Training Archive: peggydIn the 7 days ending 2007-11-18:
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Sunday Nov 18 | ||
| Orienteering race 1:03:44 [4]*** 4.7 km (13:34 / km) +167m 11:31 / km | |
| QOC Pohick Bay, Green. Didn't feel up to anything longer. Although most of the woods here are gorgous, it is very hilly. And I didn't want to run up and down a ton of hills. Besides, now Nadim & I can compare splits. ;-)
The course wasn't bad, if a bit on the easy side (though that may partly be true because I know the park so well, including a bunch of fieldchecking -- fixing SF's work :-) -- before the first version of the map came out), with the controls hung insanely high. But that was fine, it was just a bit more fun. It was a truly wonderful day to be out running; the leaves are a riot of colors, the woods are a joy to run through, and the temps were perfect for running. My run was pretty clean, just one overshot/drifting on an early control. Just a bit slower than normal. | ||
| Orienteering (control pick-up) 28:00 [1]*** | |
| Picked up the White controls. Initially, Kris suggested I take Max with me, and he was enthusiastic. Alex wanted to go, too. We hadn't taken ten steps when I explained that it was going to be a long walk, and Alex started to balk. We decided it was better for the kids to stay back with their fathers while I got the controls. A good idea, as it would have taken me five times as long with a couple toddlers! As it was, I really enjoyed the relaxed stroll on the trails & roads. | ||
Green - Splits | ||
Saturday Nov 17 | ||
| Nordic Track 32:26 [3] | |
| While Max was (is) napping, I decided to do a little Nordic Tracking. Better than running in a couple key ways, one of which presented itself around a half hour: my knee started to hurt. So, I was able to stop before it got worse, rather than hobble home from who-knows-where.
Haven't tracked in months, and it was fun. Started reading the latest Women's Health. Discovered recently that I already renewed. Oh well. Feeling much better today; throat wasn't sore this morning but it's a bit sore this afternoon. Otherwise, I feel close to normal. | ||
Friday Nov 16 | ||
| Note | |
| (sick) | ||
| Finally finished reading "The 900 Days" about the siege of Leningrad. Quite good, and it made me want to go back, especially to the blockade museum Nadim & I sought out (and had almost no English in, so we had to do the best we could with the minimal English brochure they gave us).
Launched full time into my next book (which I started before finishing the last, not untypically), "The Overachievers: the Secret Lives of Stressed out Teens" (I'm sure that's not the subtitle but I can't remember it). Besides being well-written and engrossing, it interests me because I'm now a parent, possibly to face such issues later (just read the insane bit about parents trying to get their kids into "prestigious" preschools, specifically in NYC ... where it's statistically more difficult to get in than into Harvard), and because it focuses on one of our local high schools. We're not currently in that school district, but we might be when we move. Pile of books is not getting shorter... | ||
| C • required parental reading 4 | ||
Thursday Nov 15 | ||
| Cross training (recumbent exercise bike) 52:00 [2] | |
| (sick) | ||
| A little longer and a little easier than normal. Started reading the latest Mother Jones (always a bit self-conscious about waving that around at work ... we're not known for being particularly liberal politically [though I am not alone, for sure!]) | ||
| Note | |
| (sick) | ||
| Day started off pretty bad, got better, then got worse again.
Woke up achy and with a slight fever, not bad enough to keep me home. Unpleasant commute: dark (of course), rain, wind, and roads so covered with leaves, except for the Beltway and some of the GW Parkway, that it was hard to see where the edge or the center was.I found myself halfway into the left lane at one point. Then, our computer system was all wacked out. I tried logging on, it was taking a long time (so I got onto my internet machine instead); after about 40 minutes (!) I decided to reboot, and that started it all over again. After another 40 min or so, I finally called the Trouble Desk, which had an automated message saying there were system problems & it was taking people an hour to an hour & a half to log on (!!). So I hung in there and eventually got on. At least all my software and data sources were working (NGA's data interface was down all day Tuesday and part of Wednesday ... it was very frustrating, but I used the time to write my NYC trip report). Easy workout at lunch, but afterwards I started feeling worse and worse and by the time I left, I was very achy. Temp of 101+ when I got home; I ended up sleeping for a while. When I got up, shortly before Nadim & Max were due home, my temp had risen to 102.5. Blah. No work for me tomorrow. At least, the achiness/fever (with its attendant burning up/chilled episodes) is my only problem. | ||
| C • Take care of yourself! 2 | ||
Wednesday Nov 14 | ||
| Trail 1:00:00 [3] | |
| Well I guess you're bound to have days like this every once in a while.
Started out quite nice, along the C&O Canal Towpath downstream (towards DC), from the parking lot at Lock 10. The day was gorgeous, the leaves just past peak, the sunlight streaming through the yellow & orange trees, sparkling on the cruddy canal water. It was pleasantly warm, well, mid-/upper 60s, just right. Turned around at the 6 mile mark (the marker, that's not how far I ran :-), and very soon after that the wheels started to come off. My right knee suddenly started to hurt, causing me to slow almost to a walk. Weird pain I'm not sure I've had before: front of knee, just below, right side. Once I slowed down enough, the pain eased. But then I had to take a pit stop ... and soon after that, another one ... and while the pain went away for a while, it came back (though not as bad). WTF? Meanwhile, the sky clouded up, it started to get chilly, and it wasn't all that pretty any more. Foot, at least, felt a-ok. Time is an educated guess; forgot my watch at home so I was going to use my car clock to time the run, at least within 2 minutes, but the pit stops made that tough. Oh well. | ||