Training Log Archive: AliCIn the 7 days ending Jul 3, 2011:
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Sunday Jul 3, 2011 #
2 PM
Running 3:53 0.42 mi (9:19 / mi)
ahr:129 max:144
Orienteering 45:45 3.18 mi (14:23 / mi) +76m 13:24 / mi
ahr:157 max:174 18c
Woo, and back out to Fontainebleau! This map was Tour Denencourt, I think? Was awesome because there were flags out, actually tape on clothes-line clips, which is pretty perfect for quick setting anyways. Fabrice's brother and sister-in-law had set out most of them, which was just amazingly great of them.
Pretty smooth around, at least way more flow than yesterday, although it also wasn't quite so crazy rocky. More contour-oriented. The ferns, or gaugères I think they were called, were at times thick...
So nice to train with others, awesome to meet Fabrice and family, and definitely practiced the French, not super comfortably speaking, but at least communicating... Another word to indicate you're searching around for a control - jardinier, and then the wild boar I saw in the woods yesterday is a sanglier.
1750/2000
Pretty smooth around, at least way more flow than yesterday, although it also wasn't quite so crazy rocky. More contour-oriented. The ferns, or gaugères I think they were called, were at times thick...
So nice to train with others, awesome to meet Fabrice and family, and definitely practiced the French, not super comfortably speaking, but at least communicating... Another word to indicate you're searching around for a control - jardinier, and then the wild boar I saw in the woods yesterday is a sanglier.
1750/2000
Orienteering 24:51 1.5 mi (16:34 / mi) +43m 15:13 / mi
ahr:142 max:166 9c
A little more training out there, redoing a few, doing a few others backwards.
1759/2000
1759/2000
Running 9:16 0.98 mi (9:26 / mi) +15m 9:01 / mi
ahr:140 max:151
Saturday Jul 2, 2011 #
2 PM
Running 29:41 3.31 mi (8:58 / mi)
ahr:146 max:174
Just missed the metro, then just missed my train, then the bus broke down, then the park I intended to run *through* didn't have a exit on the far side... not the mistress of french public transport, apparently. Much trouble could have been saved if I had a bank card with a chip in it, wonder if there is anyone to get one in the US yet...
Anyways, this run got me from the town of Fontainebleau, which has a nice chateau into the woods. Mostly along a motorway, which you maybe weren't supposed to run along?
Anyways, this run got me from the town of Fontainebleau, which has a nice chateau into the woods. Mostly along a motorway, which you maybe weren't supposed to run along?
Orienteering 1:27:34 4.72 mi (18:33 / mi)
ahr:137 max:167 21c
A course from O'folie 2010 last March on Le petit Mont Chauvet.
And that was tough! Spent a good deal of time confused, if never entirely in the wrong place, I think... Rocks rocks everywhere... and cliffs, which were apparently quarried away, and piles of rock.
Took awhile for me to get into the map, maybe until control 10 or 12 to realize that hollow black circles and squares were rock-wall thingys and it helped a lot once I realized that things encircled with cliffs and marshes in the middle were actually up instead of down, at least on the ridge...
Good times, awesome to get orienteering. Oh! And I saw 1 wild boar, it just ran off, and 2 foxes, they were not to scared of me, just slinked off. No people whatsoever.
Many thanks to Neil who got me the map and told me how to get there!
1732/2000
And that was tough! Spent a good deal of time confused, if never entirely in the wrong place, I think... Rocks rocks everywhere... and cliffs, which were apparently quarried away, and piles of rock.
Took awhile for me to get into the map, maybe until control 10 or 12 to realize that hollow black circles and squares were rock-wall thingys and it helped a lot once I realized that things encircled with cliffs and marshes in the middle were actually up instead of down, at least on the ridge...
Good times, awesome to get orienteering. Oh! And I saw 1 wild boar, it just ran off, and 2 foxes, they were not to scared of me, just slinked off. No people whatsoever.
Many thanks to Neil who got me the map and told me how to get there!
1732/2000
Running 45:02 5.22 mi (8:38 / mi)
ahr:146 max:167
Soooooo thirsty! Got back from orienteering, drank rest of water, changed into non-o running gear and took off. Went through the park which is really long, with a nice linear water, snapped a few pictures. Apparently you're not supposed to swim, but people totally were. Looked nice... =)
Oh, and just missed my train, *again*! Few minutes, but that let me go run off to Carrefour and buy fresh OJ and a 1L smoothie, both of which I downed. Fell asleep on the train the way back, exhausterated!
Oh, and just missed my train, *again*! Few minutes, but that let me go run off to Carrefour and buy fresh OJ and a 1L smoothie, both of which I downed. Fell asleep on the train the way back, exhausterated!
Friday Jul 1, 2011 #
4 PM
Running 15:32 0.57 mi (27:16 / mi) +2m 26:58 / mi
ahr:130 max:152
Running back from L'Arc de Triomphe, which had really great views everywhere! Ran first to le Tour Eiffel, then did running drills on le Champs de Mars before heading back to the hotel via l'Ecole Militaire et les Invalides. Woo seeing the sights!
Drills 6:19 0.4 mi (15:52 / mi)
ahr:138 max:154
Running 17:44 2.13 mi (8:19 / mi) +33m 7:56 / mi
ahr:140 max:155
Thursday Jun 30, 2011 #
Running 17:30
Conference -> hotel -> Jardin du Luxembourg
Strength 6:00 [2]
Ankle plyo drills, while listening to an orchestra in the Jardin du Luxembourg on a sunny gorgeous day. Life is good.
Running 19:30
Back to hotel, did not initially pick the right corner of the garden to leave by... whoops
Wednesday Jun 29, 2011 #
7 AM
Running 51:26 5.68 mi (9:03 / mi) +39m 8:52 / mi
ahr:134 max:167
Tuesday Jun 28, 2011 #
12 PM
Running 6:00 [3]
Mm, only way to get a run in was to run in the flip flops back to hotel during lunch. Tomorrow should attempt to wake up and run in the morning! Was roasting again!
1 PM
Running 29:12 3.68 mi (7:55 / mi) +21m 7:47 / mi
ahr:153 max:171
A try-not-to-let-the-legs-atrophy-while-at-conference run! Un peu partout, was kinda lost for a bit actually, wander wander. Hotel is right by the Cimitière de Montparnasse, peaked in, is fancy! Gave my one-minute poster whirl through my stuff today, guess it would be better if I had a real talk, but this makes the conference way lower stress... Oh, except for the telescope proposal due Thurs...
Monday Jun 27, 2011 #
Note
36 degrees in france, roasting! but got here a-ok and survived day 1 of conference doping on some serious coffee, jeez louise! time for french food mmmm
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