Training Archive: walkIn the 7 days ending 2008-06-15:
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Sunday Jun 15 | ||
| Orienteering (Hanging controls) 40:00 [1]*** | |
| shoes: Attack II | ||
| Bethel School Complex - Cooler but still humid after overnight t'storms.
Hanging a section around the school yard and nearby woods. Had to explore ways out of the woods through the dark green. Also had a problem with a control in a tall grass section with poison ivy intermixed. The bag was to be hung on the edge of the thicket. The first green of the thicket was from branches of the PI vine growing up the neighboring fence. Didn't think that to be appropriate. Hopefully no PI attack from it or more ticks. Had a nice fat swollen deer tick fall off my upper leg during the night. It's carefully entombed in scotch packing tape just in case. AOWN: We were at 3 forest parks and one school/woods park. The only reportable AOWN sightings were, of course, at the school yard: flushed 2 deer in the woods bit, and a squirrel and a wood chuck, aka Great Eastern Attack Badger, in the playground. | ||
| Orienteering (Hanging controls) 30:00 [1]*** | |
| shoes: Attack II | ||
| Huntington - Another run in the nice CT woods, this time on a fun PG designed course, that's like playing a designer golf course isn't it?
Fun weekend with the Team, great enthusiasm, fun hard-working and dedicated group. They all are welcome in our part of the world any time for more practice sessions. And thanks to Susie and Rick for a nice bed for much needed sleep. | ||
Saturday Jun 14 | ||
| Orienteering (Hanging controls) 1:04:00 [1]*** | |
| shoes: Attack II | ||
| Paugussett - Cool but humid.
Hanging controls for morning Team training exercise. No problem except one control on a small boulder in mixed green. Attack twice and checked for another boulder. Pretty sure that was the one. They all got it with varying success. Nice section of woods with threats of thick ugly green but good avenues to avoid it. | ||
| Orienteering (Hanging controls) 40:00 [1]*** | |
| shoes: Attack II | ||
| Tarrywile - Warmer and more humid, heading to much warmer and very humid during their run. Again no problem except one control on a boulder. This was a big boulder mapped a bit below rocky ground. Was actually a huge boulder in the middle of a boulder field/rocky ground. Put bag at edge of rocks with a warning to the runners (It was the first control so they wouldn't have a chance to go brain dead and forget.)
Another nice course by Tom, which was fun to watch but glad I didn't have to run in that weather. Just walking down the hill back to the car and was sweating like mad. | ||
Friday Jun 13 | ||
| Orienteering 1:00:00 [1]*** 6 km (10:00 / km) | |
| weight:148lbs shoes: Montrail | ||
| Beaver Triangle - 74, clear, dry - again. Another effort running through blah terrain trying to sort out location. Did little pace counting today as never had a good start point. This section was selectively logged a few years back and the skid roads have become rides through the woods. Rides in name only; perhaps it worked for skidding but they had put all the slash and trash logs across these stretches so was impossible to run on for the last few years. The slash has broken down to manageable level now but the green has filled in its place. It's mostly ferns (covering the slash making for hard going) and saplings but sections of briars are starting to appear. These rides wander all through this area, helter-skelter. Used the Eddie map at 1:5000 and 5m/1m lines. The area is barely one line and the base doesn't show down areas. As I haven't done the field checking, kind of on the fly with these runs, location is a challenge. | ||
Thursday Jun 12 | ||
| Orienteering 1:32:00 [1]*** 10 km (9:12 / km) +350m 7:50 / km | |
| weight:149lbs shoes: Attack II | ||
| Mcleans - Beaver Tr to South Woods (or maybe now known as The Former Home of the Bear Woods) - 76, severe clear, lovely dry day. Perfect running.
