Training Log Archive: PG

Event: Hickory Run
 

Sprint at DVOA A meet at Hickory Run. M65 Green/Brown/Orange course, 2.0 km, 50 m climb.

My route. Orienteering well and ran well except for #4, a lapse in concentration, lost 30+ seconds. Rest was feet. Feet hurt but tolerable. Legs had some energy.

Nice course by Clem (I think), made good use of the area.

Middle distance at DVOA A meet at Hickory Run. M45 Red course, 3.9 km, 110 m climb.

My route. Good run, orienteering well, but was a more tired and not moving as well.

Very nice area and very nice course by Sandy. Needed to be on your toes, and the excursion into the laurel for 7 and 8 was fine, added some variety. And I think people had problems there, even though the map seemed just fine to me.

Caught up to JJ at #7, and Ethan punched right after me. I didn't know when JJ started (turned out it was 10 minutes before me), and I thought Ethan had started 2 minutes before me. Beat them to 8, then got stuck in the laurel leaving 8. Saw JJ a number of times thereafter, but he was a little faster. Thought I'd seen the last of Ethen at 8, but then I was back up to him at 10. But then he just ran away from me, picked up more than 2 minutes on me from there to the finish.

The WOC stars (Sam and Ali) both had problems, Ali still got me by half a minute, but I tied Sam exactly. Not a really a scalp, but I'll call it a scalpette. Got to take what you can. And probably the last time I'll come anywhere close to her. I think she lost about 4 minutes on #7, whereas Ali just sort of dribbled time away in small chunks. Both are fast enough to run the course in 30, but it was demanding orienteering (visibility was often restricted) and easy to miss. A great test.

OBG Sprint - Splits

Red Middle - Splits

Lots of things happening --

-- Post-run yesterday, walking to the grocery store from my car, all of a sudden my right heel/arch hurt. Been hurting all today. Very distressing.

-- On the other hand, the heels aren't hurting. These things balance out.

-- Monday the vibes seemed to be good for getting my mom in the hospice program. Yesterday her doctor, very much a cold fish, said he saw no reason to order such. Today a meeting with the hospice director and an examination of my mom by her, she thinks Jamie definitely should be in hospice. She (the hospice director) meets with the doc tomorrow, and she says she can be very persuasive. We shall see. It would help.

-- Got home for the night (and a fine dinner that I didn't have to cook myself), even managed to get in a little golf on the way home in the lingering daylight. Good for the soul.

-- And, for the first time in my life, got sued. Though that is not a bad thing in this case, nor unexpected, and in certain respects a good thing. May have to go to Las Vegas before long.

-- And I have gotten more use out of my cell phone in the last week than in all the previous years combined. Though I have not yet had to deal with texting....

C • texting 6

C • Viva LV! 3

So this is how at least one part of the glorified world of small business works --

Every day I get on the phone for a while to get my mom off various mailing lists, plus cancel periodicals, because she can no longer read. Today I called New York magazine, got a pleasant person at customer service. Asked if I could cancel her subscription.

The problem was that they farm out the subscription operation, well, maybe not entirely, but in my mom's case the subscription renewals had been processed by (and the money paid to) a subscription service. Actually 3 such services over the years. So I would have to contact them.

She was kind enough to give me the three names and phone numbers. Before I hung up, I asked her how long my mom's subscription was good for. There was a pause while she looked it up, and then she said, "It goes until June of 2033."

I almost started laughing, except I'd already run into this with another magazine. I think they just keep calling up, and someone would ask if it was OK to renew her subscription, and she wouldn't understand a thing, but she's very polite so she would say yes. I've seen such calls here, she would hang up, I'd ask who it was, she'd have no idea. And then a bill would arrive, and she'd pay it.

The woman from New York was actually trying pretty hard, she gave me as best she could a rough breakdown of what part of the extra 23 years each of these three outfits was responsible for. So far I've gotten a hold of one of them, supposedly the prime offender. Yes they would cancel their share of the extra years, yes they would issue a refund, but it will take about 6-8 weeks to process.

We shall see.

C • Extended Subscriptions 3

O' practice at Five Ponds.

14 controls, course was 4.5 km, all woods (no trails). Mainly just trying to get a woods workout. No problem with the orienteering. My route (going clockwise). So I think I'm slowly running a little better.

Really need to warm up a little on the trail. Was stumbling a lot the first couple hundred meters until the joints started working.

256/800 (32% done, need to get at least another 100 before winter, will certainly help if I can make it to Hickory Run this weekend).

Event: WCOC Ansonia Nature Center meet
 

And then home, and then packing up and back to Litchfield, a long to-do list plus getting the nursing situation stabilized.

I certainly have done my part to get the economy moving, having hired two people to full-time jobs in the last couple days. Now if some of the companies sitting on billions of dollars of cash would start spending some of it....

WCOC meet at Ansonia. Red course, 6.75 km.

The course and my route.

Pretty good run, not so much the orienteering (missed 2 or 3 minutes) but rather the effort, ran a reasonable amount. Not fast but moving along.

Mistakes were going up the hill to #10, believe it or not I was checking out how many controls were on the course and figuring out how much more progress I was making to 800, when perhaps a little attention to where I was going would have been useful. And then a small miss on 14, a little sloppy. But still rather pleased.

242/800

C • I'm not sure if I orienteer... 1

Picking up some of the White and Yellow courses. Just walking, feet quite sore. My route.

250/800 (equivalent to 625 out of 2000), so I think I am doing quite well.... :-)

Red - Splits