Training Archive: walkIn the 7 days ending 2008-02-23:
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Saturday Feb 23 | ||
| Event: Western States + Intercollegiate Championships | ||
| Orienteering warm up/down 20:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Attack II | ||
| Jogging around before the morning race ad then to the start. Felt pretty good, none of the leg/butt problems evident. | ||
| Orienteering race 42:25 [4]*** 4.2 km (10:06 / km) +110m 8:56 / km | |
| ahr:158 max:173 spiked:7/9c shoes: Attack II | ||
| Tucson A meet - 55, sunny, drying wind standing around but nice running. Unfortunately, we're missing the good snow!
Brown - 1st run as M65. Good run, clean except two legs: Minor bobble going up to soon to a very similar reentrant on 1 for about 30" hesitation and a major boom leaving 4 going up the wrong reentrant straight into a hillside of catclaw and then down into a parallel reentrant too soon requiring climbing up and over an extra spur for about a 5' loss. Rest was fine and wound up 2nd on Brown to Lyn's 3rd, both behind an F18. Fun course. | ||
| C • happy birthday 5 | ||
| Orienteering warm up/down 20:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Attack II | ||
| Jogging around before the sprint. Had one of the last start times, so jogged around and over to see if there was any openings several times. Gave it another shot later but was pretty tired by then. Went off after most had gone out so very few on course. | ||
| Orienteering race 27:04 [4]*** 2.9 km (9:20 / km) +90m 8:05 / km | |
| ahr:159 max:172 spiked:12/14c shoes: Attack II | ||
| Sprint at Tucson - Late start with mostly an open course. Bobbled 3 by staying too R around the various spurs at beginning of leg and not correcting. Wound up too R and checked wrong hill for about 1:45 loss. Rest clean, just slowing as the course went on. | ||
Sprint - Splits | ||
Brown 1 - Splits | ||
Friday Feb 22 | ||
| Orienteering 1:00:00 [1]*** 4.4 km (13:38 / km) | |
| shoes: Attack II | ||
| Compass training at Tucson - 60, cloudy. Neat area of cactus and various other mildly prickly stuff. Map was 1:5000 with 1.25m contours and enough veg to make visibility difficult except for the saguarros, which are tall and were all mapped individually. A good exercise. Managed to overshoot 4 overrunning it, and 12 by a big margin when I tried a suggested technique of sighting on the distant mountains. That worked but didn't provide the stopping features necessary to be very useful so went back to using saguarros. | ||
Thursday Feb 21 | ||
| Event: US Team training activity | ||
Wednesday Feb 20 | ||
| Note | |
| weight:148lbs (rest day) | ||
| Getting ready to play in the desert. | ||
Tuesday Feb 19 | ||
| Road run warm up/down 17:59 [1] | |
| ahr:116 max:178 weight:149lbs shoes: DS Trainer XII | ||
| Jog to start with some stretching, Simsbury Rd - 35, sunny, W wind.
HR seemed quite high while jogging on this part. Dropped right down when stopped to stretch, but picked back up when started jogging again. Hmmm. | ||
| Road run intervals 35:00 [4] | |
| ahr:155 max:178 shoes: DS Trainer XII | ||
| Barn Door Hills Rd-Simsbury Rd - Flat sections for first four. Last was on way home. Plan 4x 3:30/ 3' rcy.
Did 5x and all seemed about the same effort. First two continued the high HR, ranging in the 170s a lot - 1st AHR 169, MHR 176; 2nd 149, 178. Then seemed to settle down, running in the 150s with max mid 160s. The route was an out and then back. As HR seemed settled after the four and I had time to do, I put one more in on the run home. Nice running on country roads with hints of spring in the air. | ||
| Note | |
| AOWN: Finished the second interval along the stream on Simsbury Rd near the Beaver Marsh. Had stopped next to a large tree along the road with recent gnawing of actual beavers. The name is for real. The tree however was not the best choice as it leaned away from the stream towards the road with other trees in the way in the stream direction.
As I pondered that engineering problem during the recovery, I spotted a real beaver in the stream below me, about 30' away and hadn't seemed to notice me. At first I thought it was playing as it was doing rolls in the stream which, as the Scots say, was in spate. It continued the rolls and was swept along by the current with its head coming out of the water and mouth gasping for air with each roll. The current carried it along, it would head towards the shore but seem to bounce off and continue in the current away towards the far side of the marsh. I watched this for a couple minutes until it disappeared around a bend and my rcy time was up. When I returned after the next set there was no sign of it. I'm not sure what all that was about, but it definitely appeared to be a true death spiral of some sort. Perhaps rabies, perhaps some other injury. Certainly did not look like it was healthy. | ||
Monday Feb 18 | ||
| Cycling warm up/down (Recumbunt) 10:00 [1] | |
| weight:148lbs shoes: DS Trainer X | ||
| Trying to get going. Took a long time; just couldn't get into it. Maybe tired from Sun. or depressed by MwM which was pretty discouraging. Started and barely able to push at 80 revs. Finally after about 5' got into the 90 range and upped the resistance. Would have been happy to have gone home and taken a nap. So would Lyn. But we figured this would be better.
And it really was, marginally, and that was what matters. | ||
| Strength (Nautilus) 40:00 [1] | |
| shoes: DS Trainer X | ||
| This is an easy week, so back all machines off by one setting. Generally ok but some were still a struggle.
Did some step bounces after. When we got home, Lyn had a message from somebody from Running Times(?). Wanted to talk to her after seeing the Springfield stuff. She wanted to ignore it as was embarrassed but I maintained it was good to show that old farts could really do stuff and not just sit around on rockers and wander forlorn down some garden path muttering away. May be something in the May issue. | ||
Sunday Feb 17 | ||
| Trail run long 2:45:00 [1]** 9.5 km (17:22 / km) +400m 14:21 / km | |
| weight:149lbs shoes: Soloman XA Blue/Yellow | ||
| Sleeping Giant - 30, gray, windy, one short icy patch up to top of chin - put on sure-feet studs.
Inspired by Cavadura and thought we would try this. Had never done it, though we have been by many times, and expected little or no snow/ice cover. Met expectations. Nice area with some really gnarly trails, huge shear cliffs and pretty nice woods. Parked at E trail head and ran Blue trail over Hezekiah's Knob, around the Right Foot, over the Left Knee, L Hand, L Leg, L Hip and stopped at the Castle, then up icy trail to top of Chin. Turned there and took Green trail which only took us over the Chest, but down a nice long reentrant. 1:50 and 5.2k out; 0:40 and 4.2k back. The Blue was particularly nasty trap rock with lots of ups and downs, many seemed gratuitous to get another climb in. Except at the trail head and near the turn around close to the main parking, we saw only a group of 4 hikers the entire way, but did flush out 3 deer just before seeing them. They were quite grateful and it seemed to make their day. The hikers seemed to be of the professional hiker type, with the patches on their packs - large packs and we commented how they were probably outfitted with every sort of emergency piece of gear, extra clothes, and food. Compared to us with 3 maps, a compass, 2 left over Clif bloks, and a small energy bar. And of course they were wearing heavy winter coats/hats, boots compared to our light running gear. Still a fun day and got home before the sleet/rain etc started. | ||