Training Log Archive: vmeyer

Event: QOC: Fountainhead
 

EX2 Adventures Race Timing: RG Adventure Race Rocky Gap

Another day of work, and with the last teams out longer then expected, it was a very long day.

Will need to consider whether I want to do this again next year.

Event: CSU Pine Hill A-meet
 

EX2 Adventures Race Timing: Greenhorn Rocky Gap

Worked the race all day, and then I went to one of the TA and paddled a kayak back to the other transition area. It was against the wind and about 1 mile. It was my first time in a kayak.

C • Wow! 3

I am putting my weight today, just because it is nice to see it nearer to 180, at least for today. It is artificially low because I had a colon scan thingee today, with all the prerequisite liquid diet and system cleansing that goes along with it. So, alas, tomorrow I will be back on my way to 190 again.

No polyps.

Roger made it all the way to the start today. I am so proud. :)

Felt a biting feeling on my shoulder on the way home. Yup, a tick.

I was out on my course today coming down a steep, leafy hillside, and I was a bit concerned about injuring myself. So, I was really glad I that had that whistle around my neck...except it was my USB drive, not my whistle.

C • LOL!!! 9

Classic: Green X - Splits

Event: West Point A-Meet
 

Wish I had done better on this, but I enjoyed the venue and the variety of the texture of the terrain.

About 1 PM, Roger and I headed out a bit late for my 12:04 start. It was very warm by now. I knew it would be too much for Roger, but he wanted to try, and I appreciate that. He had to stop and sit on the ski equipment at the top of the hill. He continued on after that, but once he saw the downhill on the trail, he knew he couldn't go any further. I am proud of him for making it that far. After so many surgeries for cancer, albeit five years since the last one, he doesn't have much stamina.

Sprint: Orange Brown Green - Splits

Middle: Green X - Splits

Lots of walking around NYC with Roger. We also went to Coney Island. Good thing I didn't have high expectations. I did ride the roller coaster, so that was good.

Trip in was tough - lungs were dying on the little uphill. Perhaps carrying the laptop and a bunch of other stuff was a factor, but it is most likely directly related to my weight gain. One more pound and I'll hit 190 - woohoo!!

Trip to central office for lunch.

Trip home has not happened yet, but I need to get home somehow.

Not pretty, more breaks then ever before (about 5 minutes spread out), but I got it done.

With an eye towards going back to riding to work, I wanted to do a little bit on the bike today. Just around the neighborhood streets - didn't go down any of the big hills, though there are some little hills around the house. Wind was brutal, and go around and around was boring. I wanted to stop right away, but I toughed it out.

Mowed the lawn to complete the day.

That loud moan you heard around 6 PM was me - spring break week is over already! Back to work tomorrow. Wahhhh!!!

Sandy and I egged each other on to come and do this meet, and to do Red. I (we) did not let the rain deter me (us), but I (we) sure wanted to either do a shorter course, or stay home.

But, I am glad I came. I was hoping for 2 hours, and I got close, but only because I followed Sandy around the course after she caught me at #4. We had agreed that this was an option before going out.

I wanted a 15 minute head start, but it was only a 3 minute one. I lost a few seconds to Sandy at each of the first three controls, and then the rest of my head start evaporated going to #4 after missing what I thought was a trail I hoped to use to cross the swamp, and then thrashing through the worst of the rhodes to get to the road. Climbed this really long steep hill and went to the control location, but I couldn't find the flag. I was wondering what I did wrong when I heard Sandy and Sam talking, and then Sam finding the control on the ground next to some clump of trees.

With my head start gone, along with my motivation, I tagged along after Sandy and tried not to be too much of a dead weight. I was hurting up the hills, but able to catch back up on the flats or downhill.

It rained the entire time, and when it wasn't raining hard, then ducking under the rhodes got you good and wetter.

Had two really good hot dogs from Deaf O'Cafe after I was done and changed. And I got home a little slower then the trip up, but safe and sound in lightening skies.

Thanks, Sandy. I am very glad to have gotten a work out in, and to have you to lead me around. Well, at least for the legs that weren't one big trail option...I could have managed those myself. ;)

A trip around the lake after returning the inserts. Unfortunately, the doctor wanted my properly sized pair as well, so that the company can copy those. So, now I have nothing for a couple of weeks.

Used the heel lifts today. Left heel was very painful to start, buy then it calmed down.

