Training Log Archive: barb

Got in late last night to ABQ

includes 30 min strength/stretching, 20 min aerobic.
Moving boards at Camp Shaver; stretching by Soda Dam.

Run near the hotel.
Bed by 10, etc.

... random article on how socialist Obama is...
I guess at the moment if I had to get all pinned down I'd have to say I'm a democratic socialist. Not that I do all that much about it. And it doesn't really keep me from being in love with (that corporist) B Obama.
I'm also an atheist who is perfectly happy in church.

Well, this was a travel day and a total fail on the training front. (My family has come to ABQ to visit my ex-mother-in-law and ex-grandmother-in-law.)
So that's $100 to jr team. I'm going to have to pay it off and stop posting the running total, just whatever I haven't yet paid yet, because it will get embarrassing. Speaking of paying, I believe this is how you contribute to the US Junior Team:

US Orienteering Federation
P.O. Box 1444
Forest Park GA 30298-1444

and - check memo saying "for US Junior Orienteering Team"

(Shouldn't there be a link to donate directly through paypal or something, right there on the USOF site? Seems like that would lower the contribution barrier and that would be a good thing!)

And, here's the roster for this year's JWOC team - the folks we are supporting!

Nathaniel Lyons ROC
Andrew Childs GMOC
Carl Underwood NEOC
Greg Ahlswede DVOA
Ethan Childs GMOC - declined
Keith Andersen USMAOC

1st Alternate - John H. Williams GAOC
2nd Alternate - John Goodwin UNO


Females

Hnnah Burgess USMAOC
Alison Campbell DVOA
Holly Kuestner COC

My green pants are ever so slightly easier to get into but still quite uncomfortable to button.

work, work, soccer practice, orienteering

Beat Izzy by 30 seconds on the short course. Won't be long now!

Forgot to buy the rest of the beginner maps as I meant to.

That's not all I forgot. I was in kind of a down mood when I got there due to obsessing about a not-so-kind thing I did at work, a neglectful kind of thing. Isabel and Dave started and then I wanted to start soon after Izzy, but I was sort of distracted, and forgot to take off my bike helmet. This brain decay thing is, I suppose, at the amusing stage. I did laugh a lot about it, as I ran along, wearing my helmet. I couldn't go back and dump it because I wanted to try and beat Izzy.

C • helmet 3

"whomp." That's apparently what the kids are saying now when you fail at something. Instead of "Fail."

Dave and I were watching part 2 of Vanity Fair so I didn't get to bed until after 10.

Score:
I owe Jr O team $75
Cristina owes Jr O team $35
bishop22 is off the hook so far (i.e., starting yesterday).

Upcoming sponsors:
bishop22 4/15-4/21.
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4/28-5/3 gpingree.

Gave myself every possible advantage on the scale: morning weight and no clothes. (Usually I'm wearing something.) I think I've shed at least a couple pounds since this latest scheme started; I attribute one lost pound to the missing junk food and the other to the exercise.

To Medford to pick up some potato starts, and back.

C • starts 2

Went to the 5th grade class I'm working with to tell them about the CSU sprint series that starts on Thursday. They all said they wanted to come. I'm guessing that actually going and talking to them might be more effective than just sending the flyer home. We'll see. They'd all been to Fresh Pond before, though to some of the kids that meant the shopping and not the park. I found out something I didn't know which is that they have ice skating in the winter at the little dog pond. (All size dogs; little pond)

A couple short trips and then a trip with Izzy to school for Portfolio Review. The girl is making some good grades.

Attitude adjustment meds. Sounds reminiscent of some of my rogaine experiences...

Graph of the day


Blue: Poll -- “If government spending is reduced in order to balance the budget, which of the following government programs should receive lower federal funding than they currently do?” (Respondents could pick more than one thing to axe.)

Red: actual spending.

Personally, I'm for cutting the defense budget. Redistribute it to education and the poor, raise taxes, and distribute some more. Peace, people! Peace and love!!!

C • Defense budget 6

With David to work, and then back by way of the garden center where I made some purchases.

success

Two sprints in Nashua. Saw C's sister & mom.

David came, along with Aiury (David's friend who is home for a couple weeks from Rwanda, where he is living with his Dad who is involved in the One-Laptop-Per-Child project). David did sprint #1 while Aiury did a yellow course. Conor, whom David met at Junior Orienteering Training Camp, started a few minutes behind David and caught up. They were then racing neck and neck - and Ed Kotowski was also in the mix. David really pushed himself, and he had good conversation with his competitors afterward.
David & Aiury went out together on Sprint 2 but didn't finish before we had to leave to get home to make dinner for friends, for which I abandoned my efforts today and lost the day's bet due to a glass of wine, an extra dose of caffeine, and staying up late to wash the dishes. Still, pleased with my priorities today.

Dinner was yummy, and I didn't have seconds, and felt pleasantly full. So it was nice not to be a total hog. Dave made a Julia Child recipe involving sole, shrimp, white sauce and julienned vegetables. I made two apple pies including one without white sugar (honey and dried fruit provided the sweetener), to stick somewhat to my Plan. We also made a salad based on a recipe from Farmer John's cookbook, with fresh bok choi & salad that we harvested from the pots on the porch! The salad also has toasted slivered almonds, grapes, apples, and a yummy dressing made from vinegar, oil, silken tofu, salt, pepper, paprika, mustard. You were supposed to have poppy seeds too but I don't have any. The salad showed off the freshness and flavor of the greens.

We were late enough leaving the orienteering that I called Isabel and had her start a loaf of bread in the bread machine. She'd never done it before, so I guided her through it by phone. Reminiscent of my recent cell phone orienteering... When I got home, I started a second loaf of a bread I've not made before, with many different grain flours plus a little oatmeal, slightly sweetened with honey. It worked. I also finished the first loaf in the oven so the second would be done in time, and that worked fine. 375F for 30 minutes or a little more, with a cast iron skillet containing water on the bottom rack.

Stretching and stuff.