Training Log Archive: ndobbs

Walked to and along Copacabana, played in the waves, lounged, ran to the end of the beach and back, then into town for açai (yummy!) and a chicken/potato/dumplingy thing (coxinha). Next, a stroll to and along Ipanema beach, cold at this stage, 22º only, in to the Lagoa and back to Copcabana for a bus home.

Fun times, but overcast the whole time... lobsterised nevertheless. Wow and damn!

C • nice memories 4

First time getting one of these too: your IP address is being used by some other device on the network.

Is that suspicious? Or just a cheap-ass router that gets confused?

I took this on the plane in. I suspect it looks better on my computer, full screen.


Apparently US Airways is doing all it can to locate my bag.

In Rio!

A couple of slight hiccups along the way.

One checked bag is still in CLT.

I neglected to write down my brother's apartment no. and building, just the address, on paper - and forgot that he had actually provided me with those details. The taxi driver was bemused, I hope, that I had no idea where I was going in the apartment complex, the security guards too.

And then this email: "Thank you for confirming your ATM withdrawal. Unfortunately, the ATM used is compromised, meaning that your card and PIN number have been captured for use in fraudulent transactions." Welcome to Brazil.


Thanks to all who welcomed me into the community and helped make my stay in the US so wonderful! Hope to see many of you in Helsinki!

Along the waterfront.

Alex wimped out of Skyline running this morning, so so did I. It did mean there was time for packing, bananagrams and snatch, so that was good. Plus I got a tour of Boston on the way to the airport.

And they let me and my cookie dough through security!

C • phew 1

Sprints@Tufts. Two courses, first one seemed trickier than the second, perhaps in part due to familiarity.

Fun. Knee hurt for a minute or two of the second one.

To/from Tufts. On pavement. Ugh. I've been spoilt.

Apparently 59% of my running training so far this year has been orienteering (and 33% trail run), with (only) 85 hours...

Which is good, except it means I haven't been doing enough warmups/warm-downs.

Flight cancelled.

Automated message from US Airways, after calling up and giving booking details:
We are receiving more calls than our system can deal with. Please hang up.

Oh, that's better. Got through, now leaving on Wednesday.

WCOC Long, Huntington SP, CT

Becky-planned course. Longest legs weren't super long, but it might just be how the terrain is. It was fun orienteering, anyhow.

1 - decided speed and simplicity would be good, down the trail, around the spur, up the channel... probably a bit far off the straight line, but I didn't know how nice the woods were

2 - ok. Clearly I wasn't racing, as Joe jogged passed me here.
3 - around to the left, straight would have been better.
4 - there was a band of vegetation on the way, rather distinctive, but wasn't on the map. I stopped and thought for a bit, then continued on my merry way. Def not racing.
5 - out to the road, didn't have a good enough understanding of the circle when I came in, but turned the head and saw the control no prob.
6 - almost straight line.
7 - a bit messy, some veg killed any flow I nearly had, nice control location.
8 - weaved a little, big boulder en route made it easy
9 - easy
10 - trail leaving 9 seemed to go not in the direction I expected, but it straightened out, or I did. Hesitant in the circle, partly because the control cliff was slightly lower than the one to the ssw, and the shapes didn't quite fit my picture. Not great on my part.
11 - easy peasy
12 -do
13 - nice quarry
14 - I probably stayed on the trail a fraction too long, should have manned up and gone straighter.
15 - took the channel to the west, easy enough. slight drafting issue with the two contours coinciding in the re-entrant at the control.
16 - didn't have enough energy to run properly, following the stream SE to the trail. Any racing in me was totally gone at this stage. Climbed up the light green, and the map made no sense to me. Got control fine, the boulder was prominent and conspicuous.
17 - eastern route. Came out on the trail further west than intended, map-reading failure. Then trail along the big marsh, and next trail through the chasm :)
18 - slow and weaving, into the green, around most of the marsh... control was easier than executing the route
19 - a teeny bit left of straight. Getting sloppy.
20 - nice, better. Nice woods, little uphill, fun :)
21 - right of straight, not hard.
22 - woah, serious weaving going on here.
23 - crossed the stream too high, hadn't dropped.
24 - pretty
25, 26...

Hadn't eaten enough the day before. Diner food afterwards hit the spot, and had lovely company for the drive to Framingham, followed by another 45 minutes into Boston. Weather was unpleasant but not dreadfully so.

Blue - Splits