Training Log Archive: Spike

I took the mountain bike out on the river trails. I noticed that yesterday's rain had firmed up some of the sandy spots, so I decided to bike the "new" bike trail. I knew that trails was sandy. Despite the rain it was still sandy enough that I did a bunch of walking and pushing the bike through sand.

As I was biking I was daydreaming about a new mountain bike and about the possibilities for simple MTB orienteering at the river trails.

When I got home I read the IOF MTB orienteering map specs, downloaded some Lidar data, downloaded some GPS tracks, and started to put together a MTB orienteering map.

Watching the sprint orienteering on the PC hooked up to the huge new TV was pretty nice this morning: http://instagram.com/p/NE5fWTQ01e/

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Bike commute. The trip to work was in the rain! Rain! It was very nice.

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Ran to/from the grocery store to get Orzo, goat cheese, broccoli and garbanzo beans for dinner.

The day's rain means I get a day off from being water girl. But, the sun had come out by the time I was running and it was very humid.

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Work commute.

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I had water girl doody and had to mow the lawn, too.

Trail run on the river trail after work. I cut the run a bit short because I ended up leaving work late and wanted to be home at the normal time (it was my night to cook, I'm on water girl duty, and I wanted to watch some TDF).

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C • duty? 2

Work commute. I was at work a little late for the study session, then had water girl duty when I got home. I'm tired, too.

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Work commute.

My weekend MTB riding inspired me to drop by Sunflower and look at mountain bikes.

We had temps in the 80s (maybe low 90s), clouds and even some rain! My water girl duties are a lot easier when the temps are reasonable and we have some rain.

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I got out on the trails pretty early and shuffled around for an hour...got home in time for the last bit of today's TDF.

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Another MTB ride on the river trails. Felt pretty good. Part of that was the temps - more like 90 than 100+.

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