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Saturday Jan 2, 2010 #
Note
Time for a few numbers for 2009:
-- 47 O' races (40 in 2008, 29 in 2007, 68 in 2006), included 1 DNF (injury) and 1 DQ (Rochester sprint, skipped a control). It occurs to me that while I have been DQ'd about 4 times for skipping a control, I don't think I have ever, in 37 years of orienteering, been DQ'd for punching the wrong control.
-- 11 sprints (14, 11, 13), two of them at a walk.
-- 14 middle (5, 1, 11), most in Europe
-- 14 classic (13, 13, 34), though a classic varied a lot depending on what class I was running.
-- 2 long (2, 0, 1)
-- 2 goats (3, 2, 2), Billygoat and Traverse.
-- 1 O' marathon (0, 1, 0)
-- 0 cross/farsta (0, 0, 2)
-- 0 relay (2, 0, 3), wow, no relays.
-- 2 night (1, 1, 2), Pawtuckaway and Ratlum Mountain, both instant classics
-- 0 trail-O (0, 0, 0)
plus 1 rogaine (3, 2, 0), Arizona (with Barb and Cristina)
358 hours training (369 in 2008, 303 in 2007, 256 in 2006), including:
-- 64 orienteering (45, 38, 75), better than the last couple of years, perhaps the same distance, just going slower?
-- 158 other running (118, 123, 181), injured less, training more seriously at times.
-- 9 biking (32, 43, 0)
-- 19 rogaining (63, 47, 0)
-- 21 run/hikes (22, 37, 0), mostly rogaine training
-- 13 nautilus (86, 15, 0), seemed to fade away, in favor of...
-- 30 yoga
-- 58 rounds of golf (all walking, none logged), almost all between early October and early December when regular training was taking a break.
Seems like it was the best year since 2006. Lots of injury problems in 2007 and 2008.
Also ran 18 foot races, up from 5 the year before:
-- 8 of the local low-key 5K XC races, got the age-64 records in all 4.
-- 3 on the roads, all short, 2 5K and a mile.
-- 6 trail races (Northern Nipmuck, Northfield, Greylock, LoonMt., Mt. Ascutney, and Wapack, first 60+ at all but Ascutney).
-- and 1 ultra, Vermont 50 Mile, first 60+.
Lots of hard efforts and satisfying results.
Other thoughts --
1. Orienteering highlight of the year was the trip to Europe (plus the preparation leading up to it). Met all my goals competitively, plus just a really fun trip.
2. Much less involved in O' stuff otherwise, no longer running the Team or the Sprint Series. Quite a nice break, though it's also good to stay involved in one way or another, benefits in a variety of ways.
3. Just one rogaine this year, in Arizona with Barb and Cristina. Will have to get something planned for 2010 as they are fun, especially the night.
4. Missed my frequent training companion Phil, as I was laid up for the first part of the year and he for most of the rest. Hard to believe we survived without giving each other the regular doses of crap in one form or another. :-)
5. Weight once again held steady at 1G all year long, though the G itself had a nice decline through the spring before rebounded distressingly vigorously in the fall. Would be nice to keep it under 140, would be wonderful to keep it at 135. If I have any ambitions for the coming year, it needs to be at (preferably under) the latter.
6. Topping the list of totally meaningless numbers, so far there have been 132,200 times that someone has stopped doing something useful to come look at my training log (85, 396 at the end of 2008, 54,103 at the end of 2007, 27,034 at the end of 2006, 6,908 at the end of 2005). I quite enjoy writing stuff on my log, even if a good bit of it has nothing to do with training or orienteering. And fortunately Ken doesn't charge rent based on the number of words generated.
7. I'm pretty sure it was a good year for personal growth. Much better at dealing with adversity (though there were the occasional lapses). There were certainly times that I was confronted by lemons and made lemonade. And that was not trivial.
8. My mind continues to disappear, as well as agility, flexibility, strength, endurance, speed, eyesight. I am quite sure these are trends, not anomalies. Much more adversity lies ahead, that is sure, just the timing and the form is yet to be determined. And for how long it is possible to make lemonade.
9. Worked really hard all winter. Best year ever professionally.
10. And of little importance, but fun, got two new toys, the Telsa and the 305. Both are great.
For 2010?
