Training Log Archive: SwampfoxIn the 31 days ending Aug 31, 2011:
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Wednesday Aug 31, 2011 #
biking 2:00:00 [3]
run 1:07:00 [2]
Tuesday Aug 30, 2011 #
biking 1:09:00 [3]
run 1:39:00 [3]
Tuesday night group on the trails at Happy Jack. Ran with the faster group, which meant they ran fast and I tried to keep up. Thank god there weren't hungry bears around, because I would have been the chosen one.
Monday Aug 29, 2011 #
Note
Guess it's a good thing that Laramie Daze ended when it did. Woke up today to grey skies and light rain after sun and very dry conditions all last week. That's called timing (aka getting lucky.)
biking 1:32:00 [3]
Sunday Aug 28, 2011 #
Orienteering 19:00 [2]
Orienteering 2:11:00 [2]
Picking up the race controls and sundry items from the Rocky Mountain Goat, done in 3 loops of convenience. Started raining during the 3rd loop, and compared to the baking sun while I was putting these things out yesterday, the rain felt pretty nice. Plus, it completely washed away the accumulated sweat and grime of another week of Daze. I could see myself again! I felt like a new man, ready for new adventures.
Saturday Aug 27, 2011 #
Orienteering 46:00 [3]
Orienteering 2:00:00 [2]
Friday Aug 26, 2011 #
Note
Could have sworn I saw the school bus outside. Has school started up again with me missing class already? Damn! Those schools are so sneaky like that.
No sign of the hurricane yet, but I went ahead and bought a generator and 5 day's worth of fuel anyway, plus some emergency food (poptarts.) I'm ready.
No sign of the hurricane yet, but I went ahead and bought a generator and 5 day's worth of fuel anyway, plus some emergency food (poptarts.) I'm ready.
Orienteering 1:02:00 [3]
Orienteering 53:00 [2]
Thursday Aug 25, 2011 #
Orienteering 1:08:00 [2]
Note
Some people might have memories of Yellow Pine Campground. If you're one of those people, your memory probably won't match the way it looks right now, because the trees? They is gone. (picture taken today):
Not sure why the campground *still* isn't open, because there are obviously no beetle trees left to fall, and there's nothing left to do as far as clean up in the campground itself. But it isn't open.
The dark skies look like they are threatening rain, but the weatherman said what they are really threatening are lightning strikes.
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Not sure why the campground *still* isn't open, because there are obviously no beetle trees left to fall, and there's nothing left to do as far as clean up in the campground itself. But it isn't open.
The dark skies look like they are threatening rain, but the weatherman said what they are really threatening are lightning strikes.
Orienteering 1:01:00 [2]
Felt like roaming a bit, a B-52 kind of mood, I'd have to say.
Note
Already looking forward to Daze 3 at Telephone Song tomorrow. Many people have told me how much their lives were transformed by running at Telephone Song, and those weren't even the people that got to run through the sheep herd.
There's nothing like running through a herd of hungry sheep, and there's nothing like running at Telephone Song.
There's nothing like running through a herd of hungry sheep, and there's nothing like running at Telephone Song.
Wednesday Aug 24, 2011 #
Note
Looks like the old record high for this date is going down, by 3 degrees. Felt warm out this morning, and now it seems deservedly so.
Orienteering 1:22:00 [3]
Idonwannabe.
Orienteering 1:13:00 [2]
Tuesday Aug 23, 2011 #
Note
5 letter word, begins with "L", for someone who would rather debate "last control CP 100" than do actual orienteering at Laramie Daze. ; )
Orienteering 1:57:00 [3]
Orienteering 1:07:00 [3]
Daze kicks off with pre-Daze. Weather was perfect-O summer, classic in every way. Some people wondered why there had to be so many dragonflies. I told them: Spanish Castle Magic.
Monday Aug 22, 2011 #
Orienteering 1:33:00 [3]
Sunday Aug 21, 2011 #
Note
Time for some statistics:
# of WOC runners at WOC: a lot
# of WOC runners entered for Laramie Daze: 0
# of Canadians entered for Laramie Daze: 0
Several millennium from now, when all other possible research topics have been exhausted, some PhD candidate will examine the above numbers and be writing his/her thesis about the same; it will be entitled: "What the Hell Were They Thinking?". Of course this will need some explanation, and they will have to elaborate that there has once been this little nice frontier town called Laramie with some decent adjoining terrain before climate change intervened and vast glacial sheets cascaded out of the Snowy Mountains and wiped out the town and even all the nearby Subway shops.
# of WOC runners at WOC: a lot
# of WOC runners entered for Laramie Daze: 0
# of Canadians entered for Laramie Daze: 0
Several millennium from now, when all other possible research topics have been exhausted, some PhD candidate will examine the above numbers and be writing his/her thesis about the same; it will be entitled: "What the Hell Were They Thinking?". Of course this will need some explanation, and they will have to elaborate that there has once been this little nice frontier town called Laramie with some decent adjoining terrain before climate change intervened and vast glacial sheets cascaded out of the Snowy Mountains and wiped out the town and even all the nearby Subway shops.
biking 42:00 [3]
Afternoon follies are getting started early today...hope they end early, too.
run 2:45:00 [2]
Terrain run out in the SE corner of our local block of National Forest. It's a really terrific area--world class, without doubt--and was to have been base-mapped. However, the untimely demise of Ivar H's stereoplotting machine put an end to those plans, at least for the time being.
