Training Log Archive: AliCIn the 30 days ending Jun 30, 2015:
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Tuesday Jun 30, 2015 #
Running 38:13 [2] 4.66 mi (8:12 / mi) +80m 7:47 / mi
Orienteering 20:00 [1] 2.5 km (8:00 / km)
Went well! Happy to have people over to my house and orienteer and have fun and eat ice cream!
20 attendees, 19 orienteered, 18 finished the course (hope you're ankle heals quick Sue!)
8 Reed, 12 non-Reed
4 newbie groups: 3 Reed, 1 non-Reed
Thanks to Mike T. and Virginia for help with control pickup and to Mike P. for help marking my house admist oil truck chaos!
Monday Jun 29, 2015 #
Orienteering 34:58 [1] 2.55 mi (13:43 / mi) +54m 12:52 / mi
Strength 12:00 [1] 0.08 mi (2:29:42 / mi) +1m 2:24:07 / mi
Sunday Jun 28, 2015 #
Orienteering 16:01 [1] 0.83 mi (19:13 / mi) +53m 16:03 / mi
Running 7:18 [1] 0.56 mi (13:02 / mi) +42m 10:34 / mi
Orienteering 42:58 [4] 2.56 mi (16:47 / mi) +344m 11:50 / mi
Wow, that was a blast! So much contour detail. And much more fun at 1:7500. Otherwise my magnifier would have had to be swung in full time.
1 - Missed too far left, should have been more confident I was in the reentrant on the sw edge of the circle coming up the hill and corrected. When I hit the ditch in the circle, realized I'd gone to far, turned around and saw it.
2 - Came right to it, but didn't see a depression or a control so searched high, hit the ditch, came back down. 1:7500 scale hadn't fully set in yet.
3-4-5-6-7 all good, although probably didn't need to climb to the nook saddle right under the line to 7
8 - Nervous, would have been good to find a way to do this more confidently.
9 - Came down the hillside a bit early, could keep going to the distinct nose. First saw Vicky here.
10 - Up the hill, good long pause too early, then saw control sneaking behind the knoll.
11 - Fine, Vicky passed me on the leg, but overshot.
12 - I climbed the hill and ended up too far S, took me too long to correct.
13 - Good.
14 - I went low to the left of the line. Possibly better to just more confidently go over hill tops? Vicky did that route and seems like she gained time.
15 - Feisty up the hill to hopefully finally lose Vicky for good.
16 - Attackpoint cliff.
17 - WAs a bit timid that the control + it's reentrant wouldn't be visible from below, but they were amazingly obvious. Attack otherwise would have been distance from stream bend.
18 - Hm, not great, for awhile I didn't know where I was on the slopey hillside. Located on the super narrow reentrant, and was good I was at the top of it to get to the otherside. That earth wall would not have been good to mess with!
19 - Whee downhill!
20 - A little scary in the thicker low-vis green, but right to it, to be honest a few seconds faster because someone else had just punched it.
21 - Ran along bottom and then back up along chute.
Saturday Jun 27, 2015 #
Running 6:10 [1] 0.42 mi (14:38 / mi) +47m 10:52 / mi
Orienteering 2:00:34 [3] 9.52 mi (12:40 / mi) +677m 10:22 / mi
Friday Jun 26, 2015 #
Running 5:27 [1] 0.51 mi (10:37 / mi)
Orienteering 17:08 [4] 2.32 mi (7:23 / mi) +3m 7:21 / mi
16c
Woo sprinting! Felt good to try to push to full speed and think and find things. Water was in the way often, so had to make fuller angle direction turns which ya know can be hard on an oxygen-deprived brain.
I was most worried coming into the sand bar #10, seeing a mini bridge off to my left that I wasn't expecting, but also didn't think could be the big bridge. Was a little uncomfy in that bit.
Then there was the mini marsh to cross later on. I thought it might be easier to cross where a indistinct trail was indicated, nope, just as watery!
Orienteering 10:51 [1] 1.18 mi (9:12 / mi) +3m 9:07 / mi
And then time for ice cream! Unfortunately Tom and I missed the swimming expeditions.
Thursday Jun 25, 2015 #
Orienteering 24:07 [1] 2.46 mi (9:48 / mi) +105m 8:39 / mi
But anyways, woke up and tested out my course for next week's ZerO. Think it should work. (Don't look at track if you're coming!) =)
Wednesday Jun 24, 2015 #
Cycling 1:49:39 [1] 26.22 mi (4:11 / mi) +484m 3:57 / mi
They are keeping me busy!
