Training Log Archive: jjcoteIn the 7 days ending May 5, 2007:
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Saturday May 5, 2007 #
Orienteering race 56:03 [4] *** 5.54 km (10:07 / km) +240m 8:19 / km
spiked:9/16c shoes: VJ Falcons #1
Team Trials middle distance, Peach Mountain. Not a particularly distinguished effort. No huge blow-ups, but several moderate errors close to the controls. A couple of these were not what I consider my fault, being due to either not being able to distinguish between yellow and green on the map, or due to passing within a few meters of the control, but not seeing the faded flag close to the ground. But others were just my own sloppiness.
Pull-ups 6 [3]
So I was hanging out at the finish area, chatting with Ratlaf, and the subject of pull-ups came up, and we looked around at the nearby trees. A couple of them had limbs that looked like they might be workable, and I decided to head over and investigate, but he decided not to, saying that he didn't want to embarrass himself. How wise he is! I went up to a cottonwood, and it had a branch that looked okay, so I started doing pull-ups. The branch was kind of springy, so they were on the easy side, and then after a half-dozen, it broke off at the trunk with a loud crack. And people in the finish area started calling me a tree-killer, and yelling that I wasn't AOWN, and telling me to get some ductape and repair it...
Pull-ups 10 [5]
Found a bar under an awning at the back door of the hotel that was ideal.
Push-ups 45 [5]
Sit-ups 1:30 [5]
Friday May 4, 2007 #
Event: US Team Trials
Orienteering race 17:07 [4] *** 2.98 km (5:45 / km) +13m 5:37 / km
spiked:13/13c shoes: VJ Falcons #1
Team Trials sprint, Haven Hill. A good race, pretty close to perfect, and I managed to overtake several people and not get caught by anyone, I believe. Time loss was due entirely to things like going not going the optimal way around a rootstock. Beyond this, it's all just running speed.
Push-ups 45 [5]
Sit-ups 1:30 [5]
Note
No pull-ups today. I looked around the hotel, but didn't see anything that looked like a particularly suitable chinning bar. Plus I was beat from the early morning to catch the plane.
Thursday May 3, 2007 #
Push-ups 45 [5]
Sit-ups 1:30 [5]
Pull-ups 10 [5]
Wednesday May 2, 2007 #
Unicycling 36:46 [3] 5.92 km (6:13 / km)
To ComComm meeting at Brooks House via Highland (23:29), and back via Turkey Hill (13:17, In The Dim). Making an effort to ride quite fast in both directions.
Push-ups 45 [5]
It's entirely possible that as I do more of these, they're also getting sloppier. Next move will be to go to 2x25 instead of one set of 50, I think.
Sit-ups 1:30 [5]
I think I spotted another ab, which would mean that I'm up to two.
Pull-ups 10 [5]
Tuesday May 1, 2007 #
Orienteering race 23:32 [4] *** 2.7 km (8:43 / km)
spiked:14/14c
Pine Banks sprint, head to head with Alexei, Pia, Dean, and Dan Westerburg. Made a better route choice to the first control and got there ahead of everybody, though Alexei wasn't far behind. He slowly pulled away on the next two legs, and I lost sight of him in the green on top of the hill. Never saw anybody else, other than crossing paths with Alexei when he was on #9 and I was on #7.
Course setting 26:25 [1] *** 1.7 km (15:32 / km)
spiked:8/8c
Control pickup with Stephen. I had him navigate a couple of bits after discussing the routes.
Push-ups 45 [5]
The last five were very tough.
Sit-ups 1:30 [5]
Pull-ups 10 [5]
Monday Apr 30, 2007 #
Pull-ups 14 [5]
End of the month trials. During the day, I feel all stoked and figure I can surely do 20 or more, but then when the time comes to head out to the garage, I don't feel quite so confident. Almost made 15 — after having relaxed my shoulders, I managed to get started upwards again, but before I quite got my chin over the bar, I stalled, and no amount of kicking my legs could do anything about it.
Sit-ups 1:20 [5]
Push-ups 40 [5]
Sunday Apr 29, 2007 #
Push-ups 40 [5]
Sit-ups 1:20 [5]
Pull-ups 9 [5]
Orienteering race 1:28:39 [3] *** 8.46 km (10:29 / km) +360m 8:38 / km
spiked:18/20c
West Point Blue. A much nicer and more enjoyable course. Same number of misses as yesterday, but they were much smaller, just overrunning to the next boulder a couple of times, maybe three minutes total time lost. But I also ran low on energy with a couple of km to go, so I wasn't moving very fast for the last four controls. Stiil, nice to have such a clean run in a sweet area on a day that was really quite nice for orienteering.
Note
Stopped at UConn on the way home and checked out Clint's big flower bud. This one has serious potential, and I'm hoping it turns out spectacularly for him.
