Training Log Archive: maprunner

Moving does have one or two benefits. Got rid of lots of old computer stuff today, which had been sitting around for years. Felt good.

Also digging up lots of old memories, good and bad. Found my lab notebooks today (did I really spend years of my life thinking about the N-terminus of Sindbis virus NSP2? Ah, the minutiae of academia.) Also found snapshots taken at our wedding reception; nice to see so many familiar, smiling faces.

at English Landing tonight, because the SMP trails were too wet. First time in a long time that I did not complete my planned workout. (Plan was 10 min warm up, then 40 min continuous jog).

Right away I felt weird (kind of "out of it") and couldn't wait to stop. Trudged on for 20 minutes or so, took a walking break, trudged on again, walked again, etc. Finally decided to pack it in after 35 minutes.

Was it the heat? End of the week? Running on a boring flat smooth surface? Desire to get home and relax? Who knows.

at PNS after work. Hard to see any deer in the woods, but I know they're there, just watching.....

Up, down and around at Wyandotte, exploring a new trail and one I hadn't been on in a long time. The woods were thick and humid; I felt like Indiana Jones in Peru (well, sorta)

Mike and I went to JCCC, to see the new art museum, and run on the campus. This was my first time on the map, so I had fun reading all the details (and seeing what was missing from the base map).

However, I felt lousy the whole time. Legs were dead, and body was not happy with the temperature (high 80s). I had to walk often; I had no energy today.

at PNS. I'm ready for a long weekend off from work.

at SMP after work

We had a new roof installed today. I'm amazed that they did it all in one day.

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Mike and I went to Wyandotte this morning. I jogged/walked on the bridle/bridal/horse trails. Legs felt tired and heavy the whole time; I kept looking at my watch to see how much time I still had to go. Must admit, I have stopped "hated" running, and moved on to "acceptance". But I never will move on to "like" running.

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at PNS after work. It was hot today; I had the place to myself.

at SMP after work. Picture perfect spring evening, so the trails were packed. Even saw some older ladies (at least, older than me) walking on the trails tonight. Passed a certain trail runner twice; he was going very fast. I was jealous.

Mike and I went up to Smithville Lake to run on the mountain bike trails. Nice to go somewhere different. The trails were a little muddy, not bad for running, and great for looking at animal tracks.

This was my first long run of the season, so I did 8 min jog/2 min walk repeats. I'm tired now.

Plus lots of work around the house today. Moving is good motivation for cleaning up rooms full of accumulated junk :)

I'm also getting pretty good at replacing cheap light fixtures, where the screws and pre-drilled holes _almost_ line up.

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at PNS after work. End of a long stressful week at work. Mike figured it was getting bad when he noticed I was having a glass of wine/beer _every_ night this week :(

at SMP after work. Haven't run here in a while. Saw quite a few trail runners. Used to be a rare sight, but is getting more common. Is trail running (in general) getting more popular or just this trail (in particular)?

Legs felt heavy and tired the whole time.

Just watching our two year old nephew run around all day was tiring. But very enjoyable !

Day two at West Point. I wanted to have a good clean O run, since this was my one day of running against strong competition this spring.

I blew it right from the start. Missed 1 (found the red course 1 instead) and wandered from boulder to boulder for a few minutes. Finally talked to myself, went back to a known location, stood still, looked at the map and moved forward. Lost about 5 minutes here.

Finally found the control, and punched at the same time as another woman. (Didn't know her at the time, but it was Dagmar Merkova. Nice to meet you Dagmar!) We were together, off and on, from 1 through 9. Sometimes we took wildly different routes, only to end up together again :)

Bonehead move of the day on 3: I was approaching the hill on the west side, about to climb up and punch, when I saw a control on another hill off to my left. Stupidly ran there, saw the wrong code, and ran right back to where I had been (as Dagmar was punching in). Fortunately lost only a minute or so.

(Did anyone else think the map was a bit sketchy around 4? I went through this area very slowly because a lot of things didn't make sense. Or was that just me?)

Tried to calm down and stay steady the rest of the course, but I just wasn't moving with any confidence.

Thought too much about getting away from Dagmar on the way to 7, and thus took a stupid route straight ahead. Except I drifted right, and ended up in the next reentrant over. Had to get through a lot of mountain laurel and then around the edge of the marsh, to reach the control. Lost another 5 minutes here (and was quite surprised to see Dagmar just leaving the control).

Took awhile to find number 9 because I wasn't reading the map at all, and didn't realize for a few minutes that I needed to climb higher. Lost about three minutes here.

I was tired at the end. Couldn't manage my usual sprint finish, although I did my best. Almost beat Mike on the run in; I'll get him someday :)

Overall, I was disappointed in my orienteering. Consistency 19.8, time lost 16.3

Highlights: nice temp for running, good courses, meeting new people, talking with Val, Susie, Kris and Janet, and getting a glimpse of Gail. Major bummer to not have even _seen_ Tom or Lisa.

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Classic Green Y - Splits

Event: West Point A-Meet
 

We landed in Newark just around the time we were supposed to start the Middle course. I just visited with Mom and Dad while Mike went up to run the sprint course.

We had bad storms in KC last night; apparently they're in NY now. So our flight was just canceled. Bummer! We're rebooked for tomorrow morning, but we'll miss the middle distance at West Point. But at least we can still spend time with family.

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