Training Log Archive: bigginsIn the 30 days ending Jun 30, 2012:
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Saturday Jun 30, 2012 #
hiking 3:00:00 [2] 10.0 mi (18:00 / mi) +1600m 12:01 / mi
Dayhike with Carol up Matterhorn Peak in northern Yosemite, from Twin Lakes. A mile or two up a real trail, then a bit up a pretty good use trail, then another mile or two up some non-existant use trail to Horse Creek Pass. Up the ridgeline and a short dodgy 4th class bit to the top. Then back down off the summit block to the top of the East Couloir. I don't know if the phrase "hey carol you wanna go on an adventure?" was ever explicitly spoken, but it was perhaps implied. In my defense it looked like easy loose scree all the way down to the [flattish] glacier, until we got halfway down and found the steep icy snowy part. Carol was quite a good sport and figured out the whole ice axe / crampon thing on the spot very well given the crappy location we decided to do it. Then down some more loose scree and onto the easier main glacier.
Got down off that and while taking off the crampons, learned why you're always supposed to leave a filter on the front of your camera lens. While picking it up the strap got caught on rock edge and pulled it out of my hands, so the camera fell about two feet lens-first onto a pointy rock, bounced a couple times and clattered down into a hole. Camera is [mostly] fine, lens is fine, filter is trashed. Though even with how destroyed that looks, I left it on the lens for the rest of the day and took pictures through it, and you can barely notice it (just the dark spot in the sky here). Likely because the T2i has a 1.6-crop sensor, so its not using the outside of the lens anyway (where the big glass chunk is missing). Anyway, oops.
Then down the slope from the glacier trying to get back onto the main valley floor, which was a long ways down and full of cliffs and trees and bushes. Only got stuck and had to backtrack up once, but as we got closer to the bottom both the veggies and the mosquitos got thicker. Easy splash across Horse Creek and then the long slog back down the trail. Got back to the car just before dark, 12h rt. photos.
Got down off that and while taking off the crampons, learned why you're always supposed to leave a filter on the front of your camera lens. While picking it up the strap got caught on rock edge and pulled it out of my hands, so the camera fell about two feet lens-first onto a pointy rock, bounced a couple times and clattered down into a hole. Camera is [mostly] fine, lens is fine, filter is trashed. Though even with how destroyed that looks, I left it on the lens for the rest of the day and took pictures through it, and you can barely notice it (just the dark spot in the sky here). Likely because the T2i has a 1.6-crop sensor, so its not using the outside of the lens anyway (where the big glass chunk is missing). Anyway, oops.
Then down the slope from the glacier trying to get back onto the main valley floor, which was a long ways down and full of cliffs and trees and bushes. Only got stuck and had to backtrack up once, but as we got closer to the bottom both the veggies and the mosquitos got thicker. Easy splash across Horse Creek and then the long slog back down the trail. Got back to the car just before dark, 12h rt. photos.
Thursday Jun 28, 2012 #
12 PM
run 1:27:06 7.88 mi (11:03 / mi) +394m 9:34 / mi
ahr:136 max:153
Long run around the lower TD trail loop. I tried this once before just after I moved up here, but it got dark and started snowing and I got pretty lost. It went a little better this time.
Wednesday Jun 27, 2012 #
5 PM
orienteering 23:20 *** 2.99 km (7:48 / km) +18m 7:35 / km
ahr:128 max:149 spiked:17/18c
setting out controls
6 PM
orienteering race 16:19 *** 3.14 km (5:12 / km) +18m 5:03 / km
ahr:146 max:158 spiked:18/18c
Truckee Summer Series Race #1. Woot. Six of us tonight, with Carol, Jonis and I around 20 minutes, and the other three around 50... Everyone had a good time anyway. map.
Tuesday Jun 26, 2012 #
3 PM
mapping 2:00:00 [0]
Donner Lake. Finished up (sortof) ghettocad paint mode for area symbols. Its awesome. I think I can say I'll never use ocad drawing mode for vegetation again.
6 PM
run hills 57:17 5.39 mi (10:38 / mi) +169m 9:41 / mi
ahr:140 max:164
Hill workout. New attendence record: 5 people!
Monday Jun 25, 2012 #
2 PM
mapping 3:00:00 [0] ***
Donner Lake. Probably should finish some parts of this before Wednesday's race.
