Training Log Archive: ndobbs

Flow commute

District Champs Long, near Karjaa. Nice terrain, good map, though laser printed at 1:10.

First half went ok, bar a mistake at 2 I don't quite understand, must QR. Second half was a struggle, or maybe just a whimper.

More later, uploading gps to download it again.

The route doesn't look disastrous, but I wasn't in fighting shape. http://www.resultfellows.com/reittiharveli/gadget/...

Oh, I met a new nasty Finnish bug halfway through, the Herhilainen. My poor calf.

A 1h siesta and back to find my Flow.

Austra, just caught a song or two before the end, seemed good.

Jens Lekman, great. And the violinist is terribly cute. I said hi to her and her pianist boyfriend afterwards. The show ended abruptly, and apparently is the exact same set as a friend saw in Brooklyn with the same song intros. After a request early on, he said he only took requests in tattoo form. It seems like they enjoyed it, but maybe it was just a day at the office. Cool to see once, but maybe not a whole lot better than a CD. Or... a two hour set might be better.

Didn't catch too much Cody Chesnutt, but he was good.

My Bloody Valentine, despite their origins I didn't know their music at all. After two songs it was sooooo loud we had to move away, even with earplugs, holy skit. I might check out their music sometime...

Nick Cave was excellent. I wasn't expecting what it was, didn't know his music. Songs with devils and scary bits, one or two boring sentimental songs, but the band was wild, not often you see 60yo fiddlers throwing bows 20m up in the air.

Didn't check Beach House, time for bed. Don't know what I missed.

C • Bad Seeds 2

Home from Flow

Finding my Flow Festival in Finland.

I and Ville Ahonen were good, caught the last few songs of the act. He's also quite the dancer. At one point he was writhing, his back against a small tree. I think he must have been inspired by acjospe.

Kendrick Lamar. Fail.
Cat Power, lasted one song, expected better.
Alicia Keys, not my favourite music, but decent

Plus some random dj stuff around and about and some french guy throat singing, except he spent most of his time telling the sound engineer to add reverb, and more reverb, and more, and then, not that much, tone it down a little.

Left shortly after midnight, after all I had a race to run. And I only had half a beer all night, there was only one bar selling non-heineken beer, and it was impossible to take it out of the bar area.

to/from work, shorter route because I was late...

still nearly stopped to give some tips with a running (lack of) style that was soooo painful to see, but by the time I caught up with her I could see empty, painless trail ahead, so I continued on my merry way...

into town
taxied home because of wild thunderstorms.

to/from work

Calves sore after yesterday, not sure if it's more from running on the balls or from the whopping 150m of climb... either way I need to get back training.

work

6 hill loops

nice day again.

Last night I tried going out for a run, but the headache prevented me. Headache persisted for large parts of today too, had me worried about the big fat tick I found on Wednesday. Seems to have cleared up now, I hope.

"My friend came 5th in the World Games in orienteering."

"Is that like World Championships?"

"No, it's like the Olympics but for sports that are too unpopular."

Great advertising. I wonder what it costs?