Training Archive: jeffwIn the 31 days ending 2007-08-31:
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Friday Aug 31 | ||
| Event: Barebones | ||
Thursday Aug 30 | ||
| Bicycle 1:10:00 [1] | |
| Commute to work via downtown. Found some guys cell phone on the bike path. He eventually called me. Turns out he works across the street from where I do, so it was easy to drop it off. Made another little trip out by Avery Park to get my building permit. | ||
Sunday Aug 26 | ||
| Hiking 5:30:00 [1] | |
| Hiked up Mt. Fuji with Paula from the 5th station at Kawagucho.
Our adventure started in Tokyo at 6:30am where we were planning to take a bullet train from Shinagawa to Shin Fuji then transfer enough times to get to the bus that goes up the mountain. The lady at the train ticket office suggested that we take a special bus that goes nonstop from Shinjuku station (in Tokyo) directly to the trail head. We took the subway to Shinjuku, then searched around until we found the bus ticket office, but of course the bus was sold out. Damn. On to plan C. We got train tickets to Otsuki, then transferred to another train, then got on the bus up to the 5th station. There was a traffic jam of cars trying to get up the mountain, but after a short delay, the police waved our bus on through. Got to maintain that bus schedule. At 12:30, we got deposited right at the 5th station plaza which was full of climbers who had just come down the mountain after seeing the sunrise. We found out later that a work companion of ours drove up with a relative and had to walk an hour from their parking spot just to get where we landed. The bus is definitely the way to go. We got some soba noodles at a vendor, bought some water at twice the normal price, went to the restroom for 50 yen, then searched for a garbage. Apparently there aren't any on the mountain, so we carried our garbage to the top of the mountain, back down again, and deposited the now bigger bag at the train station in Otsuki. We started hiking at 1:00. The trail was pretty wide and started on a gentle downhill across the mountain. Wanting to make good time, we jogged down the trail passing a couple of big groups of people. We got a little disconcerted, because the trail was still going down, so we confirmed with a horse guy that we indeed going in the right direction. Finally we got to a fork in the trail where we turned uphill. Met some more groups of people. Passed two women who were coming down in their high heels. We wondered just how up they had gone! The trail had some sections on it where we had to scramble over lava. It got a little narrow, so sometimes we got stuck behind some slower going climbers. Because I had my camera in one hand and a water bottle in the other, I had to be careful going through these sections. I kept reminding Paula to drink her water. She apparently maintained her hydration much better than I did, because she had to use the restroom twice on the way up, and I never did. Near the top, she was moving much faster than I was, because I was too dehydrated for the conditions (and too cheap to buy 500 yen water, which is about $4.50). We made it to the top at 4:30. Okay, the official top was on the other side of the crater, but neither of us had the desire to go way over there. Paula had wanted to have a beer (no matter what the cost) at the top, but they closed up shop right when we arrived. There was a big pile of hiking bells next to a torii gate marking the highest point on our side of the crater. We took a couple of pictures there then took off down the mountain. The descent trail was nice soft gravel which made our rush down the mountain much easier. There were places where the rocks were not so deep, which was like stepping on marbles, so I used a modified telemark shuffle through these sections. We wore short gaiters which kept the rocks out of our shoes. The two guys who recommended that we bring them, forgot theirs and paid the price. We zoomed down the trail in two hours just in time to see the almost full moon come up, beat the darkness, and catch the bus down the mountain. One more thing to cross off the life list. | ||
Tuesday Aug 21 | ||
| Note | |
| In Tokyo for a week. Very hot and humid here. | ||
Sunday Aug 19 | ||
| Running long 2:00:00 [1] | |
| shoes: New Balance1122 sz 10 w D | ||
| Ran with Paula and Annie from Peavy up around the Lewisburg saddle loop. Had the booties on Annie the whole time. She looked funny when we first put them on her, because she wasn't used to them. | ||
Saturday Aug 18 | ||
| Running warm up/down 40:00 [1] | |
| shoes: New Balance1122 sz 10 w D | ||
| 20 min warmup and 20 min cooldown at Philomath HS with Paula and Annie. | ||
| Running tempo 20:00 [3] | |
| shoes: New Balance1122 sz 10 w D | ||
| Tempo run around the XC course. | ||
| Roller skiing (skate) 1:00:00 [1] | |
