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Wednesday Nov 2, 2011 #
Note
Buoyed by 8 hours of setting for the NEOC Norwottuck and 14 hours for the A-meet in October, I set my highest training month with 41 hours. While the time is generally accurate, logging course setting time as orienteering is an unnecessary generalization.
As my strength and resilience seem to be waxing, I have three goals for the remaining two months of the year:
- Run at least 240 km, or 27 km/week, to finish the year with 800 km of running. At 5 min/km pace, this is 20 hours of training.
- Orienteer for at least 21 hours, or 2.4 hours/week to finish the year with 100 hours of O.
- Run a sub 12:00 3k. This should be readily attainable even now, but I haven't done any speedwork since my right tibia stress fracture in May. PR is a pitiful 11:13.
As my strength and resilience seem to be waxing, I have three goals for the remaining two months of the year:
- Run at least 240 km, or 27 km/week, to finish the year with 800 km of running. At 5 min/km pace, this is 20 hours of training.
- Orienteer for at least 21 hours, or 2.4 hours/week to finish the year with 100 hours of O.
- Run a sub 12:00 3k. This should be readily attainable even now, but I haven't done any speedwork since my right tibia stress fracture in May. PR is a pitiful 11:13.
9 PM
Bowling 6 [3]
shoes: Dexter Ricky II Bowling
I was recently asked why I enjoy bowling, as it's superficially a mundane and uninteresting activity. I replied that there is something richly cathartic and entertaining about the repetitive challenge. I think I find it so compelling because as the initial conditions are essentially unchanging, it is I who change from game to game. Bowling is as a mirror, reflecting my own state, and it is an exercise in mastery and self-control. To excel merely requires perfect control of one's own faculties. Also, knocking stuff down with a ball is fun.
Today, I lacked mastery of my own faculties; the entire session was a disaster. If bowling is a mirror, then I have beheld my turmoil. There were glimmers of potential, but for whatever reason, I kept pulling to the right very consistently, and none of my usual stance modifications seemed to have much effect. My right thumb would sting during the release for the first few games. Despite the pitiful effort today, I did have fun.
I wonder if bowling and orienteering are orthogonal goals; bowling cultivates asymmetry and unevenness, and its dexterity is almost useless for O. I don't seem to be improving, and I am seriously considering taking an indefinite hiatus. I really dislike giving up, though, so perhaps when I have equilibrated and am stronger, I will find greater success.
Game 1: 1/ 71 6/ 7- 5/ X 63 7- 72 8- = 121
Game 2: X 71 9- 36 72 3/ 63 41 71 -6 = 97
Game 3: 61 61 45 9/ 8- 7/ -8 6/ 9/ 35 = 107
Game 4: 71 X 7/ 9- 81 3/ 81 1/ 61 X61 = 132
Game 5: 8- 9- 8- 7- 63 X X 5/ X 71 = 132
Game 6: 72 8- 6- 9- 63 54 9- 61 X 5/9 = 105
Strike rate: 8/62 = 12.9%
Spare rate: 13/53 = 24.5%
First ball pins: 6.66
Single pin spares: 2/7 = 28.6%
Today, I lacked mastery of my own faculties; the entire session was a disaster. If bowling is a mirror, then I have beheld my turmoil. There were glimmers of potential, but for whatever reason, I kept pulling to the right very consistently, and none of my usual stance modifications seemed to have much effect. My right thumb would sting during the release for the first few games. Despite the pitiful effort today, I did have fun.
I wonder if bowling and orienteering are orthogonal goals; bowling cultivates asymmetry and unevenness, and its dexterity is almost useless for O. I don't seem to be improving, and I am seriously considering taking an indefinite hiatus. I really dislike giving up, though, so perhaps when I have equilibrated and am stronger, I will find greater success.
Game 1: 1/ 71 6/ 7- 5/ X 63 7- 72 8- = 121
Game 2: X 71 9- 36 72 3/ 63 41 71 -6 = 97
Game 3: 61 61 45 9/ 8- 7/ -8 6/ 9/ 35 = 107
Game 4: 71 X 7/ 9- 81 3/ 81 1/ 61 X61 = 132
Game 5: 8- 9- 8- 7- 63 X X 5/ X 71 = 132
Game 6: 72 8- 6- 9- 63 54 9- 61 X 5/9 = 105
Strike rate: 8/62 = 12.9%
Spare rate: 13/53 = 24.5%
First ball pins: 6.66
Single pin spares: 2/7 = 28.6%
11 PM
Running 38:04 7.0 km (5:26 / km) +22m 5:21 / km
ahr:150 max:179 shoes: 201108 Asics GT-2150
Easy run around Cambridge much later than I planned. I am tired.
I used to know how to play Chopin's Prelude Op 28 No. 20, but now I have no memory of the hand patterns. I guess I didn't practice it enough. I still remember Revolutionary Etude, though the practicing was proportional to its technical difficulty.
I used to know how to play Chopin's Prelude Op 28 No. 20, but now I have no memory of the hand patterns. I guess I didn't practice it enough. I still remember Revolutionary Etude, though the practicing was proportional to its technical difficulty.