Training Log Archive: barb

Running with David around Fresh Pond. Good stuff. Did not want to do it.

And, made it to bed by 10. Etc.

Here's something I didn't know: Lyme disease research may have been hampered by researchers wanting to patent and profit off of the organism's genome? So reports this DailyKos diary.

C • Its pretty sad how money an... 5

The bare minimum, after getting back from Isabel's dance performance.
But that represents a successful day 2, so PG now owes $10 to the junior team!

C • My assumption is that the b... 2

C • HBTY 9

To school for monthly parent-teacher meeting.

The junior high kids have been studying the holocaust, and last week they did the rescuer and resister monologues. Hm. Dave, we don't have photos up from that event yet. Anyway, next they're going to read about people who have stepped forward in their communities and taken positive action. Today the teachers suggested having parents also read books - the same book as their kid, or maybe a different book about the same person. Then we'd get together in small groups, families and a teacher, some evening in someone's home, and talk about what we learned.

Web site of the day: giraffe.org

Adding information on Junior Team finances as it trickles in:

This year JWOC entry is $540-760 per competitor depending on choice of accommodation level. This is 2-3 times what it was 10 years ago.

Library in the evening, returned two books.

C • thanks - missed seeing that... 4

I have had trouble getting going with living a healthy lifestyle and training and what not. It's really really time now. I have a new scheme - let's see if it can work.

Here's the deal, and I expect you will think it is all ass-backwards in terms of who is motivated to do what, but I feel like it could work: I get sponsors for particular days. The sponsor is betting that I won't do my training. I'm betting that I will. If I'm right, the sponsor gives $5 to the junior team, which has lost its USOF support this year. If I do not do the training, then I give $25 to the junior team. Either way, the junior team wins.

Here's what training involves:
1. 30 minutes of strength and/or stretching (e.g., yoga or weights)
2. 45 minutes of aerobic (biking, running, orienteering)
3. Nutritional goals (no junk food at work; no more than one dose of caffeine; no alcohol; no meat; no refined sugar)
4. Get to bed by 10 pm

Of course the sponsor could add specific requirements of their own.

Any takers? There are a couple months' worth of days between now and the Big Muddy rogaine...

[Update: Cristina says junior team has not lost its funding. The team does still need to raise a bunch of money, however.]

C • Yeah 8

To a control to take photos, and back.

Kemps left early but here's most of the people at the junior training camp:



I was surprised that David agreed to go to the training camp. He usually refuses to go orienteering.

Before each training exercise at the camp, David was unhappy and dreading it. He felt everyone else was a much better orienteer, and he was not in shape. He was by far the slowest on the 3k run. But he did it.

Saturday afternoon they did a training called "Danish O" -- preparing for the kind of terrain expected in Denmark this coming summer for the junior world orienteering championships. The vegetation is expected to be quite thick, so optimal routes will probably be along trails to an attack point close to the control and then navigate in from there. David did not finish the course. Isabel did fine.

Sunday morning was another Danish O. Isabel did well on the shorter course. David really really did not want to go out and do it. He wanted to go home. When are we leaving, he asked. can we go now? I hate orienteering. I hate this camp. I was thinking, what am I, some kind of horrible parent who pushes their kid to do stuff? Like Michael Jackson's dad? Or [name any of several major athletes with overbearing parents]? I knew I was going to get in trouble from my ex for yet again pushing David to do something he didn't want to do. But David had agreed to go, I feebly argued back, in my imagination. I swore to myself I would never ever ever take David orienteering again, not even if he *wanted* to go. This was no fun. This was bad.

He did go out though, on the course. I was stationed at a control on the far side of the course with a camera. David showed up surprisingly early at that control. Then I saw him when he came back to the lodge. He looked flushed from the exercise, and seemed to be doing OK. I didn't approach him to talk about it.

Throughout the training camp David would disappear into the boys' dorm where I was not allowed to go, with his computer. He did it again after the Danish O Sunday morning, and did not come out for the last training exercise, which was a sprint. I decided to let it go and not send someone in to get him, as I had done several times.

After the sprint we were cleaning up the lodge. David was helping me put the benches on the tables, and he said, Mom, I like orienteering. What? I said. He went on: "I was out on the course this morning, and in the middle of it, I suddenly realized that I like orienteering! I want to do more orienteering. I was sad that I missed the sprints. When can we go orienteering again? Can we go to West Point?"

Later I tried to get David to repeat his statements on camera but he refused.





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