Training Archive: PGIn the 7 days ending 2007-04-21:
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Saturday Apr 21 | ||
| Event: HVO A-Meet | ||
| orienteering 1:17:20 [2] | |
| weight:136.5lbs shoes: Pegasus 08/06 | ||
| Red course (M45) at HVO meet at Surebridge. A pretty sad effort. Felt croaked by the hot weather (this is nothing new, seems to happen the first warm spell every spring). Orienteering was ok, but I was going so slowly and walking so much it was pretty easy. | ||
| mapping 1:45:00 [1] | |
| Field checking a sprint course for next weekend at West Point (Camp Buckner). Not the normal process. I'd been told there was some construction there, but not where it was, so I hadn't bother to draft out a possible course in advance, figuring I'd have to redo it anyway. But the construction turned out to be in an area I wasn't going to use anyway. So I just started making up the course on the fly, and doing what map corrections seemed necessary, and by the time time I was done I was actually quite pleased with what I had come up with.
Definitely flatter and shorter than the last two years. I think the specs are something like 1.5 km (as the crow flies, but the shortest runnable route is a good bit longer, 1.8 to 2.0 km perhaps). Haven't measured the climb, but it shouldn't be more than 80 meters. And 22 controls. And a great finish chute. I expect there will be some DNF's, or MP's, or whatever you want to call them, not because the course is hard, but if you are going quickly, some people will skip a control or take a couple out of order. We shall see who can keep cool. | ||
| C • Finish chute 3 | ||
Friday Apr 20 | ||
| Note | |
| weight:136.5lbs | ||
| More rogaine practice, though less useful than it might have been because I seem to be spending more time in the open areas and less in the woods.
The G is finally reacting a bit to the post-dinner regimen. But the legs still feel beat.... | ||
Thursday Apr 19 | ||
| track 13:34 [4]2.0 mi (6:47 / mi) | |
| weight:137.5lbs shoes: Pegasus 08/06 | ||
| Season opener for the Thursday evening track group at Eaglebrook. Certainly not ready for this, but you have to start someplace.
2 x 1600 with a minute and a half between, 6:52 and 6:42. Was planning on no worse than 7, so that was ok. But I saw no need to do the third one that ws planned by the group, no point pushing my luck. The usual stretching afterwards, plus pushups (15) at Gail's request. They are getting a little easier. The pullups (doing 2 just about kills me) are another matter. Plus 3 hours of good rogaine practice on a nearly deserted course. This weekend is going to be hot! | ||
| C • pullups 1 | ||
| track 13:18 [2] | |
| shoes: Pegasus 08/06 | ||
| 5 laps before, one lap after. | ||
Wednesday Apr 18 | ||
| trail running 53:19 [4] | |
| rhr:48 weight:138lbs shoes: Pegasus 08/06 | ||
| April 18th finally, though the IRS tried to mess with me by announcing that folks around here affected by the storm had two extra days to file. Doesn't matter, I'll give the same response I gave to a woman who called up at 4 pm yesterday, could I do her taxes, and how much would I charge. Late afternoon on the last day and she's trying to dicker over price. Sp the answer of course was, sorry, not taking any new clients. Sometimes you just know people are going to be trouble.
Which somehow reminds me of another woman who I ditched as a client, although in that case I had already done the return but I was afraid she might shoot me or do something else of a violent nature if I told her how much she owed the IRS. The figure was about 50K. She had won a sexual harrassment lawsuit for 300K, the lawyer had taken 1/3, the state had wiithheld a modest amount of federal and state taxes, so she figured what was left was hers free and clear and she'd gone and spent it all, bought a house in Florida among other things. And then gotten totally screwed by the AMT. I told her she should go see someone better than me, and maybe a lawyer too, though I was pretty sure there was nothing to be done. A year or two later the Supreme Court ruled on the issue (reporting the gross amount and deducting the legal fees vs. reporting the net amount), it had been decided differently in various appeals courts and we were in a district that had decided against her, and the Supremes ruled in her favor (report the net), but not retroactively. I never found out what happened to her, but I don't imagine it was anything good. Anyway, in Greenfield to clean up a few things at the office, so when I was done I went for the usual 13 hills loop. Good hard pace, a little faster than last week but wobbly toward the end. And legs and butt pretty sore later in the day. The HVO meet (runing M45) will be a struggle, especially if it is warm. | ||
| Note | |
| Thinking of getting my knee scoped. Well, not really, but I'm tempted after getting a look at the sinfut, decadent, and certainly delicious looking box of choclates that arrived for Gail, courtesy of Spike and Mary!
Gail offered to share, but was smart enough to make the offer after dinner, when my current diet (no food after dinner) would not allow it. So far I'm sticking to it, though this was a test.... | ||
| C • Spike's tactics 8 | ||
Monday Apr 16 | ||
| trail running 58:41 [3] | |
| rhr:51 weight:138lbs shoes: Pegasus 08/06 | ||
| Phil's loop at Mt. Tom, stopped on the way home from a quick trip to Litchfield to get my mom's taxes filed.
40, light rain, loop was very wet, and I took it easy on the downhills because I didn't feel like doing another faceplant. But the time was still 11 minutes slower than last summer. And I surely can't blame the slow splits on the uphills on the wet conditions. Oh, well, at least I got out and did it. Splits (counterclockwise): 13:30 to M&M, 9:36 to road, 14:09 over Whiting (first flat stretch was a pond, I bushwhacked around), 7:48 to crossing the Quarry Trail, 5:50 around and about, and then 7:47 downstream back to the bridge. Also had a very pleasant stop at the DeWeese estate to compare golf exercises (and have a little lunch, mmmm). | ||
| C • Mt Tom loop 3 | ||
Sunday Apr 15 | ||
| Event: Five Ponds Local | ||