Tuesday Jun 23, 2015 #
Orienteering 40:38 [1] 3.43 mi (11:51 / mi) +86m 10:59 / mi
Monday Jun 22, 2015 #
Running 3:46 [2] 0.49 mi (7:45 / mi) +37m 6:16 / mi
Drills 6:53 [1] 0.4 mi (17:10 / mi) +15m 15:23 / mi
Running 45:52 [1] 5.48 mi (8:22 / mi) +77m 8:01 / mi
Sunday Jun 21, 2015 #
Running 4:50 [1] 0.49 mi (9:49 / mi) +113m 5:44 / mi
Running race 57:22 [4] 5.32 mi (10:47 / mi) +332m 9:02 / mi
Wow. A running race that was actually orienteering-style running. Impressed. On the side of Mt. Hood, mostly through this giant alpine pumice-y rock wash with streams through it, but also some through the woods, if anything seeking out trees to jump over, duck through, etc.
So I'll count as very good terrain-run training!
2 minutes behind the leading men, many> 16 minutes ahead of the next woman. 5th overall.
Saturday Jun 20, 2015 #
Cycling 38:42 [1] 8.76 mi (4:25 / mi) +190m 4:08 / mi
Running 10:12 [1] 1.18 mi (8:38 / mi) +1m 8:36 / mi
Orienteering 28:49 [4] 3.87 mi (7:27 / mi) +1m 7:26 / mi
Woo, good sprint training! Totally messed up one route choice. Stairs were hard due to mapping. 4 loops, some doubling up of controls, but usually coming from a different way.
Cycling 40:31 [1] 8.22 mi (4:56 / mi) +184m 4:37 / mi
Friday Jun 19, 2015 #
Running 1:51 [1] 0.19 mi (9:50 / mi)
Running 2:24 [1] 0.3 mi (7:57 / mi)
Aerobics 45:00 [1]
Running 8:45 [1] 0.82 mi (10:43 / mi) +16m 10:06 / mi
Thursday Jun 18, 2015 #
Running 50:57 [2] 6.66 mi (7:39 / mi) +119m 7:15 / mi
More observing tonight- will see if the CCD camera we have is operational...
Wednesday Jun 17, 2015 #
Running 12:23 [1] 1.2 mi (10:18 / mi) +67m 8:47 / mi
Drills 4:35 [1] 0.22 mi (20:50 / mi) +50m 12:13 / mi
Running 40:41 5.2 mi (7:49 / mi) +179m 7:04 / mi
4-3-2-1 on with half as much rest x 2
Legs a bit tired from yesterday's fastish run, but nothing too tight to push hard. Scouted out some potential control sites on my way out and back around campus.
Tuesday Jun 16, 2015 #
Running 2:11 [2] 0.3 mi (7:24 / mi)
Drills 6:43 [1] 0.41 mi (16:23 / mi) +4m 15:54 / mi
Running 1:03:02 [2] 8.42 mi (7:29 / mi) +147m 7:06 / mi
Telescope Night 2: better aligned, woo! Saw Jupiter and Saturn again, and Venus in it's current crescent phase. Need to get a higher magnification eyepiece, for the planets at least. And then the globular cluster M13 in Hercules.
Monday Jun 15, 2015 #
Cycling 57:52 [1] 11.67 mi (4:58 / mi) +77m 4:52 / mi
Cycling 28:27 [4] 9.94 mi (2:52 / mi) +7m 2:51 / mi
First circuit bike race! Was in the novice category, so just 5 laps of the Portland International Raceway. Fastest two miles were at 23.8 mph, those were probably downwind...
Tactical, really helpful to be drafting. After the first two laps, was a group of 4 of us. One guy seemed happy to lead into the wind, wasn't really going to complain. Sometimes downwind was easy enough to grab some water. Then one of the three guys in our group took off with a loop to go. We steadily gained on him throughout the lap and one guy slungshot past me in the finish shoot an nearly got him. I came in 3rd.
Cycling 57:39 [1] 12.63 mi (4:34 / mi) +151m 4:24 / mi
Sunday Jun 14, 2015 #
Running 10:16 [1] 1.12 mi (9:12 / mi) +4m 9:06 / mi
Orienteering 57:18 [3] 4.95 mi (11:35 / mi) +15m 11:28 / mi
The Extreme-O meant bonus challenges, all of which were good training.
#2 - trails not on the map
#3 - four controls, locate the right one based on control descriptions
#6 - pick which of three controls is 150m away from previous (i.e. pace count)
#12 - from map segment and memory from #11
#14 - navigate by aerial photo
#16 - 300m at 210 degrees azimuth (made me think, *never* use my compass in this way)
Fun times, all good things to practice, plus trying to keep focused and have flow through it all. #2 was very challenging for me, but probably made it hard on myself by just trying to go directly and going through a steep-banked stream lined with nettles. Still, I should have been able to find the control even without trails on the other side.
#3 was hard because none of the controls seemed right for the description. It was 'inside NW corner of paved area'. But there were only cars and camper vans on the paved area, no controls. So I chose the one on the inner NW corner of open, thinking maybe I was confused about symbol for open versus paved.
Then pretty much all fine until the azimuth-distance control. Eep! What? 210 degrees, ok, hah, there are numbers on my compas, so I guess we count east of north and then took off on my bearing. Even rotated the rotating part so I could keep north in the house (having tuned into John's compass lesson for Mariela at Tabor helped!). After going through the swamp, I had a look at the map and realized where the control must be, since it was in a depression and just ran there.
