Thursday Oct 31 |
 | trail running 32:01 [2]3.5 mi (9:08 / mi) | |
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| Up to the power line and back. |
Tuesday Oct 29 |
| biking 1:23:17 [3] | |
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| Greenfield, Turners Falls. Cold (low 40s) and windy. Could tell I haven't been biking much recently (tired legs, sore butt). |
Monday Oct 28 |
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| Travel back from Austin. Watched a couple of soccer games, Texas beat Kansas and Missouri. A lot of fun. My brother's kid is good, a lot of nerve. |
Sunday Oct 27 |
| trail running 36:39 [3]4.0 mi (9:10 / mi) | |
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| Ditto. |
Saturday Oct 26 |
| trail running 36:29 [2]4.0 mi (9:07 / mi) | |
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| Ditto. |
Friday Oct 25 |
| trail running 37:17 [2]4.0 mi (9:20 / mi) | |
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| With my brother, relaxed pace. |
Thursday Oct 24 |
| trail running 24:28 [3]3.1 mi (7:53 / mi) | |
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| At Town Lake in Austin, felt warm and very humid. |
Wednesday Oct 23 |
| trail running 10:00 [2]1.0 mi (10:00 / mi) | |
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| Warm-up/down. |
| orienteering 1:09:43 [4]6.6 km (10:34 / km) +340m 8:24 / km | |
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| Day 1 Red course from the Troll Cup. Leaves about 20% fallen, forest quite wet and a few patches of snow left over from last night's storm. Pretty good effort.
Splits: 3:34, 2:41, 4:34, 6:07 (went down one spur to far to the right), 17:03, 1:27, 7:42, 3:27, 3:37, 3:30, 3:13, 6:54, 3:20, 1:17, 1:15, total 1:09:43. (Splits from the meet.) My route. |
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| Off to Austin tomorrow to visit my brother and watch a couple Univ. of Texas soccer games (his daughter is goalie, team is ranked #4 in the country). |
Monday Oct 21 |
| biking 1:20:00 [3] | |
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| Greenfield/Turners Falls. Legs tired and sore (took one header on Sunday and banged up a knee). Biking was ok, wouldn't have gotten out the door for a run. |
Sunday Oct 20 |
| trail running 10:00 [2]1.0 mi (10:00 / mi) | |
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| Warm-up. |
| orienteering 58:05 [4]6.7 km (8:40 / km) +300m 7:05 / km | |
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| Day 2, Trout Brook Valley. Working hard, but not moving quite as well as yesterday. But still pretty good. My routes. |
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Red - Splits |
Saturday Oct 19 |
| trail running 10:00 [2]1.0 mi (10:00 / mi) | |
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| Warm-up. |
| orienteering 1:01:35 [4]6.9 km (8:56 / km) +340m 7:10 / km | |
| spiked:9/15c |
| WCOC A meet, day 1, Sessions Woods. Real good energy, and working hard. Cool, light rain. My routes. |
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Red - Splits |
Tuesday Oct 15 |
| trail running 22:58 [2]2.5 mi (9:12 / mi) | |
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| Trying to work out the soreness in my quads, getting better. |
Sunday Oct 13 |
| trail running 54:35 [4]5.0 mi (10:55 / mi) | |
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| Monroe trail race supposed to be 10.5 mi, probably less. First half is mostly up (net gain 1800'), second half down on a different route.
A strange day. Within 5 minutes my left quad started hurting a little. It felt better climbing, and I felt good climbing, but on one short descent halfway up, the quad was complaining seriously. But then more climbing and it and I felt fine. Reached the top just behind Jeff Saeger, started zipping down to go by hime, and in the course of about 200 meters the leg went from a little sore, to very sore but I can live with this, to I can barely walk, let alone run. |
| trail running 35:22 [1]1.5 mi (23:34 / mi) | |
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| Part 2: Really painful just standing there. And it's 50 and raining and, well, I'm not really happy about the prospects of getting off the mountain. A very awkward hoppity-hop, trying to keep moving enough to stay warm. On the flat places it would loosen up a bit and I could jog/shuffle, on the steep pitches it was all I could do to get down. |
| trail running 40:03 [2]3.0 mi (13:21 / mi) | |
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| Got to the next aid station, didn't feel like waiting for an hour for a ride, kept shuffling. A couple of nice uphills that I could relax on some and run pretty hard (and get warm), a few more good downs that froze it up again, and then a bunch of gentle flats for more shuffling.
A real bummer, seeing as how good I felt on the uphill. Hopefully it's not to be a recurring thing. |
Thursday Oct 10 |
| trail running 5:00 [2]0.5 mi (10:00 / mi) | |
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| Jog out to start. |
| orienteering 52:45 [4]5.2 km (10:09 / km) +270m 8:03 / km | |
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| Ran day 2 GreenY course from the Troll cup. No flags out, of course, but I'd been to all the points and knew if I was in the right place or not. A pretty good run, actually. Legs felt really tired after bike ride yesterday afternoon, but managed to run more uphills than I've been doing recently. Splits: 2:28, 2:18, 2:02, 7:45, 3:18, 1:12, 7:02, 3:06, 4:50, 5:54, 5:17, 6:31, 1:00 = 52:45.
Map may not be perfect, but it is plenty good enough.
My routes. |
Wednesday Oct 9 |
| biking 2:01:48 [3] | |
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| Wyola, Wendell, Millers Falls, about 35 miles. |
Monday Oct 7 |
| biking 1:15:44 [3] | |
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| Greenfield and back, good effort though legs felt tired. 22.8 miles. |
Sunday Oct 6 |
| orienteering 37:48 [5]4.95 km (7:38 / km) | |
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| Green course at Gay City State Park in Connecticut. My routes. |
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Green - Splits |
Friday Oct 4 |
| biking 1:36:11 [3] | |
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| To Lake Wyola and Shutesbury, good effort. Just got home before it rained. |
Wednesday Oct 2 |
| orienteering 3:00:00 [1] | |
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| Picking up the last of the controls on a warm and humid morning. Just a long walk, glad to be done. Got pretty tired of this by the end, but I suppose if we didn't take turns doing it, we wouldn't have any orienteering at all. |
Tuesday Oct 1 |
| biking 37:18 [2] | |
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| To Turners Falls for monthly SHINE meeting (a group I do volunteer work for counseling seniors about health insurance and Medicare). Relaxed pace so as not to work up too much of a sweat. Gentle tailwind. |
| biking 54:13 [3] | |
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| A couple of hours later, over to Greenfield for an errand, then back home into a stiffening headwind. Worked harder than I planned. Legs didn't have much zip. |