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Sunday Jan 11, 2015 #
10 AM
Running 1:01:51 [2] 7.72 mi (8:01 / mi) +106m 7:41 / mi
Normal Springwater-Oaks Bottom loop. Legs are a bit tired, but not too sore which is nice! Drizzly and 40 degrees out, which is apparent oodles warmer than other places at the moment!
Strength 1:52 [1]
3 sets of pushups at 8 real, 7 wimp. Gotta keep the arms in the game!
Saturday Jan 10, 2015 #
9 AM
Running 9:44 [1] 1.27 mi (7:40 / mi) +6m 7:33 / mi
Warmup
Running race 39:40 [4] 6.3 mi (6:18 / mi) +57m 6:07 / mi
ORRC Y2K 10k in Forest Grove
I had no idea how hilly it might be or what I was up for, so the plan was to run 6:30 for the first mile and see from there. But closer to 6:10 felt good and I just kinda went for it. Luckily there weren't any ginormous hills in the middle, actually quite a flat course aside from a few little lumps towards the end. Toledo-esque, but much better scenery (hills in the background instead of just cornfields).
A guy passed me as we approached mile 3, I was thinking I might need to drop back to 6:30s to be able to finish well, but I decided to try to stick with him for as long as I could. I ran right on his tail for miles 4, 5, and most of 6. He would gain on the little ups and I'd catch up again on the subsequent downs, so when I saw the biggish hill leading up to the finish, I was pretty sure he had me. But he encouraged me to pass and try to go get the guy in front of us, so I did. Yet another demonstration that psychology matters!
Much happier with this than Central Park race, feeling more on track although still have been way faster in recent memory.
I had no idea how hilly it might be or what I was up for, so the plan was to run 6:30 for the first mile and see from there. But closer to 6:10 felt good and I just kinda went for it. Luckily there weren't any ginormous hills in the middle, actually quite a flat course aside from a few little lumps towards the end. Toledo-esque, but much better scenery (hills in the background instead of just cornfields).
A guy passed me as we approached mile 3, I was thinking I might need to drop back to 6:30s to be able to finish well, but I decided to try to stick with him for as long as I could. I ran right on his tail for miles 4, 5, and most of 6. He would gain on the little ups and I'd catch up again on the subsequent downs, so when I saw the biggish hill leading up to the finish, I was pretty sure he had me. But he encouraged me to pass and try to go get the guy in front of us, so I did. Yet another demonstration that psychology matters!
Much happier with this than Central Park race, feeling more on track although still have been way faster in recent memory.
Running 15:24 [2] 1.76 mi (8:45 / mi) +30m 8:19 / mi
Cool down/cheering in Tom!
12 PM
Orienteering 20:12 [3] 2.29 mi (8:49 / mi) +17m 8:37 / mi
13c
We quickly grabbed pancakes (woo!) and my award and took off for another stop on the tour of West Portland environs, heading down to Cook Park in Tigard for a little sprint orienteering action.
A little park-sprint, without anything too hard, but still had to think with a map in hand and go the right way. My big mistake was to totally miss that #9 was *under* the bridge (c'mon, did I learn *anything* at UW?) and fly over the bridge and become confused by the river on the other side. Hmph.
A little park-sprint, without anything too hard, but still had to think with a map in hand and go the right way. My big mistake was to totally miss that #9 was *under* the bridge (c'mon, did I learn *anything* at UW?) and fly over the bridge and become confused by the river on the other side. Hmph.
Thursday Jan 8, 2015 #
7 AM
Strength 12:01 [1]
Morning core with Tom.
3 PM
Running 14:16 [1] 1.43 mi (9:59 / mi) +37m 9:14 / mi
And conference over! Caught the bus up to Eric's 'hood and went a-training with Eric and Tom on PinkSocks's long sprint course at UW.
Orienteering 53:56 [3] 5.73 mi (9:25 / mi) +127m 8:48 / mi
27c
Wow, great training. A totally tricksy course that caught me out more than once. And there wasn't tons of oomph by the end either. But tried to be good and read my control descriptions and keep my head screwed on right. Definitely need to think maps more!!
Running 14:33 [1] 1.45 mi (10:02 / mi) +109m 8:08 / mi
Jog back and drive home. Initially fueled by scrumptious chocolate-covered cherries!
