Training Log Archive: Nadim

St. Petersburg, Russia. From Malaya Morskaya Ulitsa to Gorkhovaya Ul. to Admiralteyskiy Prospect, over Dvostovuu Bridge, past the Rostral Columns on the Spit of Vasilovski Island, to Kronvenskaya Nab., around and through the Peter & Paul Fortress, over Troitskiy Bridge through Field of Mars park and past the WWI flame, to the church on Spilled Blood, to The Hermitage (winter palace), to Malaya Morskaya Ul. I took pictures on the run stopping and then speeding up to catch up to Peggy. On the last bridge an overexuberant or perhaps slightly innebriated native sang brashly--not sure if this was a slur at us since he changed his tone as I passed. It was snowy and pretty out with tempertures a bit under freezing and overcast. The monuments we passed stood in sharp contrast to the white and gray everywhere else. With this being a weekend day, we couldn't do any adoption work so we later spent several hours in The Hermitage sifting through the royal rooms with art from around the world. In the evening we strolled Nevskiy Prospect and got to see "The Nutcracker" ballet at Mussorgsky Theatre.

Peggy and I had't had a chance to check out the city yet to know where to run so we got a quick workout in our St. Petersburg (Russia) hotel fitness room. The treadmill calibration was off. I stated out at a pace of 8:00/? and finished at a pace of 4:15/? for what it read to be a distance of +5 miles or kilometers. I was going slower than a mile pace but faster than a kilometer pace. I felt fine during this but passed blood afterward and was very uncomfortable for a while.

One round of upper and lower body exercises on a Universal-like machine in our St. Petersburg hotel.

As a sort of warm-down I spun easy on the cycle trainer.

45 situps. After flying to Amsterdam with a 4 hour layover and a second flight to St. Petersburg, Russia, Peggy and I arrived in our hotel in the center of town and were tired.

From Rosedale Ave. I did the Two Mile Loop through the neighborhood. I could see all the workers doing the house rennovations that usually I percieve as a magical sudden change from one day to the next as an old house disapears and a new one takes it's place. 23 F. The effort was probably a 3.5 and I felt much better than the day before.

From Rosedale Ave. to the Georgetown Branch Trail via Tilsbury and Wisconsin Ave., to Kentbury Rd. to Maryland Ave. to Rosedale Ave. Much of the way was rather icy and I had to pay close attention. I ran somewhat easy but felt like I tired and got winded early.

45 situps. Busy working.

Prince William Forest, VA. A QOC committee toured an area of the park to compare contours derived from LIDAR with what we could see in the field and and area of the existing Prince William Forest map. We were determining if the LIDAR data was good enough for a base map and if so, what sampling and contour interval was appropriate for the park. The verdict was that 2.5m LIDAR contours provided enough detail for a mapper to use, then remove what was innappropriate. My toes were slowly going numb standing in the snow.

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Prince William Forest National Park. I checked out various parts of the park, leaving from Parking Area G. The area south had bad hilltops but nice lower areas. The reentrants were more subtle than other parts of PWF. As I crossed inside the Scenic Drive , nice woods continued for a ways. I did run into a bad swath of mountain laurel going further north. There was some beaver activity in one stream which made it difficult to cross so I didn't. I used LIDAR derived contours to run on. It took a bit to get used to it because the random noise in the map had not been smoothed yet.