Tuesday Sep 30 |
 | Hike 30:18 [3] | |
| ahr:106 |
| Hike with Kari on the Wirth Bog trails over to Cedar Lake..... |
| Run 38:11 [3] | |
| ahr:137 |
| first run in awhile....went very easy....Kari and I went around Cedar Lake on pved and turf trails.... |
| Hike 29:36 [2] | |
| ahr:116 |
| fast Hike from Brownie throught the bog and back to the apartments...Heart Rate stayed up nicely... |
Monday Sep 29 |
| Stairs 40:36 [2] | |
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| up and down the apartment stairs...makes my legs a bit shaky after I am done..... |
Sunday Sep 28 |
| Orienteering race 2:16:36 [3] 7.7 km (17:44 / km) | |
| ahr:136 |
| Hiked the Red course and stayed with my "no running" restriction reinforced under the watchful eye of IH...the great thing about O'ing is you can get a good workout without running a step....my heart rate averaged 136 (my slong slow run heart rate) for the event...decided to do Red to see how much difference running helps as opposed to going slow and hiking....I think I would have been 30 minutes faster by running.....if you think about it its amazing that you can still get close to your running times by hiking O.....
despite the concentration on hiking my navigation was sub par...never got in to the map in a solid way...and WOB is usually good for me....
I missed 3,8 completely and reattacked to get them....had trouble in the circle finding the controls....
I agree with pfc on the veg.....I never remember WOB being so scrubby...some sections were just "not that fun".....
here are some thoughts to open up a discussion....
-I thought the controls were hung to low....I like the philosophy that if you find the feature you should be able to see the flag...I was standing 5 meters from some flags and did not see them....got the tree one because I saw the flagging tape first and was prepared to re hang the flag becasue I thought it was hanging on the ground....
-I lost confidence in the mapped vegetation colors....seemed very little of it was accurate...(I know this is a ton of work and it is fair for everyone)
-this could have been me, (shocking as that may seem) but some of the contours did not make sense to me....
-I am not much for scrubby courses or routes where you have to go through thorns...just not my cup of tea.....I like faster open courses that keep you moving...
thoughts?
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| C • WOB comments 9 |
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| C • No running ! 2 |
Friday Sep 26 |
| Roller Skiing 58:34 [2] | |
| ahr:124 |
| Dr said I can start doing a bit more.....so I went roller skiing for the first time in close to 2 years....after a cautious start I skated easy till I got my skiing legs....tried to keep the effort down so I can ramp things up thoughtfully..... |
Wednesday Sep 24 |
| ski imitation 1:04:52 [3] | |
| ahr:111 weight:174lbs |
| ..used the stairwell and short loop mt bike trails to get in a workout....hiking and ski imitation.....moved heart rate average up a bit to 111 bpm....I feel good....not quite ready to run even if I had the go ahead but "no jarring" training is feeling better every day... |
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| C • TNT 2 |
Tuesday Sep 23 |
| Stairs 41:19 [1] | |
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| inside the apartments stairs...upped the effort and Hear rate just a bit.... |
Monday Sep 22 |
| Pole Hiking 1:05:54 [1] | |
| ahr:101 weight:174.8lbs |
| another pole hike around Wirth...Gardens area this time.....managed to keep above 100 bpm avg.... |
Sunday Sep 21 |
| Pole Hiking 1:02:35 [1] | |
| ahr:102 |
| Hiked Wirth trails mainly in the bog area..using poles and doing some bent leg walking keeping tension on my core I managed to hike slowly but keep my heart rate up and not jiggle around to much....managed to avg above my self imposed 100bpm minimum requirement....hiked by myself which was good since I might have looked a bit strange at times..... |
Saturday Sep 20 |
| Hike 1:10:34 [1] | |
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| Kari and I hiked the trails at Spring Park Reserve near Hastings....turf trails and some decent hills just made this loggable....my criteria is I must average 100 bpm or above to call it a workout........did not have my heart monitor but I would guess I was right at the minimum average....
