Training Log Archive: barb

Didn't feel like going out on blue, the way I'd originally planned, and did yellow instead. Not sure of my time. Definitely was moving slowly; walked the whole way. Hot!

The first musical bookend to our time in Colorado. Went to Elbert with Dave Enger, John Lee and Dave to see a local band. I liked the lead guitar best. Dave E stayed and talked to that guitar player afterward, and discovered that he knows the guitar player in String Cheese Incident - they live just 12 miles apart.

Day 1 Green 1 - Splits

Event: 2007 USOF Convention and Colorado 5-Days
 

First day of the Zero to Orange in Three Days class. I took this as a "trainer", though my participation was pretty much identical to that of a "student". Which was fine - it was a very useful course for me, both in terms of my own orienteering and thinking about how I'd like to teach kids.

My kids, parents and partner (Dave) all took this course too.

The first day there was classroom lecture, and an orange-level score-O. I finished in just under the alotted hour, and was surprised to find I'd gotten more controls than Dave. I was glad to see the rest of the family safely back. Isabel had done particularly well, getting the high-score controls without much trouble.

Morning jog in Albuquerque before the kids woke up. From the hotel south on University, across the water channel, and further south. This felt really hard!

We are visiting my kids' paternal grandmother Jan and great-grandmother Grace. Jan, David and Isabel spent the day at a "family fun center" and saw "Ratatouille".



Isabel & David with Grandma Jan Bryant


Out for dinner at a diner: me, Mom, Isabel, David, Jan, Grace


Planting flowers in Grandma's garden

C • Jan 2

A frustrating day. Got up at 3:15 to catch a 5:15 am plane out of MHT to PHL. Attended a meeting (FDA/AACR/NCI subcommittee on bioinformatics for biomarkers), but then my 15:30 plane was canceled and I didn't get back to MHT until 1:15 am the next morning, then had to drive home. So I guess it was sleep-deprivation rogaine training (is that good [getting used to it]? or bad [wearing me down]??).

Now I'm behind on packing and getting ready for the trip out west, which begins Tuesday morning bright and early.

In to work at 6:45 am Monday morning after 3.5 hours sleep, to do some data analysis for a 9 am meeting...

Jogging around PHL from gate to gate trying to get on earlier planes than I ended up on. At one point I took the local train to the Amtrak station, but the train to Boston was sold out, so I came back to the airport...