Training Archive: PGIn the 7 days ending 2008-04-13:
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Sunday Apr 13 | ||
| Event: 30th Annual Billygoat Run | ||
| orienteering 2:24:10 [3]13 km (11:05 / km) | |
| shoes: integrators 2006 | ||
| The Billygoat.
Low expectations. I'd been to Clear Lake (on the south side of Fahnstock SP) I think once before, and vague memories were that it wasn?t so much fun, the Northeast trifecta -- hilly, rocky, mountain laurel. And it overlaps the south part of the Bushy Ridge part of Fahnstock, also not one of my favorite areas. So low expectations, also low enthusiasm. And maybe a bit deflated after our visit chez DeWeese (and the DeWeese gym), though also still laughing about it of course. As it turned out, I got around the course ok, no mistakes at the controls, decent routes I think, a decent skip I think, just absolutely no energy. Well, maybe I had a little energy when it was gently downhill on a smooth trail, but other than that it was pretty sad. But let's focus on the good stuff -- I feel great! The knee was getting a little worrisome in the last hour, but it never got bad, and afterwards it felt just a little sore. One blister, second toe, it will take care of itself with the aid of a little duct tape. Not too many scratches, not too many barbarry thorns in the knees, no ticks spotted yet, no sunburn, no corneal abrasions. Basically just fine. Routes are posted, most of map, northeast part. Following the crowd to 1 and 2. Leaving 2 everyone in sight was heading down the hill to take the route to the right to 3, but I'd already decided to go left. It was a bit lonely heading off, everyone else going another way, took a bit of nerve, though I did drag Jim Eagleton with me and we were moving at about the same pace. Still lonely all the way there, passed one walker, asked if he had seen any other runners, 3 or 4 he said. Along the way I decided that none of the skips on the final loop looked that good, certainly not as good as skipping up north, though I wasn't sure which was better between skipping 4, 5, or 6. Got up to 3, saw some folks that seemed to be about who I should be with, so I guess the routes were about equal. Jim was maybe 50 yards ahead, and he turned right, skipping 4, and I decided to do the same, though within 100 yards I was already regretting it, thinking it was a dumb move. But I was committed. And Jeff Saeger was coming the same way too. Had company from Jeff most of the rest of the way, sometimes he was a ways ahead, sometimes I was, also company from from Jim until he disappeared (behind me) after 17, and from Mike Bishop for a while until he skipped 19 and finished ahead. After a while we'd been out an hour, then 2 hours, then finally done. And a nice surprise when comparing splits with a few folks afterwards, it seemed skipping 4 was a first-class skip, definitely better than 18 or 19. Sometimes you get lucky. A fine BG, thought not short and not easy. That's not saying it was too long, but it might have been pushing the limit a little, especially if it had been a warm day. But orienteering is a sport that is supposed to offer a sense of adventure, and it seems a little foolish to put too much emphasis on getting a course length or winning time to match some perceived standard. Just set a decent course, get the controls in the right place, and let us have at it. And if sometimes a course gets the better of us, well, that?s not such an awful thing. | ||
| C • Was going around west of Sp... 2 | ||
| Note | |
Got home thanks to a ride from Phil, the snowpile is shrinking but still about 4 feet high. Launched a snowball at his departing car, fortunately missed by inches putting it right through his open window, which would have been very anti-social!
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| C • I agree that 4 was the best... 10 | ||
The Goat - Splits | ||
Saturday Apr 12 | ||
| Note | |
| So what's the deal? We head down to the DeWeese estate for for pre-Billygoat feed courtesy of the gorgeous Ms Rhonda, in preparation for which there is a visit to the estate's gym for a testosterone test. Load up the bench press bar, a real one this time, not the Nautilus version, whoa, even a light weight feels heavy, a Gail is hard, the G is done once without much of a margin, and forget about anything more.
So what gives? Is the gravitation field stronger here than in Greenfield? Does Charlie have a set of weights that are mislabeled that he brings out for guests? Or is Nautilus a totally fraudulent outfit practicing severe weight inflation? I had thought I was doing well. On the other hand, out in a real world situation, back in OCIN-land last weekend, I was taking advantage of my superior upper body strength to pull myself rapidly out of the deep gullies, while BP (bogus philosopher) was hanging on for dear life. So things could be worse. | ||
| C • bench press 2 | ||
Friday Apr 11 | ||
| Note | |
| So it's time for an update on one of my clients. Here's the background.
