Wednesday Jan 31 |
 | Cross Country Skiing (Skate) 1:06:00 [5] | |
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| A standard ski-O course at Royal Gorge with just 6 controls. They had put in a connector trail between to main ones near the last control. Unfortunately, they put it in the wrong place, so instead of turning right to hit the control, you had to turn left. I lost a few minutes floating around looking for it. I was going to skip the control, assuming it wasn't there, then someone told me where it was. I was going to fix the problem (after discussing it with the meet officials), but some people thought it was unfair and that the same shitty problem should be there for everyone. I think that since it was already unfair, why not remove a source of frustration for 3/4s of the other participants?
I lost most of my time on the 3rd control. I got on the wrong trail, then found myself following powerlines, which wasn't supposed to happen. I finally got it figured out and backtracked a little to an appropriate junction and went at it on the inferior right route choice.
Marie-Cat passed me at the 4th control, so I tried an alternate route choice to the 5th control. I thought that I would save at least 2 contours worth of climb (80 feet), but the map was off, so I didn't save much at all. |
| Cross Country Skiing (Skate) 55:00 [1] | |
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| Did some easy skiing roughly following my race course. I wanted to see the Wilderness Lodge where Paula and I had our honeymoon. It had burned down some years back, and they replaced it with a much smaller Wilderness Cafe. A little disappointing, but I did recognize the trails some. |
| Running 15:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Brooks Addiction 6, sz 9.5 |
| Ran with Annie on the road in front of the hotel. Could go very far because at one end of the road there was private property and at the other a highway. Oh well. |
Tuesday Jan 30 |
| Cross Country Skiing (Skate) 2:10:00 [5] | |
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| Score-O at Royal Gorge. There were some tremendous uphills on this course! Did a face plant when I hit some slush on a downhill. Towards the end I thought I was going to make it in time, but there were a lot of uphill sections between me and the finish. At one point, I had to take my skis off to cross the road. Then there was a rocky section shortly thereafter, where I didn't want to take my skis off yet again. I just carefully picked my way throught the crap. |
Monday Jan 29 |
| Cross Country Skiing (Skate) 1:00:00 [1] | |
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| Skied with Paula at Royal Gorge in Tahoe. |
Sunday Jan 28 |
| Running 2:00:00 [1] | |
| shoes: New Balance1122 sz 10 w D |
| Ran with Annie at Bald Hill. Hit just about every trail there. |
Saturday Jan 27 |
| Running 1:00:00 [1] | |
| weight:180.5lbs shoes: Brooks Addiction 6, sz 9.5 |
| Ran with Paula and Annie at Bald Hill. |
| Bicycle 1:00:00 [1] | |
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| Rode bike south of town for about 85 minutes. Saw that some guy had a brahma bull in with his cows. Later in the day, we had an owl hooting away from the patch of forest across the street. Paula was finally able to hear it! |
Friday Jan 26 |
| Bicycle 1:00:00 [1] | |
| weight:182.5lbs |
| Commute to work via downtown. |
Thursday Jan 25 |
| Running 1:00:00 [1] | |
| weight:185lbs shoes: New Balance1122 sz 10 w D |
| Ran with Paula and Annie at Bald Hill in the dark this morning. We didn't hear any owls this morning, because Paula specifically brought her hearing aid to listen for owls. |
| Bicycle 1:00:00 [1] | |
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| Commute to work via downtown. |
Wednesday Jan 24 |
| Bicycle 1:00:00 [1] | |
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| Commute via downtown. |
Tuesday Jan 23 |
| Running 1:00:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Brooks Addiction 6, sz 9.5 |
| Ran with Paula and Annie at Bald Hill. We went extra early, so it was dark most of the time. Again, heard an owl on the backside of Bald Hill. |
| Bicycle 1:00:00 [1] | |
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| Commute to work via downtown. |
Monday Jan 22 |
| Bicycle 1:00:00 [1] | |
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| Rode bike to work via downtown. |
Sunday Jan 21 |
| Running 2:00:00 [1] | |
| shoes: New Balance1122 sz 10 w D |
