Training Archive: randyIn the 7 days ending 2006-04-16:
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Sunday Apr 16 | ||
| running (trail/XC) 1:49:07 [2] 20.67 km (5:17 / km) | |
| joy loop 1 + misery joy misery loop 4
took it pretty easy. Spectacular out there, light greens, purples, reds, and whites are all out, as were the wildflowers. April is the prettiest month in my part of the world. I was shot on the last 3K on the misery side. 20K after yesterday's race is a bit outside my comfort zone, I guess. Bursitis knee started to hurt; post-knee tendinitis started to act up also, but all seem fine now. I wonder if running at a 2 pace has any value at all except to burn a couple of calories. Fortunately, I don't celebrate today, so I don't have to worry about pigging out. Although I'd love to pig out. God I love easter candy -- like those big coconut eggs and butter cremes. It'll all be on sale tomorrow :) little chilly today, had a headwind going out and back on both loops, which I think was caused by a supernatural vortex which is certainly evidence of the veracity of the doctorine of intelligent design. We certainly haven't found any evidence in my dealings elsewhere. Morale still rock bottom, but I've set up an off-line journal to keep the whining out of here. Looking forward to the ride down with eddie to NC. XM radio is re-instating its heavy metal channel just in time :). Hopefully eddie can keep me entertained down that 500K slog of route 81 when 5 hours of death metal get old ... eddie needs to bring that IE album, as I don't have that one. I have a theory that long drives lead to poorer race performance the next day. I am attempting to correlate this. I'm not sure why that would be so, or even if it is so, but my worst A meets seem to follow long drives. Perhaps it is a function of the sort of terrain that is within long drive radius of chester county. Put route gadget on my site. Pretty cool, yet there are some enhancements I'd like to see. Still beats using a photo editing program. For the past couple of days, there's this bird that has been trying to fly into my window. It keeps hitting the glass, falling down, and trying again for a few minutes. Amazing. I put a scarecrow of a halloween mask out there (the same one I wore at a night O a couple of years ago), but that only worked for a few hours. It was back the next day. It is just so weird, it must be hard wired to fly in that directon, or towards some object it sees in the house. I think how stupid that bird is. Then I think, I'm doing the same thing in USOF. I'm just as stupid as a hard-wired bird (of course, I believe I am hard-wired, and that conscious will is an illusion, so I guess it is the same). I ended up putting several yard tools against the window, and that seems to work. Perhaps the pointy yard tools gave the scary mask some cred. Now I need some yard tools for my brain, so I'll stop. So, I'm visualizing this bird, this rake, and this demonic mask, and every time I think -- try to do a good thing for USOF, I'll visualize these things and not fly into a glass pane. Geez, that's a long entry. Will this help my AP ranking? I don't get the google ads, but I wonder what ads this entry will spawn ... | ||
| C • Google ads 4 | ||
Saturday Apr 15 | ||
| orienteering race 1:11:18 [4] 10.16 km (7:01 / km) | |
| fair hill blue (sl distance)
pushed it, wanted to break 7. Came close. Take out 30 seconds waiting for a horse, and, ceteris paribus, made it. I want my chocolate bunny! | ||
| orienteering 5:24 [4] 1.18 km (4:35 / km) | |
| sprint route choice test training (sl distance)
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Thursday Apr 13 | ||
| running (trail/XC) 53:46 [3] 10 km (5:23 / km) | |
| misery loop 2 | ||
| C • Hmmm. Maybe you should drop th... 13 | ||
Wednesday Apr 12 | ||
| running (trail/XC) 1:00:59 [3] 12 km (5:05 / km) | |
| misery joy misery loop 4
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| weights (up bod) 20:00 [3] | |
| aerobics 30:00 [3] | |
Tuesday Apr 11 | ||
| running (trail/XC) 52:30 [3] 10 km (5:15 / km) | |
| misery loop 1 (time estimated)
Woke up this morning and felt like John Kruk, a professional baseball player who one day in the middle of the season just decided to up and give it all up and quit playing. So, I didn't run this morning, but managed to get out at lunch for the first time in a few months. Its just too nice out. I don't think my morale has ever been lower, despite an otherwise fantastic season (by my standards) with a PR on a WRE and a couple of championships. While I lost 5 or 6 minutes on #5 on day 2 sunday, there is no explaining the other 10-15 minutes below where I should be. Did I just wake up one day and get 10% slower? As always, I gave it my best effort, as hard and aggressive as the terrain allowed me. I'd been feeling sick lately, but I don't think that accounts for 10%. While I wouldn't be happy, I don't think I would be morose if I could point to 15-20 minutes of errors. And the thing was, the course and the forest were very enjoyable, and it was my kind of navigation. I should have eaten it it up. I am still very much depressed, and hope I pull out of it. I seriously talked to my wife about quitting, at least at the serious level. I put too much time, energy, and money into something for mediocre to bad results. Couple that with the thankless hassles and headaches of the sanctioning job, which some people still can't seem to get over, I say to myself, why? Life is too short for aggrevation and mediocre results. I can get that in letterboxing whenever I want. I'll be looking to have a good one at Fair Hill this weekend, another place I should eat up. We'll see. | ||
| C • Sanctioning 1 | ||