Ironically, despite the hugeness of the terrain, this is the part of the local National Forest I've explored least. No idea why, it's just slump, I suppose.
I tried to follow the white line.
Nearly ran into a bull moose, which was totally unflummoxed and refused to budge no matter what. I even tried singing "Purple Haze" in the key of F#, and that didn't do it, so in the end it was I that ran away and not the moose.
When a bull moose is in the way and won't move, it gets harder to roll down the white line and make good time. I found that to be true.
Also saw more bull elk--all sporting really nice racks--on one run than I've ever seen before except for on a run some years ago when I ran across a massive herd of several hundred elk up on the Laramie Range. I wasn't counting carefully, but it was somewhere between 20 and 2 dozen in all. Oddly, I didn't see a cow elk. Maybe they were at the beach, soaking up the sun?
Ironically, despite the hugeness of the terrain, this is the part of the local National Forest I've explored least. No idea why, it's just slump, I suppose.
I tried to follow the white line.
Nearly ran into a bull moose, which was totally unflummoxed and refused to budge no matter what. I even tried singing "Purple Haze" in the key of F#, and that didn't do it, so in the end it was I that ran away and not the moose.
When a bull moose is in the way and won't move, it gets harder to roll down the white line and make good time. I found that to be true.
Also saw more bull elk--all sporting really nice racks--on one run than I've ever seen before except for on a run some years ago when I ran across a massive herd of several hundred elk up on the Laramie Range. I wasn't counting carefully, but it was somewhere between 20 and 2 dozen in all. Oddly, I didn't see a cow elk. Maybe they were at the beach, soaking up the sun?
Saturday Aug 20, 2011 #
Note
Really enjoyed the coverage out of the French WOC. Maybe the best coverage ever that I can remember, despite the problems the organizers had with the Sprint Qualifier.
And what a beautiful setting.
To judge from the tracks, some of the orienteering must have been incredibly tough. I don't know whether that's a good thing or not, but I haven't run across any comments that it wasn't fair.
Very inspiring to see the French men perform so outstandingly! Interesting to think it really wasn't all that long ago that we were at about the same level as France, while today the levels of performance are starkly different.
And what a beautiful setting.
To judge from the tracks, some of the orienteering must have been incredibly tough. I don't know whether that's a good thing or not, but I haven't run across any comments that it wasn't fair.
Very inspiring to see the French men perform so outstandingly! Interesting to think it really wasn't all that long ago that we were at about the same level as France, while today the levels of performance are starkly different.
biking 1:21:00 [3]
Orienteering 1:32:00 [4]
Concentrated on running as efficiently as possible through the terrain.
Friday Aug 19, 2011 #
biking 1:04:00 [3]
Orienteering 1:44:00 [3]
Plains of Despair. Many, many, many, many, many, many horses out there.
Some riders, too.
Some riders, too.
Thursday Aug 18, 2011 #
biking 1:48:00 [2]
run 45:00 [2]
Note
This was really fun to see!
http://www.orientering.se/Nyheter/Webb-TVStudioVMd...
A mix of English and Swedish, but mostly in English, and avoiding for the most part Swenglish (not that there's anything wrong with Swenglish.)
http://www.orientering.se/Nyheter/Webb-TVStudioVMd...
A mix of English and Swedish, but mostly in English, and avoiding for the most part Swenglish (not that there's anything wrong with Swenglish.)
Wednesday Aug 17, 2011 #
biking 1:44:00 [3]
Orienteering 2:04:00 [3]
Pitcher Hill. Jelly 292! It gathers no dust, though my feet did, and that's a fact.
Tuesday Aug 16, 2011 #
biking 1:22:00 [2]
run 1:15:00 [3]
Ran with a Tuesday night group, and then tacked on a little more on my own.
Monday Aug 15, 2011 #
Note
If you needed a list of orienteers capable of showing unusually good discrimination and taste in their choice of O' terrains and races, you could do worse than resourcing the 40 strong entries for Laramie Daze. 40 people doing anything out in the desolate, rugged, wind torn frontier lands known as Wyoming is pretty good, let alone 40 people doing orienteering.
But the main thing is that's enough runners to put a pretty decent dent in the remaining paper stock of maps residing in the fabled Laramie Range map storage facility (pantry).
But the main thing is that's enough runners to put a pretty decent dent in the remaining paper stock of maps residing in the fabled Laramie Range map storage facility (pantry).
Orienteering 1:51:00 [3]
Bisbee Hill. Whoever it was that said there are not enough bees at Bisbee Hill was not out there today. Just look at the name--there's a bee right there!
