Training Archive: walkIn the 7 days ending 2007-09-02:
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Sunday Sep 2 | ||
| Event: WCOC Trout Brook Valley | ||
| Trail run warm up/down 10:00 [1] | |
| weight:142lbs shoes: VJ Integrator | ||
| TBV - loosening up, trying to get the sore hips less so. Ached for a bit into the first hill and then was ok. Later the pain of the poor showing overcame any soreness or maybe that was the dulled senses coming into play. | ||
| Orienteering long 1:36:00 [2] *** | |
| shoes: VJ Integrator | ||
| TBV Score-O plus mini sprint - 75, clear, nice day, very dry woods except the true marshes with ankle deep muck still quite willing to try to chomp on stray shoes.
Fun course at TBV starting at the north end for a change, so a different perspective. Started well heading to 3 going CCW along N then down W side and planned to weave back getting as many as possible. Thought all might be possible until boomed 10 and then 14 even worse. Got to the sprint control and tried that in a very slow time, finishing with 30' to go and realized better try to just head in catching what I could. Picked up a couple but boomed 17. So in the most straight forward route possible was in order. Got back with 4' to spare, missing 5 controls. Pleased with run. Have not been doing long runs or much for that matter since coming back from Scotland. Recoup time. Now to start building back up a bit, working around the hip. Focus towards getting some kind of shape for the Boulder Dash. We'll see. | ||
Saturday Sep 1 | ||
| Trail run 38:00 [1] 3.0 mi (12:39 / mi) | |
| weight:143lbs shoes: DS Trainer XII | ||
| Beaver Tr - 68, clear, dry, crisp.
Slow going out. L hip a bother, esp on road. Did 20 on/30 off strides coming back and able to get into reasonable rythym. | ||
| Note | |
| AOWN - We had our own bear essential experience this afternoon. While chatting with our neighbor, who brought over some nice pumpkin bread as sort of repayment for fresh tomatoes, broccolli, and squash, we heard a sprang noise over by the back patio, 20m away. Looked over to see a young bear with the sun-flower seed bird feeder in its maw. Hmmm- not good. Grabbed the fire iron from the hot tub and banged on the side of a big plastic box. It looked up, moseyed away a bit still with the feeder in mouth and looked at me. Are you for real! Think that banging will perturb me at all? Plan B - Yell! Nothing. Plan C - We have a beach umbrella for shade on the back porch, tho haven't used it this summer and it was stuff behind the hot tub. Grabbed it and played like Peter O'Toole in one of the Raider movies where he ran at a flock of birds to scare them into the on-coming fighter a/c. Bear looked puzzled and backed off, without the feeder, enough so that I grabbed the feeder and sauntered back to the house. Bear looked for the feeder, and then realized easy eats were gone and moseyed up into the back woods and disappeared.
Later heard our other neighbor complaining that he thought a bear had tipped over his garbage bucket and strewn dregs all over the side of his lawn. Bear must have finished there and then hit our feeder. Lyn has been leaving them out, sunflower seed, but with only a small amount of seed. Birds have been flocking to them like mad. Must be a shortage of food -or they have forgotten how to find it and go for the easy stuff. | ||
| Strength 30:00 [1] | |
| Pruning - later attacked the overgrowth - rhodies, high bush cranberries and hemlock out front and then the rhodies out back; most of the afternoon. Big stack of brush to chip now. Birds won't be too happy as they seem to like the cover. | ||
Friday Aug 31 | ||
| Strength 55:00 [0] | |
| weight:144lbs | ||
| Normal stuff.
No bears today - yet. | ||
Thursday Aug 30 | ||
| Trail run 1:00:00 [2] | |
| weight:144lbs shoes: DS Trainer XII | ||
| Esker-Purple-Spring Pond - 85, humidity rising. We were still feeling the long run plus the added heat, so called this at the short turn-off. Got in a couple good, longish strides which felt good, stretching out the legs. But after stopping to check out Spring Pond, we found it hard to get going again and the tempo eased. We decided that the shorter loop was a proper course for the day.
AOWN: We seem to have a bear(s) wandering about the neighborhood. Just after we got back, a police car and the animal control van stopped just up the street to chat with various neighbors. We were showering and got enough to hear something about bears. Okay, yawn, big deal. Been there, done that. Calling the police seems a bit over the top. A bit over an hour ago, just as I came up to sit at this infernal device, Lyn called out about a bear. She was sitting on the front porch writing letters (who remembers what those are?). I look out to see its butt meandering around a neighbor's down the street. So we go out to look. See it again briefly but think it went off into the woods - in the direction of the first control for the Winter Ski-O. We head back home and see our neighbor across the street (the one that never talks to anyone) come out on the phone indicating she is talking to the neighbor who had the lurking bear in her yard. She then goes on about how she called 911 at mid day because the bear was in her garage starting to go through the bag of dog food and garbage can. She chased it out by making noise. And she never leaves the garage open - yeah, right! It is most days when we come back from our run, but not to question the facts. Our excitement. | ||
Wednesday Aug 29 | ||
| Note | |
| weight:143lbs | ||
| Nothing today - just 2 1/2 in the dentist chair for more crowning glory, or is it gory! But did get an access permit for Coups, which says nothing about staying on trails;-} And also accepts group activities (associated with Manchester but maybe we can fudge that). | ||
Tuesday Aug 28 | ||
| Trail run long 2:30:00 [2] 10.5 mi (14:17 / mi) +300m 8:09 / km | |
| weight:144lbs shoes: Salomon XA 2 | ||
| Penwood - Tarriffville - 75, blue sky w puffy clouds, low humidity, v dry woods. What a great day for a run! What a great run along the ridgeline with awesome views over the valley.
The SP people have been doing lots of maintenance it seems, and uncovered a trail along the E side of the park from the lake to the picnic area. Used to be overgrown from about mid point on. Now a combination of loose gravel and very old tarmac. So nice flat to down start for warm up (about a mile) then major climb to Lake Louise and on up to the E trail down to Wintonbury Rd. Had dropped water there and we had half of one bottle. Then on to T'ville - Blue tr out; W woods road back. Do the gnarly trap rock section when still relatively fresh. Back into Penwood on W woods road after stopping to finish the water and a Mojo bar. Finish on the same trail from the picnic area. Haven't done a long run like this since spring and pleased how well it went. Some aches (L hip at start, R knee if step wrong, L foot developed funny pain as enter back into Penwood) will have to let them settle out. Lyn wore her new Salomon shoes which were comfortable at least; couldn't check the traction in the dry conditions. AOWN - As we popped out of the woods at the microwave/cell tower, we heard a scurrying noise above us. We disturbed a flock of turkey vultures (8) that must have been roosting on the tower. They circled around, eyeing us up. On the way back, 2 were on the tower and 4 more were circling off in the distance. | ||
| C • Penwood 4 | ||