Orienteering 16:19 [3] 1.97 mi (8:17 / mi) +2m 8:15 / mi
Running 6:20 [2] 0.69 mi (9:14 / mi) +3m 9:07 / mi
Orienteering 22:19 [1] 1.97 mi (11:20 / mi) +5m 11:14 / mi
Running 4:25 [1] 0.52 mi (8:26 / mi) +6m 8:09 / mi
Saturday Jun 13, 2015 #
Cycling 2:41:31 [1] 35.76 mi (4:31 / mi) +790m 4:14 / mi
Friday Jun 12, 2015 #
Aerobics 43:17 [1] 0.59 mi (1:13:19 / mi) +30m 1:03:20 / mi
Thursday Jun 11, 2015 #
Running 1:03:03 [1] 7.2 mi (8:45 / mi)
Wednesday Jun 10, 2015 #
Running 49:23 [1] 5.03 mi (9:49 / mi) +56m 9:29 / mi
Tuesday Jun 9, 2015 #
Running 13:20 [2] 1.74 mi (7:41 / mi) +5m 7:37 / mi
Drills 6:57 [1] 0.32 mi (21:38 / mi)
Running 19:37 [4] 3.36 mi (5:50 / mi)
Running 9:41 [2] 1.18 mi (8:13 / mi) +20m 7:48 / mi
Monday Jun 8, 2015 #
Running 18:04 [1] 2.02 mi (8:57 / mi) +27m 8:35 / mi
Orienteering 11:23 [3] 1.13 mi (10:04 / mi) +49m 8:53 / mi
Thanks to Tom for setting up the training!
Running 19:53 [1] 2.0 mi (9:56 / mi) +88m 8:45 / mi
Sunday Jun 7, 2015 #
Running 1:20:05 [2] 6.31 mi (12:41 / mi) +817m 9:03 / mi
Ankles have to do a lot of work on the loose rock, probably good, but calves/Achilles were burning on the way up. Surprisingly breathing was ok despite 7000->9000 ft.
Timing also worked awesomely, caught up to Tom with just 0.2 miles to go to the summit (he hiked the more direct route). Buff's bagels at the top, then down together.
Saturday Jun 6, 2015 #
Running warm up/down 17:49 [2] 1.97 mi (9:03 / mi) +56m 8:19 / mi
Running race 20:44 [4] 2.98 mi (6:57 / mi) +106m 6:16 / mi
So Wednesday night Tom and I checked if there were any local races this weekend - answer yes! One *right* outside of Tom's apartment's door in Thorpe park!
Good trail race, up the trails I often run. There's a real difference running at 7000 ft! The really elite runners were in the 10k, by the looks of some of the women I would have gotten my butt kicked. I opted for the 5k to try to get something a bit faster in. The major effort though was the steep climb, I think the 10k just did more flat stuff up on the mea. But very muddy up there! It poured last night (rare event) and it was slick mud in all the flat zones. Stick-to-your-shoes-and-make-them-heavy type of mud.
There was a fast 14 year old boy who was ahead of me the whole race, except briefly when he tried to take wrong turns a few times. Glad I was there to right him, totally a strong runner!
Won a butterfly-themed hand-etched glass plate, now sitting in Tom's window!
Running warm up/down 5:49 [1] 0.59 mi (9:51 / mi) +20m 8:55 / mi
Friday Jun 5, 2015 #
Cycling 49:44 [2] 8.77 mi (5:40 / mi) +273m 5:10 / mi
Thursday Jun 4, 2015 #
Cycling 11:26 [1] 1.34 mi (8:32 / mi) +155m 6:17 / mi
Running 52:16 5.54 mi (9:26 / mi) +277m 8:10 / mi
Also, I programmed in Fortran today. Last time was first year of grad school?
Wednesday Jun 3, 2015 #
Running 5:49 [1] 0.65 mi (9:00 / mi) +6m 8:45 / mi
Drills 3:18 [1] 0.13 mi (24:49 / mi) +1m 24:15 / mi
Running 1:18:09 8.3 mi (9:25 / mi) +132m 8:58 / mi
I sprinted a few of the hills on the way there and did portions of the Buffalo Park lap a bit quicker.
Tuesday Jun 2, 2015 #
Running 1:46 [2] 0.26 mi (6:52 / mi)
Drills 6:17 [1] 0.4 mi (15:42 / mi)
Running 45:55 [2] 5.64 mi (8:08 / mi) +47m 7:56 / mi
Monday Jun 1, 2015 #
Running 52:53 [2] 6.62 mi (7:59 / mi) +82m 7:42 / mi
Tried to do some intervals, but legs felt iffy, so called it quits after 1-2-3-4 with half as much rest. Perhaps a combo of too tight/legs too cold in the drizzle.
Exciting news: ordered Reed College a new telescope today. Pretty exciting! Means the summer won't be taken up by only battling 20 year old trying-to-die electronics. But I really hope the CCD camera we have still works...