Training Log Archive: Spike

After the orienteering, I took a bit of a nap and then Mary and I watched Wonder Woman. I might be the only person who saw that movie and said, "the glow, just like The Last Dragon!" I don't see a lot of movies, but I liked both Wonder Woman and The Last Dragon.

Jogging around to warm up. It was easy to break a sweat with the temp around 79F (temp was 70 when we left Lawrence and 79 when we arrived at the park about 40 minutes later...I think that was because KC just doesn't cool as much as Lawrence at night).

Sprint 1 course at Antioch.

I like this park, but my orienteering was not very good. I had a couple of little minor swings, but really my orienteering was passive - just heading in the direction and waiting for things. I also managed to skip a control. I've now done that 3 times: in 1981, in about 2003, and in 2017.

On the good side, I wore a sweatband and that was a big help. I finally bought myself a couple of sweatbands after running several sprint races this summer where I struggled with stinging sweat in my eyes. I not only bought a sweatband, I remembered to bring it with me. It helped.

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I jogged through the Sprint 2 course. My orienteering was still not sharp (but didn't skip any controls). I was feeling the heat and walked a bit when I felt like I was over heating.

Easy bike ride with Mary.

Feeling kind of sleepy.

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Shuffled around on the Kill Creek streamway near DeSoto. It was hot and humid. Time for cooler weather, but I don't think that will happen until next week.

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Mowed the lawn.

Jogging on West Campus. It was hot - mid 80s - today. Yuck. I'm tired of this hot weather.

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I rolled around on the roads on my MTB to break a sweat and get my legs moving a bit. Felt pretty nice.

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Travel day - Mammoth Hot Springs to Bozeman to ORD to MCI.

We had enough time to do a bit of a hike, so we went on the Lava Creek trail. Very nice.

Travel home was trouble free, but it made for a long day.