Wednesday Jun 13 |
 | Bike - 'bent (commute) 1:10:00 [3]23.8 km (2:56 / km) +300m 2:46 / km | |
| shoes: Slipstream |
| Overcast and spitting rain on the way in - though roads remained dry.
Didn't bother swapping the pedals - took the longer route away from 195 instead. Still not sure on the clipless, but at a couple points decided I didn't want to be clipped in (crossing 44 from an uphill stop etc) so unclipped both feet with the intent of riding unclipped until I got to less traffic'ed spot to then clip in and found both times I did this that the clips wound up engaging without thinking about it - so maybe I'm just trying too hard. Would much rather have had the platforms while weaving my way at slow speed back between the buildings once on campus though - a much more urban environment. |
| Bike - 'bent (commute) 57:10 [3]18.8 km (3:02 / km) +300m 2:49 / km | |
| shoes: Slipstream |
| ride home - took the 195 route, no problems with traffic. Clipped in quickly about 50% of the time, 40% with some delays, and about 10% with prolonged fiddling. Cooler going home than when I went in - tshirt on the ride this AM, had to wear the windbreaker on the way home. Freaky weather. Headwind on the way home. |
| Road Run (Dougs) 17:43 [3]3.62 km (4:54 / km) +70m 4:28 / km | |
| shoes: Salomon TR2 |
| immediately changed shoes and ran roads up to Dougs to retrieve the car before they closed for the day... |
Tuesday Jun 12 |
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| Chaperoned an all day field trip to the Bronx Zoo - a good six hours of walking around being AOWN (more or less). No time for any other exercise today. Car's in the shop (actually its done, but too late today to pick it up) so I'll probably swap the platforms back on the bent and ride that to work tomorrow. Not quite comfortable enough with the pedals to tackle 195 and the inattentive early morning drivers... |
Monday Jun 11 |
| Bike - 'bent (SLR) 20:00 [3]5.85 km (3:25 / km) | |
| shoes: Slipstream |
| Tooling up and down SLR trying to get used to the clipless pedals. Getting out seems ok, but getting clipped in is still taking a minute or so until both get clipped. I've shimmed the cleats out, make sure the sole is clearing the pedal, still not terribly intuitive about where to place the foot to clip - I've tried direct, scraping foot forward and scraping foot backward. I can get the cleat to catch, but just won't engage. On hills this sucks because the time it takes fiddling with the pedal is time that I'm not actually putting much effort into the pedalling itself - so I damn sure better be in my bottom gear.
Rode for a while, then dumped it pretty hard when turning sharply and not unclipping before hand. Landed pretty hard on my left side drawing blood on my calf and forearm. Had I not been clipped in, I would have been able to put a foot down but no time to react while clipped. At least I was on the dirt road when I fell so its just picking sand out of my wounds rather than asphalt. All for today - I'll give the clipless another week or so but I had better see some improvement... :-( |
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Sunday Jun 10 |
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| Event: Crandalls Park Sprints
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| Orienteering - Training (Control Hanging) 47:00 [3]*** 7.3 km (6:26 / km) +50m 6:14 / km | |
| shoes: Salomon TR2 |
| Started hanging flags around 7:15, Jim showed up and told me Pavlina was on the way and wanted to run early so I picked the hanging pace up a bit.
Note that this is running time on the Garmin - it tracks moving time and stopped time separately so the time I was standing at the control actually hanging the flag is not factored in, just the time (and pace) moving between control sites...
AOWN - almost tripped over a fawn near 37, it took off like a shot though when I got within 5m... no sign of mom, whom I've seen plenty of times in the general area.
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| Orienteering - Training (Sprint A) 17:26 [5]*** 2.51 km (6:57 / km) +50m 6:19 / km | |
| shoes: Salomon TR2 |
| Test run of the A course - waking up SI boxes etc. No map or compass, but didn't really need them having just hung the flags eh? Stopped to chat to a woman hiking with her dog at a couple spots for probably a minute total non running time (which is included in the time above as it is SI time, not garmin time) Climb is just a WAG... |
| Orienteering - Training (Sprint B) 20:57 [5]2.62 km (8:00 / km) +50m 7:18 / km | |
| shoes: Salomon TR2 |
| After a few minutes rest, went out to test run the Sprint B course, wake up controls and verify everything working properly. No interruptions, but running a bit slower, this being now over 10km into my morning... |
| Orienteering - Training (Control Pickup) 28:00 [3]*** 3.2 km (8:45 / km) +40m 8:14 / km | |
| shoes: Salomon TR2 |
| Control Pickup - did about half of them, Jim offering to do a slower pickup of the outer controls, so my half was mostly the inner group. Which was a good thing as I had a family gathering already in progress to scoot off to.
Most everyone seemed to have a good time out there today, even though the map is not complete. A number of folks particularly liked the terrain up top so that will give me additional motivation to get moving on it again in the fall when the mapping season starts up again. Not looking forward to mapping the white hillside though... |
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| You know its been a pretty pathetic year of getting out and orienteering when last years WCOC summer picnic is still on my Attackpoint list of recent races and this years picnic is only 2 weeks away. Hopefully things will improve this fall... |
Saturday Jun 9 |
| Hiking (Crandalls) 1:15:00 [1]5.6 km (13:24 / km) +160m 11:43 / km | |
| shoes: Adidas Response Trail XI |
| Geocache hike with the boys, also hung out a half dozen controls for tomorrows meet. Woods pretty damp, but nice otherwise. Even meandering at a very slow pace, no skeeters or FDF's noted... |