Training Log Archive: bigginsIn the 31 days ending May 31, 2010:
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Sunday May 30, 2010 #
hiking 2:00:00 [3] 14.0 mi (8:34 / mi) +1000m 7:01 / mi
Went over into Hetch Hetchy and hiked up Smith Mt (7750'). Low oak scrub down at the bottom, a lot like Sequoia or even LA, then pine forest up on top. A lot of it burned a couple years ago, so it was all charred toothpicks and underbrush. The trail went up the sunny side of the mountain, so the snow was all gone except for the very top, which was exciting in a running-shoe-on-cornsnow sortof way. Warm and sunny, so I spent a while up on top hanging with the locals, who would have been adorable except for the part where he was actively devouring my pack. Then he gave up and just tried to pull it home.
Tioga Pass through yosemite was still closed this weekend, but they just opened up Sonora Pass (next one north), so I drove home that way. Never been over that one before, and it wins over Tioga easily for being windy and crazy and steep.
6hrs rt. pics.
Tioga Pass through yosemite was still closed this weekend, but they just opened up Sonora Pass (next one north), so I drove home that way. Never been over that one before, and it wins over Tioga easily for being windy and crazy and steep.
6hrs rt. pics.
Saturday May 29, 2010 #
11 AM
mapping 2:00:00 [0] *** 4.36 km (27:31 / km) +29m 26:38 / km
six hours of mapping at Evergreen Lodge. got the whole cabin area, the grounds, and even some random bonus forest off to the side because I was on a roll.
ghettocad stats: six hours of mapping (but not on all the time) at full brightness and 60fps ate it down to 42% battery. only crashed once. with a built in gps this thing would be badass.
also John Muir preferred the taste of Sugar Pine syrup to that of Maple syrup. take that new england.
ghettocad stats: six hours of mapping (but not on all the time) at full brightness and 60fps ate it down to 42% battery. only crashed once. with a built in gps this thing would be badass.
also John Muir preferred the taste of Sugar Pine syrup to that of Maple syrup. take that new england.
mapping 1 [0] 3.36 km ( / km)
6 PM
run 45:18 4.08 mi (11:06 / mi)
ahr:144 max:160
freebie camped on a forest service road down a bit, and went for an easy run around Ackerson Mt right at sunset. also a bonus trip up to the top, since whats the fun of going outside if you don't climb to the top of something.
Friday May 28, 2010 #
10 AM
bc ski 1:21:54 5.83 km (14:03 / km) +369m 10:40 / km
ahr:123 max:155 shoes: 10 rossi bc 70s
sunshine! so at home we've been getting a couple inches every night this week, but it melted out during the day (even though it was still snowing). but up high it all stuck, so the tops got 2-3 feet. got out late since I was up until 4 last night, but still got in a couple runs before the sun turned it all into quikrete.
Wednesday May 26, 2010 #
7 PM
run 1:10:25 7.96 mi (8:51 / mi) +159m 8:20 / mi
ahr:153 max:165
run with Donatas through Prosser. its just far enough away to be out of the storm shadow of the mountain, so it was pretty nice and mostly calm during the run. driving home was somewhat exciting though.
Tuesday May 25, 2010 #
8 AM
skate ski 1:17:02 10.93 km (7:03 / km) +272m 6:16 / km
ahr:136 max:157 shoes: 09 rossi max 180s
this was actually pretty tiring, lots of off-camber climb. I'm gonna have to start training again before rollerskiing season starts...
also ran into this guy just hanging out.
also ran into this guy just hanging out.
Monday May 24, 2010 #
6 PM
run 22:07 2.62 mi (8:27 / mi) +54m 7:56 / mi
ahr:141 max:156
Sunday May 23, 2010 #
9 AM
run warm up/down 10:39 2.07 km (5:08 / km)
ahr:139 max:156
orienteering race 1:06:12 *** 8.82 km (7:30 / km)
ahr:163 max:171 spiked:15/18c
Went down to Sacramento for a GCO meet. It was actually pretty good, if you ignore the spikey-dead-grass part or the head-high-thistles part. QR map. The first half across the river was mostly open grass fields, made a mistake on 6 where I came to the river too far right, and then stopped short on 9.
