Training Log Archive: Spike

Very easy running at Wyandotte. I spent most of the time on the horse trails. I carried the O' map and looked at it quite a bit.

Another real winter day - temp around 16 with light sleet at the beginning, heavy sleet by the end (and slick roads on the trip home). The heavy sleet made a lot of noise - it was pretty cool.

I met 3 trail runners (probably some of the trailnerds) which was a nice surprise.

C • What's a trailnerd? 2

I just added my morning run and see that I've got 11:45 for the week. Last week I had 12:15, which was a PR for the Attackpoint years. So, I need 35 minutes to set a new PR. Better go do a few minutes of strength and then watch some football while on the trainer.

Strength.

On the trainer. Instead of watching football, I watched the end of a Mizzou basketball game. Time flies when you're watching Mizzou get beat!

Commute to work. This will be my last commute for a while as next week I go back to City Hall.

I shuffled around the neighborhood.

We've finally got some winter weather. When I ran it was 16 with some wind and we've had bits of sleet and snow off and on all day.

Commute to work.

Easy jogging at Smithville, mostly on trails. I carried the map and looked at it now and then. I was getting tired the last 20 minutes of so.

I did 10 minutes at an honest effort in the middle of the run. It seemed to take a good 2 minutes to get up to speed, then I felt pretty good. But, I was ready to go back to easy jogging after 10 minutes.

Jogging around at Wyandotte. Most of the time I was on trails, but I took a few trips through some of the forest.

I ran a course that Mary had designed a while ago. The orienteering was pretty simple, but the course was climby -- I counted 250 meters over a little less than 3 km (which combined with not pushing the pace, explains the slow min/km time). By the end I was feeling tired.

I was hoping to spot an eagle, but didn't.

The commute took longer than usual today. It must have been the wind (or something).

A day off from running was the plan. But as the work day came to an end, I felt like doing something. A little time on the trainer was enough to break a sweat and feel like I'd moved a bit.

Commute to work.

Strength stuff.

Jogging around on the ATV trails at Tiffany Springs Park. I spent some time reading contours in the old quarry (using th e city's 2 foot GIS contours).

The quarry would make a cool (but little) area for some sort of sprint map.

Tiffany Springs is always a bit depressing. The forest is kind of ugly (and thicker than other local areas) and there is usually a good bit of illegal dumping around and in the park. People can be such pigs.

C • Probably those aren't people. ... 2

Warming up and jogging back to the car.

I ran a control picking course that Mary designed on the Mt Oread map - really fun.

It wasn't really fun that my car got a flat tire and I had to change it. No problems until I realized the wheel was stuck and I couldn't get it off. Ron showed up with a big hammer and we could bang on the back of the tire enough to loosen it. I think the wheel was essentially held on by a concrete-like mixture of dried Kansas dirt/gravel road mud.

C • stupid question... 3

On the trainer while watching the KU-South Carolina basketball game.