Wednesday Feb 28 |
 | Bicycle 40:00 [1] | |
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| Commute to work. Another day with a dusting of snow. |
Tuesday Feb 27 |
| Running warm up/down 45:00 [1] | |
| shoes: New Balance1122 sz 10 w D |
| 20 min warmup jog from the house to the high school. 25 min cooldown jog home. |
| Running intervals 40:00 [3] | |
| shoes: New Balance1122 sz 10 w D |
| 8x5min intervals in the swampy, soggy, cold, snowy, grounds at the high school. There was a constant wet snow coming down which was very cold on the hands. I tried to imagine the Jorgen Martensson picture of him splashing through the swamps...only slower. |
| Running 14:00 [1] | |
| shoes: New Balance1122 sz 10 w D |
| The 2 minutes of jogging between the 8x5min intervals. These 2 minutes seem very short! |
Monday Feb 26 |
| Bicycle 1:00:00 [1] | |
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| Commute to work via downtown. Had a light dusting of snow on the ground again this morning. Near the Starker Forest offices there was a huge number of geese in the fields. This was the biggest number that I have ever seen together on the ground. |
Sunday Feb 25 |
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| Saw the varied thrush this morning in the back corner of the backyard hopping around on the ground. They have some cool coloration. They are very close to a black-headed grosbeak, which I also claim to have seen in the backyard. So now I have some doubts about the grosbeaks. I thought that what I saw had thick beaks. Hope they come back so that I can resolve question. |
| Running warm up/down 22:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Brooks Addiction 6, sz 9.5 |
| Ran from the house to Bald Hill. |
| Running tempo 20:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Brooks Addiction 6, sz 9.5 |
| Ran hard along the usual route, went past the bridge, and up the hill beyond. |
| Running intervals 4:00 [5] | |
| shoes: Brooks Addiction 6, sz 9.5 |
| 4x1min while running we through in a few super hard heavy leg runs, then allowed ourselves at least 5 minutes of light jogging. |
| Running 1:34:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Brooks Addiction 6, sz 9.5 |
| Running the usual route. The weather turned cold and nasty towards the end. Wasn't sure if I had reset my watch after the temp run, so I ran extra in case I hadn't. |
Saturday Feb 24 |
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| Felt lazy today as it was pouring outside. Up in Portland, Paula and I saw and heard a flock of sandhill cranes flying overhead! They looked like geese, except that you could see their long legs sticking out behind them. At least they sounded exactly like what I had seen as a kid in Idaho Falls, so I'm sticking with this story until I hear another crane or heron make the same sort of sound. |
Friday Feb 23 |
| Bicycle 1:00:00 [1] | |
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| Commute to work via downtown. I should add that it snowed this morning on the way in, and on the way home I the biggest flock of migratory geese that I have ever seen. It must have stretched for a mile! |
Thursday Feb 22 |
| Running warm up/down 24:00 [1] | |
| shoes: New Balance1122 sz 10 w D |
| 10 minute warmup run from the truck to the barn at Bald Hill. 14 minute cooldown run after the intervals down off of Bald Hill back to my truck. |
| Running hills 24:00 [3] | |
| shoes: New Balance1122 sz 10 w D |
| 3 runs from the gate to the bench at the top of Bald Hill. The times were roughly 7:45, 8:05, and 8:15. The trail was very muddy and squishy. |
| Running hills 2:30 [5] | |
| shoes: New Balance1122 sz 10 w D |
| 5x30s bounding at Bald Hill. Each time I came down from the top when I hit the firm area at about the middle, I would turn around and do a 30s bound. Then after all 3 runs to the top were done I did the final 3 bounds. |
| Running 11:30 [1] | |
| shoes: New Balance1122 sz 10 w D |
| The jogs downhill between intervals. |
| Bicycle 1:00:00 [1] | |
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| Commute to work via downtown. My legs were really tired from the hills. |