First update -- there was a second act last year. After some back and forth on the phone with one of my ladies, the guy agreed to drop off his papers and come back and pick things up when it was done, thereby limiting our exposure to him. And so one day he is spotted pulling into the parking lot. And he is a very very large fellow, and he drives a rather small car, and it takes a fair bit of effort and also a fair bit of time for him to extract himself from the car. This of course is the kind of situation that just screams for a drive-through window, but much as I've suggested it, that hasn't yet happened. But anyway, he's parked, he's sitting there resting for a moment before he tries to get out of the car, so, purely in the interests of good customer service, one of the ladies zips out there and fetches the papers, telling him just to stay put. And I crucnch the numbers and a few minutes later she goes back out to get his signatures and collect the fee. A vastly improved method of dealing with him, because the report was that the aroma was just as pungent as ever. Second update -- which brings us to this year, and he's managed to make an appointment because someone didn't remember his name. And I'm too busy to cook up another plan to give him parking lot service, and then he's here, and he's already out the car and on his way in. And people are in various states of panic. He's sent right into my office, don't want him lingering any extra time, we're done in less than ten minutes but it's not fast enough, within the first minute or two the familiar aroma -- and it is familiar because, even after the passage of more than two years, it is so strong and so awful -- comes at me. And after a couple more minutes the phone rings and it's Gail, and I dash into another room to talk to her, taking several deep breaths, and then back into the office to finish up. And he's done and he's on his way out and I think, I have to say something, I don't care if I'm charging him $100 for at most 10 minutes work. So I wait until he is just outside and then I go after him and I tell him. Yup, tell him -- something like, "I have to tell you something, I don't know what it is, but you just smell really bad, and I'm not going to do your taxes next year unless you do something about it." And he mumbles something about being broke, which is true but which I ignore, and I add something to the effect of, you just have to do something. And I head back inside. I'm not sure what he was thinking, but he wasn't outwardly pissed. And I think I did the right thing. And when I told the ladies what I'd said, I got a standing O. :-) Just another day at the office.... | ||
| C • I know my advice is not alw... 9 | ||
| trail running 32:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Asics trail | ||
| Just a short trip up on the ridge, not a hard pace though it seems I'm breathing hard every time I go up hill.
No great expectations for the Billygoat other than to hopefully get around the course without physical or mental disaster. But at least the legs are slowly doing better. | ||
| nautilus 15:00 [1] | |
| Included one failed attempt at 14 stone and 4, plus 2 cubed Georges.
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Thursday Apr 10 | ||
| trail running 48:52 [4] | |
| shoes: Asics trail | ||
| On the ridge, to Sachem Head and back, just a trivial amount of ice left. Working hard, legs not totally dead.
Tried to talk JJ into joining me, but he had a hang glider on top of his car and dreams of a different sort of exercise. Getting some real nuts in the office, it's that time of year. Almost done.... | ||
| C • real nuts 1 | ||
Wednesday Apr 9 | ||
| trail running 41:16 [3] | |
| shoes: Asics trail | ||
| A lap around the golf course, all I had energy for. | ||
| nautilus 15:00 [1] | |
| Included a Valerie and 8 Georges. | ||
| C • Easier 3 | ||
Tuesday Apr 8 | ||
| trail running 59:04 [3] | |
| shoes: Asics trail | ||
| 13 hills loop in Greenfield. Beautiful day, snow/ice almost all gone (almost all gone from the golf course too, though at home the pile at the end of the driveway is still about 8' high). Hard work lugging the extra bags of sugar up the hills, but progress is progress.
Scared up a barred owl. Got my ticket to Stockholm for the Tiomila, same plane as Ross, Brendan, and Ken Sr. Get to visit Iceland twice, first time ever. | ||
| C • Iceland 11 | ||
Monday Apr 7 | ||
| nautilus 30:00 [1] | |
| trail running 32:15 [3] | |
| weight:143lbs shoes: Asics trail | ||
| On Greenfield ridge, just a little bit of ice left, getting to be real nice conditions. Legs were tired to start but then no worse, good to get out and do something after the long weekend.
Then a visit to another doctor, this one a get-acquainted visit prior to a colonoscopy at the end of the month, yet another joy of getting older. The one moment of pleasure was the blood pressure reading, right after I ran, 116 over 62, and the "Oh, that's good" reaction of the nurse. | ||
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