Training Log Archive: Charlie

Day 2 of Western States meet at Boggs Mtn. Much more satisfactory run, with no major screwups and only about 4 minutes or so lost to lapses in concentration. Ended up third on green (out of about 60). Steve Gregg was first and Bruce Wolfe 2nd. Actually wasn't even tired when I finished. Generally a pretty fine experience, if not a perfect run.

I think the appropriate gift for the course setters would be a meter stick. Generally anything advertised as less than a meter (as in .8) was the size of a toaster. Anything around a meter was maybe the size of a microwave oven. A 2 meter boulder I would expect to be at least as large as a refrigerator. Instead it was about the size of an automatic dishwasher. Once I got the hang of it, though, it was ok.

As compensation for waiting around while I chatted up routes and split times with my friends, I treated Rhonda and Kathy to a trip to Indian Springs. Mud baths, massages. Kind of interesting, but I don't expect to be doing it again. I'm certainly pretty clean now.

Green Day 2 - Splits

Event: 2007 Western States Orienteering Championships
 

Day 1 of Western States at Boggs Mtn - Green course. Preposterous error right at the start. Seems the control circle for #1 and the start triangle overlapped about 30%, and I just never saw the first circle, just the line leaving the start and heading over 400 m away to #2. Got all the way to it and punched it before thinking, that's not the right code, and figuring it out. Spiked #2 the first time, but then was moving faster and ended up a bit low the second time. Will post comments when I get my splits up.

Brisk hike with Rhonda at Annadel when we got back to SR. Up Cobblestone Tr around Orchard Loop and back down again.

Green Day 1 - Splits

Really fine trail run with Rhonda at Annadel State Park in Santa Rosa. I never made it to an o-meet there when they used to have them. It would be fun to see a copy of the map. We were using the trail map. Pretty fun. It would be hard to imagine a more pleasant place for a trail run. Route generally was Channel trail to North Burma to Louis, around Lake Ilsanjo to Rough-go to Cobblestone past mining area, then on a trail not on the trail map back to Rough-Go, then Orchard back to the Lower part of Cobblestone and out.

C • Annadel map 2

Hike around Howarth park, Spring Lake Park and a bit of Annadel with Kathy and Rhonda. Impressed with how sprightly Kathy is. She was doing a lot of walking this summer and has upped her speed.

abs portion of Rhonda's cardio circuit class, with Kathleen, Jan and Linda in attendance, followed by rotating among spinning bikes, rower and treadmill.

treadmill, alternating 7 minute and 9.5 minute pace

spinning bike

Rhonda's 5:45 am group. Pleasant exercise with the girls: Jan, Kathleen and Claudia. Tried to interest J-J, who spent the night post-Highlander, but he didn't bite.

C • didn't bite 2