Second half was an old gravel mine, which had lots of twenty foot berms of cobblestones, mixed together with high thickets of thistle and PO. In retrospect, a better route to 11 was probably north through the parking lot rather than by 17, up and down that rocky berm was super dodgy. Took a crappy route into 13, where apparently "you were supposed to know the green was thicker over there" and come in from the back side. Got stuck trying to climb out of the hole that 15 was in, the whole edge was green, so on the second try I just swam uphill through the thistle, which wasn't the most fun thing ever.
Started four minutes in front of Donatas, lost 3.5 of that by the halfway bridge crossing, then he got totally lost in the mine and blew 20 minutes. yea for navigation.
Sat around afterwards taking pictures of ducks for a while, then it got crazy hot, so I retreated home to my snowstorm asap. Speaking of which, I think I have to go skiing now.
Second half was an old gravel mine, which had lots of twenty foot berms of cobblestones, mixed together with high thickets of thistle and PO. In retrospect, a better route to 11 was probably north through the parking lot rather than by 17, up and down that rocky berm was super dodgy. Took a crappy route into 13, where apparently "you were supposed to know the green was thicker over there" and come in from the back side. Got stuck trying to climb out of the hole that 15 was in, the whole edge was green, so on the second try I just swam uphill through the thistle, which wasn't the most fun thing ever.
Started four minutes in front of Donatas, lost 3.5 of that by the halfway bridge crossing, then he got totally lost in the mine and blew 20 minutes. yea for navigation.
Sat around afterwards taking pictures of ducks for a while, then it got crazy hot, so I retreated home to my snowstorm asap. Speaking of which, I think I have to go skiing now.
7 PM
bc ski 38:36 [3] 4.5 km (8:35 / km) +124m 7:33 / km
shoes: 10 rossi bc 70s
california is so awesome. some sweet snowfield sunset corn.
Saturday May 22, 2010 #
5 PM
orienteering 49:22 ** 7.57 km (6:31 / km) +99m 6:07 / km
ahr:155 max:200
course around Prosser on the usgs topo. with gaiters on this place is actually super fun. its almost completely melted out by now, so about time to start mapping it for real. sunny and cold (30s), but snowing a little, just enough to make it awesome.
Friday May 21, 2010 #
Note
Rest day. My back felt pretty tired today after the ride yesterday, and I usually seem to hurt it during the first couple weeks of bike season each year, so I figure I'll take it easy and not break on day two. Besides, it's snowing. A lot.
Thursday May 20, 2010 #
12 PM
road bike 1:53:12 30.75 mi (16.3 mph) +411m
ahr:125 max:151
felt like going for a bike ride, and the road bike had much rounder wheels than then mountain bike, so I cleaned it up and did a tour of the neighborhood. which turned into two laps around the lake and a trip over to prosser, but I still felt pretty good except for the end. on a related note, I live at the top of a really big hill.
7 PM
run 1:04:36 7.29 mi (8:52 / mi) +119m 8:26 / mi
ahr:154 max:182
late trail run through Prosser with Donatas, Jack and Bella. Nice weather until the sun went down behind the ridge, then it got friggin freezing asap.
Wednesday May 19, 2010 #
6 AM
skate ski 45:10 6.67 km (6:46 / km) +156m 6:04 / km
ahr:127 max:154 shoes: 09 rossi max 180s
started up at the high end on Donner Ridge this morning, everything was frozen solid. a little wandering through the trees, and a few good sections of turns down some of the open snowfields. the suncups weren't bad at all, maybe its all wind smoothed up there. somebody should map that whole shoulder, you could have a pretty sweet sprint race up there (if it wasn't at 7500')
6 PM
run 27:06 2.92 mi (9:17 / mi) +68m 8:39 / mi
ahr:149 max:183
Tuesday May 18, 2010 #
Note
So I managed to take 6gb of pictures at the sprint on Saturday (eddie also took a bunch while I was running). here's a few of them.