And anyone who doesn't want to run through bitterbrush better not head over to Bisbee Hill either. The bitterbrush over that way was in particularly fine form today, as my socks will attest.
And for post-workout recovery? Ah, yes--that classic French drink, la Mountain Dew.
And anyone who doesn't want to run through bitterbrush better not head over to Bisbee Hill either. The bitterbrush over that way was in particularly fine form today, as my socks will attest.
And for post-workout recovery? Ah, yes--that classic French drink, la Mountain Dew.
biking 1:29:00 [3]
Super nice out.
Sunday Aug 14, 2011 #
run intervals 1:38:00 [4]
Was mapping before running, and saw lots and lots of freshly overturned rocks, some pretty large (none mappable though.) Were it down in the Tarryalls, I'd suspect one or more prospectors at work. Around here? Bear.
Cooled down into the 60s as the afternoon rolled by, making for very pleasant, crisp running conditions. Perfecto.
Cooled down into the 60s as the afternoon rolled by, making for very pleasant, crisp running conditions. Perfecto.
Note
Finished off another quarter kilometer section today at the "Lights of Cheyenne" map; only pieces of 9 more sections to go and the thing will be done. But it's not that easy. Pretty much everything that is left exhibits a huge amount of granite rock detail and will be extra slow going, unless I get smart and resort to the widespread and liberal use of variously sized and shaped boulder triangles.
Saturday Aug 13, 2011 #
Orienteering 1:22:00 [3]
Happy times at Happy Jack. Plus less happy times with 2 horseflies, which in the end were dispatched.
biking 59:00 [3]
Warm, very nice out, classic summer day in the finest western tradition.
run 35:00 [2]
Friday Aug 12, 2011 #
biking 1:27:00 [3]
Thursday Aug 11, 2011 #
biking 1:10:00 [3]
run 1:14:00 [2]
Wednesday Aug 10, 2011 #
run 51:00 [2]
biking 2:02:00 [3]
Tuesday Aug 9, 2011 #
biking 1:12:00 [3]
Monday Aug 8, 2011 #
run 2:24:00 [3]
Up to Medicine Bow Peak via the normal route, and then back by continuing north and coming down the east face. Don't remember the first two pitches being as hard as they felt today, but then they do climb pretty fast, plus it's been a while since I ran up last, and it's just a fact I'm not working with the same amount of VO2 capacity.
Nice day, and incredible assortments of wildflowers thanks to the very compressed season owing to the extra, extra late winter and humongous snows up there. One lake was still partially frozen over and a quick calculation makes me think it could already be dipping below freezing some nights up there--or at least has that potential.
Nice day, and incredible assortments of wildflowers thanks to the very compressed season owing to the extra, extra late winter and humongous snows up there. One lake was still partially frozen over and a quick calculation makes me think it could already be dipping below freezing some nights up there--or at least has that potential.
Sunday Aug 7, 2011 #
biking 1:00:00 [3]
Orienteering 1:35:00 [4]
Pelican Bay.
Saturday Aug 6, 2011 #
biking 1:30:00 [3]
run 1:06:00 [3]
The most interesting thing I learned today is that there are 20 different species of the mosquito that call Laramie home. Considering that this is part of the arid West, that's way too many. 20 mosquitoes *total* --regardless of specie--would be about the right amount for all of SE Wyoming, if you ask me.
Friday Aug 5, 2011 #
biking 1:03:00 [3]
Orienteering 1:15:00 [2]
Telephone Song. I expected full and proper amounts of both spear grass and mosquitoes, and in no respect was their cause for disappointment.
Thursday Aug 4, 2011 #
biking 1:30:00 [3]
Knee felt maybe not 100%, but much better. Got rained on and had fun.
run 48:00 [2]
Ran slowly to give the mosquitoes an obvious and easy target.
Wednesday Aug 3, 2011 #
run 1:26:00 [3]
Shortly into a bike ride yesterday, I noticed something seemed irritated on the bottom part of my left knee, on the outside just under the skin. It felt very much like a sore i-band would feel, except that as far as I know, there isn't anything where I felt sore but a little flesh. Strange, but who knows; not as bad as getting hit by a cannon ball at Manassas, and that's for sure. Anyway, who can you trust with your legs these days but Jolanda Hayes. Gave it a rest and no biking today.
Running seemed more or less fine both yesterday and today, so I will survive. Running trails tonight I saw: one other runner, 2 bikers, 3 dawgs, 1 horse riderette, one horse, and one young bull moose. Some mosquitoes, too, but they don't count.
Running seemed more or less fine both yesterday and today, so I will survive. Running trails tonight I saw: one other runner, 2 bikers, 3 dawgs, 1 horse riderette, one horse, and one young bull moose. Some mosquitoes, too, but they don't count.
Tuesday Aug 2, 2011 #
biking 1:50:00 [3]
Monday Aug 1, 2011 #
biking 1:04:00 [3]
Note
The last piece of the Lights of Cheyenne base map is now on the map board. It would be great to get this finished this season!