't know each other. I said, "I'm sorry, I thought you were someone else." Though I don't actually know who I thought it was, just that I thought I recognized him. He said, "I thought you were someone else, too!" The offer of water still stood, and he asked me if I was a U of A distance runner. That was a good one, he's a funny guy. Lives right down the street from Peg if I ever need anything. A friendly encounter, so I guess I'll wave again if I ever think I know someone. Unless he's actually a stalker and I should be more careful about who I talk to on the street. | ||
| Running (road/dirt) 30:00 [2]3.2 mi (9:23 / mi) | |
| shoes: Gus | ||
| Run home. I had two popsicle's at Peg's. It was dark and cooler, but I had to run more slowly on the trail because I couldn't see. Twinges in my left knee at first, disappeared after a bit. | ||