Thursday Jul 31 |
 | Running race 20:54 [5] 5 km (4:11 / km) vdot: 47.3 | |
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| Hot humid night in Chi Town with Chi town Clark him self. Needed to test my fitness with a 5k run and I kept my streak of sub 21's going. Should be sub 20's. Nice swim in Lake Michigan after and a couple of goose Island's beers and some great food at one of Chicago's nicer neighborhood resturants. A 20 m+ minute hustle to get to train, it should count as training except it was after a couple of beers. |
Wednesday Jul 30 |
| Road Riding intervals 1:10:00 [4] 18.2 mi (3:50 / mi) | |
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| Time trial on my 6.6 loop and I hit 19.7 MPH or just 20 min. on the nose. The rest of the ride was warmup and cool down. |
Tuesday Jul 29 |
| Running tempo 1:00:00 [5] 6.0 mi (10:00 / mi) | |
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| Hot Humid, but great workout with Steve wik.
We ran about 1 mile to the tempo trail run where we ran 10 min out and than turned back. I was just 36 seconds longer on way back. Than we ran back for some quarter repeats, mine were 1:32, 1:29, 1:27, 1:26. Than off to the bar for a couple of goose island beers, in Kenosha!!! |
Monday Jul 28 |
| Road Riding tempo 1:08:30 [4] 20.0 mi (3:25 / mi) | |
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| I tried to push the 20 mile loop, but the legs were just too tired and it was windy. |
Sunday Jul 27 |
| Road Riding tempo 4:12:00 [3] 65.0 mi (3:53 / mi) | |
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| The Lyons WI. hill ride. The hills did not seem too bad and I had lots of energy.
15.4 MPH avg was decent. |
Saturday Jul 26 |
| Road Riding 50:00 [3] 12.0 mi (4:09 / mi) | |
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| Finally after getting home, and getting some stuff straight, I went for a midnight ride at 6:00pm. Midnight in Stockholm that is where my time zone was,. |
Thursday Jul 24 |
| Orienteering Meet race 35:47 [5] *** 4.4 km (8:08 / km) | |
| spiked:11/11c |
| O-RINGEN Day 4,,, Yahoooo
Finally I had a map and day where I could run and see everything. My kind of course , somewhat like Wyoming :) I finished 36th, that was my best placement for the all the events including the Fin5
This was the way I want it to go as I could not secure a ride to Stockholm after Fridays race,, so it was kinda sad to miss the last day chase start.
But nice to be heading home. |
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| C • Way to go out on a high note! 2 |
Wednesday Jul 23 |
| Orienteering Meet race 58:32 [5] *** 4.8 mi (12:12 / mi) | |
| spiked:7/9c |
| O-RINGEN Day 3, This is more like the maps I can run on. I nailed the first control perfect, a little off on the 2nd, but relocated quick. The 3rd control and easy one, except if you go by it and miss, there is a price to pay.. One more bad control and the day was over. |
Tuesday Jul 22 |
| Orienteering Meet race 59:35 [5] *** 3.4 km (17:31 / km) | |
| spiked:9/13c |
| O-RINGEN Day 2. I started out great and totally lost contact on the 3rd control, totally!!! This was a middle event. I got back into it to only bomb more really short distance controls. Oh Well, I was under an hour at least. |
Monday Jul 21 |
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| Event: Oringen 2008
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| Orienteering Meet race 1:00:35 [5] *** 4.9 km (12:22 / km) | |
| spiked:4/7c |
| O-RINGEN Day 1, Here I am in the biggest O event in the world, fully confident after the Fin5, and I have nothing to show but more sloopy orienteering. Well in the end I found all the controls at about a 12 min TPK.
