Training Log Archive: bbrooke

Neighborhood walk. OMG it's HOT.

...and some unplanned cycling. Had to bike back to the mall with a spare key after locking both my keys AND my phone inside. This was after an hour spent standing in the sun outside the mall waiting for a cab that never arrived (I eventually took the bus, which was great, but it only comes by once per hour on Sundays). NOT the way I wanted to waste three hours when I had a to-do list a mile long...

Event: RMOC Observatory (Nederland)
 

This was both physically and technically challenging, on a HOT day. Good prep for Idaho, I guess. The leg from 8 to 9 took me 32 minutes -- 23% of my total time on the course. Oof.

I laid down in the cold stream that crossed the trail near #12, and that felt SO GOOD. It was so hot that my clothes had totally dried by the time I finished.

Very fun overall, and I think I was the first female finisher (which is rare verging on unheard-of, when Kris and Gøril are both there!).

Red - Splits

Email follows-ups & prep work for tomorrow's meet -- registration files, etc.

I will organize all of this later...

5/30/2015
05536 3.2 149m
Night-O in Buena Vista. Very fun. First female finisher -- yay!



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5/31/2015
11846 4.44 197m
Red course in Buena Vista. Veered wide on #1. Veered off my bearing and made a dumb parallel error on #7. Otherwise, very fun. Kris beat me by a few minutes.



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6/1/2015
10000 3.0
Travel day to San Francisco. Mild over-eating during Chinatown tour and group dinner...luckily we were walking everywhere, but I forgot my GPS. Time & mileage here are very conservative estimates.

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6/2/2015 6am
05402 3.71
Despite getting just ~four hours of sleep...I joined the two other women who left the hotel at 5:15 am for a jog across the Golden Gate Bridge. Very fun.

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6/2/2015 9pm
10503 3.33
Massive over-eating at group dinner. Luckily a few others wanted to walk back to the hotel, so I joined them.

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6/3/2015
4922 3.00 77m
Walked to dinner, which included more overindulgence (beer, appetizers, dessert, etc.).

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6/4/2015
Travel day. I feel like I need to go on a juice fast. The next group meeting will be in New Orleans in October. Oy.

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6/6/2015
05304 4.37 77m
Out-and-back jog to the high point in Troy's neighborhood. I saw an antelope at the turn-around point.

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6/7/2015
15743 3.0 84m
At Peaceful Valley Scout Ranch, helping Kris streamer the control locations for Wednesday's CSOL meet. Like an idiot, I forgot to put sunscreen on the back of my neck...and it's really burned.

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6/8/2015
03501 2.03 32m
Neighborhood walk.

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6/11/2015
05702 4.44 96m
First day of Summer Training! (Actually, it started a week or two ago, but I was out of town and then busy...)

Jogged 0.75-mile to warm up; three laps of the Tyler Ave hill loop; walked & jogged 0.75-mile to cool down.

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6/13/2015
04438 3.52 31m
Neighborhood jog. Pro-tip: Don't start a run during the hottest part of the day.

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6/14/2015
05226 4.34 93m
Out-and-back jog to the high point in Troy's neighborhood.

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6/16/2015
11056 6.23 70m
Jogged six miles and walked the rest -- after the torrential downpour.

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