Training Log: Spike

Relaxed. Afternoon walk with Mary, V and A at Innesfree garden.

A couple of easy walks. Walked the dogs in the morning. Walked around Ferncliff before lunch at Fosters in Rhinebeck.

Stationary bike - watching headcam orienteering from one of the days of a Carribean O' tour. It was fun to hear a voice I recognized - Per Spiik - on the video.

Some traveling and visiting over the next few days. I'll probably get in little to no training.

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I have Radio Oringen as background noise at work. They had a neat feature today (and maybe yesterday, too?) - Per Forsberg and Matts Troeng went through livelox tracks leg by leg. They sat with runners - Hanne Lundberg and then an M14 and an F12. It was very well done and distracted me from work. If it was just radio it'd be boring, but they also live stream the video so it is quite interesting.

I need to look and see if they save and archived the stream.

Morning jog. Felt ok.

I saw a coyote! It was heading south towards the new pond, then saw me and started heading west towards the new daycare. The coyote stopped, looked at me, and then went a bit north in one of the big parking lots. It stopped and looked at me, but didn't move. I wish it would come over to our neighborhood at night and chase off some of the rabbits.

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Stationary bike while watching a headcam video from the first day of this year's Oringen.

That got me thinking...it was 40 years ago that I first ran an Oringen. 40 years. That's a long time. Back then there was an old guy, a Gagarin, running well. In fact, he won one of the days. That was Andy, by the way.

I also looked at some results for my current age group - M60. Joe B. is there. It was kind of interesting to see the top names are the same as I'd see in the results nearly 40 years ago.

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C • Next year... 3

Mowed.

Shuffling around a bit. Slow. With Fritz. As a warmup.

Sunflower State Games at Gage Park. Fritz set the course. Fun. Lots of controls and Fritz made a point of tucking them in behind things. I don't usually enjoy hidden controls, but it was ok today.

I ran ok. I got tired and hot (even if it wasn't super hot and it was cloudy when I ran). Behind Dean and Eric. Not far behind Dean, but way behind Eric. Eric is much faster than I am.

I ran a bit early and then did the late arrivals/registrations and download. I guess it went ok. It is kind of stressful.

I think we had a record turnout for the Sunflower State Games. Not huge, but more than before.

Headcam video below. A couple of things to note:

1. The stabilization is pretty good (I think).
2. The map image is a bit too large?
3. The map itself is unusual, with some non-standard use of symbols. It works ok, but it is still a bit odd.
4. Note to self, check that the head mount is roughly level or you'll end up with a video that looks like you're tipping over to one side.



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We didn't sign up for the IOF WOC broadcast. I considered it, but 2 of the 3 races were on work days. I kind of like the concept of paying for the coverage to support it. Instead, I figured I'd wait for the replays. It was nice to see the French coverage made available yesterday. Mary and I watched the spring relay last night and we've gotten through the men's sprint today.

The commentary is in French. I have no idea what they are saying. But I think I prefer to not understand the commentators in most sports.

Commuter bike to/from campus. On the way there I saw Meangene. I biked beside him and we chatted. He was doing Dog Days. Both of us are taking it a bit easy today so we have fresh legs for the Sunflower Games tomorrow.

Easy on campus. I used my July hilly course, but instead of doing it point-to-point, I went to the control locations in whatever order looked like it'd minimize climb. There's still a bit of hills.

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