| Roller skied with Paula from Philomath City Park down the bike path. | ||
Friday Aug 17 | ||
| Running warm up/down 24:00 [1] | |
| shoes: New Balance1122 sz 10 w D | ||
| 10 min warmup with Paula and Annie to the barn. 14 min cooldown back from the hill. | ||
| Running hills 22:00 [3] | |
| shoes: New Balance1122 sz 10 w D | ||
| 3x to the top of Bald Hill. 7 min, 7 something, and 7 something only bigger. | ||
| Running hills 3:00 [5] | |
| shoes: New Balance1122 sz 10 w D | ||
| 6x30s hill bounding. | ||
| Running 25:00 [1] | |
| shoes: New Balance1122 sz 10 w D | ||
| Downhill running. Noticed that the poison oak has already changed to a lovely shade of red. | ||
| Bicycle 40:00 [1] | |
| Commute to work. | ||
Thursday Aug 16 | ||
| Bicycle 1:00:00 [1] | |
| Commute to work via downtown. | ||
Wednesday Aug 15 | ||
| Bicycle 1:00:00 [1] | |
| Commuted to work via downtown. | ||
Tuesday Aug 14 | ||
| Running warm up/down 20:00 [1] | |
| shoes: New Balance1122 sz 10 w D | ||
| Warmup run at Philomath HS with Paula and Annie. | ||
| Running intervals 40:00 [3] | |
| shoes: New Balance1122 sz 10 w D | ||
| 8x5 min intervals on the grass. | ||
| Running 14:00 [1] | |
| shoes: New Balance1122 sz 10 w D | ||
| 7x2 min jogging between intervals. | ||
| Bicycle 1:00:00 [1] | |
| Commute to work with a side trip to my haircut. | ||
Monday Aug 13 | ||
| Bicycle 1:00:00 [1] | |
| Commute to work with a side trip to the dentist for a teeth scraping session. As I was getting worked on at the dentist, I noticed that they were playing Led Zeppelin throughout the office. I thought it was cool, as I was recently at a Container Store where they played Christian music. Back at the dentist office, the mood was suddenly changed when the next song came on, Disco Duck. Noooooo! The dentist is the devil. He tortures you both physicaly and mentally! | ||
Sunday Aug 12 | ||
| Orienteering race 20:00 [4] | |
| shoes: Jala X-Controls sz 9.5 | ||
| Sprint Relay
I ran the second leg and thought I was doing okay, but suddenly I crossed a fence where I didn't think a fence should be. I wandered around and figured out where I was. How I got there was a mystery. I hit my control right after Eric Buckley and chased him into the go control and passed off to our 3rd runner who was Sergei Preobrazhensky, an 18-year old from Ohio. At the download I found out that I had mispunched the control just before crossing the fence (that explains why I was over there) and the go control (curse you Eric!). Paula and I had some time, so we visited the art museum in Denver. Saw some pretty cool stuff. We needed about another hour to see everything, but we had to get going. North of Woodland Park map: Manitou Lake | ||
Saturday Aug 11 | ||
| Orienteering race 1:00:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Jala X-Controls sz 9.5 | ||
| US Long Championship
This was a mass start event with no forking. Did well on the first 3 controls then I messed up #4. As I was relocating, I saw Alex Kleshchev and simultaneously smashed my right knee on a stump. Crunched that poor stump. I felt that I showed a surprising amount of restraint by not using the full complement of swear words that usually pour so eloquently from my face in times such as this. Eventually found #4 then attempted #5 and failed again. Wandered around, then relocated way out on the road and came in and found it. There was no way I was going to do the rest of the course with my bum ankle and sore knee, so I packed it in. Sat by the finish chute and cheered people in. While waiting for Paula and feeling slightly evil, I worked on training Jan's girlfriend's dog to bark. He was barking anyway, so every time it did, I would run over and say, "Good boy!" and pet him on the head. Paula eventually finished and did not let me forget it for the rest of the weekend. This time we went to Old Colorado City and walked around the shops. Then we went to the Olympic Training Center. Met Rulon Gardner, the greco roman wrestling champion. He is about my height, but 3 times as thick. His hands are about the size of baseball mitts. It was cool to meet him even though I thought that Karelin deserved to win the match. I showed Paula all of the places where I lived when I worked in Colorado Springs. Some looked about the same and some looked pretty run down. Too bad that the owners didn't maintain the properties. near Woodland Park up by Rampart Reservoir map: Saylor Park | ||
Friday Aug 10 | ||
| Orienteering race 45:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Jala X-Controls sz 9.5 | ||
| Paula and I got a late flight to Denver late Thursday night. Met an odd guy on the shuttle bus out to the rental cars. He was going to a Christian rock concert out at Red Rocks. It was entertaining to watch him dance around on the bus obliviously singing in a I-don't-realize-I'm-singing-because-I-have-headphones-on tone of voice.