6 AM
skate ski 47:43 5.72 km (8:20 / km) +175m 7:14 / km
ahr:131 max:150 shoes: 09 rossi max 180s
really at this point I'm just skiing to piss off alex. though it was a very nice morning for a ski. a couple inches of fluff last night covered up the pine needles, but also meant we didn't get a hard freeze so it was a little soft and the wax left much to be desired. hit a stealthy patch of rocks on the way down, tried to bail into a nice soft snowbank, but that just turned out to be more stealthy rocks.
Sunday May 16, 2010 #
11 AM
run warm up/down 13:00 1.89 km (6:54 / km) +23m 6:30 / km
ahr:130 max:139
orienteering race 2:31:43 16.15 km (9:24 / km)
ahr:143 max:160
TT Long. So I didn't really have too much fun today. I thought almost all the terrain sucked, and I bonked well before the finish. Thought I had brought some GUs in the car, but they were in the other backpack at the hotel, and I had last start so everybody to mooch off of was already out.
Saturday May 15, 2010 #
Event: 2010 US Team Trials for WOC
8 AM
run warm up/down 7:55 1.14 km (6:56 / km) +12m 6:36 / km
ahr:129 max:144
orienteering race 48:58 5.62 km (8:43 / km) +107m 7:58 / km
ahr:157 max:172
TT Middle. Ok run, a bunch of little mistakes, but none I was really unhappy with considering how much running/navigation I've actually done lately.
run warm up/down 18:44 2.57 km (7:18 / km) +51m 6:39 / km
ahr:143 max:153
12 PM
run warm up/down 3:19 0.45 km (7:25 / km) +3m 7:11 / km
ahr:128 max:143
orienteering race 14:14 2.44 km (5:50 / km) +41m 5:23 / km
ahr:167 max:175
TT Sprint. This went really well. The legs were all pretty simple so I could memorize two or three at a time, only made one mistake going to 17, stayed too high and ran almost to 7, which might have been 20s or so.
Friday May 14, 2010 #
7 PM
orienteering 41:05 *** 3.47 km (11:51 / km) +72m 10:44 / km
ahr:133 max:153 spiked:9/14c
Running with Alex around the streamers at Pole Brook. Then we went to Friendys and got ice cream to celebrate Ross's birthday. I'm sure he would have enjoyed it if he was there.
Thursday May 13, 2010 #
Event: CSU Park-O: Franklin Park
6 PM
run warm up/down 9:01 1.7 km (5:19 / km)
ahr:139 max:159
orienteering race 24:51 *** 4.43 km (5:37 / km) +42m 5:21 / km
ahr:166 max:173 spiked:10/15c
CSU Park-O at Franklin park. Chasing Jeff Saeger for the first couple controls, caught him at 2 but then took a different route to 3 and made a mistake looking for a not-quite trail. A little confused at 5 from some missing white on the map. Finally got in front of Jeff at 7 and never saw him again. Paused standing right above 9 because from where I was the cliff looked like a boulder, so I spent a bit trying to figure that out. Then to 10 I completely missed the fact that there was a tunnel under the road, so I spent about a minute waiting for traffic to clear so I could get across. Bad route choice getting out of 11 (went straight), then got confused to 14 on a mystery set of stairs that was mapped as a little trail? Didn't have to think for the finish leg since I could just run straight towards the ghetto blaster music from the cars next to the start area.
Also after the finish I glanced at the watch to check my time and read 15:56, which I was surprisingly happy with until I was driving home and trying to figure out how I did that for a 4.5k course, which is probably faster than I could do on a track. Turns out I was looking at the clock time section of the watch (it was 7pm but the watch was still on west coast time). So I really ran 25 mins, which makes more sense.
Also after the finish I glanced at the watch to check my time and read 15:56, which I was surprisingly happy with until I was driving home and trying to figure out how I did that for a 4.5k course, which is probably faster than I could do on a track. Turns out I was looking at the clock time section of the watch (it was 7pm but the watch was still on west coast time). So I really ran 25 mins, which makes more sense.
run warm up/down 11:02 1.51 km (7:18 / km) +11m 7:02 / km
ahr:143 max:154
Wednesday May 12, 2010 #
5 PM
run 37:35 1.58 mi (23:47 / mi) +106m 19:41 / mi
ahr:108 max:143
easy run with Dad up the back hill checking out potential ski trail acquisitions.
