Training Log Archive: vmeyer

Worked some in the yard today moving wood and part of mulch pile. We are getting a new fence in the next week or so, and we have stuff too close to the current fence for them to work.

01/21: 0:1:1:0
YTD: 6:5:12:10

Kris suggested training at Fountainhead, and the QOC five F45s got together on a cold, windy morning. Left to right, Kris (kissy), Kathleen, Peggy (peggyd), Heidi, and me. Heidi and Kris are new to the F45 club this year, and this is my last year.

Anyway, the exercise was to put out two controls, do the rest of the course, and then pick up your two controls. The map needs updating, but isn't too bad. Except in the area of #5 where there are new houses. Because of this new, unmapped construction, the control was hung on the route to the actual circle, but I missed seeing it as I went by and spent 20 minutes looking. Probably longer than I was supposed to for this exercise, but I am determined (stubborn). I took the 20 minutes off my time...

I had a freaky thing happen to me. I hung my second control (#2). I didn't find the building on the map, and I thought I might be a little high, but I was comfortable that I was in the right gully. So, I marked the waypoint on my GPS and went on. If you look at the tracks around #2, you'll see a little black dot right below the little black square just on the NE edge of the circle.

Well, when Kathleen caught up to me as I was finding #5, I asked her if #2 was hung okay. She said she couldn't find it. Later when I was going to collect #2, I passed Kris who also said she didn't find it. Weird, because I hung it pretty high up so, even if I was off, it was visible.

Now, I get back to #2 and approach it from the bottom, and partway up I see it hanging to the east some, and lower down (the second black dot on the SE edge of the circle). And it is on a 5 foot high broken off tree which is about 30 inches in diameter. I hung it on a little skinnny tree. So, it is obvious that it has been moved, so I assume Peggy moved it. But she would have been the last one to it, so why bother.

Back at the car, Heidi reports that she didn't find it either. When Peggy gets back (after some creative route choices back to the finish), she tells me that she didn't find it either.

So, the control had been moved, but by whom or what?! Of couse, it would happen to me.

C • May it's just me... 12

From car to start, and from finish to 2 and back to the car.

Walking around looking for #5 - counted the time from when I was in the actual control circle to when I found the bag itself...

01/20: 0:1:1:0
YTD: 6:4:11:10

Today 01/19 0:0:0:0 (two lite beers with dinner, enough water to float a boat, one candy bar followed by grapes to ward off reaching for the second candy bar, 2 diet cokes)

Off to brush my teeth and go to bed, and dream of O training in the morning. Will they be able to find the two bags I will be responsible for hanging all by myself. Yes, you do detect some anxiety here. ;)

Yesterday 01:18: 0:0:0:0 (not total deprivation, but still a zero kind of day - a small slice of homemade apple pie, 2 diet cokes, 2 small glasses of wine with dinner)

YTD: 6:3:10:10

C • Dinner already 5

To the track, then 7 laps around. When it was too dark to see anymore, and my stride was shortening becasue I was afraid I was going to fall, I headed onto the neigborhood sidewalks and around and about. Car fumes AND cold, yeah! Though, at 34 F, the cold is all relative.
I was properly dressed in a short sleeve, long sleeve, light vest, heavier tights, gloves, two pairs of socks (one pair were the toe kind), head band, two bras, underwear down to my knees, and shoes.
GPS miles were 1032 1004 940 (downhill some) 953 949 1019 - 10:03 pace. Walked about .2 miles at the end, after I got up the first part of the hill.

C • Woah 2

01/17: 0:0:1:0 (Progress of sorts - made it past lunchtime, and to after work before the siren call of the chocolate got to me.)
YTD: 6:3:10:10

I keep forgetting to report my AOWN siting from the meet Sunday - a juvenile snake (I think it was a brown snake) along one of the stream crossings.

01/15: 1:1:1:0
01/16: 0:0:1:0
YTD: 6:3:9:10

C • Ick 25

A bunch of the QOC gang bought an orange, white, and black Axis Gear shirt while at the NAOC. Some had them wore them yesterday at the local meet, and it reminded me again that I never made it to the AG tent to check out their wares. So, I bought a couple of fitness shirts while I was out today - one is somewhat orange. :)

01/14: 1:0:1:0
YTD: 5:2:7:10

C • 1:0:1:0? 6