Training Log Archive: barb

To Cristina's mom's house

C • Aha 3

Home.
Along route 20.

First yoga in a long time. Very nice. Weirdly, felt ill 40 minutes into it, like I couldn't handle it. Had some water and powered on. Glad to have done it. There were some poses new to me, like where you do a downward facing dog with your heels against the wall, then lift one leg high with the ball of the foot against the wall.

Got a pleasant surprise at the scale.

Current health concern is asthma. Every evening when I leave the AC at work and head home through the thick warm air, I start to have trouble breathing and end up taking one or two puffs of Ventolin, which I haven't had to do for years. It seems to have started in CO with allergies, and once I start taking the asthma medicine I seem to get hooked on it and it takes a while to wean myself. Must remember to bring it for the rogaine.

C • if there is high levels of ozo... 2

Dreamed about being on a rogaine last night. It was frustrating - lots of stops... I think John was my partner.

C • Laurentian Rogaine 3

Getting around to adding photos & training entries:
July 15, Harvard Square
July 21, Vienna
July 22, Vienna
July 23, Vienna
July 24, Vienna
July 25, Vienna
August 1, Albuquerque
August 3-8, Peaceful Valley
August 9-12, Woodland Park and environs

Just remembered:

My nephew Charlie just turned 6. He loves his cousin David so much! On the relay, he had the third leg, and I went along with him and David to make sure that he'd be able to finish it.

Somehow it came up that the relay was a fundraiser for the US Team. Charlie asked, "Is the US Team poor?" David explained that they needed money to travel across the ocean to competitions. Charlie said he had a collection of money at home, and he felt bad that he hadn't brought it with him to give to the team. He's so cute!!!

Here's a couple pictures of Charlie in July at Plimoth Plantation. He went into one of the Native American huts on his own and came out holding this small Wampanoag girl by the hand.

C • Now that 2

Watched Brazilian movie about photographer from the slums, "City of God"

Random notes from the week of orienteering:

• Two great hugs from Valerie.
  
• Mikell Platt never talks to me. He must hate me because I'm dorky or something, which is perfectly reasonable.
  
• Some nice smiles from Cristina.
  
• I could go on with many additional specific examples, but will just say that I loved seeing old and meeting new orienteering friends!
  
• The junior juniors were great together! Go junior juniors! I am hoping that USOF and our US Team will spend some time and attention on these younger, promising and enthusiastic kids.
  
• I like night and long orienteering.
  
• I appear to be allergic to Colorado - lots of sneezing and itchy eyes. By the end, I even had asthma that I'm now having trouble shaking off.
  
• What a great way to spend time with family! (My parents, aunt and uncle, brother, niece, nephew, kids, ...) Maybe I can get everyone to converge on Cobb CA in October. On Sunday I realized I had a lot of people in my family troupe because when we gathered to get coaching from Uncle Carl for the relays, there were enough of us to make critical mass: other people thought this might be some official announcement and started wandering over and joining the crowd, and soon they were raising their hands and asking questions too. :-)
  
• AWESOME orienteering! Thanks to all who made it happen!
  
• I love how capable people are so responsive and just make good things happen. Like John F & Valerie doing the junior junior relay. And Phil, Brendan, Nancy and others making a success of the junior junior training camp. And the Peaceful Valley cafeteria manager who helped us with whatever we asked her for.
  

C • Congratulations 7

Sprint is not my thing. Had trouble with a couple controls.

Walked the white relay course with the young cousins, David and Doug on their third leg.

John Fredrickson and Valerie Meyer are just so... competent! They did a super job of including an easier course for the younger kids at the last minute. 6 teams (18 people) participated, so it was worth it! And, my niece and nephew got their first real taste of official orienteering, with number bibs and everything. John created this extra course at the last minute; I only talked to him about it the day before. Yet by the time the relays started, the kids were fully integrated: their maps were available along with the original relays maps; they started at the same time, etc. And Valerie did the e-magic necessary to allow seamless use of electronic punching.

John F really throws a great party - the relays were super fun, and everyone loved the punching races afterward.

C • Relay 1

On the way out of town, we stopped at the dinosaur museum.





Went to Red Rocks for the String Cheese Incident farewell concert. It was SO GREAT!!!!!!!!