Wednesday Feb 21 |
| Running 1:00:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Brooks Addiction 6, sz 9.5 |
| Ran with Annie at Bald Hill. |
| Bicycle 1:00:00 [1] | |
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| Commute to work via downtown. The sun came back today. |
Tuesday Feb 20 |
| Running warm up/down 20:00 [1] | |
| shoes: New Balance1122 sz 10 w D |
| Warmup run with Annie around a very soggy boggy Philomath XC course. |
| Running intervals 56:00 [3] | |
| shoes: New Balance1122 sz 10 w D |
| 8x5min intervals with 2 minutes rest between each one. Good workout. The ground was very soft which made it tougher going, almost like running in sand. |
Monday Feb 19 |
| Bicycle 40:00 [1] | |
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| Commute to work. |
Saturday Feb 17 |
| Running warm up/down 20:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Brooks Addiction 6, sz 9.5 |
| Ran with Paula and Annie at Philomath HS. |
| Running tempo 20:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Brooks Addiction 6, sz 9.5 |
| Tempo run around the XC course at the high school. |
| Running intervals 4:00 [5] | |
| shoes: Brooks Addiction 6, sz 9.5 |
| All out one minute runs to make the legs heavy followed by 5 minutes of jogging around rest to train the legs to remove the lactic acid. |
| Running 20:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Brooks Addiction 6, sz 9.5 |
| The rest part of the lactic acid intervals. |
Friday Feb 16 |
| Running warm up/down 20:00 [1] | |
| shoes: New Balance1122 sz 10 w D |
| Warmup 10 minutes and cooldown of 10 minutes at Bald hill with Annie. |
| Running hills 42:00 [3] | |
| shoes: New Balance1122 sz 10 w D |
| Ran to the top twice with a run down between. Time from the gate to the bench at the top was 7:41 the first time and 7:50 the second. Then did 5x30s bounding. Did the first couple down lower on the hill where it was very muddy and sloppy. Worked my way up the hill and just past the flattish area in the middle the road was nice and firm. This is where I did the last 3. The poison oak is just about the bud out into leaves. Yeah!! |
| Bicycle 1:00:00 [1] | |
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| Commute to work via downtown. |
Thursday Feb 15 |
| Running 1:00:00 [1] | |
| shoes: New Balance1122 sz 10 w D |
| Ran with Paula and Annie at a very rainy Bald Hill. We saw one of our deadly newts eating a worm. Legs were tired from yesterday. |
Wednesday Feb 14 |
| Running warm up/down 18:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Brooks Addiction 6, sz 9.5 |
| Warmup run with Annie at Philomath HS. Almost zero sleep last night. I think it was a combination of taking a nap and eating Valentines chocolate. |
| Running intervals 54:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Brooks Addiction 6, sz 9.5 |
| 8x5min intervals with 2 minutes of rest between hard efforts. Listened to my wildlife behavior lectures. One of the lectures detailed a study on rough skinned newts, which are very common in Corvallis. Turns out they are extremely poisonous, with a toxin that is closely related to the fugu fish (pufferfish) from Japan that is used in their exotic killer sushi. They aren't too toxic for some poison tolerant garter snakes which eat them. |
| Bicycle 1:00:00 [1] | |
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| Commute to work via downtown. |
Tuesday Feb 13 |
| Bicycle 40:00 [1] | |
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| Commute to work. Saw my first western bluebirds at barley hill. At first I thought they were robins they were so big with red on their chest, but I could see the blue. They had a very specific distance that I could approach. When I road, they flew. When I stopped they stopped, so I could get a real good look at them. They definitely did not have a white wing bar which would make them lazuli buntings. Also, saw some white crowned sparrows. |
Monday Feb 12 |
| Bicycle 1:00:00 [1] | |
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| Commute to work via downtown. |
