Training Log Archive: JanetT

Event: EMPO - Thacher State Park
 

What with my incapacities and the fact that I'm about to cover 9+ km tomorrow, I opted for the 3.3km Yellow course rather than a 4.8km Orange or Green at Thacher (courses designed by EMPO member Bruce Beesley).

The trails were lovely (only a little mud in places, not surprising with this past week's rain) and the controls hung high, but near the end I started going down a hill I should instead have gone up, and had to retrace my steps. The weather cooperated too, bringing partly sunny skies and a temp in the upper 50s.

Maybe our luck will hold up for tomorrow and the rain will hold off until later in the afternoon?

Yellow - Splits

I'm perusing some of the Orienteering USA magazines that Dave Cady had given me a year or so ago. They precede ONA, and he had issues from June 1979 to October 1985 (which issue has Peggy D on the cover). Fascinating reading, and I found some results from 1980 and 1984 NAOCs held in Ohio and New York and added them to the NAOC champions listing on the OUSA site.

I'm chuckling as I read the Nov 1982 issue ("Special Issue: the Birth of U.S. Orienteering 1967-1971") before I had over the entire set to Donna Fluegel for use at the special anniversary program to be held at NAOCs in Hanover. Here's the quote that amused me today: "Bud Fish reports that he was told to write a book [about orienteering] by his Ft. Belvoir superiors during the 1969 to 1971 period he was there, but he refused to. Instead he 'wrote a four-page hand-out which was basically all you needed.'" Then I think about Chuck and Bob's Discovering Orienteering book published recently....

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15:43/16:05/16:13/3:53

I even threw in a couple of jogging laps in the third mile, but it was slower than the first two. Pygmy Goat this weekend should be interesting.

Hard time getting comfortable trying to fall asleep last night but managed to get 6 hours.

Decided to give my exercise class a try again, and managed most of the aerobic moves but kept arm movements on the gentle side. Still got a bit sore so left before the abs/stretching segments. Legs feel like they got a workout, so that's good. :-) (using different muscles than just pure walking)

While Glen was in Pilates (and explaining my absence). Ribs aren't ready to try some of those moves yet. As it was, my knee started getting sore as my laps went on, but not so bad I needed to stop. Good first lap time.

15:26/15:54/16:02/4:02

We went to the Y on this drizzly/rainy/progressively colder day. I managed a negative split on my laps, perhaps inspired by two women who were going faster than I was while still walking and not running.

15:40/15:25/3:39

Ribs hurt when I put any pressure on them, or when I reach forward and up or across from the left side, or when I bend over (say, to tie my shoes). When my knee's not hurting, though, walking is the best exercise I can imagine right now.

I can't imagine going back to Pilates class for at least a couple more weeks; maybe more.