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Training Log Archive: Rosstopher

In the 31 days ending Dec 31, 2010:

activity # timemileskm+m
  Road run11 9:24:19 68.39(8:15) 110.06(5:08) 848
  biking14 5:51:29 65.19(5:24) 104.91(3:21) 1065
  orienteering8 5:07:00 29.84(10:17) 48.02(6:24) 627
  Skiing2 2:31:17 8.51(17:47) 13.69(11:03) 364
  Track1 9:34 1.93(4:58) 3.1(3:05)
  Total32 23:03:39 173.85(7:58) 279.79(4:57) 2904
  [1-5]19 15:43:36

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Friday Dec 31, 2010 #

8 AM

Road run 52:52 [2] 5.84 mi (9:03 / mi) +59m 8:47 / mi

Running with Sam out and around the neighborhood. My new jacket (thanks Sam and thanks commercialization of Christmas) is much much warmer.

With the rest of the day I did even more laundry, some much needed cleaning of the house and some purchasing of a featherbed as a present for Sam (well I guess I benefit too). The bed is way softer now, but perhaps too soft? Will need to wait and see.

Also prepared some excellent snacks for our New Year's Eve party. I stole Alex's idea for prosciutto wrapped sweet potatoes with sage and just added some blue cheese and rosemary to the mix. Mmm, delicious :)

Happy 2011 to everyone.

Thursday Dec 30, 2010 #

8 AM

Road run 32:29 [2] 4.17 mi (7:47 / mi) +15m 7:42 / mi

Backlogging these days. Quick commute to work. It's tough to leave the house when Sam is still abed.
12 PM

Road run 51:28 [2] 7.4 mi (6:57 / mi) +97m 6:41 / mi

Feeling motivated to get some more training in, so three laps of the pond and then back to the lab to finish up the ELISA.

I am really happy with the excel spreadsheet I made today, it's got a formula with 7 nested IF functions and it automates a very dull task that I will be doing a lot of in the coming weeks.

Wednesday Dec 29, 2010 #

9 AM

Road run 33:38 [2] 4.23 mi (7:57 / mi) +15m 7:52 / mi

To work. Meaning to do more running this week, but it's so tempting to just come home and hang out instead.

Tuesday Dec 28, 2010 #

8 AM

Road run 33:13 [2] 4.2 mi (7:55 / mi) +15m 7:49 / mi

Morning commute in the snow. The sidewalk that is never shoveled in the winter is still not shoveled... nor to I expect it to get touched at all this year either. I wonder why it bugs me so much.

They've added a bike lane since last winter (yay progress) so running next to the sidewalk isn't such a bad option during the snowy months.

