Training Archive: BoojumsIn the 7 days ending 2008-06-29:
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Sunday Jun 29 | ||
| Orienteering race 49:15 [3]*** 8.3 km (5:56 / km) | |
| ahr:176 max:198 22c shoes: Gus | ||
| The first of what will hopefully be a tradition of Street-O in Tucson. Peg hosted and the course started near her house, covering the 'hood to the East (Barrio Peg, in her words). One-hour score-o format, with questions to answer rather than controls to punch, and an aerial for a map.
Nice morning, nice course. I was sometimes a little confused about what I was supposed to be looking for - like, which side of the street. I guess that's part of the trick of these things. Had to go pretty hard to get them all. Mook cleaned it in about 45, Ludwig a few minutes behind me (and then some, since he forgot to answer a question and had to go back). I think Brucker managed to nab them in just under the hour. Distance logged is actual traveled. I'll try measuring straight line to see how much difference there is. Here's the map. No fortuitous meetings for me today. Wrong side of the country, I guess. And I tweaked my back something fierce. Hurt right when I started running, but only on and off. Much worse when I hopped in the car to go home. Pretty unpleasant to move right now. Boris and Cristina are both weakening in the Pacific. | ||
| C • WTF? 3 | ||
| C • Whoa! 4 | ||
| C • Street O 6 | ||
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| Now that my internets are working properly:
White Mountains day 1 north and south. Burton Creek middle and classic. Sometimes you just need to know: is California on fire? | ||
| C • Is California on fire? 1 | ||
Saturday Jun 28 | ||
| Orienteering 45:00 [2]*** | |
| 15c shoes: Paul | ||
| Morning training at Arthur Pack. Drew a short course and tried to nail them, working on keeping a good direction and looking ahead - basically the only way to get around here. I managed pretty well. I tried to pick some control locations that were more distinct (like stumps instead of saguaros) since I didn't have streamers or another person so that I could run through them instead of taking time to verify my position. I also tried to pick up the speed towards the end. It's amazing how quickly you can lose track of where you are if you drift. Good practice.
This was supposed to be group training but I only got one taker, Ludwig, and I forgot that not everyone checks their email as much as I do... so I ended up alone. | ||
| C • Noticed that the two curren... 7 | ||
Friday Jun 27 | ||
| Other Cardio 30:00 [2] | |
| Morning PT. We played ultimate and it was actually fun - we only had 4 or 5 on a team at a time, and it wasn't a jockfest. Still not something I'd want to do all the time, but at least it wasn't a negative experience.
I was supposed to play a bunch last night but there was mucho agua all over the place, flash flood warnings, lightning, etc., and supposedly fields were closed. Not sure if people played anyway, but I was on a roll at home, so I stayed. | ||
Thursday Jun 26 | ||
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| It's raining! A lot! | ||
Wednesday Jun 25 | ||
| Other Cardio (ultimate) 1:30:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Paul | ||
| Ultimate with the league team. Our name this week was "Lightning Shitz" because there was lots of lightning around. It was actually really cool, spectacular sunset and some rain that we could pretend was cooling us off. First storm of the summer. And no one died.
We won both games (again). We totally rock. I think I'm getting used to all these short spurts of really fast running. It has to be useful from a strength building perspective, and I'm serious in that. Fun too, of course. Old Chicago afterward and I treated myself to my own promotion goodies. I got through the whole day without calling myself "Lt Luis" on the phone. It's pretty easy to kick a four-year habit if the change is so welcome. | ||
| C • Congrats, again... 14 | ||
Tuesday Jun 24 | ||
| Running tempo (road/dirt) 40:00 | |
| ahr:180 max:196 shoes: Gus | ||
| Morning tempo run in the form of 3x6 min cruise intervals. One minute easy jog between. Dragged myself out of bed an hour later than I had wanted. Mid-80s and... sunny!
Legs felt awful warming up. I think it's just not being in a morning routine. Ten minutes warmup out to the bike path, then launched in. I was shooting for 7:30-7:40 pace, which I managed for the first two. Key word is 'managed' - they were clearly too fast for tempo today (see MHR of 196). Last one was significantly slower (8ish?), but still tried to keep the tempo feel, which should be good enough. Still a high HR, too. | ||
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Pic of the weekend:
That's my sister drawing her route on her map on Saturday. | ||
Monday Jun 23 | ||
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| Apparently I now generate a false positive match for someone on the FAA No-Fly list. This means that someone with my name (my name? seriously? wtf?) is on the No-Fly list, and now I have to prove that I am not that person by checking in with a real person at the ticket counter and... providing proof. So I can't check-in for a flight online, curbside, or at a kiosk. Didn't happen this weekend, but I could be subject to additional searches and delays if I can't prove to their satisfaction that I am not the person on the list. So much for probable cause. I suppose this means that my days of showing up 30min before take-off are over. Same with A group boarding on Southwest. (!) Could be worse, considering this whole No-Fly list business is, in my mind, unconstitutional. I can't imagine my wrath if I ended up on the actual list. | ||
| C • No fly 20 | ||