Sunday Jun 24, 2012 #
9 AM
orienteering race 1:11:37 *** 8.44 km (8:29 / km) +315m 7:09 / km
ahr:142 max:152 spiked:24/25c
Score-o, 90 minutes. quickroute. Small course, so it looked pretty easy to clean it all in 90 minutes. Joseph, Dennis, and I did basically the same route (clockwise), with a couple swapped on the western side. No big mistakes, just climbed a little high before 113 at the end. Good times. Yay climb.
Saturday Jun 23, 2012 #
10 AM
run warm up/down 7:24 0.88 km (8:23 / km) +66m 6:06 / km
ahr:136 max:156
Up to the start.
run warm up/down 9:56 1.48 km (6:43 / km) +58m 5:37 / km
ahr:131 max:153
They were out of orange maps, so I got voted to run back down and get some more.
orienteering race 1:13:25 *** 8.8 km (8:20 / km) +326m 7:02 / km
ahr:152 max:167 spiked:15/17c
Mt Pinos morning Blue. quickroute. Pretty good run. Contours were really weird right out of the start, I think the reentrants were steeper than shown, so I ended up at 14 first instead of 1. Then mostly good slogging up the hill. 7-8 would have been a whole lot faster coming down the ridgeline, the bottom of the gully was rocky and crappy.
4 PM
run warm up/down 5:58 0.68 km (8:47 / km) +1m 8:43 / km
ahr:125 max:144
orienteering race 18:55 *** 3.27 km (5:48 / km) +41m 5:27 / km
ahr:154 max:165 spiked:7/8c
Afternoon 'prolog' sprint. quickroute. Sortof-downhill sprint for seeding for the night-o chase. Definitely not all downhill, but still really fun with the controls wedged in between the road and the trail, so it was fast all the way down. 4-5 would have been faster to stay on the trail longer and just cut the end (through the 5), my route was just bonus climb. Chasing James for the second half of it, but then he beat me on the run in to the wildly misplaced finish.
9 PM
run warm up/down 2:18 0.34 km (6:45 / km) +5m 6:17 / km
ahr:118 max:138
orienteering race 28:15 *** 3.42 km (8:16 / km) +91m 7:17 / km
ahr:152 max:161 spiked:3/11c
Night-o chase start! quickroute. Awesome. Jonas went out first, I was 1:10 back, and Joseph and Mikkel were 30 seconds behind me (then a couple more people, then a mass-start of ~25 people at 10 minutes back). No sign of Jonas when I started, and I promptly missed the first trail junction and blew my 30 second lead, so the three of us were together at 1. The woods were super crappy to 2, the trail would have been better since we ended up there anyway. About halfway to 3 the light-bulbity part of the MagicShine fell off the head-strappity part, which makes it less useful for running. I wrapped the wire a couple times around the head strap so the light sortof hung off the side ghetto style, which worked but bounced around a whole lot. Also since the light was now wedged against my head, and also on super-bright-super-hot-mode, it was sortof burning my hair. But by shifting it around every minute or two I seemed to finish without any permanent damage.
Anyway Joseph and Mikkel sortof bobbled 3 so I caught up again by 4, we ran together to 5, then royally screwed up 6. It all sortof made sense at the time, and the ground was so crappy and slashy that nobody was paying too much attention to the map, we were just trying not to trip and die. Mikkel figured it out first, and was highest up the hill at the time, so he got about a minute lead which he held through the finish. Joseph and I both stopped short on 7, then together to the finish. Meanwhile Jonas ran the whole thing by himself totally clean and beat us all by 7 minutes.
Anyway Joseph and Mikkel sortof bobbled 3 so I caught up again by 4, we ran together to 5, then royally screwed up 6. It all sortof made sense at the time, and the ground was so crappy and slashy that nobody was paying too much attention to the map, we were just trying not to trip and die. Mikkel figured it out first, and was highest up the hill at the time, so he got about a minute lead which he held through the finish. Joseph and I both stopped short on 7, then together to the finish. Meanwhile Jonas ran the whole thing by himself totally clean and beat us all by 7 minutes.
Friday Jun 22, 2012 #
1 PM
mtn bike 50:26 7.1 mi (8.4 mph) +257m
ahr:128 max:156
Easy ride around TD. Windy out, and even a little chilly.
