Training Log Archive: AliC

Timing how long the walk was to the start and putting out the very last controls. Frost everywhere, holy moly cold!

And then I dropped my travel mug of coffee into a rock. Bummer. (Hole drilled into a rock for a post or something. I absentmindedly decided it was a cup holder and put my mug in it....) Good effort on the part of Mike P. trying to get it back. Ah well.

And collecting some of the controls. Seemed like most enjoyed and were challenged by the course. Woo!

Although perhaps a few had more challenge then they really enjoyed. But hey, you can only get better if you're pushed!

One course-setting thing I should have avoided was people running along the busy, fast road, which really was a valid option based on the leg.

Fun to be in Bend for the weekend. Totally gorgeous scenery and terrain!

C • I can't wait for cool fall ... 5

Wahoo orienteering! Deschutes Daze: Lava Butte. More undergrowth than other places I've run here, but still quite visible. A one-person relay with 3 different choices for first 3 legs and then a common 4th leg. 2nd to Will Enger, who I ran head-to-head with for the second lap, which was good fun.

There was definitely some goof-muppeting out there - more than once went to the wrong control and fairly frequently went wrong directions. Better compass work needed for this vague-type stuff!!

Great fun!

Setting controls #1 - sans compass. Therefore tricky. Also cold. Brrr being at elevation and no Sun!

Setting controls #2 - lava fields are tricky! But this time with compass.

Yeah! Did my 20 miler totally on pace! Holy moly that's a thing to get in before work in the morning. Up at 5:45, out the door before 6, back at 8:30, shower eat, work by 9. Whoosh.

C • Morning 4

Did *not* want to go out running because it was scheduled to be a hard workout. Procastinated as late as I could (but got paper comments back to a co-I, woo!).

Also, had my first class today for Thermal Physics v2, and hmph. Tried my best to rigorously and clearly define temperature. Basically, temperature orders objects according to the direction heat will flow, if at all.

But I think I might have missed conveying the central point of *why* heat flows, because I dove into the math too quickly. Equivalent reasons for heat flow:
1) Causes entropy increase
2) Maximizes the total number of microstates available to the combined flower-flowee system*
3) The flower-flowee system is not in equilibrium and wants to be

* I like this one the best, think it's the most basic.

So, to be reviewed for Thursday morning class.

Marathon training tempo, 8 miles

Wow, that was just a great run. So much easier than last week's 6 miler. Not sure if it was too close to being at altitude last week, or hotter, or I'm just better trained now, but this was no big deal. Last week I was really counting down the last mile. So that's pretty cool!

Wowzers. Kick-my-butt pilates. Seriously, this stuff is hard. And is stuff I don't like doing on my own (core, stability, balance) and is probably good for other muscles while I do marathon training running. So should keep going.