Training Log Archive: bbrooke

LoCO FIT breakfast run starting from Otis Coffee in Lafayette -- easy out-and-back on the Coal Creek Trail. A beautiful morning with birds and prairie dogs chirping!

Plan for the rest of today: shop-vac the garage floor (winter road grime -- gravel and dirt); finish unpacking from West Point trip (suitcase is still sitting half-full in my living room, and I just remembered / discovered the plastic bag full of wet shoes and socks -- gross); bake treats to take to Cinco de Mayo / 50th birthday party tomorrow (Mexican Chocolate Icebox Cookies); and attend a friend's flute-bassoon-piano concert.

C • Last year I took "Mexican brownies" 2

Out and back on the Coal Creek Trail.

Splitting headache (caffeine withdrawal + jaw clenching / teeth grinding + too much screen time at work without glasses on). Also, my hands went numb and my "sit bones" were in pain for the last ~five miles.

But otherwise this was great. ;-)

C • Caffeine withdrawal 8

LoCO FIT 5K Time Trial @ Coal Creek Trail: 8:55, 8:31, 8:09, 0:49.

For comparison: 5/1/2018 -- 25:52 (8:47, 8:22, 7:51, 0:52).

It's cold (~40°F) and rainy again, but I couldn't handle a third consecutive day of sloth...

Runners Roost group run -- Dillon Rd, golf course, Coal Creek trail, Cherry St, bike path, and then back on Dillon.

I skipped the beer & food afterwards in favor of a hot bath at home.

It was 40ish and raining when it was time to go to my run group workout...and I felt like crap after getting ~four hours of sleep last night...so I flaked out and skipped the workout. :-|

I had lots of RMOC crapola to catch up on...so I skipped my usual Monday night yoga class.

Cherry Creek meet:
- Posted overall results.
- Uploaded XML splits to Attackpoint.
- Uploaded photos from Gøril.
- Data entry for volunteer list.

Bear Creek Lake Park meet:
- Posted Sverre's course details; adjusted pre-reg deadline.
- Created volunteer sign-up sheet.
- Located adult & minor release forms for City of Lakewood; updated them with 2019 meet details.
- Responded to Galen's questions about meet logistics.
- Added WOD link & info to meet details page.

Manitou meet:
- Created volunteer sign-up sheet.
- Added WOD link & info to meet details page.

General:
- Drafted an HTML email with links and photos for the RMOC list.
- Located and uploaded photos to go with "member news" features.
- Email follow-ups (Parker permanent course, Laramie 2019?, 2020 national event?).
- RouteGadget file coordination with JP, Sverre & Galen, for upcoming meets.

So. Many. Rocks.

And cliffs.

I was slow to #1, but found it OK. And then I took ~45 minutes to find #2. :-\

I had a plan to get to #2, but I totally lost contact with the map after about 500m and had no idea whatsoever where I was for most of the rest of leg. My extra-slow forward progress (due to veg & rockiness) affected my estimation of how far I had traveled. But apparently I at least stayed more-or-less on my bearing, because I finally matched up some long, large cliffs northwest of the control and I found it -- but I had a definite defeated feeling.

Most of the remaining controls went OK, except for running back to #3 to relocate (I was terrified of getting lost again!), even though my tracks show that I was pretty close to #4.

Corinne punched #5 just ahead of me, and thank goodness she yelled out a warning that the leg-line to #6 went right through #9 -- easy to confuse. I'm not sure I would have realized that if she hadn't pointed it out, and I would have wasted a ton of time fighting through nasty vegetation. Svetlana said she got tripped up there.

The rest of the course went OK -- just slow and somewhat bumbling. Thank you to the helpful (Ukrainian?) guy who pointed me towards #10 (I was close but could have easily missed it). And to the CSU guy who seemed concerned for me near #4 (I must have really looked confused, even though I was walking right to the control; maybe he had seen me back-track toward #3 to relocate...or maybe he noticed my slumped shoulders and defeated trudge).

I was slow at Quantico, but I mostly always knew where I was. Today was the kind of day where I'm very close to crying (on the leg to #2), and I spend the whole course questioning if I even really know how to orienteer. It didn't help that there were long stretches where my fingers were so cold & numb I could barely turn my compass, and my swollen shin-bruise ached the whole time. Poor me. ;-)

THANK YOU to vmeyer for letting me do an ad hoc switch to Green this morning. I would have taken at least four hours on Red... And, it turns out I wasn't even DFL on Green-X -- I finished 15th out of 25 who started, and 2nd out of 4 in F45+. "Yay."

This weekend's courses were humbling, but I hope to go back next year to try again.

C • Rocks 6

Long - GreenX - Splits