Here is what I wrote a year ago --
"For 2009? Well, another year older means the downward slope just gets steeper. I can move into M65. Have to see what I can do, can't stop trying, but my expectation is that Father Time will pull even harder in the opposite direction from wherever I am trying to go. I suspect it will be a good year to learn patience and to try to take pleasure from the doing more than from the result."
If 2010 could be even close to as good as 2009, then that would be excellent.
-- 47 O' races (40 in 2008, 29 in 2007, 68 in 2006), included 1 DNF (injury) and 1 DQ (Rochester sprint, skipped a control). It occurs to me that while I have been DQ'd about 4 times for skipping a control, I don't think I have ever, in 37 years of orienteering, been DQ'd for punching the wrong control.
-- 11 sprints (14, 11, 13), two of them at a walk.
-- 14 middle (5, 1, 11), most in Europe
-- 14 classic (13, 13, 34), though a classic varied a lot depending on what class I was running.
-- 2 long (2, 0, 1)
-- 2 goats (3, 2, 2), Billygoat and Traverse.
-- 1 O' marathon (0, 1, 0)
-- 0 cross/farsta (0, 0, 2)
-- 0 relay (2, 0, 3), wow, no relays.
-- 2 night (1, 1, 2), Pawtuckaway and Ratlum Mountain, both instant classics
-- 0 trail-O (0, 0, 0)
plus 1 rogaine (3, 2, 0), Arizona (with Barb and Cristina)
358 hours training (369 in 2008, 303 in 2007, 256 in 2006), including:
-- 64 orienteering (45, 38, 75), better than the last couple of years, perhaps the same distance, just going slower?
-- 158 other running (118, 123, 181), injured less, training more seriously at times.
-- 9 biking (32, 43, 0)
-- 19 rogaining (63, 47, 0)
-- 21 run/hikes (22, 37, 0), mostly rogaine training
-- 13 nautilus (86, 15, 0), seemed to fade away, in favor of...
-- 30 yoga
-- 58 rounds of golf (all walking, none logged), almost all between early October and early December when regular training was taking a break.
Seems like it was the best year since 2006. Lots of injury problems in 2007 and 2008.
Also ran 18 foot races, up from 5 the year before:
-- 8 of the local low-key 5K XC races, got the age-64 records in all 4.
-- 3 on the roads, all short, 2 5K and a mile.
-- 6 trail races (Northern Nipmuck, Northfield, Greylock, LoonMt., Mt. Ascutney, and Wapack, first 60+ at all but Ascutney).
-- and 1 ultra, Vermont 50 Mile, first 60+.
Lots of hard efforts and satisfying results.
Other thoughts --
1. Orienteering highlight of the year was the trip to Europe (plus the preparation leading up to it). Met all my goals competitively, plus just a really fun trip.
2. Much less involved in O' stuff otherwise, no longer running the Team or the Sprint Series. Quite a nice break, though it's also good to stay involved in one way or another, benefits in a variety of ways.
3. Just one rogaine this year, in Arizona with Barb and Cristina. Will have to get something planned for 2010 as they are fun, especially the night.
4. Missed my frequent training companion Phil, as I was laid up for the first part of the year and he for most of the rest. Hard to believe we survived without giving each other the regular doses of crap in one form or another. :-)
5. Weight once again held steady at 1G all year long, though the G itself had a nice decline through the spring before rebounded distressingly vigorously in the fall. Would be nice to keep it under 140, would be wonderful to keep it at 135. If I have any ambitions for the coming year, it needs to be at (preferably under) the latter.
6. Topping the list of totally meaningless numbers, so far there have been 132,200 times that someone has stopped doing something useful to come look at my training log (85, 396 at the end of 2008, 54,103 at the end of 2007, 27,034 at the end of 2006, 6,908 at the end of 2005). I quite enjoy writing stuff on my log, even if a good bit of it has nothing to do with training or orienteering. And fortunately Ken doesn't charge rent based on the number of words generated.
7. I'm pretty sure it was a good year for personal growth. Much better at dealing with adversity (though there were the occasional lapses). There were certainly times that I was confronted by lemons and made lemonade. And that was not trivial.
8. My mind continues to disappear, as well as agility, flexibility, strength, endurance, speed, eyesight. I am quite sure these are trends, not anomalies. Much more adversity lies ahead, that is sure, just the timing and the form is yet to be determined. And for how long it is possible to make lemonade.