Our car rental wasn't as smooth as usual, but it did result in a better car because I answered the big question correctly, "Would you like the minivan or the PT Cruiser convertible?" We drove to a Denver hotel, then got up very early in the morning to drive to Woodland Park. Stopped at a Waffle House in Castle Rock to fuel up. Jogging to my start, I turned my left ankle on the *road*. Idiot. In my defense, there was a rut in the road. I lost a couple of minutes on my first control. JJ caught me at about control #3. I ran with him for several controls with the both of us running slightly different routes. The one time I had a concrete attackpoint which was a big depression in a long reentrant, I screwed it up and found a control from another course. JJ, on the other hand, ran down the broad vague spur and nailed it. Afterwards, we put the top down and drove to the top of Pike's Peak for donuts. Saw a marmot on the way up and ravens at the top. For dinner we went to the Golden Bee at the Broadmoor. It is an English style pub with drinking glasses that are either a yard tall (36 inches) or 1/2 yard. Paula was incapable of finishing her 1/2 yard of beer. What a wuss. We then walked around the lake at the resort. On the way back to Woodland Park, we went through Garden of the Gods. Showed her the "Two Camels Kissing" and the "Dog Peeing on a Fire Hydrant". Okay, the second thing doesn't exist, but Paula liked the camels. There was also a rock formation that I call "The Lab" because it looks like Annie, our dog. Just north of Woodland Park, Colorado Map: Manitou Lake | ||
Wednesday Aug 8 | ||
| Bicycle 40:00 [1] | |
| Commute to work. | ||
Tuesday Aug 7 | ||
| Bicycle 40:00 [1] | |
| Commute to work. | ||
Monday Aug 6 | ||
| Bicycle 40:00 [1] | |
| Commute to work. | ||
Sunday Aug 5 | ||
| Orienteering 2:00:00 [1] | |
| Checked and flagged the rest of my control locations. Was out running around all day. I was pretty happy with all of my control locations. Got all of the control and map edits entered when I got home late at night. | ||
Saturday Aug 4 | ||
| Orienteering 1:00:00 [1] | |
| Checking control sites in the upper part of Dutchman by Moon Mountain. Saw a very pretty American Kestrel. | ||
| C • Moon mtn 1 | ||
Friday Aug 3 | ||
| Event: 2007 USOF Convention and Colorado 5-Days | ||
| Bicycle 1:00:00 [1] | |
| Commute to work via downtown. | ||
Thursday Aug 2 | ||
| Running warm up/down 24:00 [1] | |
| shoes: New Balance1122 sz 10 w D | ||
| 10 min warmup from the truck. 14 min cooldown from mid hill. Wore a new pair of running shoes today. Ordered them from Zappo.com. They arrived overnight with no charge for shipping. They also don't charge for return shipping if you don't wear them outside. | ||
| Running hills 21:00 [3] | |
| shoes: New Balance1122 sz 10 w D | ||
| 3x to the top of Bald Hill. 6:36, 6:55, 7:22. Fastest runs in a long time. Saw 3 very fit girls on the hill this morning, one of them was Paula. We often see cross country and track girls from OSU jogging out there. I would love to see what they could do in orienteering. | ||
| Running hills 3:00 [5] | |
| shoes: New Balance1122 sz 10 w D | ||
| 6x30s hill bounding. | ||
| Running 23:00 [1] | |
| shoes: New Balance1122 sz 10 w D | ||
| Down hill running between intervals. | ||
| Bicycle 40:00 [1] | |
| Commute to work. | ||
Wednesday Aug 1 | ||
| Bicycle 1:00:00 [1] | |
| Commute to work via downtown. | ||