Thursday Jun 21, 2012 #
6 PM
run 54:23 4.42 mi (12:18 / mi) +173m 10:58 / mi
ahr:126 max:155
Wednesday Jun 20, 2012 #
3 PM
roller ski 33:46 11.32 km (2:59 / km) +36m 2:56 / km
ahr:147 max:160
Tuesday Jun 19, 2012 #
Note
Jukola photos. Just took the little camera, so nothing too exciting. heh, Finland.
and Jukola quickroute. You can see my wanderings on 1, just short of the last bare rock SW of the control, but then it didn't make sense and I thought I was on the one to the north (I had just run up a little cliff, which I thought was the one I finally relocated on). Also the zigzag where I was stumbling around for a bit after eyeball-meet-pinetree just before 7.
and Jukola quickroute. You can see my wanderings on 1, just short of the last bare rock SW of the control, but then it didn't make sense and I thought I was on the one to the north (I had just run up a little cliff, which I thought was the one I finally relocated on). Also the zigzag where I was stumbling around for a bit after eyeball-meet-pinetree just before 7.
6 PM
run intervals 39:37 4.48 mi (8:51 / mi) +90m 8:20 / mi
ahr:151 max:169
Trail intervals at Martis Creek with JP and Jonis and Jack and some poor dude from Kentucky here to pace his friend at the Western States this weekend. I felt really good and managed to run almost all of them strong, which felt good for a change. Too bad summer's over, rollerskiing tomorrow =)
Monday Jun 18, 2012 #
Note
Almost home. Chilling in Portland for a few hours. My busted eyeball got really ouchie last night and on the first flight this morning, but then got better on the long flight here so I actually got to sleep for a bit. Now I cant really even see the scratch in the front of it. At least it heals fast. Should be ok enough to drive home by the time I get to smf.
7 PM
run 43:25 3.88 mi (11:11 / mi) +97m 10:23 / mi
ahr:129 max:146
easy jog with Carol catching up on all things slot machines / jukola. eyeball is all fixed, mostly.
Sunday Jun 17, 2012 #
4 AM
run warm up/down 10:00 [2] 1.0 km (10:00 / km)
orienteering race 1:10:29 9.75 km (7:14 / km) +165m 6:40 / km
ahr:152 max:170 spiked:16/17c
Jukola! Leg 5, after sunrise. Holy first leg mistake. Had a couple hundred meters through some pretty flat marsh/bare rock stuff (after the one km to the start point), and everything was making sense fine and then all of a sudden nothing matched. I was really just one bare rock patch away from where I should have been, but I relocated assuming I was on a different one, which sortof made things worse. Wandered around a bit and a couple tries later found it. Quickroute says I lost about 9 minutes. Oops. But then I went on and nailed every other control so it averaged out to not too bad of a run. Got a pine tree in the eyeball pretty hard about halfway through, so now it hurts to look at things. Also it hurts to not look at things. I think the upcoming 23 hours of airplane time are going to be very uncomfortable.
run warm up/down 10 [2] 1.0 km (10 / km)
Friday Jun 15, 2012 #
7 PM
orienteering 1:03:43 *** 6.33 km (10:04 / km) +99m 9:20 / km
ahr:128 max:152 spiked:9/9c
Jukola training. Running a bunch of controls on one of the training maps. Mossy and green and lots of oxygen.
Thursday Jun 14, 2012 #
Note
Finland!
Tuesday Jun 12, 2012 #
10 AM
run 4:31 0.69 km (6:33 / km) +22m 5:39 / km
ahr:123 max:139
orienteering 1:16:28 *** 10.18 km (7:31 / km) +196m 6:51 / km
ahr:143 max:186 spiked:13/15c
2010 Red course at Burton Creek with Will. quickroute. I sortof missed 3. Good otherwise.
6 PM
run 55:17 5.32 mi (10:23 / mi) +150m 9:33 / mi
ahr:145 max:166
Tuesday hill workout with Jonis, Will, and JP. Warmup, then 12 x don't die, then cooldown back to the car.
Monday Jun 11, 2012 #
1 PM
mtn bike 1:27:15 [3] 11.97 mi (8.2 mph) +507m
Easy ride up to the top of the mountain and then around Donner Ridge. Feel ok after the weekend, though its probably good I'm not running today.