| Ran to Bald Hill where I met Paula and Annie for the rest of the run. |
Saturday Jan 20 |
| Running 1:00:00 [1] | |
| shoes: New Balance1122 sz 10 w D |
| Ran with Paula and Annie at Bald Hill. |
Friday Jan 19 |
| Bicycle 1:00:00 [1] | |
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| Rode bike to work via downtown. |
Thursday Jan 18 |
| Running 1:00:00 [1] | |
| shoes: New Balance1122 sz 10 w D |
| Ran with Paula and Annie at Bald Hill. Heard an owl in the forest hooting away. Paula couldn't hear it because it was too soft for her hearing. He was too deep in the woods to get a visual. |
| Bicycle 1:10:00 [1] | |
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| Rode to work, to my haircut, and then to Staples, then reverse the whole process. Saw a huge flock of geese as I was going up Barley Hill. It was at least 300 birds. Then I saw a bunch in the fields on the other side. Saw my cacklers in amongst the bigger geese. |
Monday Jan 15 |
| Bicycle 1:00:00 [1] | |
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| Commute to work via downtown. |
Sunday Jan 14 |
| Running 1:38:00 [1] | |
| shoes: New Balance1122 sz 10 w D |
| Ran with Paula and Annie at Bald Hill. We became renegades when we jumped the fence on the closed section of the trail. It was closed for storm damage which it didn't have. We figure they were worried about the stream erosion getting too close to the trail. |
Saturday Jan 13 |
| Running 1:00:00 [1] | |
| shoes: New Balance1122 sz 10 w D |
| Ran with Paula and Annie at snowy Bald Hill. |
Thursday Jan 11 |
| Running 1:00:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Brooks Addiction 6, sz 9.5 |
| Ran down Montague again. It has become my standard route this trip. Saw the guy who has the red Ferrari turn into the parking lot. It sounded really cool. |
Wednesday Jan 10 |
| Running 1:00:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Brooks Addiction 6, sz 9.5 |
| Another run down Montague. |
Tuesday Jan 9 |
| Running 1:00:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Brooks Addiction 6, sz 9.5 |
| Ran down Montague again, only farther. |
Monday Jan 8 |
| Running 40:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Brooks Addiction 6, sz 9.5 |
| Ran down the Montague Expressway from my hotel in San Jose. I was able to run on the dirt and grass along side the sidewalk and roadside, so it wasn't totally draining on the knees. |
Sunday Jan 7 |
| Note | |
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| More floor installing and traveling for business. |
Saturday Jan 6 |
| Running 1:00:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Brooks Addiction 6, sz 9.5 |
| Ran with Paula and Annie at Bald Hill. They had a the bridge across Mulkey Creek blocked off. It said trail closed because of storm. Not sure what is going on here as the trail has been fine. Spent the rest of the day working on installing a new floor in our house. |
Friday Jan 5 |
| Bicycle 1:00:00 [1] | |
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| Commute to work. Didn't quite make it downtown due to flooding, so I went through Avery Park. Counted 24 down trees from the storm a couple of weeks ago! |
Thursday Jan 4 |
| Running 1:03:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Brooks Addiction 6, sz 9.5 |
| Ran with Paula and Annie at Bald Hill for about 30 minutes. I then ran an extra 10 minutes at the park then ran home. |
| Bicycle 1:00:00 [1] | |
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| Commute to work via downtown. The river was flooded over the bike path again, but this time I nervously rode through it. |
Wednesday Jan 3 |
| Weights 20:00 [1] | |
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| Legs |
Tuesday Jan 2 |
| Running 1:00:00 [1] | |
| shoes: New Balance1122 sz 10 w D |
| Ran with Paula and Annie at Bald Hill. Annie had on a red, white, and blue flashing light. When the sun started to come up, all we could see was the flashing red led. We figured it was because the light levels were still low, so our blue-sensitive rods in our eyes could not distinguish between the blue flashing light and the blue coming from everything else. |
| Bicycle 1:00:00 [1] | |
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| Commute to work via downtown. |
| Weights 20:00 [1] | |
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| Chest and tris |
Monday Jan 1 |
| Running 38:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Brooks Addiction 6, sz 9.5 |
| Running down on the road from the house. |