Monday Apr 28 |
 | Orienteering (control retrieval) 35:00 [3] ** | |
| spiked:9/11c |
| Helped JJ pick up after his event at Hyland. Stayed off trails and pavement almost exclusively. |
Sunday Apr 27 |
| Orienteering (mapping) 1:00:00 [2] | |
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| Adding trails |
Saturday Apr 26 |
| Hiking 35:00 [2] | |
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| Short hikes to check out some of the practice race locations. |
Friday Apr 25 |
| Map Run 1:00:00 [2] | |
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| Checking out a new TNT location. |
Wednesday Apr 23 |
| MTB (road) 35:00 [2] 6.3 mi (5:33 / mi) | |
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| Easy ride to Como with Annie |
| MTB (road) 1:13:00 [3] 17.1 mi (4:15 / mi) | |
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| Harder ride by myself. Discovered a new area that might be good for TNT. |
Sunday Apr 20 |
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| Event: MNOC - Afton State Park
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| Hiking 1:30:00 [3] | |
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| Running around taking video at the AR tuneup. Ran with several teams through terrain while carrying tripod. |
| Orienteering race 1:11:32 [4] *** 6.6 km (10:50 / km) +250m 9:07 / km | |
| spiked:12/14c shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D (2007, gray) |
| Red course at Afton. Some of the route choices forced travel through thick stuff. Also whacked my head on a big branch (but not as bad as last time.) Hot, humid, and I was slow - not one of my best efforts. |
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| C • routegadget 2 |
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Red - Splits |
Saturday Apr 19 |
| MTB (technical) 2:00:00 [3] 27.2 mi (4:23 / mi) | |
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| Mostly trails with Brian and Rick. Minnehaha - Mendota - Eagan- 494 - Cedar - Mendota - 35 - Crosby - Hidden. |
Tuesday Apr 15 |
| Note | |
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| TNT - "Hour of Power" hill training. |
| MTB (road) 40:00 [3] 8.5 mi (4:41 / mi) +300m 2:38 / km | |
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| Hill repeats, on W River Rd under the 94/Franklin bridges. Interspersed with running legs.
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| Road Run 20:00 [3] 3.2 mi (6:14 / mi) +120m 3:29 / km | |
| shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D (2007, gray) |
| Hill repeats, interspersed with biking. |
Monday Apr 14 |
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| Doin' taxes and makin' curtains. Will try to set up RouteGadget after the HoP tomorrow. |
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| C • RouteGadget 3 |
Sunday Apr 13 |
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| Event: MNOC - Lake Maria State Park
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| Orienteering race 52:54 [4] *** 6.7 km (7:54 / km) +160m 7:03 / km | |
| spiked:13/15c shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D (2007, gray) |
| Fairly difficult course (set by Todd) with lots of route choices and almost no trail running. Effort upped by about 3-4 inches of slushy snow from the Friday storm, but otherwise it was good weather, 40s and sunny. Legs a little soft from yesterday. |
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Red - Splits |
Saturday Apr 12 |
| MTB (road) 2:30:00  25.0 mi (6:00 / mi) | |
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| Bike section of Bike-Hike-BBQ. Tough day, with low 30s, light sleet/snow and 15-20 mph north wind. Went from Andrews Park to Coon Rapids Dam (on foot for 2 CP) then trail corridor over to a city park, then Elm Creek paved/grass trails (with snow on the grass), then a cold road ride against the wind to another foot-O section, then to the finish. |
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| C • Splits? 2 |
| Orienteering 1:02:00 [3] ** 6 km (10:20 / km) | |
| spiked:5/5c |
| On topo map. 2 points at Coon Rapids Dam and 3 in Elm Creek. |
Wednesday Apr 9 |
| MTB (road) 1:44:00 [3] 22.75 mi (4:33 / mi) | |
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| Met Dave and Rick at Brian's house and the four of us did a cold ride. River loop out to Wabasha St bridge, with trail biking at Crosby and Minnehaha. |
Tuesday Apr 8 |
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| TNT Lake Elmo |
| Orienteering (random-o) 35:58 [4] ** 6 km (6:00 / km) +40m 5:48 / km | |
| spiked:10/10c shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D (2007, gray) |
| TNT random-O at Lake Elmo. Since the permanent course points are marked by letters A-Z, we each drew a random 10 control course using Scrabble tiles. I got F-R-I-P-S-O-U-V-C-H. Started at 7 PM and ran into the twilight.
Splits: wrong @*#!$@ setting on my watch - none recorded. Sorry. |
| Trail Run 10:00 [2] 0.9 km (11:07 / km) | |
| shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D (2007, gray) |
| Cooldown run |
Sunday Apr 6 |
| Hiking 1:00:00 [1] 4.0 mi (14:59 / mi) | |
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| Easy recovery hike at Lindbergh. |
Saturday Apr 5 |
| Hiking 7:20:00 [2] 17 km (25:53 / km) +1600m 17:36 / km | |
| shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D (2007, gray) |
| A vertical mile at Afton, with Mark, Rozzi, Dave, Chris, and Val. Two loops, one north, then a break at the visitor center and a loop south. Some of the time was on the leftover snow at Afton Alps, for a little "mountain training". |
Thursday Apr 3 |
| MTB (road) 1:25:00 [3] 21.63 mi (3:56 / mi) | |
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| Nice ride on a warm sunny day. Como - UMSP - UMEB - Seward - Summit. Checked out how the bridge construction is going. Stopped in at folks' house for a couple minutes. The secret weapon works great, pushing 24 on flats and 18 into the wind. |
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| C • secret weapon?....skinnier ... 3 |
Wednesday Apr 2 |
| Spinning 1:00:00 [3] | |
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| The other weeknight session at 98th |