Sunday Jun 10, 2012 #
9 AM
run warm up/down 5:00 [1] 0.5 km (10:00 / km)
orienteering 1:36:46 *** 10.15 km (9:32 / km) +582m 7:25 / km
ahr:137 max:151 spiked:15/16c
Over to Spooner Lake to rerun the club champs long from a couple years ago. As advertised, it was long and hilly.
1 PM
run warm up/down 6:37 0.96 km (6:54 / km) +19m 6:17 / km
ahr:140 max:160
orienteering 54:05 *** 5.35 km (10:07 / km) +198m 8:32 / km
ahr:140 max:153 spiked:17/19c
A middle course from a couple years ago. Went well except for one control that Will and I were Searching around much too high for.
Saturday Jun 9, 2012 #
11 AM
run warm up/down 8:41 1.35 km (6:27 / km) +12m 6:10 / km
ahr:126 max:138
orienteering 1:20:54 *** 10.15 km (7:58 / km) +307m 6:55 / km
ahr:146 max:159 spiked:16/18c
Instead of the cancelled SF sprint weekend, a bunch of people came up here for some training this weekend. We went up to Little Truckee Summot to rerun part of the long a-meet blue from the fall.
3 PM
orienteering 34:44 4.73 km (7:20 / km) +146m 6:22 / km
ahr:151 max:169 spiked:15/15c
Middle a-meet blue from the fall. We started at minute intervals, in roughly reverse order, so by about control 8 everybody bunched up for a couple controls, then we were in a loose pack for the rest of it, which made it pretty fun.
orienteering warm up/down 7:47 0.97 km (8:03 / km) +33m 6:53 / km
ahr:139 max:151 spiked:1/1c
Pickup
Friday Jun 8, 2012 #
6 PM
mtn bike 1:01:01 8.94 mi (8.8 mph) +329m
ahr:116 max:149
Longer ride up TD a bit. Still a little damp on the west side, so the trails were still solid. Felt pretty good today, hopefully I should be ok for the weekend.
Thursday Jun 7, 2012 #
12 PM
orienteering 1:07:01 3.44 mi (19:29 / mi) +212m 16:21 / mi
ahr:123 max:159 spiked:13/15c
Setting flags for the weekend. Quite nice outside.
6 PM
mtn bike 36:37 [3] 6.1 mi (10.0 mph) +200m
quick ride around TD with Jon.
Wednesday Jun 6, 2012 #
6 PM
mtn bike 46:56 [2] 6.1 mi (7.8 mph) +156m
easy ride around the TD trails. didn't mess with the back too much.
Tuesday Jun 5, 2012 #
6 PM
run 42:09 [2] 3.72 mi (11:20 / mi) +31m 11:03 / mi
boo. back hurts again. went out for a miserable jog while the other two did intervals.
Sunday Jun 3, 2012 #
hiking 2:00:00 [2]
Up Mt Lassen, with Andrew and Jard on skis, and Jon and I in crampons. Easy boot track halfway up, then the ski boot kids went up the ridgeline and Jon and I went out and up the snowy part of the east face. Windy on top, and just at the cloud level so we were in and out every couple minutes. Back down the face to catch the other two as they went by, then down to the bottom to watch them do a couple more laps on the side snowfield. Which degraded into pond skimming in remarkably little time.
all the pics.
all the pics.
Saturday Jun 2, 2012 #
hiking 2:00:00 [2]
Headed up to Lassen NP for the weekend with Carol, Jon, Andrew, and Andrew's friend Jard. Got up there around lunchtime, and headed up high to play in the snow. Carol and I on snowshoes, the other three on skis, we headed for an easy hike up Eagle Pk. Back out, around to the north side of the mountain to check out the eruption zone, then stopped on the way back to camp to snort some gas from the volcanic mud pits. And Jon has a tent with inflatable poles.
Friday Jun 1, 2012 #
2 PM
run 58:17 5.87 mi (9:56 / mi) +226m 8:52 / mi
ahr:144 max:161
The dull glow of the monitor flickered on and off. On and off. It buzzed as though full of wasps, but quietly, like they were further away than they should have been. I sat slumped at my desk, tapping away on the keyboard impatiently, incessantly. I had code to write, and I needed it done soon. Problem was, I couldn't think. It was stuffy inside with the June afternoon heat. It used to be cooler, I thought, but at least its never as bad as downtown. The windows were cracked for a sorry breeze, but that only let in the racket from next door.
