Training Log Archive: bbrooke

- Combined multiple jersey-related emails into a single message.

- Drafted & sent final Chatfield update email.

- Pre-registration adjustments per email requests.

- Lots of email follow-ups.

Drafting messages with links, photos, and tables takes forever because I'm writing the raw HTML (I haven't found an email client that gives me enough control over the layout / format). Really need to buy MailChimp or something like that...

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- 20 membership renewals (database updates & email confirmations; also, added new email addresses to YahooGroups list).

- Lots of registration fixes and follow-up emails for tomorrow's Chatfield / CSOL meet.

Neighborhood walk.

Final push to finalize everything for tomorrow's meet after a quick trip out for Mod Pizza --

- 2018 waivers -- downloaded Google form data, made some corrections, and imported into RMOC membership database.

- Made adjustments to the course/class linking table to reflect CSOL details (why didn't I save this from last year???).

- Updated PHP code that generates the preliminary OE2010 entries file from pre-reg data (added logic to pull in runner's school name, if applicable; adjustments to fee calculation logic).

- Manually entered names, e-punch numbers, and course / class details for Air Academy & Fountain Valley School runners.

- Generated OE2010 class & entry files for Doug and emailed them.

- Generated regular start cards & CSOL start cards (OMG it's almost midnight and I'm out of ink and I can't print the start cards! Nevermind, I have some spare cartridges...whew); sorted CSOL cards into packets with master lists for coaches.

Finished before midnight -- yay.

I had volunteered to lead the trail option of a social ride leaving from and finishing at a local taproom this evening...but I was the only MTBer who showed up; the other two road bikers were disinclined to ride because of the wind. So I dashed back home, changed shoes, shorts & headgear (helmet --> visor), and met up with my run group just a bit late.

Warm up, Aquarius hill sprints x 10, cool down.

Neighborhood walk before heading to see the Boulder Bassoon Quartet (in Louisville).

RMOC administrative work --

* Set up meet details and pre-registration pages for the next three CSOL events.

* Updated the CSOL web page with details & links for 2018.

* Made adjustments to volunteer lists and event dates, per updates from Doug.

* Sent out a comprehensive 2018 update to CSOL coaches.

* Other miscellaneous email follow-ups.

Community Park / Dutch Creek / Daughenbaugh / Warembourg Pond.

- Ran one mile to warm up.

- 5K time trial -- 25:20 (coach's husband was 17:20 -- wow).

- Ran one mile to cool down.

Walked to & from the rec center.

Vinyasa yoga class at the rec center.

I only got a few hours of sleep (due to having "real" coffee yesterday morning?) -- I tossed, tuned, ruminated, cried for a while (last year's Flying Pig meet was the last orienteering trip Troy and I took together), etc. So I was worried my exhausted brain fog might affect my run. After I sat at a red light for a while waiting to turn right (with no other traffic coming), on my way to VOA Park, I knew I wasn't 100% mentally sharp... :-P

VERY cold at the start -- but I resisted the urge to wear my windbreaker on the course this time. Fingers were painfully cold for the first few controls, but I was ultimately very glad I didn't have my jacket on.

The rough open / green-line areas were pretty nasty to get through, so I used the paths and mowed rides as often as possible, e.g. to #1 (the ride isn't really visible in this image, but it explains my curvy route).

Is there such a thing as a 90-degree error? That seems to be what I did leaving #6. ARGH! So dumb. Not even sure how I did that. :-\

For #7, I thought the bend in the trail would be a good attack point, but the woods were thick & nasty as soon as I left the trail; people who approached #7 from the east (e.g. Tonia) seemed to have an easier & faster time getting to it.

It would have been fun to hang out afterwards, but I had to get back to my hotel to check out, etc...

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Red classic-distance course at Elk Creek in Middletown, OH.

I feel like this was my cleanest race of the weekend -- although the navigation was pretty easy (Orange-ish). Looking at my tracks, I left #2 in a weird direction and I overshot #9 a bit. Also, the trail to #17 looked good on paper, but it was VERY muddy and slippery -- slow going, and it probably would've been better to just run along the paved path & open yellow area east of it, since the control was close to the vegetation boundary.

Very cold at the start (I wore my windbreaker on the course and of course regretted it after just a few minutes), but otherwise a pretty, sunny, fun day.

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More RMOC admin work on the s-l-o-w hotel computer: email follow-ups related to RMOC / LROC national event and special training requests (CSU ROTC and a "special forces" group...).

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