Sunday Sep 12 |
 | Orienteering 1:21:05 [5]8.2 km (9:53 / km) +326m 8:15 / km | |
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| McKeldin, Blue course. Lots of trail & road running, plus fields. Preferable to tons of up & down, which would be the alternative. Very humid -- really felt it & was quite drained at the beginning. Felt better later. Course nearly identical to Red; saw a young guy when I was leaving #2 & saw him most of the rest of his course. He was much faster than I but made several small bobbles that allowed me to catch/pass him. Nice course. Jon T - 52 min; Marek - 63; Nadim - 67; David - 73; Erik B - 79. |
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Saturday Sep 11 |
| Trail 55:00 [3] | |
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| Blockhouse Point Conservation Park, while Nadim was fieldchecking. Checked out all the trails on the north side. Three dead-end above the canal. Some neat rocks there, but also pretty steep. Woods were variable, some quite nice, many not so pleasant looking. Hilly area. Felt rather tired. |
Friday Sep 10 |
| Trail 28:00 [3] | |
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| White Marsh Park, Bowie. On the way home from various errands in Bowie; enjoyed running on my old training trails. Mostly unpaved, one bit paved. |
Thursday Sep 9 |
| Road run 55:00 [3] | |
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| McLean, VA. From work. Ran south of 123 in the residential area, on a couple out-&-back roads. Lots of big houses, nice yards, but too big for me. Felt okay. Ran longer than I planned, which isn't a bad thing. |
| Weights 15:00 [3] | |
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| Nautilus machines (3) for legs, then arm exercises with 5-pound dumbbells. Just saw them there and picked them up, started playing around with them. Kind of fun. |
Monday Sep 6 |
| Biking 2:17:15 [3]27.4 mi (5:00 / mi) | |
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| Western Montgomery County with Nadim. First Nadim had to teach me how to use my new clipless pedals. That was an experience (and not in a good way...). The woman at REI was right ("You're going to fall, ha ha!"). My right shoe is very tight and I was having real trouble both getting it clicked in and then out, and once while trying to get it out -- from a standing position -- I just lost my balance and fell over. Ouch. Road rash on my lower right leg, plus (I later discovered) a huge bruise on my upper thigh. Eventually I decided I would just click in and out of my left pedal, as that was working okay. So we did the whole ride that way. I was always a bit scared of having to stop and get out of my pedal, but it went fine. The ride had a few tough hills (for me) but it was really beautiful terrain, mostly rolling farms. Enjoyable ride, the pre-ride notwithstanding. |