Training Archive: PGIn the 7 days ending 2007-02-03:
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Friday Feb 2 | ||
| trail running 1:17:50 [3] | |
| weight:138lbs shoes: Pegasus 08/06 | ||
| 20 hills loop, not pushing the pace at all, but at least managed the slightly longer than normal run that I planned. But no lost keys, no weird people, no unusual wildlife, I'm hard-pressed to think of anything interesting.
But then a couple of hours later and I'm taking care of a client who all of a sudden one evening in early December got a wicked headache, and several days later was having brain surgery for a tumor around his pituitary gland. He's bounced back pretty well, except for the fact that even with some health insurance he will get a bill of more than 100K from the hospital. Better appreciate each day, because you never know what's coming. | ||
Thursday Feb 1 | ||
| trail running 52:35 [3] | |
| weight:138lbs shoes: Pegasus 08/06 | ||
| 13 hills. Since I didn't run yesterday, I figured the legs would be a little fresher today (which they were) so I planned three surges on my standard loop, which I actually managed to do -- 6:36 for the southern loop, 4:59 for hills 10-12, and 5:11 for the traverse below the tower, plus I ran the last 6 minutes harder, so I suppose that makes four surges. When you start surging, it's just hard to stop!
Time for the loop is better than the 55-56 I've been doing, but still well off the 49+ last spring. But fitness is slowly getting better. I think all I need now is some more benchmarks and everything will be all set. | ||
| C • Just some surges? No augmenta... 7 | ||
Wednesday Jan 31 | ||
| Note | |
| Life continues to go downhill. Woke up this morning with a quite sore left hip flexor -- how do I develop a new ailment in my sleep? Perhaps it will disappear as sneakily as it arrived.
Anyway, no run today. Went and rented a metal detector and back over to Montague, spent another hour looking for the keys. No luck. Did find a buried bottle and an iron pin semi-buried. Looked for animal holes, none in sight. Finally gave up, though I do now know that little area very, very well. Very annoying/frustrating.... But, like yesterday, the day wasn't quite over yet. I was about to summon George up here -- he had fixed his SI printer just by threatening it, surely he could threaten my keys and then they would show up right away. So I started to log in a request to George on AP and I got partway done, and I looked up and saw it was almost 5 pm, and for some unknown reason I thought I ought to at least try calling the Montague Police, and maybe I could catch them before they closed. "By any chance did someone turn in a set of car keys?" "What kind of car?" "Subaru." "We've got 'em." Thanks, George, you're amazing. I know there is a saying that all's well that ends well, but I hope this doesn't become a routine occurance. | ||
| C • Threats 22 | ||
Tuesday Jan 30 | ||
| trail running 1:10:38 [3] | |
| rhr:52 weight:138lbs shoes: Pegasus 08/06 | ||
| Got out the door a little sooner than expected, so I took advantage of the opportunity and went over to Montague to run in the Wills Hill area. Legs felt tired again, but a little better towards the end, including one short stretch off trail that actually felt ok. A pretty nice run on a decent day, upper 20s.
It was just too bad things didn't end there.... Got back to my car and I couldn't find the keys. I usually put them behind a tree or under a rock, being careful to remember where, and today was no different, put them by a little pine tree about 2 feet off the tree, went another few yards to take a pee, and then headed off. At least I'm pretty sure that's what I did. So I got done with the run about 2:10. Looking and looking and then looking some more, 2:25 I figure I better call Gail, so I go knock on the door of a nearby house and they are kind enough to let me use the phone, but I'm afraid she's at the gym, which was true, and there is no answer. Back to look for another 10 minutes, still nothing. Back to the house again, call the office, one of the ladies comes to get me, by now I'm very cold. And all of my normal clothes are locked in the car. So I deal with a couple of clients while in my most impressive and professional looking polypro top and O pants (at least I've stopped shaking), and then arrange enough of a break for Gail to come help me rescue the car (and look a little more in vain for the keys). I have no idea what happened. The mind, which I seem to be slowly saying farewell to, is a mysterious thing. | ||
| C • professional looking polypro 13 | ||
Monday Jan 29 | ||
| trail running 56:37 [3] | |
| rhr:52 weight:138lbs shoes: Pegasus 08/06 | ||
| 13 hills in Greenfield. Now that tax season has started in earnest, this will be a frequent route because it is most convenient, also because it gets some hikers year round, so it gets broken out quickly if/when we ever get snow again.
Legs felt reasonably dead after a couple of hard days, so I just chugged along. I did see and overtake another runner, not a common sight, he looked a little old and scruffy (no, he wasn't related), he was going quite a lot slower than I was so I went by him rather quickly, but what was most striking that he wasn't wearing any gloves. It was maybe low 20s out and breezy. My best guess is that he was either a construction worker used to working outside in the winter without gloves and had long ago frozen any nerves in his hands, or a chef who had long ago fried his nerves by stirring or reaching into too many pots without using a spoon. At least that's what Gail tells me chefs do. Separate subject -- I notice that Eddie has made a stealth visit to AttackPoint. Does that mean he is still alive? Or is it merely a ruse by Swampfox trying to get revenge for when Eddie stole his identity? | ||
Sunday Jan 28 | ||
| Event: WCOC Meet and Winter Meeting | ||
| orienteering 20:13 [4]2.4 km (8:25 / km) +90m 7:06 / km | |
| rhr:50 weight:139lbs shoes: integrators 2006 | ||
| Sprint C at Bennett's Farm, new map (for me at least) just south of Danbury, part of a sprint tripleheader hosted by Rick and Susie DeWitt along with the WCOC winter meeting.
Decent run, no speed. But amazing for late January to be on bare ground, sunny, and about 40. | ||
| orienteering 19:55 [4]2.4 km (8:18 / km) +70m 7:15 / km | |
| shoes: integrators 2006 | ||
| Sprint B (you could do them in any order). Similar to the first one, ran a bit harder at the end to get under 20 minutes. | ||
| orienteering 19:10 [4]2.4 km (7:59 / km) +80m 6:51 / km | |
| shoes: integrators 2006 | ||
| Sprint A, decent run again, and ran hard at the end again -- knew Clint had done 19+ but not how many seconds. Think I got him by 2 seconds.
Routes and comments. | ||
| trail running 15:00 [2] | |
| shoes: integrators 2006 | ||
| Three times out to the start and several minutes easy afterwards.
Also about 35 minutes picking up controls, mostly at a walk. | ||