More O practice - Using Eddie's 5m/1m light contour map at 1:10000, worked on various O skills. First tried to locate self along the approximate mapping of the Beaver tr from earlier FR tracks. Wasn't too accurate and needs work. Decided that pace counting might be helpful in such circumstances with better success. So into South Woods - would pick a prominent feature on the contour map (not much else on it) and go on compass and pace. First problem was determining pace. Finally settled on about 55/100m in these woods and 40-45/ on trails/roads when finally heading home. Did about 9 of these with reasonable success. Woods are big spur/reentrant type with trashy slow going and lots of dodging around deadfall, dead branches. Then home with better success locating position and errors of trail map. Good fun exercise. | ||
Wednesday Jun 11 | ||
| Note | |
| weight:147lbs (rest day) | ||
| Admin day to take care of car (France), insurance (Europe), try to get the Weber to work (narrowed it down to a clogged hose, which doesn't really sound right), dump (er - recycle center), pruning shrubs (they have a habit of growing). In the meantime, got a book from the library on the ipod to try and understand the magic of how they get all that stuff in such a little thingy. Starting to get it and may get a touch soon. (Touch me in the....etc) Plan to play in the woods again tomorrow. | ||
Tuesday Jun 10 | ||
| Orienteering 1:00:00 [1]*** 6.1 km (9:50 / km) | |
| weight:148lbs shoes: Attack II | ||
| Horse Tr - Woods - Trail to Y - 82 in shade at home, much hotter on the road run to the trail head, then much cooler. Still sweating like a saunaized pig.
Decided I need some woods training, so took Eddie's Lidar mcleans map w 5m contours (plus very light 1m lines for form lines) for a run to the Y. Map works well; I don't. Need much more of this. Had significant come up short early by mis-interpreting reentrants so started to try pace counting. Was a bit hard on an uncertain map with an uncertain position working with few features to go off. Great stuff. The woods were just open enough to see a bit but not far. Basically flat terrain so trying to interpret the 1m lines to figure position. Changed this to orienteering, as that was really the focus and the lesson was that I need more practice at this. | ||
| Water 5:00 [1] | |
| 4 laps crawl.
Mainly to cool off. Nice walking into a/c of the Y after the hot run. Seemed cold. Logging this on the front porch today, temp 95. Was 85 inside but stuffy. This is hot but nicer with the sun shining and the birds singing. A robin is chirping away now. Just the slightest breeze starting. Threats of severe weather. We shall see. Stay tuned tomorrow. | ||
| Water 5:00 [1] | |
| 4 laps crawl.
Mainly to cool off. Nice walking into a/c of the Y after the hot run. Seemed cold. Logging this on the front porch today, temp 95. Was 85 inside but stuffy. This is hot but nicer with the sun shining and the birds singing. A robin is chirping away now. Just the slightest breeze starting. Threats of severe weather. We shall see. Stay tuned tomorrow. | ||
| Note | |
| AOWN - By popular demand, there has been interest in the size of our visitors. For comparison see Lyn smile. | ||
Monday Jun 9 | ||
| Hiking (Mowing) 30:00 [1] | |
| weight:148lbs | ||
| MwM - 90, humid. Log this only for the temp! The machine is a piece of junk - never get a self-propelled. Just makes them heavy and slow. What a waste.
Then cleaned the gutters, mostly in full sun. They were full of maple spinny things. Must have left it a bit too long as some had sprouted. Are maple sprouts any good? Some people do all sorts of things in the winter to get maple syrup, so the sprouts should be good. | ||
| Trail run 40:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Attack II | ||
| Beaver Tr - 95, humid. Out and back, as therapy for the morning, except at 3pm it was hotter.
We did this in honor of Cristina, but would prefer to do this in her dry climate. Felt good, got into a good stride and did several surges on the way back. In the end though felt like running through a big wet sponge and the energy waned. | ||
| C • You're crazy 2 | ||
| Note | |
| Our internet has been down for the last 24 hours or so. Boy, feel totally isolated and lots to do - besides catching up with AP. Part of the time the cable was also down and I called yesterday and was told there was service problems in our area.
Still down this afternoon so called again after checking the modem. All the lights were on. Was advised to unplug the wireless router. Did and problem solved. So simple, but so aggravating. In the meantime I'm in this hot room trying to work through that frustration. Think I'd rather be out with Lyn mowing the grass. | ||