Tuesday May 11, 2010 #
7 PM
run 20:59 2.05 mi (10:15 / mi) +111m 8:47 / mi
ahr:143 max:157
drove up to VT this afternoon, then got a quick run around dad's woods before it got dark to loosen up the gas pedal leg.
Monday May 10, 2010 #
Note
down in DC hanging with ken and the girlies today.
Sunday May 9, 2010 #
8 AM
run warm up/down 7:53 1.26 km (6:15 / km) +22m 5:45 / km
ahr:135 max:219
orienteering race 1:55:22 [3] *** 11.9 km (9:42 / km) +370m 8:23 / km
spiked:25/30c
WCOC blue day 2 long. Much better than yesterday. Not that I really did better, but I felt a whole lot better running. Navigation went really well, for the most part I felt like I was just running the whole time, not slowing down to have to navigate. Big mistake on the long leg (12), went around the east side of the big swamp 2/3 of the way through, but then somehow missed the white section west of 24 and cut across through the all green crap. Too high on 26, so I ran over towards the out of bounds section. Then went up the big rentrant west of 27, figured it out and climbed up through the cliffs, but didn't go far enough once on the top so I messed around in there for a bit.
Saturday May 8, 2010 #
Event: WCOC / US Team A-Meet/WRE
10 AM
run warm up/down 23:05 2.83 km (8:10 / km)
ahr:143 max:191
orienteering race 55:12 [3] *** 5.8 km (9:31 / km) +190m 8:11 / km
spiked:9/16c
WCOC blue day 1 middle. Not the greatest run. Ok in the beginning up through the first long leg (10), then I started to get tired and my stomach felt gross from the penicillin, so I wasn't paying too much attention to where I was going for the end couple controls. Pretty big mistake at 11, way too far left (wrong side of 13), and then stopped short on 12.
Monday May 3, 2010 #
Note
on the way to Redding on friday afternoon I stopped by the Sacramento zoo to play with the camera. some of the better pics. they actually turned out pretty good considering most of them I was focusing straight through chainlink fence, so it washed out big chunks of the frame.
and also others from the training.
and also others from the training.
Note
Finally got to the doctor this afternoon, and she hooked me up with all sorts of happy drugs. Also said I should swim less and ski more, and given that i haven't done the former in a couple years, i'm gonna have to work double hard on the latter. But considering that I'm probably out of commission this week and east next week, I think i might have to declare defeat on ski season. At least for the close stuff, there's still another month or two in the high sierra, but that takes some work.
Sunday May 2, 2010 #
Note
everybody was heading down to sacramento for a GCO meet sunday, but overnight my ear went from mildly annoying to full blown painful oozing infection, so I bailed and just drove home. I don't get sick often, but it always seems to be on the days the doctors office is closed. tylenol doesn't really do anything, so I didn't really sleep saturday or sunday nights.
Saturday May 1, 2010 #
10 AM
orienteering 40:51 *** 5.55 km (7:21 / km) +102m 6:44 / km
ahr:147 max:179 spiked:14/15c
Morning course at Perry Riffle. Good map by Ben, terrain was pretty nice. Rolling knee high grass everywhere, with about 50/50 between open fields and sparse trees, and a few big stream reentrants to play in.
2 PM
orienteering 1:09:27 *** 6.26 km (11:06 / km)
ahr:140 max:159 spiked:6/6c
Afternoon course, this time in pairs, alternating legs and talking out loud what we're thinking as we navigate. I ran with Tim, an AR guy from Redding, and we did quite good. A bit tired by this point, so we were running slower and not making too many mistakes, but verbalizing everything definitely helped.
4 PM
orienteering 16:04 *** 1.85 km (8:40 / km)
ahr:133 max:157 spiked:2/2c
control pickup