9. Worked really hard all winter. Best year ever professionally.
10. And of little importance, but fun, got two new toys, the Telsa and the 305. Both are great.
For 2010?
Here is what I wrote a year ago --
"For 2009? Well, another year older means the downward slope just gets steeper. I can move into M65. Have to see what I can do, can't stop trying, but my expectation is that Father Time will pull even harder in the opposite direction from wherever I am trying to go. I suspect it will be a good year to learn patience and to try to take pleasure from the doing more than from the result."
If 2010 could be even close to as good as 2009, then that would be excellent.
C • DQ'd 3
11 AM
trail running 44:35 3.87 mi (11:32 / mi)
ahr:135 max:151 rhr:53 weight:143lbs shoes: mudclaw 270
A struggle. On the trails in Greenfield, nice because they are sheltered from the wind. New snow ranged from an inch or two in the hemlocks to 4 or 5 in the hardwoods. Not so much and it was pretty light, but my legs were taking the day off.
Out the middle trail, back the lower trail, and I just about quit then, but after a minute or two thinking about it continued on, out the upper road/trail and back the middle trail. Most the footing was fine, though there were a few downhill sidehill sections where the traction was so-so at best (and at the same time you're doing a bit of a bob and weave to avoid the low-hanging hemlock branches that are just packed with snow). But no falls.
And also no thought at all to another lap after I finished the second one. Enough was enough.
Car Talk. Amusing but forgettable, as usual, except one thing stuck in my mind this time. A female caller, had moved from Madison to Austin, no, she wasn't connected with the university, her field was "art therapy." The expected "What the hell is that?" from either Click or Clack. And then she gave the perfect "elevator speech." Meaning, you've got 30 seconds or less, the time you might spend on an elevator with someone, to explain what it is you do, or what it is your organization does. Upbeat, informative, succinct, well-spoken.
There's a need for a good elevator speech pretty often, including one situation that I'd guess all of us have experienced, namely when confronted with the question, "What's orienteering?" Accompanied usually by a quite dubious look on the questioner's face, implying it can't be of much significance if they've never heard of it before.
And I wonder how good our responses are. Or even what a good response should be. Though I've come to think recently that if it just starts out with "Oh, it's great, it is so much fun...," then that's a big step in the right direction. Sort of like my elevator speech when I get asked how I how I like my cleanly shaved look, and I start with, "I look fabulous...." :-)
Out the middle trail, back the lower trail, and I just about quit then, but after a minute or two thinking about it continued on, out the upper road/trail and back the middle trail. Most the footing was fine, though there were a few downhill sidehill sections where the traction was so-so at best (and at the same time you're doing a bit of a bob and weave to avoid the low-hanging hemlock branches that are just packed with snow). But no falls.
And also no thought at all to another lap after I finished the second one. Enough was enough.
Car Talk. Amusing but forgettable, as usual, except one thing stuck in my mind this time. A female caller, had moved from Madison to Austin, no, she wasn't connected with the university, her field was "art therapy." The expected "What the hell is that?" from either Click or Clack. And then she gave the perfect "elevator speech." Meaning, you've got 30 seconds or less, the time you might spend on an elevator with someone, to explain what it is you do, or what it is your organization does. Upbeat, informative, succinct, well-spoken.
There's a need for a good elevator speech pretty often, including one situation that I'd guess all of us have experienced, namely when confronted with the question, "What's orienteering?" Accompanied usually by a quite dubious look on the questioner's face, implying it can't be of much significance if they've never heard of it before.
And I wonder how good our responses are. Or even what a good response should be. Though I've come to think recently that if it just starts out with "Oh, it's great, it is so much fun...," then that's a big step in the right direction. Sort of like my elevator speech when I get asked how I how I like my cleanly shaved look, and I start with, "I look fabulous...." :-)
12 PM
Note
It seems like Ken's new widget is also a nice way of showing other folk's training too, like 2009 WOC team members (though some are all dark right now, either temporarily or because they don't log training on AP). When comparing, make note that the vertical scale can vary.
Ross and Clem
Eddie and Wyatt
Eric and Samantha
Sandra and Cristina
Viktoria and Pavlina
Ross and Clem
Eddie and Wyatt
Eric and Samantha
Sandra and Cristina
Viktoria and Pavlina