Training Archive: SwampfoxIn the 7 days ending 2008-04-26:
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Saturday Apr 26 | ||
| Note | |
| When I woke up this morning and saw that snow had arrived overnight--and was still arriving--it was obvious there was going to be no outdoor rogaining training today. So the first order of business was to book some time at the Laramie Indoor Rogaining Training Facility to practice a few swings. We Laramie rogaining trainers may be idiots (to be rogaining training in the first place) but we're not sub-morons about it, and that's for sure.
Next order of business was some breakfast. In honor of the big O' race going on somewhere, I made a batch of Tio-Milas. Actually, they were Swedish waffles. Well, actually, they were Texas waffles. Well, actually, they were just Regular waffles, since I didn't have any bits of barbed wire to throw in the batter. As I ate the Regular waffles, I clicked through the split results leg by leg from Tva-Mila, which proved to be a highly satisfactory and very efficient way to watch Tva-Mila in a surprisingly short amount of time. Even Coach--who always complains that relays go on too long--would have been impressed. I may do the same tomorrow with Tio-Mila. I'll just have to see if I can't round up some barbed wire between now and then. | ||
| run 1:45:00 [3] | |
Friday Apr 25 | ||
| run 1:36:00 [3] | |
| Sun was in bad form today, did not even make a pretense of showing up for the game today, and, seeing that, Clouds swept in, setting the stage for decisive gusts by Wind. It was not long before a chilly rout was on, and a hostile crowd swirled Snow onto the arena despite warnings from the hapless referees. Winter scored another too easy victory, and it is looking more and more like drafting Sun in last year's draft and paying a Big Signing Bonus was a Bad Mistake. Should've drafted Wind instead, or else at least done a trade for Clouds.
There's not going to be enough time to rally the team for tomorrow's series finale, so it looks like Winter is going to sweep again. Damn! | ||
| biking 1:19:00 [2] | |
Thursday Apr 24 | ||
| run 41:00 [3] | |
| This intended-for-morning run edged dangerously close to noon. Felt nice and spring-like outside, with some pleasant big valley winds. | ||
| run 7:00 [2] | |
| This intended-for-late-afternoon was performed at the correct time, however the intention was to do something for more than 7 minutes.
I went out at mid-afternoon to plug away at some mapping, and by then the winds had escalated it the air blowing by was noticably chillier. A cold front coming through? It was very borderline even when the sun was out. I took it as long as I could, and was pretty well iced by then. I switched to running, and the wind became even more remorseless and warmth sapping, and after a few minutes of that it seemed the best thing to do was to say the hell with it and head for some place where the winds couldn't claw any more. It would have been no big deal in say, the winter weeks of January, but somehow in late April it was too much to have to put up with! | ||
| C • I took it as long as I could... 8 | ||
| biking 1:20:00 [2] | |
Wednesday Apr 23 | ||
| run intervals 1:12:00 [4] | |
| After mapping, on dirt roads. Highlight of today's mapping was finding a perfect pair of mulie antlers. And lowlights? None.
In between, I thought a little about 10-Mila. I was surprised to hear that there was a going to be a charge for the web broadcast this year. For one, in past years, while it's been pretty interesting when it's worked, problems with the internet connections were common to borderline rampant, and the thing would come and go. For another, would folks actually be willing to pay for this? To watch orienteering over the web? Well, good luck to them! The whole thing makes me feel a little like Maxwell's judge: So-o-o-oh. | ||
| C • Tiomila online 5 | ||
| biking 58:00 [2] | |
Tuesday Apr 22 | ||
| biking 30:00 [3] | |
| run 1:13:00 [3] | |
| For Earth Day, I chased a large herd of elk around in the embargoed zone for the US Classic Champs. They enjoyed it and I think I did too. Despite doing this barefooted, no diamonds ended up in the soles of my feet, which was borderline disappointing.
I also recovered some stray bits of barbed wire, and turned them in for recycling. Hopefully they will wind up in some fine Nucor mini-mill! | ||
| C • No diamonds... 4 | ||
| biking 1:01:00 [2] | |
Monday Apr 21 | ||
| biking 32:00 [3] | |
| Cooler today, overcast, and windy. It didn't seem like a good day for rogaining training. | ||
| run 1:24:00 [2] | |
| Easy running up into the hills. | ||
| biking 1:00:00 [2] | |
Sunday Apr 20 | ||
| biking 58:00 [3] | |
| Very windy! Like Bruce Springsteen, I went down to the river. I didn't dive in and it would have been pretty frozen cold anyway. No Mary, no union card. Just the wind! | ||
| C • Down to the river... 2 | ||
| skiing 1:13:00 [3] | |
| I think this will be the last time I ski at Happy Jack this season. Let the melting commence for good now! | ||
| Orienteering 1:17:00 [4] | |
| Thundering winds and vast sections of deep, post-holing snowfields increased the suck factor to a most highly desirable level. I had several epiphanies and even got a touch delusional on the last leg run into the wind. So fine!
My legs gradually got a little sorer as I went along, still a little sore from intervals this past Wednesday. It's clear evidence of the inadvisabiilty of doing intervals, although getting ancient and decrepit are also worth avoiding. Coaching Tips of the Week: 1) Don't get ancient. 2) Don't get decrepit. 3) Viva Las Vegas! | ||