Threw in a couple half miles under 10 min per mile, but mostly they were slower, and I also walked some chunks as well. Breathing very good, just feeling the effects of dragging my fat a*s around.

Beautiful running conditions in the mid 50s.

Too nice to avoid running for another day, so I put my newest shoe inserts in and ran down to the track with no real plan in mind. Wanted to stop as soon as I got to the track, but I walked a lap, and then ran a lap. I would have stopped after the 1st mile, but these two guys came onto the track, plopped themselves and their stuff in lanes 4-5, did some weenie stretches, got up to run a warm up lap, and left their dumbbells in lanes 5 & 6. Since, I had already run up and around them in lane 6, my usual lane, I knew they had seen me.

I run another lap, and the stuff is still on the track, so I come around again and I ask nicely for them to move their stuff from the lane I was using, and I gesture with my arm that there was all this other space that they could have left their stuff. The guy gets snippy and says that he said he would move it, and I shouldn't get upset. I said it was obvious that I was using lane 6 the whole time. He said that he didn't see me. I said bull shit, and then I ran the fastest lap of the day with the highest HR.

I still wanted to stop, but I figured that I had to do a few more laps since we had words, so I did, and it felt pretty good.

328 (.3 mile run from home)
407 (.27 walk)
242 (.27 run)
405
223
355
212*
345
214
351
218
356
228
358
228
358
448 (.3 walk home)

Inserts feel nice with a Spenco top instead of a leather slippery top, but they are cut too small in the front, so my toe hags over. So, back to the podiatrist tomorrow.

C • Inserts 2

Another good picture from the QOC A-meet. This time with Gail Ryan.

The O-Mobile made it's local A-meet debut at the end of March. It carried around a ton of equipment all weekend, and at the end, I got almost all of it back in...well, except for the clowns. They had to ride in their own cars.

Photo courtesy of Heidi Onkst.

Event: QOC: Prince William Forest
 

EX2 Adventures Race Timing: BYB Wakefield

C • It was tight today! Good jo... 2

One of my best races in a long time. Only ~3 minutes in error, and most of that on one of the two controls common to the ones I put out yesterday, though I approached both from the opposite direction today. It was the next to last control today, and the first one from yesterday. Oh, right! I messed that one up yesterday too!! :)

A very, very good day. Race timing in the morning was better then I expected, epunching was in good hands when I got to the meet, course went well, and the rest of the epunching after I got back did also. Traffic home was light, especially in the express lanes pointing north, and dinner with Roger was excellent. Oh, and Roger pulled the most unsightly of the weeds while I was away. And, this week is spring break - no work until next Monday. And, even though the days off will fly by, Life is good!

Green - Splits

Spring Break: April 4-12

Spring break - yeah!! Though, apparently, I am expected by Roger to spend quality time with Roger this week. I think I can handle that. ;)

On a totally random note, my crud toenail has loosen, and I cut it away. This is the toe which I have been treating with fungicide for the last two years to no avail. I am hoping the total deletion of the toenail will solve the crud issue. If so, then there will be something good to be said about the Fair Hill adventure. Just kidding, Sandy.

C • fungus 4

C • Hmmm... 1

C • Rankings Question 2

Met kissy to hand off the epunch equipment and help hang controls - forced exercise assignments are what I need right now.

Inauspicious beginning on my easiest two controls - did not see the red streamer, so went one hill over and put the control at that streamer. Streamers had letters on them, not the the control number, and my first two were really close together and parallel - spur and hilltop. Knowing I may have been mistaken, I watched how quickly I got to the trail, and there was no hilltop between me and the trail, and knew I had hung the bag in the wrong location. Backtracked and hung the correct control on the hilltop, and then back to the original spur I had checked. Looking at the clue description, and going to that location on the spur - west side - and there was that pesky streamer!

The rest went better, pretty much nailed them, though climbing some of the hills was a real bear.

Beautiful morning - near 60. Very windy out of the woods, but spectacular in the PWNF woods.

Treated myself to a cold DC after I was done. Then I headed up 95 to meet Jen at the track club storage unit which was sorely in need of cleaning out - rodent droppings were impressive. Took about 4 hours to get the basics done. Nap afterwards.

Good conversation with Heidi this afternoon - getting debriefed on the A-meet.

Nice dinner with Roger at home this evening. Anniversary (23) on the 8th...I won't remember then (though I will remember to watch the Masters) so I will mention it now.

Event: OCIN 25th Anniversary / Flying Pig XIII / Relay Champs