Training Archive: PGIn the 7 days ending 2007-01-06:
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Saturday Jan 6 | ||
| road running race 21:33 [4] 3.1 mi (6:56 / mi) vdot: 45.5 | |
| weight:139lbs shoes: Air Max Trail 09/05 | ||
| Another day with no zip. 5K at Forest Park,10 seconds slower than 2 weeks ago, though it wasn't for lack of trying. Phil was well ahead, George is getting closer. At least I ran the whole course....
Hopefully sometime this month I'll have a good day. Warm (mid60s) and humid during the race. Clearing up and over 70 afterwards! Stopped on the way home at Mt. Tom to walk a couple of miles and enjoy the early afternoon. | ||
| C • walking 2 | ||
| road running 20:00 [2] | |
| Before and after. Very sluggish. | ||
Friday Jan 5 | ||
| Note | |
| Ok, here's the last photo, back to the AOWN theme.
Wells State Park, Sturbridge, MA. May 5, 1985. Awards ceremony for the Trolll Cup A Meet. And my old running buddy Fred Pilon, who had contacts in the sports industry, had somehow procured a copy of the 1984 USA gymnastics uniform, which was all the rage then, and then somehow talked me into donning it.... I mean, awards ceremonies were a lot more fun back then! And with all the recent griping about the outfits all of us old-timers orienteer in, well, this outfit ain't no pyjamas. I've also written up a bit of the Wheaties story. 
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| C • Ah, yes. They just don't make... 12 | ||
Thursday Jan 4 | ||
| trail running 38:48 [3] | |
| weight:139lbs shoes: Air Max Trail 09/05 | ||
| Short loop, out along the river, then up through Gunn farm and down N. Mt. Slow pace, though still didn't feel easy, 6:26 up Gunn, 10:21 down N. Mt.
AOWN report -- a flock of bluebirds seemed to be enjoying a pleasant January day in the fields by the river. Aren't they supposed to have gone south by now? | ||
| C • Bluebirds 1 | ||
| Note | |
| The next to last in the holiday series of old photos -- and to counter complaints that earlier photos were way too much "at one with nature," even though I've just been trying to support the IOF's new slogan, today's photo shows nothing but high class and good taste.
The photo was taken in January, 1985, at the Coliseum in Los Angeles. The tall, perhaps it would even be fair to say "very tall," and handsome dude to the left is none other than PG with a full head of hair. To the right and getting a quick lesson in the use of map and compass is Mary Lou Retton, gold medalist in gymnastics several times at the '84 Olympics. Final photo, also very high class and with some connection to this one, comes tomorrow. With luck, also a bit of a story.... 
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| C • class 13 | ||
Wednesday Jan 3 | ||
| trail running 49:22 [3] | |
| shoes: Air Max Trail 12/06 | ||
| Sugar-Gunn loop. Legs feeling crappy as usual, but ran the last 15 minutes hard (6:03 up Gunn, 9:03 down N. Mt.) just because I didn't want to be more than 50 minutes for the loop. Probably not smart, but some things can't be helped.
Off to the links, then a tax appointment, then let's see if I can catch up on some team stuff tonight (maybe if I put something here, then I'll actually get something done!). Just a couple more photos coming in the holiday series. The last one is really fine.... | ||
Tuesday Jan 2 | ||
| Note | |
| Today we feature a (much) younger Peggy, date unknown.
The conversation on the shirt: Mom -- "Dear, the whole family wants to know why you aren't married yet?" Daughter -- "Tell them... tell them I forgot!" Some things do change. 
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| C • shirt 2 | ||
| Note | |
| Time for a few numbers for 2006:
68 O races (61 in 2005) -- 13 sprints (22 in 2005) -- 11 middle (8) -- 34 classic (24), though a classic varied a lot, from 35 to 95 minutes depending on whether I was running M21, M45, or M60. -- 1 long (2) -- 2 goats (2) -- 2 cross/farsta (0) -- 3 relay (2) -- 2 night (1) -- 0 trail-O (0) 9 sessions of O training at a serious pace, plus another 7 times on a map at mostly a walking pace. 256 hours training (278 in 2005) including: -- 75 orienteering (56 in 2005) -- 181 other running (193) -- 0 biking (20) -- 0 rogaining (0) So about the same running training, with more orienteering, with roughly the same yearly cycle good training in the winter and spring, lots of competitions in the spring and summer, slacking off in the fall (though injury played a big role in that this year). Also ran 14 foot races: -- 6 on the roads, from 5 km to a half marathon. Best performance was half marathon in 1:27:30 at Westfield -- 4 local 5 km XC, best 19:56 at Holyoke -- 5 trail races from 6 to 18 miles -- 1 track race, mile in 5:46 Other thoughts -- 1. Very little downtime from sickness (especially compared to what I see on other training logs), but took a fall at the North Americans that wrenched my left hamstring, which seems like it will be bothering me for a while. 2. Went to a lot of really fun O meets. The highlights were the trip to Jukola with CSU and the Swiss O Week in Zermatt, but overall there were just a lot of really good events. 3. Spent a lot of time on both the Team and the Sprint Series, with both bringing a lot of personal satisfaction. 4. Laughed a lot, and got my share of being laughed at too. 5. Weight held steady at 1G all year long, though the G itself sank quite a bit (thanks to the motivation of staying lighter than Mr. Swampfox) before rebounding at the end of the year. But the combination of good training and a low G gave me my best competitive season for a long time. 6. And finally, so far there have been 27,034 times that someone has stopped doing something useful to come look at my training log (6,908 at this time last year). I admit to spending a lot of time on Attackpoint, and getting a great deal of enjoyment from it, and it seems like some others do too. And finally, my motto for 2007: 
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| trail running 53:33 [3] | |
| rhr:54 weight:139lbs shoes: Air Max Trail 12/06 | ||
| From the gate up to the top of Toby, back via the link and RF. Pretty depressing, stopped a couple of times on the way up to rest. Just another day with no zip.
Forgot that yesterday was my O' birthday, now M63. | ||
Monday Jan 1 | ||
| Note | |
| weight:139lbs | ||
| Spent the last couple of days in Litchfield, lots of food, no exercise -- hamstring/butt was very sore Saturday and it seemed like the right time to kill the ramp. Also, since it is 33 and raining here on Monday morning, not the best time to run a 10K, so I am skipping the Montague race.
What excellent common sense! The problem, of course, is that continued common sense will have me perpetually fat and out of shape.... | ||
| C • Strange coincidence! 7 | ||
| Note | |
Today's photo from the archives is a young and dashing (well, relatively young) Spike, c. 1989. What is striking is not how much hair he used to have, or how brown it was, but how thin he used to be....
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| C • old photos 5 | ||
| trail running 51:55 [3] | |
| shoes: Air Max Trail 12/06 | ||
| Not real pleasant out -- about 35, still a little rain coming down -- but got out for a short run on the mountain. Through the town park, up Middle Mt. road, down the power line and North Mt. road. A little bit icy, left over from the overnight freezing rain, so I took it easy on the way down, not wanting to grab the runner-up spot to Brian for stupid New Year's Day tricks. And I made it down without crashing, even though I was sliding more than I cared to a few times.
Total training logged for 2006 was 256 hours. Pretty good for the first 9 months, much less in the fall due to injury. And almost all of the 256 was running in one form or another. | ||