Training Log Archive: bigginsIn the 30 days ending Apr 30, 2006:
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Sunday Apr 30, 2006 #
orienteering 56:00 [2] 4.8 km (11:40 / km)
A line-O with Ananda and Jennene at Vasquez. I made a course for them, they made a course for me, we ran them. Much fun.
Saturday Apr 29, 2006 #
road bike 1:11:00 [3] 20.8 mi (17.6 mph)
Still recovering from the climbing, but I was getting antsy at work yesterday so I needed to do something. The bad thing is that I feel fine, but I can feel (and actually see) the lymph nodes swollen on the right side of my neck (two on the collarbone, two under my ear), so I'm pretty sure that means things aren't quite all well yet.
Tuesday Apr 25, 2006 #
hiking 2:00:00 [3]
Packed up camp and climbed back over Kearsarge Pass. Dropped the full packs at the pass and climbed Mt Gould (13,005 ft). Clouds were blowing up the valley and over the ridge then disappearing, so we were in mixed sun/cloud all day. Then back down to the pass and down through the slush fest of the lower valley to the car.
Monday Apr 24, 2006 #
hiking 2:00:00 [3]
Climbed Nameless Pyramid (12,100ft). A pretty steep snowfield, a good ridge climb, then some dicey class 3 summit rocks. Hot and sunny all day. Back down by lunch and we sat around camp and listened to the avalanches crash down all the snow from the previous two days. Fortunately nowhere near us (or the morning's route).
Sunday Apr 23, 2006 #
hiking 2:00:00 [3]
Went further in a few miles, and up Mt Bago (11,800ft). Snowshoes for most of it, crampons on the summit ridge. Pretty much socked in with clouds the whole time. Climbed up to a false summit, then had to go down a saddle and up to the true summit, without falling off the gigantic wind loaded cornice (pics from the next day), in a complete blowing whiteout. It wasn't as sketchy as it looks in the picture, the other side was pretty wide and flat. But there were no landmarks and we could only see 10ft, so we were on a blind compass for 300 meters each way across the saddle.
Saturday Apr 22, 2006 #
hiking 2:00:00 [3]
From Onion Valley (north of Whitney, south of Mammoth) up to Kearsarge Pass (we crossed the ridgeline just at the right edge of the picture, photo from tuesday) and down the other side. Solid snow cover, snowshoes almost all the way, with some crampons to get over the pass. Broken clouds, except when we had to do the dicey exposed traverse up to the pass (with full packs), then it was a raging whiteout.
Thursday Apr 20, 2006 #
soccer 1:00:00 [2]
mmm smog. getting pretty burned out, I think tomorrow is a day off to rest for the madness this weekend.
Wednesday Apr 19, 2006 #
road bike 1:31:00 [3] 25.7 mi (16.9 mph)
The traffic lights were awful this morning. There is a stretch along the beach with about 10 lights in a row (every block), and I literally hit them all. One would turn from red to green at exactly the same time as the next one would start to turn yellow. They were too well aligned to be random, so somebody must have timed them this way. Also hit just about every other light on the entire ride.
Tuesday Apr 18, 2006 #
roller ski 41:00 [2] 12.0 km (3:25 / km)
shoes: v2s #1
Down at the beach. Felt totally uncoordinated this morning, I thought I was just really tired or something, until about halfway through I figured out that I had the skis on the wrong feet. The weight difference of having the brake on the right vs left foot isn't really that much, but I guess its enough to toally trash the technique I'm used to.
soccer 1:00:00 [3]
Monday Apr 17, 2006 #
road bike 1:28:00 [3] 25.7 mi (17.5 mph)
so much for the nice warm mornings
Sunday Apr 16, 2006 #
run 1:10:00 [2] 5.2 mi (13:28 / mi) +500m 10:22 / mi
Temescal Canyon. Ran up the canyon floor to the end, the up to the ridgeline, then took the ridge trail up to the Palisades trailhead, then turned around and went all the way back down and off the end of the ridge trail. Pretty slow since it was all either steep climb or steep decent, but then again I wasn't trying too hard either. Probably the clearest day I've ever seen here. You could actually see terrain features out on Catalina, where normally its only a gray blob (on the few days you can see it at all).
