Monday Apr 28 |
 | Orienteering 1:20:00 [3] *** 8 km (10:00 / km) | |
| spiked:29/29c shoes: Vasque Blur 2 |
| Setting up and retreival for True North Adventures' first official client at Hyland Park. A very good day I think. Thanks to Pete for help after the program. |
Friday Apr 25 |
| Orienteering 47:00 [2] *** 4 km (11:45 / km) | |
| spiked:12/12c shoes: Vasque Blur 2 |
| Checking some controls at Hyland. |
Wednesday Apr 23 |
| Mtn Biking (with tagalong and Chariot) 35:00 [2] 4.0 mi (8:44 / mi) | |
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| Daycare loop AM and PM. Might take the long way home in the afternoon, so I'll add some time hopefully. |
| Trail Running 26:00 [2] 3.2 mi (8:07 / mi) | |
| shoes: Vasque Blur 2 |
| Running from Richardson Nature Center at Hyland. Made a couple trips up the back side of the ski hills. Thought I was going to have more time after a meeting out that direction.
I rolled my ankle pretty badly early in the run. I need to wait and see how bad it is. Ice and Advil. |
Tuesday Apr 22 |
| Trail Running 1:00:00 [2] 6.0 mi (10:00 / mi) | |
| shoes: Vasque Blur 2 |
| Recovery run. My legs were still really sore from Sunday. Met up with a friend along the trail and ran with him. His dog kept stopping, so the pace slowed significantly. Ended up being exactly what I needed. |
Sunday Apr 20 |
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| Event: MNOC - Afton State Park
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| Adventure Race race 4:16:00 [3] *** 23.0 mi (11:07 / mi) | |
| spiked:20/21c |
| MNOC AR Tune-up. Had a very good return to racing with LAA. Plan was to go steady with no nav mistakes. Result turned out better than expected. It sounds like we made some good time on the paddle and we passed two teams on the bike.
I think we also made up some time on teams on the first control after the paddle. I think some teams went up and around instead of staying in the flat marshy area.
Only miss on a control was 3 minute or so mistake on 18. Used the bench as an attack point and saw a re-entrant junction on what I thought was the right bearing. Quickly saw the trail and used that to get to the control. |
| Orienteering race 1:24:00 [3] 6.6 km (12:44 / km) +250m 10:42 / km | |
| shoes: Vasque Blur 2 |
| Ran the Red course after about 15 minutes rest from the AR tune-up. In that time I slammed some powerade and a donut. I was tired so I just focused on steady speed and clean navigation. Only had one mistake. I tried to contour from 5 to 6 and I missed it high. I think I might have dragged Pete behind me. Going to 7 I took the LONG route following the trail up the bluff. Cramped at one point, but was very happy with my time. |
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| C • Dragged... maybe 10 |
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Red - Splits |
Thursday Apr 17 |
| Running 47:00 [4] 6.7 mi (7:01 / mi) | |
| shoes: Vasque Blur 2 |
| Ford/Lake loop. Felt fairly strong and my time was solid. I am not sure of distance, but I believe it to be between 6.5 and 7 miles. Helped today by a group running ahead of me that was slightly slower, so I worked to pass them. Then about a mile before home I heard a guy catching up to me so I tried to hold him off and I did. |
Wednesday Apr 16 |
| Mtn Biking (with tagalong) 50:00 [2] 7.0 mi (7:08 / mi) | |
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| Daycare commute taking the long way home. Went to the Minnehaha DQ and then checked out the falls before following River Rd back home. |
Tuesday Apr 15 |
| Mtn Biking (daycare commute) 20:00 [2] 2.0 mi (10:00 / mi) | |
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| Mtn Biking (with tagalong) 1:10:00 [3] 8.0 mi (8:44 / mi) +500m 4:33 / km | |
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| Riding to and from TNT as well as the workout.
12 laps on the hill. Jasper rode on the tagalong for 9 I think. Some he helped, some not so much. Fun workout with everybody. Molly sporting Rena in the backpack. Jasper had his first Hammer gel. I realized I didn't bring him any snacks about the time he said, "I'm hungry." After the gel, he beat me up the hill running. |
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| C • Family workout 2 |
| Running 6:00 [2] 0.8 mi (7:30 / mi) | |
| shoes: Vasque Blur 2 |
| Had planned to do more hills, but got sidetracked by a Jasper stop in the potty. On the one I did, he got a big headstart and I didn't catch him. I thought for sure he would need to stop, but he didn't. He ran all the way down too, and then he was done. Completely. Went to bed quickly too. |
Monday Apr 14 |
| Mtn Biking (with tagalong and Chariot) 20:00 [2] 2.0 mi (10:00 / mi) | |
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| Daycare commute |
Sunday Apr 13 |
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| Event: MNOC - Lake Maria State Park
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| Quick weekend trip to Omaha. Planned to run when I got there, but it was snowing/raining and windy. I wish I had a gym membership. The hotel had a treadmill, but I must honestly say I would rather clean out a cut with turpentine. I also planned to stop at a park on the way home for a run, but that never semms to work out. |
Wednesday Apr 9 |
| Road Biking 1:10:00 [3] 20.0 mi (3:29 / mi) | |
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| Lilydale loop including Ohio St. and Ramsey Hill.
Rode with my friend Dave and would have been a 4 intensity, but I have neglected some needed repairs and ended up basically riding a single speed for much of the ride. Did some on the road work and got a couple of extra gears, but still slowed us down.
Had a sighting of a strange group on mountain bikes with binoculars, mumbling something about hunting gnomes. |
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| C • It was only a matter of time 3 |
Tuesday Apr 8 |
| Orienteering 38:16 [4] *** 5.71 km (6:42 / km) | |
| spiked:9/10c shoes: Vasque Blur 2 |
| OTNT at Lake Elmo. Fun activity of random drawing of letters on the permanent course. Only mistake was on one control I missed a trail that I wanted and went a different way. May not have been any slower, but it was not what I had planned.
One thing I worked on--and messed up on--was using the trail runs to plan the next leg, so I would know exactly what I was doing next when I got to the control. |
| Trail Running 10:00 [2] 1.0 mi (10:00 / mi) | |
| shoes: Vasque Blur 2 |
| Cool down after O training |
Sunday Apr 6 |
| Hiking 30:00 [1] 1.0 mi (30:00 / mi) | |
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| Hiking around Molly's brother's farm with one cranky Rena in the backpack. Decided to log this since I didn't log the 20 laps around the roundpen leading Roxy the Pony with kids of various ages. |
Tuesday Apr 1 |
| Erg warm up/down 10:00 [2] 2 km (5:00 / km) | |
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| Erg 10:36 [5] 3 km (3:32 / km) | |
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| 2 X 1500 meters. It has been a LONG time since I did a couple of really hard pieces on the erg. Ouch.
1 5:14
2 5:22 |