Training Log Archive: cedarcreek

Trails at Eagle Creek Park in Indianapolis. No map---just ran around LSD style. Left knee hurts. This is probably the longest, hardest run I've done in years. Not that I was moving fast, but still... ARDF Champs are 2 months away, and I'm hideously out-of-shape. I need 5 or 6 weeks of serious LSD work, if my knees and back can take it. I think they can.

Hamvention. Way too much walking and sun. Way too little sleep. Had a blast.

What a bad day. I kept forgetting stuff. I'd get the gear, walk into the woods, and realize, on different trips, that I'd forgotten: SI-units, Control Flags, my master map, Control Flags *again*. Twice I planted the wrong number control stand and had to go back to fix it. Luckily, these were sprints, and the points were pretty close together. The best thing that happened all day was when everyone pitched in and I only had to get 5 stands out-of-the-woods. Of 31 stands total. That made looking for a lost SI unit (a box, not a thingie) for over an hour not so bad. Then I came home and fell asleep for 2 hours. I just finished the results. And I just entered my time in Attackpoint, so I'm going to bed.

Spent a little over an hour in the woods at East Fork Dam checking points for this weekend's sprints. It is *so nice* over there. That's all I'm saying until the course notes. Back is still bugging me, but mostly in bed in the morning. I think I'm getting more fit. It's easier to go uphill. Not much, and I've still got a long way to go, but...I'm getting better.

Brian DeYoung set a short 2m ARDF at Stanbery Park. The map isn't the best, but I made good strategic choices. At the last point, 5, I had lost contact (more typical in ARDF than regular O), thought I was somewhere else, and went the wrong way to the finish. Lost maybe 4 minutes. Dick Arnett had radio trouble. (In ARDF, if you don't know where you are and you find a control, you still don't know where you are.)

Picked up 4 and 2. I'm calling it Intensity 3. I was walking, but there was enough climb to keep my heart rate in the zone most of the time. Every day this week I've had back issues, mostly when I wake up in the morning. The event today was free of back pain, but I was babying it in places.