Saturday Apr 15, 2006 #
road bike 2:10:00 [3] 38.3 mi (17.7 mph)
Down to the beach, to the marina, then up the Balona "Creek" bike path. Its one of those huge 300ft wide concrete culverts that you have drag races in, and they've carved a flat spot out of one edge. The path is actually pretty nice for the first 6-8 miles, but the last few the concrete gets crappy and bumpy. Oh yea and it sorta smells like sewage.
Friday Apr 14, 2006 #
road bike 1:23:00 [3] 25.6 mi (18.5 mph)
felt pretty good this morning. couldn't tell if it was the new tire (only put on the front one) or if I'm actually getting into shape. it was also the first morning where it was warmer than 45 degrees when I left, so that may have done it.
Thursday Apr 13, 2006 #
soccer 1:00:00 [3]
hot, in the 80's
Wednesday Apr 12, 2006 #
road bike 1:07:00 [3] 20.8 mi (18.6 mph)
hit all the green traffic lights this morning
Note
finally got to the bike shop today to pick up some new tires. the old ones have worn completely through the rubber, so in about a dozen places on the tops you can actually see the cloth.
Tuesday Apr 11, 2006 #
roller ski 41:00 [2] 12.0 km (3:25 / km)
shoes: v2s #1
down at the beach. saw some dolphins.
soccer 1:00:00 [3]
Monday Apr 10, 2006 #
road bike 1:51:00 [3] 31.8 mi (17.2 mph)
Finally found the route to get across the marina and down to the airport. Not too bad down there.
Saturday Apr 8, 2006 #
hiking 2:00:00 [3] 15.0 mi (8:00 / mi) +1200m 6:24 / mi
Dayhike in the San Gabriels. Started from the road on one ridge, hiked down one side canyon, then back up another one on the other side to a saddle. Did two peaks on one side and one on the other, all around 8k ft. Not really as much snow as I was hoping for, had the crampons and axe but never needed them. Some insane stream crossings on the canyon floor though. About 9 hours car to car. pics
Thursday Apr 6, 2006 #
road bike 1:14:00 [3] 20.8 mi (16.9 mph)
Forgot to mention that on Sunday's ride I had my little camera crammed into the bike bag, but apparently the lcd on the back was wedged against something metal, and with all the vibrations from the road it crushed itself and started internally bleeding lcd juice. It still takes pictures just fine, you just can't aim so well.
Note
so mammoth mountain (near where we were planning on climbing in a few weeks) got 10" of snow yesterday. which seems like a reasonable amount, until you consider that they got 23" on tuesday, and 40" on monday.
Wednesday Apr 5, 2006 #
run 34:50 [2] 4.1 mi (8:30 / mi)
still raining. they give us tax credits for days like this.
Tuesday Apr 4, 2006 #
run 25:00 [2] 2.5 mi (10:00 / mi)
It was somewhat pouring out, but the legs felt like they needed to do something.
Sunday Apr 2, 2006 #
road bike 1:41:00 [3] 30.9 mi (18.4 mph) +700m
Went out to Joshua Tree for some empty roads. Some sections were nice and smooth and others were pretty rough, but nothing too bad. Put the aerobars back on too.
Started from cap rock in the middle of the park and rode up over sheep pass, then down to the north entrance gate, then back.
Started from cap rock in the middle of the park and rode up over sheep pass, then down to the north entrance gate, then back.
road bike 1:48:00 [3] 30.7 mi (17.1 mph) +200m
after lunch and a little bouldering, went back out for another ride in the other direction - to the west entrance, then back and up to Key's view. This one was much flatter (except the climb to Key's), but it had gotten pretty windy since the morning and the roads on this side weren't so good. After the first 16 miles (before the climb started) I was averaging 22, then the road got crappy, hilly, and turned directly into a headwind.
other (bouldering) 30:00 [1]
Some more bouldering before I drove home. Its actually against park rules to come here and not climb anything.