Training Log Archive: JanetT

My daughter-in-law (a teacher at a private school in NJ) has been writing a blog and today linked to an article about teachers and teaching that everyone should read. I may be preaching to the choir here, but please pass the link on.

http://loxofknowledge.wordpress.com/2011/04/18/r-e...

In Chatham. Quads still sore (as they were yesterday) from the 5km race. Stretched them 3 times during the class. Feeling less 'run over' than yesterday morning.

Event: WCOC Paugussett State Park
 

Green course at WCOC Paugussett meet. Advertised distance -- measured straight line -- didn't include the mandatory run across the bridge to cross the river, so I added about 500 m to the race distance. Saw several folks at or near most of the controls but they didn't help or hurt.

Mistakes on 2 and 5 I think were due to not paying enough attention to compass. Didn't relocate too well going to 2, either; I knew which trail I hit when I hit it, but wasn't quite sure where I was along the ridge and had to cross a ridge to see the marsh NW of control. For 5, when I left the trail I should have been paying a lot more attention to the compass than I was; I ended up relocating off a trail again. Total of about 6 minutes (4 + 2) lost on these two, I think. Sloppy.

Legs super tired on the climbs from racing yesterday. No way I could even think of jogging up those hills (except on the trail to 6, which was a very gradual climb).

FR distance -- 6.616 (and climb is FR reported, analyzed by AP)

QuickRoute track

C • control 1 3

Dodge the Deer (hi, bct ;-) ) trail race at Schodack Island State Park in Castleton, NY.

Large crowd of almost 300 -- FLAT and mostly wide sandy trails and jeep roads. Glen commented on this being a trail race where you could cut tangents. glen was 37th(!) and first M55-59. I was 221st and 6th F55-59 but only about 2:15 behind 3rd place (Phyllis Fox, who also does snowshoe races; 1st F55 was around 26 minutes).

Start was in a wide open field and I did my best not to get boxed in before the funnel several hundred yards along, where I kept on picking off people. Settled into a good pace but not wanting to push too much in case my hamstring was going to act up. Though I felt tightness in the third mile it never got to be painful and I was able to push a little in the last bit and pass one woman. Head/lungs still not totally clear from last week's cold so that may have held me back a bit too, butI think I did the best I could today. Will try to be healthier if we run this again.

It was the 9th running; all previous ones have conflicted with orienteering. ;-). Nice weather -- low 40's and overcast.

Will download FR later. A quilt show calls me away.

EDIT: uploaded FR. Splits show that I was going slower as the race went on (not too surprising) except for the last tenth where I picked up the speed a bit because it felt okay to do so.

As to the quilt show -- it was being held less than 3 miles due west of where we ran this morning, but "you can't get there from here" unless you're a bird. (I came back home between race and show anyway). Some interesting quilts and exhibits.

C • Not pushing 6

Warming up on the trails around parking. I looked at where we'd go when we headed out of the field, then turned around and went down the trail we'd be finishing on (having seeing the layout of the race, I knew the flow).

With my recent cold, I needed to be sure my head/chest were as clear as I could get them before the race started. I don't usually like long warmups, but today's was necessary.

Plus, 5 minutes +/- after the race.

Results

Event: US Interscholastic & US Intercollegiate Championships
 

Mailed some tax forms/payments and a 65th-anniversary card (Glen's aunt and uncle). Walked up the hill (Albany Turnpike) just for the fun of it. Barked at by two dogs (one I greet by name, but he still barks at everyone who goes by).

Weights; no other tools. Will have substitutes next week while Mary's on vacation--should be interesting. At least neither substitute is Kendra.

Different program --hill intervals, resistance around 20 and elevation from 6 to 12. "Distance" was 1.54 mi. Felt harder on the quads than the other program. Fortunately, much easier on the knees than the treadmill. Listened to Fresh Air segment on methane. ;-)

C • methane 4

1000m, a few seconds faster than on Tuesday.

Did adductors, and would have done pulldowns except there was a fellow who did repeated sets and taking breaks. Looked like he wasn't going to give up the machine and I got tired of waiting. Tried to substitute on a different machine (this one had a separate pulley for each hand) but it wasn't quite the same motion.

Started to go to exercise class before I realized this was a break day (Monday was a make-up class).

Started to go for a walk between showers (mid 40s) when it started to rain again, so headed back home.

Maybe I'm supposed to take a rest day. :-) We'll see how the weather shapes up for later.

I have a friend who's into National Poetry Month and NaPoWriMo (30 poems in 30 days), and is trying to write a poem a day. [I haven't been writing a poem a day, myself.]

She mentioned an idea seen in previous NaPoWriMos, and today I quickly came up with this little poem based on the suggestion of writing a Fib (a Fibonacci sequence-based 6-line poem):

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Want a reason to play in the woods?

Map
Fun
Compass
Adventure
Checkpoints in the park...
Let's all go orienteering!
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Okay, so it's a bit banal...

Using bands today.
Coughing before and after, but not during the class.

Elliptical, program 1, level 3. MHR noted was 136. "Distance" of 1.65 mi. Listened to this week's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me podcast.

1000m on the rowing machine, damper set on #6.