Training Log Archive: MeanGene

PM - beautiful day, windy from the west. To Lakeview+. On the way back and after feeling pretty tired, did the gentle climb to Kasold & Lakeview Road then turh south and get very dizzy - felt like I'd just completed the worse wind sprint. Had to get off my bike to recover (about 30 sec). Then gentle ride home. Still not over whatever I had.

AM/PM - West Campus meet put on by Pete Gogol. Helped set out controls (40 min), and picked up 2 controls (10 min).

AM - Fleming Park red course. First run in a long time, coughing almost all gone. Got most controls in good time, except route choice to #10 got messed up withe fight and had to bail out east to doublecheck another reentrant and the road to reconfirm were I was.

PM - Fleming Park West night O. Score course. 3rd (44 sec back of Gary Thompson). Ran hard tonight. Lots of mowed grass. Dick Luckerman pretty much set his controls along edge of woods or on lone trees in the open.
Enjoyed listening to the KU victory over Arizona after the run.
Fleming Park is in Lee's Summit - boyhood home of Jeff Graves, the big guy who helped win the game tonight,

noon - Fall Creek (Buck Brush) - good speed coming down - still groggy from medicine.

PM - to Fall Creek. Cough medicine made me groggy - so shuffled along to top of hill, then fartlek once (1 fart?) on last rise home.

to Lakeview+ (out via N Iowa)

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AM - dropped car at Cottman Transmission, ran home - another MOOK Run (motorcar overhaul obligatory kinetic run). This time for a new clutch for the Bronco. Sore throat.

Northbrook: AM - through neighborhood, turned around at PF Changs (restaurant w/2 huge Chinese horses, and a valet parking podium - too pricey for me). Sunny.

AM - w/Dee from motel to Botanical Gardens - meadered through neighborhoods hitting a few deadends. Had to stay on Lake part of the time. Took about 20 min break to walk around garden. Sunny, ran in shorts & windshirt.

AM, Northbrook: Somme Woods from motel (Red Roof Inn, Waukegan & I-94). on prairie trails and in woods other times. Saw 5 deer. Woods are nicer than RockCrusher (no thorns).

in Evanston for my brother's (Don) funeral.

sick since Sat - flu/cold, blah, resting

AM - BFC weights

AM - Spike ask me to design a course for Rockcrusher for us (Mary, Spike & me) to train. 18 controls - control picking at first, then a couple of longer legs; didn't shy away from climbs. Locations were mostly the more complicated (e.g., 3 tiny reentrants in a row) variety. In reality, some locations were more "map imagination" by the mapmaker willing the area to be more complex. It had been awhile running here so attacking the control locations seemed new and not "oh, I've done this before."
35F, sunny, some snow on the ground.
Spike shadowed me on leg 16-17 - EF ("embarrassment factor") caused a boom. Got to focus and not try to entertain The Shadow.

AM - hung 20 markers for score course - mostly driving to locations.
PM - after event, ran course during marker pickup. Pleasant snowfall during event and pickup.