Training Archive: PGIn the 7 days ending 2008-01-05:
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Friday Jan 4 | ||
| nautilus 45:00 [1] | |
| 1.5 x A, plus B.
Got home, was sitting by my computer, wanted to make a call, couldn't find my cell phone. Looked in the car, not there. Called up the gym, they checked the locker I used, not there. Went back to check by the computer, it was sitting there in plain sight, open, ready to use. Must be getting short. | ||
| C • Did it occur to you to call... 6 | ||
| hike 31:10 [1] 2.08 mi (14:59 / mi) | |
| Same as Wednesday, quite dark at the end, dodging cars on 47. Ran for 20 yards, still not good. | ||
Thursday Jan 3 | ||
| nautilus 55:00 [1] | |
| 2 x A and 1 x B.
Went to the UMass BB game last night, one of the most entertaining I've ever been to, 95-89 over Houston, full speed all the time, made even more enjoyable by third-row seats with Seth, everyone looks bigger and faster than if you are sitting up higher. Good to catch up with him, he was quite envious when I told him about meeting Big Deli. | ||
| C • Big Deli 2 | ||
Wednesday Jan 2 | ||
| hike 32:22 [1] 2.08 mi (15:33 / mi) | |
| Cold and windy but had to do something. Knee a little better, but even the walking still isn't pain free. | ||
Tuesday Jan 1 | ||
| nautilus 1:10:00 [1] | |
| Once around the A and twice around the B. Had the place to myself, must have been the snowstorm going on outside.
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Monday Dec 31 | ||
| nautilus 40:00 [3] | |
| So that have a B circuit too, got set up on it. And then a bunch of shoveling at home (the arms feeling not so bad this time), with another storm expected tomorrow, that makes four by New Year's Day. The snowplow guys are in heaven.
Knee is still unhappy. | ||
| C • snowplow guys 7 | ||
| Note | |
| Time for a few numbers for 2007:
29 O races (68 in 2006) -- 11 sprints (13 in 2006) -- 1 middle (11) -- 13 classic (34), though a classic varied a lot, from 45 to 95 minutes depending on whether I was running M21, M45, or M60. -- 0 long (1) -- 2 goats (2) -- 1 O' marathon (0) -- 0 cross/farsta (2) -- 0 relay (3) -- 1 night (2) -- 0 trail-O (0) plus 2 rogaines 303 hours training (256 in 2006), up surprisingly, including: -- 38 orienteering (75 in 2006), way down for the year -- 123 other running (181), way down also -- 43 biking (0) -- 47 rogaining (0) -- 37 run/hikes (0), mostly rogaine training -- 15 (0), nautilus, spinning, misc. junk So much less orienteering and running training than last year, all due to injury, mainly hamstring problems in the winter and spring. That was offset by some biking in the first part of the summer, plus doing a couple rogaines and some training for them. Note for anyone not clued into my terminology -- "rogaine training" is running/walking, the latter when it is uphill, usually with a pack, so perfectly valid training in other words, while "rogaine practice" is golf, of which I played a whole lot this year, enjoyed immensely, and actually got better at, something that sure could not be said for my orienteering. I'd guess those three comments about my golf are all very connected -- if you do better at something than in the past, it is much more likely you will enjoy it and also do it more often. I'd also guess the golf (many hours walking, carrying clubs) is actually useful training for rogaining, though I have not yet sunk low enough to log it on AP. Also ran 8 foot races: -- 7 on the roads, all short, from 5 km to 10 km. -- 1 trail race, not quite an hour. Other thoughts -- 1. It was a pretty lousy year for orienteering. My winter/spring tally of A meet days comes up with North Carolina (one DNF, only made it 50 yards before I crashed and burned, hamstring, plus 2 DNS), HVO/Surebridge (finished day 1, very slow, DNF day 2 after 20 minutes, hamstring again), and the Team Trials in Michigan (3 DNS). One race completed, 2 DNF, 5 DNS. Things did get better in the fall, but not much that I would look back on and think "great race." Valley Forge came close, but it was 500 meters too long. 2. Did two rogaines with Barb (Oregon, Laurentians), plus several crack-of-dawn training sessions, all lots of fun, and very good for morale given that the orienteering/running was going so badly. She is a super partner, good O skills, full of energy, and very upbeat. 3. Once again spent a lot of time on the Team, bringing a lot of personal satisfaction. We've even managed to implement a coaching program. Now it would be really nice if we can show some real progress in the next year or two. Meanwhile, a whole lot of people have been very supportive (time, money, positive vibes) of the Team. Which has been great. 4. Also spent a lot of time on the Sprint Series, concluding with the Sprint Finals and US Relay Champs in late September. Helping to organizing events is always stressful, and this was no exception, but it was also a lot of fun -- the WCOC gang is just great, and the weekend turned out as well as we had hoped. And the Series will keep going, thanks to Cristina and Kris and Gil for pitching in. 5. As in 2006, laughed a lot, and got my share of being laughed at too, especially after posting some old photos. 6. Weight once again held steady at 1G all year long, though the G itself was higher than I cared for, especially at the end of the year, when a couple of weeks of no exercise and some binge eating boosted to year-end reading to 141.5. Need to do something about that when I get back to running, which hopefully will be before too long. 7. Topping the list of totally meaningless numbers, so far there have been 54,103 times that someone has stopped doing something useful to come look at my training log (27,034 at this time last year, 6,908 at the end of 2005). 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. By the way, in coming up with the numbers of O' events and races I've done this year, I had to go back through my log for the year. Took me several hours, I kept getting diverted, reading old posts and various comments, laughing a lot. 8. And finally, more important than all of the above, it was a very good year for friendships, starting with Gail, also my frequent traveling companions Phil and Charlie, and then many others in orienteering, of all ages. It was mostly a lousy year competitively, but a fine year in many other ways. For 2008? Well, another year older means the downward slope just gets steeper. Have to see what I can do, can't stop trying. And how nice it would be if Gail's knees would somehow get enough better to get her back out orienteering again. | ||
Sunday Dec 30 | ||
| hike 41:10 [1] 2.75 mi (14:58 / mi) | |
| To Millstone to get the morning paper and back. Quick as I could, not saying much. | ||
| nautilus 40:00 [1] | |
| Twice around the A circuit. All the machines are hooked up to a computer, keeping track of what you do. Yesterday was 15,400 pounds, for whatever that's worth. Today it might have been a little more. See, I was again in "social connect" mode, though the workout was almost over and there had been slim pickings, but I'm just starting the hamstring machine and there is this pretty blond young thing walking toward me on her way out and I'm thinking about how to connect and just then she says, "Hey, Peter." Turns out it was Amy from the Thursday evening track group, didn't recognize her, I'm used to seeing her with less on I guess. So we chat for a moment, I tell her about Valley Forge, very pleasant, and then she's off, and I notice that the computer says I've done way more of these hamstring things than I was planning on. This connecting stuff is all right!
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