orienteering1:05:28 3.77 mi (17:22 / mi) +636ft14:58 / mi ahr:148 max:161 weight:138.5lbs shoes: x-talon 212 #2
NEOC meet at Baldwin Hill, excellent course by J-J. Ran/walked Blue course, 5.4 beeline.
No energy. Or at least not enough to deal with the forest which is a little worse for wear after storms in the last 3 years. But the topography is still wonderful. One bad control, #4, a couple other very minor bobbles, mainly just moving really slowly.
My route (click on map for larger version) --
2 PM
orienteering44:56 1.9 mi (23:39 / mi) +466ft19:11 / mi ahr:135 max:169 shoes: x-talon 212 #2
Picking up 7 controls. Actually did this a little quicker than anticipated, and ran some. Also no mistakes. :-)
trail running1:20:43 7.86 mi (10:16 / mi) +1165ft9:00 / mi ahr:143 max:157 weight:140.5lbs shoes: Brooks something-or-others
One of my regular loops on Mt Toby many years ago, meaning 15 or 20 or 25 years ago, but haven't done it for a long time. Used to do it in about 65 minutes, think I broke 60 once, figured I'd be more like 80 this time and I wasn't far off.
Legs like crap for the first 50 minutes, better the rest of the way though I suspect that was because the rest of the way was mostly downhill. Just one of those days. Walked a couple of short stretches out on the loop, the spirit wasn't willing.
But still, a good workout, you put in a few days that feel like this and then maybe you get a day where you can keep a decent pace for an hour. At least that is the hope.
Entertainment was Fresh Air interviews with Norm Ornstein about the state of politics, interesting and depressing, and Oliver Saks, just plain interesting. Read one of his books once, Wife/Hat or whatever the title was, though of course I can hardly remember it.
trail running56:25 5.12 mi (11:01 / mi) +745ft9:41 / mi ahr:138 max:155 weight:140lbs shoes: mizuno
At Earl's Trails, starting at Dave;s and over Tinker and Little Tinker hills. Windy and a bit raw, storm coming but not here yet. Pretty good run, got up the first hill without croaking and then the rest is easy.
Enjoyed watching the results last night. Amazing how good the polls were this time (and especially Nate Silver's analysis of them in the NY Times), and how it seems so many on the right didn't believe them. Stayed up to watch the speeches. Romney's was excellent, just what it needed to be. And then Obama was masterful. But now comes the hard part, getting something done in Washington, because the dynamics are pretty much the same.
Best scene of the evening was Karl Rove's meltdown on Fox. Over the years I have found it useful to pay attention to media on both sides of the political spectrum -- I really think people who get all their news from either Fox or NPR, to use two common examples, are really doing themselves a disservice. They forget how to think. So I try to tune into different sources.
Last night I turned on Fox for a while to see how they were spinning what was developing into a very bad night for their side. And they were doing a decent job for the most part, not as much in a state of denial as I expected. But then their analysis group called Ohio for Obama, right about the same time the other networks did, and Rove went nuts.
How could they do that! Why, he had just talked to someone who was getting the real numbers right from the Ohio Secretary of State's office, and with 80% of the votes counted, it was a dead heat. How could Fox call it for Obama! Outrageous! Take it back! And it went on for 10 or 15 minutes, during which time Nevada and Colorado got called for Obama, so it no longer even mattered what happened in Ohio, the election was over anyways.
And Rove demanded they have the analysis group withdraw their call. Which, to their credit, they refused to do. Because they knew that most of the outstanding votes were from Obama strongholds. Which Rove could have known, and should have known, and probably did know, but it seemed like he just couldn't believe that his boy was going down. And he had a very public tantrum.
It was very fun to watch. Though not near as much fun as watching Obama's speech.
By the way, the almost final results from Ohio show Obama up by 100,000 votes. The analysis guys at Fox knew what they were doing.
track8:38 1.05 mi (8:13 / mi) +3ft8:12 / mi ahr:144 max:165 shoes: Brooks something-or-others
At the track for the first time in a long time, just to get started. A mile warm-up. Cool (40F) and a little breezy, but still in shorts.
track15:34 3.4 km (4:35 / km) ahr:151 max:159 shoes: Brooks something-or-others
A set of Bricker intervals, intended to do 4 x 1000m, 200 jog, did 3 and decided that was enough. 4:30, 1:03, 4:30, 1:04, 4:27. Just for reference, roughly 13:46 for 3K and 14:44 for 2 miles. Reasonably content with the effort and the time, and for just getting started in the first place.
trail running1:00:44 5.8 mi (10:29 / mi) +541ft9:38 / mi ahr:140 max:155 weight:141lbs shoes: mizuno
Trails at Five Ponds in Litchfield. Legs felt OK, but gut was complaining a bit as this followed a good bit larger lunch than normal, plus wine. A lunch actually produced by me, for the benefit of an aunt and uncle coming to visit my mom. A very pleasant visit. Except I then had to buckle down and head out the door for a run when a nap would have been preferable.
Quite cold, forgot to take my gloves, but managed OK until the GI distress demanded a pit stop about 5 minutes before the end. But shortly thereafter I was taking a hot shower and feeling quite pleased with myself for have gotten in a good hour's effort.
So a good day, except that it was another four hours in the car one. But the Sunderland-Litchfield bus route is yet to be established, so there is no choice.