Training Archive: BashIn the 7 days ending 2007-11-18:
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Sunday Nov 18 | ||
| Note | |
| (rest day) | ||
| Absolutely no energy on this beautiful sunny day. Not too surprising, I guess, after such a busy week. AndyCam came over and treated us to the extended 4-hour version of his Tour d'Afrique presentation, and I can *still* honestly say that we've only scratched the surface. What an amazing experience. | ||
Saturday Nov 17 | ||
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| AR Wrap-up 2007 and the 4th Tree Huggers Invitational fun race at Albion Hills. It was nice to chat with so many friends (although it is never long enough, especially as the event organizer), and it was great to see people enjoying the outdoors on one of the coldest days of autumn so far.
Excellent performances by too many people to mention, but Bender (1st overall) and Leanimal (1st Female, 3rd overall) deserve to take an extra bow. It was a nice step forward this year to co-present the event with 5 adventure racing/running companies, and we were grateful for the support of 11 additional sponsors, including Bullfrog Power, who offset the CO2 from the electricity used for the party. (Thank you, Hansel!) Thanks also to the people who stepped in to volunteer where they saw a need. I enjoyed all the photo presentations in the evening and was especially intrigued by the longer slideshows of AndyCam's Tour d'Afrique and Slice's & Leanimal's Raid The North Extreme. We're luck to have friends who do such cool things and tell the stories so well! | ||
Friday Nov 16 | ||
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| 'Bent and I did our final vetting of the Tree Hugger race course today. He did 9 controls on foot, and I did the rest of them with a combination of biking and hiking. It's always risky when I renumber the controls at the end to assign scores to them, so in addition to making sure that the flags are all there and the clues are all legible, we also needed to ensure that the control descriptions and clues were still correct for the renumbered controls. Phew.
The good news is that the flags were all still there. The last two race courses I've designed were in Palgrave West, where a crazed neighbour went a long way off-trail to tear down flagging tape, even though I'd explained the race to his wife and had purposely kept controls away from his house, which is 10 meters from the conservation area boundary. He collected a big bag of flagging tape and ranted at another neighbour, rather than phoning me up. Part of his argument, apparently, was that we had "no right" to be in there. He obviously doesn't know how much money we pay the TRCA and the insurance company! Anyway, I lost one flag in Albion Hills earlier this week, but that's not too bad, considering the number of people who go there vs. Palgrave. Time: 2 hrs | ||
| C • thanks 3 | ||
| Cycling (Trail) 1:10:00 [2] | |
| Challenging biking today, thanks to a light dusting of snow on top of wet leaves and tree roots. I was reminded of why I stopped using clipless pedals in winter, since today I was frequently getting off my bike to visit controls, and the bottom of my cycling shoes accumulated big ice balls on the cleats. | ||
| Trekking 20:00 [1] | |
| I guess I can't call this orienteering anymore, since I know where all the controls are by now! | ||
Thursday Nov 15 | ||
| Strength (Core) 22:00 [2] | |
| Hard Core class with Caron. | ||
| Yoga 50:00 [1] | |
| This was easier than last time, but not a cakewalk. Today's theme was holding positions much longer than usual, which makes even easy poses become shaky and difficult eventually. I think Caron was being nice to us because she's doing the Philly Marathon this weekend, so she's tapering.
'Bent came along for his first class this fall. Unfortunately, there are a lot of things you can't do with a gimpy knee and neck, so he had to sit that stuff out. :-( | ||
| Note | |
| It's been almost 3 months since the North Am Rogaine Champs, and today I lost my 3rd toenail from that event. That sure was a tough-on-feet race. | ||
| Note | |
| Saturday's C-wood beer mile claimed a few more people today. Very bad timing on our part to schedule the AR Wrap-up this weekend - although there really weren't other choices, given the other Chalet bookings, the upcoming Christmas season, and our inability to orienteer at Albion Hills during ski season. | ||
Wednesday Nov 14 | ||
| Note | |
| Living in a time when 'Bent needs to do dental work to fix up little kids who drink Gatorade at recess, I *like* this energy drink commercial! | ||
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| While 'Bent and BulletDog tested the southern part of the course, I finished posting clues at the flags in the northern part. It was a wet day, so my cycling shoes were even less useful as I scrambled up and down the steeper slopes. (Oh, and believe me, the slopes will be VERY steep.) It was still fun to be out, and mountain biking is definitely the best way to get around a big race course.
'Bent found a few typos on the clue sheet and - quite helpfully - noticed that one clue could be answered correctly without seeing the info on the flag. You can bet that Leanimal would have been all over that one, but now she is going to have to find the control like everyone else. ;-) Due to 'Bent's concerns, I rode over to map a short section of new logging road that is near a control - and thus could be confusing. I met all kinds of kids - maybe grades 7-8 - who were doing all kinds of things. Some of them appeared to be orienteering (using what map, I wonder?), some of them had yellow hard hats on, and others seemed to be looking at birdhouses and things in the woods. I know that funding was cut for outdoor education programs, so I'm not sure what the deal is - but I was really glad to see them out there. Total time - 2 hrs (logged less) | ||
| C • Commercial 6 | ||
| Cycling (Trail) 50:00 [2] *** | |
| C • Clues 4 | ||
| Orienteering 25:00 [1] *** | |
Tuesday Nov 13 | ||
| Note | |
| Sunny day - great to have an excuse to head into the woods again. I was on a tight schedule today because Canadian Blood Services had called with an "urgent need for my type of blood", and I didn't want to turn them down just two days after Remembrance Day. So I had to work toward a deadline, since they advise you against doing exercise right after they've removed a pint of blood from your body. Undoubtedly, it would be considered *really* bad to exercise off-trail in a near-deserted conservation area, carrying the only existing copy of the race map.
I was putting clues on the flags today and got 2/3 of them in place. Like control hanging, I'm slow because I make changes to the clues on the fly, e.g. simpler clues at controls closer to the Chalet where kids might come, more difficult clues at controls where only Bobkittens may roam. Total - 2 hrs 30 min, an hour of which I didn't log | ||
| Cycling 1:00:00 [2] *** | |
| I rode my bike on the trails at Albion Hills to reach the closest access points for all the controls. It was fun to get out on single track again, and I enjoyed having a mission that forced me to ride trails in a different order and in different directions from what I've done in the past. At one point, I came around a bend in the single track, and a 20-something, football player-sized guy was barrelling right at me head-on. I reacted like the 7th generation Canadian that I am - that is, I flung myself and my bike off the trail into the bushes while simultaneously calling out an apology. The fellow didn't answer - just carried on with a determined look like a world championship was on the line. | ||
| Orienteering 30:00 [1] *** | |
| After getting my bike close, I had to bushwhack in cycling shoes the rest of the way to the controls. Not as bad as it sounds, but I had a few good skids on steep slopes. Beautiful day. | ||
Monday Nov 12 | ||
| Orienteering (1 hr 15 min) 45:00 [1] *** | |
| Hung the final flags for the Tree Hugger race on a drizzly afternoon. There are 30 controls this year - I wonder if anyone can get them all in 90 minutes. I hope not! Former North American champion Griz is vetting the course on Saturday morning, so I'll have a good idea of what's possible before the race starts. But no, I won't be telling anyone what his time was until after the official race. :-)
Legs felt a bit fatigued today, but really not bad. I remember having to walk downstairs backwards after some adventure runs because of muscle pain. Apparently, something is working better than it used to. (I don't get to say *that* very often.) | ||
| C • Flat 3 | ||