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Training Log Archive: biggins

In the 7 days ending Dec 13, 2013:

activity	#	time	miles		km		+m		load
skate ski	5	5:59:22	46.97	(7:39)	75.6	(4:45)	1374		1078.1
orienteering	5	3:16:46	16.14	(12:12)	25.97	(7:35)	640	99c	590.3
run	5	40:00	2.49	(16:06)	4.0	(10:00)			80.0
Total	10	9:56:08	65.6	(9:05)	105.57	(5:39)	2014	99c	1748.4

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Friday Dec 13, 2013 #

Event: OCIN - US Night and Relay Championships

6 PM

run warm up/down 5:00 [2] 0.5 km (10:00 / km)

orienteering race 1:54:07 [3] *** 11.68 km (9:46 / km) +264m 8:47 / km
19c

night-o champs. a couple inches of snow on the ground, which was mostly mud anyway, so footing was pretty awesome. only actively snowing for a couple minutes, otherwise just dark and cold. mostly just jogging, and made some pretty sweet mistakes.

C • High five! 2

OCIN_US_Night_2013_Blue - Splits

Thursday Dec 12, 2013 #

12 PM

skate ski 56:55 [3] 12.86 km (4:26 / km) +156m 4:10 / km
shoes: 11 fischer rcr skio (110)

Easy rest ski. Back to seasonally normal skiing temperatures: in the 50s. Now off to ohio, where it sounds like its fairly cold and miserable. Sadly my 5000-lumen-headlamp-of-awesome™ hasn't arrived yet, so I'll have to play like regular night-o.

C • Ha! 13

Wednesday Dec 11, 2013 #

11 AM

skate ski 1:45:04 [3] 22.71 km (4:38 / km) +495m 4:10 / km
shoes: 11 fischer rcr skio (110)

Tuesday Dec 10, 2013 #

1 PM

skate ski 1:34:50 [3] 19.7 km (4:49 / km) +427m 4:21 / km
shoes: 11 fischer rcr skio (110)

They busted out the big groomer to start packing some of the higher trails, so I did a loop up there, some of which were groomed and some were just tracked. Funny snow temps, some sections seemed a little too warm for the blue wax, while others were definitely too cold. Silly sunshine.

Monday Dec 9, 2013 #

12 PM

skate ski 1:06:00 [3] 14.07 km (4:41 / km) +196m 4:23 / km
shoes: 11 fischer rcr skio (110)

Warmer, with real wax today, which was awesome. Still well below blue wax cold in the shade, but the sunny parts were fine (and we have plenty of those) and the air was up in the high 20s. My back now hurts in many places after the weekend, though none really too bad. There's a pretty huge fire going somewhere nearby, so the close end of the trails was totally smoked in. You'd think two feet of snow would be enough to stop any sort of forest fire (controlled or otherwise), but its not.

Sunday Dec 8, 2013 #

10 AM

run warm up/down 10:00 [2] 1.0 km (10:00 / km)

orienteering race 21:48 [3] *** 4.06 km (5:22 / km) +48m 5:04 / km
22c

Race #5 at SF state university. Lots of long legs one way or the other around buildings, nothing too exciting. Then again my back hurt quite a bit running this morning so I wasn't pushing too hard, so I had lots of map reading time which might have made it easier.

4 PM

skate ski 36:33 [3] 6.25 km (5:51 / km) +100m 5:25 / km
shoes: 11 fischer rcr skio (110)

We got two feet of snow at home Friday night, so the ski areas got things cleaned up and sortof opened for today. We got back up to home an hour before they close, so I jumped out of the car, grabbed a random pair of skis, did the crappiest summer-wax scraping job ever and headed over to TD. Turns out yellow summer wax isn't the greatest when its 4 degrees outside, plus I had grabbed my race poles with tiny baskets that didn't stick in unpacked powder. So I had no glide or no pole push. But both times up the powerlines I could just do classic because the kick wasn't too bad. Then I froze solid and retreated to the hot tub. Time for real waxing and stuff tomorrow.

Stage Five: Men - Splits

Saturday Dec 7, 2013 #

9 AM

run warm up/down 10:00 [2] 1.0 km (10:00 / km)

orienteering race 20:57 [3] *** 3.71 km (5:39 / km) +82m 5:05 / km
19c

race #2 in Golden Gate park. Back and forth with a few people, one from my mass start and another from the one in front that we caught.

11 AM

run warm up/down 10:00 [2] 1.0 km (10:00 / km)

orienteering race 19:00 [3] *** 3.36 km (5:40 / km) +49m 5:17 / km
19c

race #3, other side of Golden Gate park. I ended up as the 6th guy in the second heat, which meant 1-5 were much faster than me, so I never saw them after about 4 and did most of it on my own. My back started to hurt a little bit after this one.

3 PM

run warm up/down 5:00 [2] 0.5 km (10:00 / km)

orienteering race 20:54 [3] *** 3.17 km (6:36 / km) +197m 5:02 / km
20c

race #4 at McLaren park, in the south end of SF. A little full of lunchtime pad thai, but I also didn't have too much energy left anyway. In a heat with some juniors and Carol, and me and the juniors took off and promptly bombed #4, and didn't see Carol again for a couple controls. Clean for the rest of it, just tired on the uphills.