Sunday Dec 26, 2010 #

8 AM

Road run 1:17:36 [2] 9.06 mi (8:34 / mi) +27m 8:29 / mi

Saturday Dec 25, 2010 #

11 AM

Skiing 2:21:17 [2] 7.82 mi (18:04 / mi) +326m 16:00 / mi

3 PM

Skiing 10:00 [0] 0.69 mi (14:30 / mi) +38m 12:23 / mi

Sunday Dec 19, 2010 #

12 PM

orienteering 1:15:40 [0] 3.77 mi (20:05 / mi) +165m 17:41 / mi

Saturday Dec 18, 2010 #

11 AM

orienteering 24:19 [0] 2.12 mi (11:28 / mi) +56m 10:35 / mi

Friday Dec 17, 2010 #

5 PM

biking 19:06 [0] 3.76 mi (5:05 / mi) +74m 4:47 / mi

Thursday Dec 16, 2010 #

6 PM

orienteering 26:33 [0] 2.61 mi (10:09 / mi) +31m 9:48 / mi

Tuesday Dec 14, 2010 #

8 AM

biking 21:39 [0] 4.27 mi (5:04 / mi) +10m 5:02 / mi

7 PM

biking 22:33 [0] 3.62 mi (6:14 / mi) +3m 6:13 / mi

biking 32:12 [0] 4.69 mi (6:52 / mi) +88m 6:29 / mi

Monday Dec 13, 2010 #

9 AM

biking 20:06 [0] 3.78 mi (5:19 / mi) +38m 5:09 / mi

5 PM

biking 16:51 [0] 3.45 mi (4:53 / mi) +65m 4:37 / mi

Saturday Dec 11, 2010 #

12 PM

biking 20:23 [0] 3.58 mi (5:42 / mi) +80m 5:20 / mi

Friday Dec 10, 2010 #

8 AM

orienteering 33:06 [0] 4.11 mi (8:03 / mi) +24m 7:55 / mi

Thursday Dec 9, 2010 #

9 AM

biking 21:53 [0] 4.32 mi (5:04 / mi) +4m 5:03 / mi

5 PM

orienteering 36:33 [0] 4.2 mi (8:42 / mi) +70m 8:16 / mi

Wednesday Dec 8, 2010 #

9 AM

biking 20:38 [2] 3.93 mi (5:15 / mi) +325m 4:11 / mi

8 PM

Road run 40:45 [3] 5.18 mi (7:52 / mi) +29m 7:44 / mi

biking 18:24 [2] 3.88 mi (4:44 / mi) +70m 4:29 / mi

orienteering 40:45 [0] 5.18 mi (7:52 / mi) +29m 7:44 / mi

biking 18:24 [0] 3.88 mi (4:44 / mi) +69m 4:29 / mi

Tuesday Dec 7, 2010 #

6 PM

biking 20:36 [2] 2.86 mi (7:12 / mi) +5m 7:09 / mi

Road run 50:19 [2] 3.77 mi (13:21 / mi) +340m 10:26 / mi

Monday Dec 6, 2010 #

9 AM

biking 19:06 [2] 3.94 mi (4:51 / mi) +5m 4:50 / mi

Way colder today than yesterday. I wore shorts as I biked to work... but should have put on my tights.

Not too sore after the superstars weekend, mostly my lower back from axe throwing and a little bit in the calves from the 3k presumably.
6 PM

Road run 2:08:35 [2] 15.9 mi (8:05 / mi) +220m 7:45 / mi

Wow, I was not dressed warmly enough for this run. Biting wind made everything a little uncomfortable.

Trying to add more long runs, and tonight I had some injections that needed to happen at 9pm, so I had a couple of hours to spend running. I tried to find a good place to go, but didn't want to run along the river because I thought it would be super windy and cold, so I headed south to Jamaica Pond and did loops there for a bit... it was blissfully calm for about half the loop and windy for the rest... and I headed south in hopes that the arboretum would be more sheltered. It wasn't, but it was nice to have a change of scenery. I tagged one extra loop of the pond to ensure that I got up over 2 hours and when I got back to the lab I ran my hands under the warm water faucet until they were flexible enough again to hold a syringe.

biking 22:07 [1] 3.84 mi (5:46 / mi) +73m 5:26 / mi

Biking home went so slowly. my legs were feeling a bit shot at this point and the wind was blowing directly down Rt 9 so I was fighting the whole way back up the hill. Shifted into a really low gear to do so.

Sam was surprisingly still up when I got home... she's really enjoying the process of video editing the Superstars footage.

biking 22:07 [2] 3.84 mi (5:46 / mi) +69m 5:27 / mi

Sunday Dec 5, 2010 #

9 AM

orienteering 20:11 [5] 2.65 mi (7:37 / mi) +67m 7:04 / mi

12 PM

orienteering 49:53 [5] 5.19 mi (9:36 / mi) +185m 8:39 / mi

Saturday Dec 4, 2010 #

10 AM

Track 9:34 [5] 1.93 mi (4:58 / mi)

Friday Dec 3, 2010 #

Note

Tomorrow morning, I will be running my 3k time trial out in Amherst with the CSU SS crowd. At the beginning of the year my goal for this 3k was to be at 8:55. What can I say, I'm an optimist :) My current approach for tomorrow morning is to do a thorough warm-up (as it will be freezing cold) so 20 minutes running and then some strides. I have 2 goals: 1) run the first 200 no faster than 36 seconds 2) try to hold that pace to reach a 9:00 3k. I won't be disappointed if I miss that mark though.

I hope to run well enough to contend favorably against Gswede :)


Also, just added most of my route from the Traverse as well. Had some glitch near the end, so the animation doesn't work properly and the last few controls are messed up. I might come back and try to fix it at some point, but maybe not worth it at this point.
9 AM

biking 18:49 [2] 4.24 mi (4:26 / mi) +20m 4:22 / mi

oh, so hard to roll out of bed in the morning. I decided to ride my bike so I wouldn't arrive at work too late.
6 PM

biking 16:35 [2] 3.31 mi (5:01 / mi) +67m 4:43 / mi

It's really not too cold out, even at night.

Thursday Dec 2, 2010 #

8 AM

Road run 31:16 [2] 4.37 mi (7:09 / mi) +24m 7:02 / mi

Feels good to be running in the morning.

Wednesday Dec 1, 2010 #

8 AM

Road run 32:08 [2] 4.27 mi (7:32 / mi) +7m 7:29 / mi

Running to work. Later, over my lunch break, I went over to the clinical research center at Beth Israel to volunteer in one last part of the Brown Fat study. I submitted to a DEXA scan to calculate my percent body fat. I'm at 12.00%

I got checked a couple of years back and was at 14% then, so either I'm becoming more lean, or this DEXA machine is calibrated a little differently. I'm training a lot more now, so that's likely part of it.

All told the process took 3 minutes and I was out the door. Being a paid volunteer is great :)

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