Training Log Archive: ndobbs

Last day at the office. Pizza at my place after kadaverloppet tomorrow!

I feel a bit like a raato today, not enough sleep since I got back.

This epic happened while I was away.

Made it back to Helsinki, carried on all my bags so I didn't end up in Stockholm.

Evening jog, warmer than I expected, maybe 11º, dark, damp and windy.

I still have writing up to do.

I went orienteering this weekend. It was fun.

Routegadget. Super slow, butstuff downloaded and uploaded eventually. Track is strangely off along the road, the rest seems broadly accurate.
---- Actually, I reckon 10 is just in the wrong place according to (my) GPS, even if correct wrt where the stones are. But when I reupload the GPS, it says saved successfully, but still shows the originally saved track. Is there a way to edit/replace?

Blue Day 2 - Splits

Event: HVO/WCOC A-event "Love The Lakes"
 

Blue Day 1 - Splits

Silas Condict.

Still feeling somewhat shite, but needed to go for a jog to remind the body what ligaments do.

The park is beautiful, the map was inconsistent in places and even had some incorrect details.

I was sluggish.
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We went night-shopping in a place without ripe bananas, and so went to another shop to get bananas. The staff were somewhat bemused at the trolleyload.

WotD: Intimidatable ~ good-looking and attractive, but might get scared if asked out.

Sinuses have been bothering me the last few wonderful days, don't think I've had that sort of headache before. It came on pretty hard yesterday afternoon. Hopefully will get out running today and/or tomorrow, assuming the rate of production of green gunk is diminished... but did not sleep well this night, perhaps because the heating came on... plus snoring ;)

Did some "daunting" article revision today. Went for a jog to Central Park, very slow and gentle. Might have been out for close to an hour, but I stopped to look at dresses and ornaments and whatnot.

Alex's good memories are better than my good memories. http://attackpoint.org/viewlog.jsp/user_540/period...

So wonderful to see so many lovely, amazing and inspiring people

C • Me, too 1

Sunrise train to Boston is pretty!

Apparently one of Nora Barnacle's grandnieces works in a call centre in Phoenix, Arizona.

Slept lots last night.

Friday night car alarms were going off underneath, Saturday night was quieter than feared, but both mornings I had to get up obnoxiously early at the arrival of the ferry.
Prior to the weekend, eye felt a little irritated, by Sunday it had developed into a stye.
Sunday night, nose was irritated, by Monday it had developed into sore nose/throat. Throat swollen on Tuesday, but lots of rest and warm fluids seem to be helping a little.

Resigned and went home to bed. I may yet go to America.

C • America awaits! 3

It wasn't very loud, but there was a large and enthusiastic crowd of people in red and blue stripes chanting "Ross Samantha Ross Samantha..." at some point today. How strange.

25manna HS2, 7th leg, 3rd runner

Nothing too special to report. Mistake to the third, but still more or less caught Juuso, 2nd runner, so not much stress, with Topias chasing (no idea the gap). Competent from then on, so coming in to the finish I figured I wasn't last, but only when I found Jari did I know I was 2nd and could slow down... jogged the last 150m :)

I think we finished 97th or so, much better than last year. First team is short a killer d21 and dropped from 10th or so to 23rd in the last two legs. But next year top 15 looks quite plausible.

Pallomylly
indoor orienteering! Woo fun!

Somewhere out in Espoo, 3 intervals, fun club training, couple of small mistakes but not tooooo bad

Cycled to Pallomylly to help set up the schools' indoor orienteering on the football pitch.

Four fun-filled days ahead for the kids.

Oulu kuntosuunnistus.

Big mistakes, first one because the thick north-line wasn't a road. Another because it was in a vague area and I didn't understand the mapping style. Another because I was stupid and wanted to run around the marsh for an extra 500m, on a trail, with loads of details telling me I'd gone too far.

Fun times in Oulu, besides giving a talk. Saw the play Silent, excellent, and the film What Richard Did, v good, heard some stories, and loads of good music... Caitlin and Ciaran and Martin and Dennis and Socks in the Frying Pan and the Ni Dhomhnaill sisters...

Evening jog around the trails, it was brisk out. And frosty overnight!