Training Log Archive: cedarcreek

Event: OCIN / TROL #1 - Miami University, Oxford, OH
 

Miami University Western Campus, Red course. Set by Mike Minium. A rainy and muddy day with falling temperatures. Started slow and felt winded and slow, but felt better after 10 or 15 minutes. Never really felt cold.

Made a few mistakes. Going to 8, I got tempted by the right-hand route with the trail along the powerline---I didn't find the trail, but I found a lot of downfall. Should've gone straight. I took a decent route to 9, but should have considered a bridge route with almost zero climb. And had a bobble on 17. Afterwards, I guessed I was too far left, but looking at the track, I may have lost focus and drifted hard left just before I got to the control. I'll do a quickroute in a day or two.

Just a long, long holiday. Tomorrow at work is going to be relaxing compared to my Thanksgiving weekend.

Did a few hours of shopping Friday. Bought an inverter and made a proxy purchase of a Garmin FR 410 (bought it for someone, but they're paying me back). Stopped by a swim shop for some goggles, but they were closed (this implies they're very, very smart---I should shop there more often).

So much to do in the next three weeks...

OCIN TROL1 MUWC Red - Splits

Event: OCIN/TROL Midwest Junior Orienteering Day Camp
 

Event: OCIN / TROL Hueston Woods State Park
 

Yellow course at Hueston Woods, set by Jon Rauschenbach.

Rainy, and not too cold---I ran in short sleeves and was comfortable.

I was having a bad day running the SportIdent download. I tried getting a file online about 9am (at home), but windows hadn't been connected since about April, and it downloaded 18 or 19 windows updates. I waited as long as I could, but when I got the backup computer packed and in the car, 4 of those updates had installed.

Then, I remembered that my good inverter had a problem out at East Fork about a month ago, and that I really needed to buy a new one. Fortunately, I had a small 80 or 100W one in my car. Unfortunately, it simply wouldn't run my computer. So I got out the old one and tried it---It was working, but I was scared it would fail the entire time. It was actually intermittent, and I kept having to disconnect and reconnect the battery clips to reset it. I did smell burning electronics a few times, but it held out until Bill Donnelly finished (that's a joke---he was the last one, but not by much).

Being short on time, I decided to run Yellow. Aidan had some trouble with it, and I wanted to check it out. (It was a bit hard in a few places.)

Jon set a really nice course---it really kept me on my toes. And it was nice to run in the rain.

{edit} Oh---another sportident "issue": When I plugged the USB Master into my backup computer, I needed to install the driver---apparently, each USB Master we own or use needs to be set-up separately on each computer. I need to label the masters and verify they each work on all the computers.

OCIN_HW_Nov_2011_Yellow - Splits

Cut the cooldown short---About halfway through the ellipical my heel popped and felt like it was swelling right in the middle of the heel pad. Limped away and back to the house. Feels better now.

Spent most of my day on Facebook setting up OCIN's Page.

Topo Adventure added a bunch of races to the Attackpoint event calendar---Check out my maybe events below (those with a "?"). I also added some other stuff under 400 miles away.

A few laps at the pool mixed in with about 20 minutes of the first 2 (mostly floating) exercises from Total Immersion Swimming by Terry Laughlin. I didn't do so well on the exercises---I should have taken the book and re-read the instructions beforehand. I did the first one pretty well, I think, but the second---Oh man bad.

Met with Orunner and Mike Minium to discuss the TROL training camp that we're teaching in about 10 days.

Also, this is pretty cool: GPS Bear tracking---They swim long distances! Also, *four hour* data points! It hurts to look at the tracks! I wonder how much memory those trackers have and how long they record?

Bagging Leaves. Actual time about 2.5 hours. Soreness much better afterwards.

Event: MVOC - Bill Yeck Park - Turkey Hunt & Jr Champs
 

Event: Race of Hope
 

Helping my nephew move. Approximately 7 hours of time, 4 hours of solid effort. Very very sore afterwards. Better just before bed. Woke up with a muscle twinge in my back. Did some walking, and my hip flexors are very angry with me.

Twice specifically, we were moving heavy stuff up a stairs, and had major trouble. I wanted to stop, but it was impossible---the guy on the bottom was in a bind---and I just kept pulling, and failing, and straining. I almost collapsed afterwards, both times.

Also, started the move with apparent ripped muscles fibers in my right bicep---I have no recollection of injuring it or of it hurting.

At 10pm, sat down to watch a movie. Had Transformers 3 (0) from the library. Started watching it, assumed it would be 100 minutes or a little more, sort of a quick bite before bed. Wrong! 154minutes---Seriously? The movie was fun to watch and visually interesting, but it basically has too much spinny-twisty-robot CGI, and not enough Patrick Dempsey, Ken Jeong, Frances McDormand, John Turturro, and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley (Megan Fox's replacement). Every human interaction in the movie is like speed-dating---just when it gets interesting BEEP---and the robot CGI is a like a slow dance at arm's length with someone you don't want to dance with, to a song that goes on forever.

HR plot for whole 45 minute workout (click blue globe).

Had eaten before the workout, and I just couldn't maintain a reasonable HR at a reasonable stepping speed. Didn't want to train really slow, so I just moved on to the cooldown.

I'm in the middle of My Voyage to Italy, Il mio viaggio in Italia, (1), a documentary by Martin Scorsese about old Italian cinema that had a profound influence on him. It's approximately 4 hours long; I'm slightly more than halfway through it; and the first 90 minutes is amazing. Scorsese talks about how the NY TV stations were always short on material, so they'd play dubbed or subtitled Italian cinema on Friday nights, and his whole family would gather around to watch. He shows how the 1940s material was much more gritty than corresponding American movies and TV of the same time. The most emotional thing for me was the effect he saw in his oldest relatives. The only one of these so far that I have seen is The Bicycle Thief, which is a movie that has stuck with me since I saw it. I'll be digging up more of these to watch. I'm putting up the (1) now because I don't care how it ends, I recommend it anyway.

Daylight Savings Time Ends (2am)

First workout since SLOC's meet, and everything hurt. A HR of 140 felt hard, and my strides were short and stiff. I tried a few times to lengthen my stride, but it felt bad. It was better towards the end, and pretty the whole way---a running path on a peninsula on a lake with autumn leaves and golden hour sunset.

Interesting---another messed up GPS track. I started in the parking lot, and let the Garmin find satellites while I changed. Weird. It did this same thing on my model map track.

C • recovery 4

QuickRoutes:

SLOC Corn Maze

SLOC US Night-O Champs Red

I think it's funny how smooth my Corn Maze track is, compared to anyone who is fast. It's like my speed puts me below the Nyquist, and them above it. I hope that's not backwards.

I started my GPS late on the Night-O. I must have missed 1 by complete negligence---I must have forgotten to look left. I was *so* sure I was in the right spot going into 2. I crossed 2 reentrants going down to the stream, and I saw the other two on the map (the two I was apparently in), and I remember checking the angles and saying, "Nope, I'm where I want to be---in the right-hand reentrants." Wow. Embarrassing.

I'm not sure anyone else considered this, but between 11 and 12, I guessed the little pond would have a dry ring with zero fight, and I actually used it, but the GPS doesnt show it very well. I did get two half-muddy shoes.