Training Log Archive: JanetT

If any of my log readers know of a way to get .FIT or other files from the Garmin 220 to AP without going through my computer, I'd love to learn it. I've already enabled Bluetooth to download files from the watch to Garmin Connect on my Samsung phone, but can't figure out how to get from there to AP. There's no download option either or via the iPad (with iOS 6).

Once I get a new computer I won't necessarily need this method but I'd like to find out if it's possible. I've been having problems with the PC freezing when the Garmin is connected via USB so I transfer data Nd charge th Garmin externally.

C • Email? 4

Got there a few minutes late so missed some of the warmup stretches.

Good series of slow aerobics, faster aerobics, weights, and abs plus stretching at the end, all accompanied by the Jenster's chatter.

Event: NEOC: Baldwin Hill
 

Green course at NEOC's Baldwin Hill, set by Magnus. Nominal distance 4.9 km, climb not specified but abundant. Temps near 50 and sunnier than yesterday.

Slow and cautious in the woods because of dry slippery leaves--and I navigated to everything just fine (very tentative in some places but I did not get lost)--but not cautious enough. In a flat wide open section of the map between controls 5 and 6 I managed to trip myself (stick under the leaves?) and land on my face. Fortunately it was nowhere near as bad as some O face-plant stories I've read, but I lost a few layers of skin right above my lip (and bruised it when it hit teeth on the inside), and acquired a major scratch on the right lens of my glasses right in the focal area. They're useless in rainy conditions anyway (when I rely heavily on my magnifier) so I may have to do without unless I come up with a substitute. Better the glasses than my eye, and hey...I didn't damage a knee this time!

Looks like the first 9 controls were the same on Red and Green which explains the faster runners who passed me here and there (Ian early on; J-J later, twice). Stopped for 30-40 seconds in the area SW of control 5 to show a lost orienteer "about" where we were.

Fastest time on the course was 91 minutes, so maybe it was a bit long (or steep) for this terrain, but I enjoyed the navigation challenges anyway.

NOTE: added GPS track, but it's not complete; watch logged 5.22 km but starts after control 7 so maybe it didn't find satellites until then. So who knows if the distance is accurate--I suspect it's just a guess by the watch.

C • Face plant 5

Green - Splits

Event: WCOC Paugussett Training
 

Event: EMPO Pineridge (and club champs)
 

AOWN moment after leaving Poestenkill, we saw a bear running across a field just south of town. My first thought was "that's a very big dog" but Glen confirmed it was a bear.

Good thing I haven't put up my birdfeeders yet...

EMPO club champs at Pineridge. I ran the course for my age group--Green for EMPO's purposes--nominally about 4 km, 185m climb.

Temp was in low to mid 50s and overcast, so not unlike conditions at the A meet but the woods were more open because the ferns had all been frosted and died down. I hesitated in a few places losing time to uncertainty but was generally in the right area and just had to look around. (#5-control 55; 7-53; 8-38).

Gave instruction to one group who had never done this before and they made it back just fine with their early-teen age daughter doing most of the navigation I think. She seemed quite interested so I hope they make it back to another event sometime. One other non-member group and then everyone else was from EMPO including two new members. :-)
(who actually belong to other clubs too...)

Had my pick of various prizes and chose a pack of maple hard candies left over from the meet in October. Fastest time on the course as well.

Green - Splits

Stopped at PO to mail a letter which needed extra postage, and at our mailbox on the way back.

An interesting study (as analyzed by NPR).

A good class. After it was over one woman who I consider to be strong and fit (Diana, for Glen's benefit) mentioned she thought it was hard today. I think maybe it was due to number of reps vs anything out of the ordinary...

15:29/15:41/3:52

Plus adductors, pulldowns (10), and leg presses in the machine/weight room aka "fitness center."

With some new (to this class) exercises, including a version of the diamond, and a sequence x2 of: standing to forward fold to walk-yourself-out-to-plank and do a couple of pushup-like dips before walking back up to standing position. Difficult.

With five, count 'em five, fellows in class. Integration is a good thing.

At Ooms Conservation area, around Sutherland Pond, after voting. Gorgeous afternoon, mostly clear and calm, and mid 60s.