Problem was drifting compass nav and poor route choices. I was shy about taking direct routes through the swamp and opted for higher safe ground. It was an amazing sight of people, tents,colorfull teams and outfits.Walking the start of the ski race Moravasaloppet 93 K classical that started in 1922 was cool, because it starts flat and climbs uphill steep 3K. |
Friday Jul 18 |
| Orienteering Meet race 1:03:36 [5] ***** 4.77 km (13:20 / km) | |
| spiked:5/8c |
| Finn 5 ...Day 5 Last day and it started out with rock piles that it seemed if you were off ooops. Than 2 long legs with some good nav and a poor finish on the last control. Got my finishers medat and headed to the boat for the overnight cruise to stockholm. |
Thursday Jul 17 |
| Orienteering Meet race 31:35 [5] *** 2.92 km (10:49 / km) | |
| spiked:6/7c |
| Fin 5 Day 4. They changed the venue to a XC ski area. More climb and ski trails around. Still some tough controls. This was more my type of orienteering, use of trails and hills. I started slow and was actually aiming to the 2 nd control instead of the first. So that cost a minute or so. after that I was more cautious for the rest of the course. It still worked out with being just over 10 min per K. |
Wednesday Jul 16 |
| Hiking 2:00:00 [2] 8.0 mi (14:59 / mi) | |
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| Hike in National park in Finland. Home to the Big Trees. |
Tuesday Jul 15 |
| Orienteering Meet race 1:18:23 [5] *** 4.9 km (16:00 / km) | |
| spiked:2/7c |
| Day 3 Finn 5. Another tough day. There were 3 long legs, so the time scrambling around in the marshes and slash wefre long. It was still fun, but fustrating. |
Monday Jul 14 |
| Orienteering Meet race 55:23 [5] *** 4.1 km (13:30 / km) | |
| spiked:3/6c |
| Day 2 Finn 5.. Ouch!! It was bad, not starting out very good and having some really bad controls. |
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| C • bad controls 4 |
Sunday Jul 13 |
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| Event: Fin 5
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| Orienteering Meet race 28:31 [5] **** 3.1 km (9:12 / km) | |
| spiked:8/8c |
| Here we are at the FINN 5. Finally nmade with Miikka and Clark Maxfield. Today was a short day and with me having a late start. I did well, under 10 min per KKK i n finland Yahooo. I hope it continues like this. Only one real mistake and that was taking the slow powerline route and not going straight at it. |
Saturday Jul 12 |
| Skinny Dipping 10:00 [1] | |
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| After a real Finnish Sauna, a jump in the lake 4 times equal to 10 min of skinny dipping. |
Friday Jul 11 |
| Orienteering Related 1:30:00 [3] *** 4.0 mi (22:30 / mi) | |
| spiked:5/6c |
| O training in Sweden. Helesport area with a trim course. It made me want to be very carefull for the rest of the O coming up. |
Wednesday Jul 9 |
| Road Riding tempo 19:35 [5] 6.6 mi (2:58 / mi) | |
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| Holy shit! First time trial that best 20 Mph, t omorow I head to Sweden, , last night in the US was awesome, great steak dinner on new red weber grill, thanks to UG3 up in the sky/ also Gingerr makes another week, she is looking good. Maybe 2 more years
Best newdrink in the world, an armenian screw OJ , vodka, and pomaganet juice.
See you all in Sweden |
| Road Riding 50:00 [3] 12.0 mi (4:09 / mi) | |
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| Warm cool down |
Tuesday Jul 8 |
| Road Riding tempo 1:05:35 [4] 20.0 mi (3:16 / mi) | |
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| Oh yea getting faster, but its on to Sweden thursday. 20 mile loop and windy but it got me out in a nice tempo to start. 18.2 MPH avg. best this year. |
Monday Jul 7 |
| Hiking 2:00:00 [2] 7.0 mi (17:08 / mi) | |
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| It was humid and hikng with my school camping group. Than came the storm at night that broke poles in 2 tents and also ripped the rain flys.. The winds must of pushed down the tents so hard the poles snapped, one aluminum and one fiberglass.
One other tent rolled down the hill and was a muddy mess. It was time to abort this campout and head to a hotel. Luckey we did cause the storm had another cell that hammered again. Lots of tree branches down all over.
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| C • Wimps... 9 |
Sunday Jul 6 |
| trail bike ride 1:30:00 [3] 17.0 mi (5:17 / mi) | |
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| Ride down around the farms of sothern IL. Nice am ride, little traffic, cool roads. |
Saturday Jul 5 |
| Orienteering Meet race 13:24 [5] ** 2 km (6:42 / km) | |
| spiked:9/10c |
| Thanks to Rudy for letting me know that there was 4 sprints at Forest park. First sprint was 2k and a little bobble on the 2nd control. It was a nice weather day for July 5th down here. |
| Orienteering Meet race 17:53 [5] *** 2.2 km (8:08 / km) | |
| spiked:6/7c |
| Sprint 2 and i lost a lot of time by not crossing the river and going around to the trail to no 6. No 1 was a little hard to see and had to jump a 5 ft creek and of course did not make it all the way. |
| Orienteering Meet race 12:31 [5] *** 1.7 km (7:22 / km) | |
| spiked:11/12c |
| Sprint 3, and this was a real small map that had controls criss crossing all over. I could not read #2 control and lost 2 minutes looking around trying to figure out the map. More climbing than expected. |
| Orienteering Meet race 28:15 [5] ** 3.9 km (7:15 / km) | |
| spiked:12/12c |
| This was a handicapped start so the slower runners would go out first. There were only 4 competitive runners today. A long leg to no.1 that had to go by the zoo and lots of traffic and people traffic. Thank God Clark was not there. This had more trail runs in the woods than the othere sprints. Pretty cool stuff. I finished 3rd out of 4. |
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| C • It was a nice morning. I f... 3 |
Wednesday Jul 2 |
| Road Riding tempo 1:07:00 [4] 20.0 mi (3:21 / mi) | |
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| Finally I managed a quality 20 mile ride. AVG 18 MPG |
| Hiking 1:30:00 [2] 5.0 mi (17:59 / mi) | |
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| Too slow to be considered a workout, I had to drag the kids out today for the last hike around the lake before lunch. They almost all refused to do this and dragged it on and on. Quick lunch and head home. |
Tuesday Jul 1 |
| Hiking 3:00:00 [2] 12.0 mi (14:59 / mi) | |
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| Hiking at Rock Cut St Park near Rockford IL. On camping trip with kids from school. This is sorta of a workout at low elavation. |