Training Log Archive: barb

Checking controls for the street-O. I think it looks nice. Ralph from the Toronto club did a GREAT job picking controls. Toward the end I happened upon a farmers' market and spent $20 on fruit and vegetables. They're open on Wednesday morning too.

I went back to the hotel and made the map and clue sheet and sent them off to the printer.

My lower back hurts a lot. I stopped and stretched - couldn't run very fast. Greg had arrived from the redeye while I was out and when I returned to the room he gave me some naproxen. Felt better after about 30 minutes.

C • Street-O 4

Along the Toronto waterfront in the other direction. Much nicer day. There are lots of fun things for families to do along the lake.

I am feeling down.

C • Down 2

Rogaine photo:


(But why is he sitting down?)

C • Just trying to stay relaxed... 1

12/10/17 (i.e, 12/17; target was 10)

To Logan for a flight to Toronto.
In a pissy mood last night and this morning. Maybe it's all the stress of watching so much Battlestar Galactica. Or IT problems at work.

Along the Toronto waterfront. Ugly day. Plus 10 minutes on an exercycle in the hotel fitness center.

11/10/17

To the southern tip of the Boojum Rock map

Around in the woods

C • Competitive Orienteering 2

11/10/17

Happy 11th birthday to Isabel!

Got up at 5 am to take Matt to the airport and then go to work to prepare a presentation (my first!) for 9 am meeting. I am really sleep deprived - rogaine has totally caught up with me. Vague plan is to go home and get some sleep now that the meeting is over, before the next one starts. Work is sucking me in... But I like it today! (Yesterday work was intimidating.)

Got some rogaine training in! It does involve a little white ball. We played ping pong with badminton rackets and it was surprisingly fun. The rogaine training part was the bare feet.

Did pretty well yesterday about it being Isabel's birthday and not being with her until the evening, after watching 3 straight episodes of Battlestar Gallactica, when I burst into tears and told Dave I missed her. My theory is that watching or reading fiction encourages me to read a little too much meaning into things, and to get all sentimental. Or maybe Starbuck reminds me of her.

6/10/17

Crazy day. Worked, prepped for the party, held the party (fun), stayed up too late watching yet another nerve-wracking episode of Battlestar Galactica. The party was nice; a mix of work people and friends and even orienteers. Some fine live music. I hired four girls to work the party and they did an awesome job. Matt, Dave and Katia picked controls for the street-O, and we had a few takers. Ping pong and badminton were popular. Toward the end, the Edible Garden Tour of lower Cambridgeport came through - about 30 people. Dave and I told them about our garden and got a few tips (need to fertilize...). Not much exercise. Drank alcohol. Not even going to try to add up the points.

6/10/17

Woke up before 6 am (probably from all the caffeine for the drive to Sunderland) and felt pretty good - did the famous run to the power line and back; very lovely woods! I even ran FAST some of the way (downhill), which gets me a point. Overshot the turnoff to the Gagarins' because I was daydreaming, so did something more than 3.5 miles. Not sure of the time because I forgot to bring my watch. Afterwards I drove home and came to my new job, which I really like so far.

C • new job 3

2nd half. The main event.

Saw lots of birds and wildflowers.

Fun orienteering. I was mostly in the back seat offering back seat driver opinions. There were a couple times I should have spoken up more; I can think of one time near the beginning and once near the end (by which time I should have known better since I'd even talked to Peter about the earlier occasion). Generally we had excellent communication about the navigation, and it felt really comfortable. Once toward the end I was moving slowly and Peter got ahead and I didn't like it because I'd not been following the map closely enough and stopping to look at it meant getting further behind. So I resolved to keep up better and told Peter, and then he was great about staying closer and talking more about the route. This was an accomplishment for me because I generally have trouble saying things that might be interpretable as complaint. I was all proud of myself.

I had trouble keeping track of the pace count when I was tired during this second half.

At one point I tried to talk to Peter about this psychological phenomenon that has happened to me where in the middle of the night my rogaine partner's identity seems to shift among different people, or they lose their idenity, or they become some universal-identity spirit companion. Peter indicated he'd be more likely to phrase this as "losing it".

I was psyched to see my former Millennium co-worker Victor there!

8/9/17 but I get a pass on missing my target number of points by one, since I was actually doing a rogaine and the point system is all about rogaine training.