Two dames and the new guy in town, Vinnie, were getting ready for a good weekend. Brought his boat up from the big city, heading down to the lake. Going to be a great time, he thought. But then the coppers showed up. Frank and Hoss. Keeping the peace, not always for the right reasons, but they're good at what they do, so everyone lets them run. "Can't park your boat there, kid," says Frank. "Against housing regulations," drawls Hoss. Vinnie stammers and stutters and tries to explain himself, but deep down he knows he's wrong. The cops know he's wrong, and so just let him work it. Hell I know he's wrong, and I don't even care about boats. All I care about is getting out of here.
I walk down the steps, mulling over the work I'm not doing. Its bright out here; the sun never shone like this down in the city. I squint and pull down the brim of my cap, my head screaming in pain, but I couldn't tell if it was from Vinnie or just the day before. Its always from the day before. I step by the police cruiser just as Frank is pulling a crate of booze out of the boat. "Those are just packed with camping gear," Vinnie declared nervously, as the crate clinks to the floor a little too hard. Not the brightest bulb in the box. The dame in the back of the boat takes a swig from her camping gear and tosses it in the bush. But Hoss is watching. Hoss is always watching. Thats why he's so damn good.
Earlier I had choked down a cold bologna and ketchup sandwich for lunch. I knew I'd regret it, but it was all I could care for. The instant I hit the main road and started running, I did indeed regret it. Not a wise choise, I thought to myself. It was going to be a long day. I struggle down the creek until the turn at the campsite. Water washed out the trail in more places than seemed decent, cutting left and right and occasionally down the middle, like a five year old trying to color between the lines. Up on the far side it was dry, but dirty and hot. I try to stay in the trees, but its worthless up here, you just can't get away. I check out the power lines on top, it's more of the same. I double back just in case, I don't know why.
By the time I hit the main road again, I hear sirens wailing in the distance. I hope thats Vinnie, I think smugly. Put him away and maybe we'll get a quiet weekend around here. Sure, you can hope, I tell myself. I've seen a lot of this place over the years, but one thing never changes: weekends are never what you'd like. But I maintain the lie as I head across the flitting shadows of the subdivision, its easier to think that way, and today is not the day for change.
Two dames and the new guy in town, Vinnie, were getting ready for a good weekend. Brought his boat up from the big city, heading down to the lake. Going to be a great time, he thought. But then the coppers showed up. Frank and Hoss. Keeping the peace, not always for the right reasons, but they're good at what they do, so everyone lets them run. "Can't park your boat there, kid," says Frank. "Against housing regulations," drawls Hoss. Vinnie stammers and stutters and tries to explain himself, but deep down he knows he's wrong. The cops know he's wrong, and so just let him work it. Hell I know he's wrong, and I don't even care about boats. All I care about is getting out of here.
I walk down the steps, mulling over the work I'm not doing. Its bright out here; the sun never shone like this down in the city. I squint and pull down the brim of my cap, my head screaming in pain, but I couldn't tell if it was from Vinnie or just the day before. Its always from the day before. I step by the police cruiser just as Frank is pulling a crate of booze out of the boat. "Those are just packed with camping gear," Vinnie declared nervously, as the crate clinks to the floor a little too hard. Not the brightest bulb in the box. The dame in the back of the boat takes a swig from her camping gear and tosses it in the bush. But Hoss is watching. Hoss is always watching. Thats why he's so damn good.
Earlier I had choked down a cold bologna and ketchup sandwich for lunch. I knew I'd regret it, but it was all I could care for. The instant I hit the main road and started running, I did indeed regret it. Not a wise choise, I thought to myself. It was going to be a long day. I struggle down the creek until the turn at the campsite. Water washed out the trail in more places than seemed decent, cutting left and right and occasionally down the middle, like a five year old trying to color between the lines. Up on the far side it was dry, but dirty and hot. I try to stay in the trees, but its worthless up here, you just can't get away. I check out the power lines on top, it's more of the same. I double back just in case, I don't know why.
By the time I hit the main road again, I hear sirens wailing in the distance. I hope thats Vinnie, I think smugly. Put him away and maybe we'll get a quiet weekend around here. Sure, you can hope, I tell myself. I've seen a lot of this place over the years, but one thing never changes: weekends are never what you'd like. But I maintain the lie as I head across the flitting shadows of the subdivision, its easier to think that way, and today is not the day for change.