Sunday Feb 11 |
| Running 2:00:00 [1] | |
| shoes: New Balance1122 sz 10 w D |
| Ran to Bald Hill where I met Paula and Annie. Ran the usual route. |
Saturday Feb 10 |
| Running warm up/down 22:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Brooks Addiction 6, sz 9.5 |
| Warmup run around the XC course at Philomath HS with Paula and Annie. A little soggy today. |
| Running tempo 20:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Brooks Addiction 6, sz 9.5 |
| 20 minute comfortably hard tempo run around the XC course. |
| Running 4:00 [5] | |
| weight:175lbs shoes: Brooks Addiction 6, sz 9.5 |
| 4x1min lactic acid intervals. Run very very hard for 1 minute, enough to make the legs heavy. 5 minutes of jogging around to train the body to use the lactic acid (recorded separately). Did the second to last one of them on the track to see how fast I was going. An embarrassingly slow 300m in 1 minute. |
| Running 20:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Brooks Addiction 6, sz 9.5 |
| The 4x5min of jogging between the hard efforts on the lactic acid intervals. |
Friday Feb 9 |
| Bicycle 1:00:00 [1] | |
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| Commute to work via downtown. |
Thursday Feb 8 |
| Running warm up/down 25:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Brooks Addiction 6, sz 9.5 |
| Jogged around Bald Hill for 15 minutes for a warmup, and back down the hill to the truck after my intervals for a 10 minute cooldown. |
| Running hills 39:00 [3] | |
| weight:174.5lbs shoes: Brooks Addiction 6, sz 9.5 |
| 16 hill repeats. The first 11 were just running for about 40s hard with a walk back down the hill. The last 5 were bounding for about 40s. Listened to a lecture on sexual evolution in animals from the Berkeley animal behavior podcast from a couple of years ago. Very good class. |
| Bicycle 1:00:00 [1] | |
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| Commute to work via downtown. |
Wednesday Feb 7 |
| Bicycle 1:00:00 [1] | |
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| Commute to work via downtown. |
Tuesday Feb 6 |
| Running intervals 54:00 [3] | |
| shoes: New Balance1122 sz 10 w D |
| 8x5min intervals at the high school with 2 minutes of rest inbetween. |
| Running warm up/down 18:00 [1] | |
| shoes: New Balance1122 sz 10 w D |
| Warmup jog around the cross-country trail at Philomath HS. |
| Bicycle 1:00:00 [1] | |
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| Commute to work via downtown. |
Monday Feb 5 |
| Running 1:00:00 [1] | |
| weight:175lbs shoes: New Balance1122 sz 10 w D |
| Ran with Annie at Bald Hill. |
| Bicycle 1:00:00 [1] | |
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| Commute to work via downtown. |
Sunday Feb 4 |
| Cross Country Skiing (race) 46:00 [5] | |
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| Ski-O at Burton Creek. Made a bad navigation error going cross-country. Ended up at #47 and had to backtrack. |
Saturday Feb 3 |
| Cross Country Skiing (race) 1:25:00 [5] | |
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| Ski-O at Tahoe Donner. Made lots of mistakes. |
| Cross Country Skiing (Skate) 42:00 [1] | |
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| Skiing around after the race. |
| Running 52:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Brooks Addiction 6, sz 9.5 |
| Ran with Paula and Annie at Marti's Valley. |
Friday Feb 2 |
| Cross Country Skiing (Skate) 2:19:00 [1] | |
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| Skied with Paula at Royal Gorge. |
| Running 55:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Brooks Addiction 6, sz 9.5 |
| Ran with Paula and Annie at Marti's Valley. The trail muddy and icy in places. It went along a nice creek where Annie swam when she had the chance. |
Thursday Feb 1 |
| Cross Country Skiing (Skate) 1:01:00 [5] | |
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| Ski-O at Auburn Ski Club trails. Many mistakes. |
| Cross Country Skiing (Skate) 1:05:00 [1] | |
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| Skied around after the race. |