some nice views from the top of the bluff... |
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| weight:173.8lbs |
| unlogged walks of 60 minutes around Hastings and Hudson.......... |
Friday Sep 19 |
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| unlogged 40 minute walk around Brwyn Mawr neighborhood with Kari... |
Wednesday Sep 17 |
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| unlogged 50 minute walk with Kari after getting back from an unexpected overnight trip to the hospital post surgery....
apparently, going under for surgery can be hard on the digestive system which can lead to heart attack like symptoms....pain/tighness in the chest....went to the ER on Monday and they admitted me to do all the testing to make sure it was not my heart....the result was I had a very extensive physical and all my numbers look great.....boy, I am curious to see what type of bill this whole incident generated.... |
Saturday Sep 13 |
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| surgery went well....after a bit of achiness the biggest problem last night was the nausea from the anestetia...(spell check that one)
but this morning I am feeling only a bit of a dull ache and feeling very good....
it will be wierd to feel good and not be able to train... |
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| C • need any more frozen vegeta... 3 |
Thursday Sep 11 |
| Run 1:10:42 [3] | |
| ahr:130 weight:173.8lbs |
| ran with Kari down to Cedar Lake and looped back on residential roads....got one more decent run before the surgery...probably will be 3-4 weks before I can run again.....
not allowed to exercise for a week or so and then will be restricted...I am hoping they will let me swim in a week or two...... |
Wednesday Sep 10 |
| Orienteering 1:05:38 [2] | |
| ahr:116 |
| taped the Adventure Run course at Tierney....might make a few modifications......looks to be close to the right length....hoping to have a winning time of 45 minutes.... |
Tuesday Sep 9 |
| Orienteering 50:52 [4] 6.93 km (7:20 / km) | |
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| mark me down as a big fan of the U of M Street Scramble type event!...moving quickly and doing the ins and outs around the campus was intense!...Kari reading important clues and recording the info while I figured a way out and around and somtimes down..........loved the straight out running this event afforded...we managed to stay up with some hot shots (Ian and Stephen R) but eventually could not keep pace....still did a good time for us in 50:52....confirmed for me that a section like this on an Urban AR would be a hoot..it might not be everyones cup of tea but mark me down as a fan....thanks to Todd for setting a fun challeging course...with nice map modifications that added to the strategy and quick route picking.... |
Sunday Sep 7 |
| Mt Bike 1:22:28 [2] | |
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| Kari and I did a little adventure biking....exploring unofficial trails for future practice AR events....interesting what you can find just following trails to see where they go.... |
Saturday Sep 6 |
| trail running 2:00:27 [3] | |
| ahr:132 |
| long easy run on the riverbottoms with Kari..... |
| Hike 27:56 [1] | |
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| post run hike around the river botoms.... |
Friday Sep 5 |
| Mt Bike 53:19 [3] | |
| ahr:131 |
| 2 loops of Wirth with Kari....18:50 and 17:28.... |
Thursday Sep 4 |
| trail running 44:13 [3] | |
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| ran over and did a loop of the Wirth mt bike trails at sunset with Kari....gee it got kinda dark..had to slow and be more careful at the end....did the loop in 34:54..... |
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| C • That happened 1 |
Wednesday Sep 3 |
| Mt Bike 47:42 [3] | |
| ahr:131 |
| two loops of Wirth....18:50, 18:26....gee, it felt like I was doing better than that.... |
Tuesday Sep 2 |
| Mt Bike 1:01:55 [3] | |
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| rode some unofficial single track pieces down and around Cedar Lake and back... |
Monday Sep 1 |
| Triathlon Bike 1:09:14 [3] | |
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| Rode the Gateway trail with Kari...from Hadley to Pine Point Park and back.... |
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| C • you should have stopped in.. to see us 1 |