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Wednesday Jan 7, 2015 #
6 AM
Running 29:51 [1] 3.04 mi (9:49 / mi) +58m 9:16 / mi
Short joggeroo around downtown Seattle, ending at the Starbucks mothership at Pike's Place market!!
But actually, more exciting than that was meeting Steggie's cousin Calder's "The Eagle" in the Seattle sculpture garden. (Steggie is the Calder stegosaurus in front of the Toledo museum of art. His big brother is apparently in Hartford, CT.) Pretty cool. Also saw the space needle emerge from the morning fog.
And then for astronomy, there was a pretty cool talk in the morning on how big gas giant planets orbiting close to their host stars (hot Jupiters) can effect the stars themselves (tidal and magnetic effects).
But actually, more exciting than that was meeting Steggie's cousin Calder's "The Eagle" in the Seattle sculpture garden. (Steggie is the Calder stegosaurus in front of the Toledo museum of art. His big brother is apparently in Hartford, CT.) Pretty cool. Also saw the space needle emerge from the morning fog.
And then for astronomy, there was a pretty cool talk in the morning on how big gas giant planets orbiting close to their host stars (hot Jupiters) can effect the stars themselves (tidal and magnetic effects).
Tuesday Jan 6, 2015 #
6 AM
Running 44:07 5.0 mi (8:49 / mi)
Ug. Morning treadmill intervals. 6 x 2 min, alternating flat and hilly. Glad to have done though!
Went to the Tegmark talk on his levels of multiverses during lunchtime. I'm pretty ok with the Level 1 and Level 2 versions - a limit to our observable universe and the idea of other condensations out of inflation seem ok (whether you consider the latter well-testable or not is probably debatable).
The quantum Everett-interpretation one (Level 3) I'm without a distinct opinion on, I'd like to know more.
Level 4 multi-universe is really bizarre. The idea that everything mathematically possible/imaginable *must* be realized somewhere is hard to take on board! Just why?
Went to the Tegmark talk on his levels of multiverses during lunchtime. I'm pretty ok with the Level 1 and Level 2 versions - a limit to our observable universe and the idea of other condensations out of inflation seem ok (whether you consider the latter well-testable or not is probably debatable).
The quantum Everett-interpretation one (Level 3) I'm without a distinct opinion on, I'd like to know more.
Level 4 multi-universe is really bizarre. The idea that everything mathematically possible/imaginable *must* be realized somewhere is hard to take on board! Just why?
Monday Jan 5, 2015 #
6 AM
Running 24:47 [1] 3.0 mi (8:16 / mi)
Morning treadmill before the conference started up.
Cool things from Day 1 of AAS meeting:
1) There are sometimes 3 Van Allen radiation belts! (Old deal was 2 - an inner one of protons and an outer one of electrons.) It turns out there are sometimes two separated outer electron belts. No one knows why, but it depends on the solar wind and activity.
2) You can see the bounce marks of lander Philae on comet 67P! Holy moly! Also, comet 67P would be a cool place to orienteer. There are lots of boulders (one 45m tall!) and pits. Those things that look like craters aren't actually - best theories are that they are from the pattern of ices sublimating. Also the comet is blacker than coal. Also it has a swarm of small dust balls orbiting it. Ok, this was probably my favorite talk of the day, even though I don't do anything remotely related to comets myself.
3) The IceCube collaboration names their extremely high energy neutrinos. The top 3 are "Big Bird" and "Bert" and "Ernie"...
Cool things from Day 1 of AAS meeting:
1) There are sometimes 3 Van Allen radiation belts! (Old deal was 2 - an inner one of protons and an outer one of electrons.) It turns out there are sometimes two separated outer electron belts. No one knows why, but it depends on the solar wind and activity.
2) You can see the bounce marks of lander Philae on comet 67P! Holy moly! Also, comet 67P would be a cool place to orienteer. There are lots of boulders (one 45m tall!) and pits. Those things that look like craters aren't actually - best theories are that they are from the pattern of ices sublimating. Also the comet is blacker than coal. Also it has a swarm of small dust balls orbiting it. Ok, this was probably my favorite talk of the day, even though I don't do anything remotely related to comets myself.
3) The IceCube collaboration names their extremely high energy neutrinos. The top 3 are "Big Bird" and "Bert" and "Ernie"...
Strength 12:00 [1]
Core
Strength 3:10 [1]
Hammies at 9s