Training Log Archive: jtorranc

Running on Hammonds Rocks while Dan and sister did the 6 hour version of SVO's rogaine. Variable effort but never very high except when I ran across a turkey in one of the more runnable sections of woods and decided to give chase. The turkey flew to get away after 50 meters or so so I disengaged but then it kept up nervous clucking so I left the trail and gave chase again with the same result. Have established that the most detailed rocky parts of the map exceed my ability to grasp completely even while standing still with a magnifier. I'll have to go back sometime and very carefully hang some bags then do a long session of doing legs between different ones at random.

C • Turkey 4

Cycling to work. Warm enough to do in shorts and a short-sleeved top. Hopefully this gets to be the default from now on. At least cycling home again in shorts was no problem.

Run to work through Rock Creek Park. No wildlife sightings but passed a dog running on three legs near the end of my run. The dog had a bandage or cast around its left foreleg and was holding it elevated as it ran.

C • the dog 1

Cycling home by way of PCRM, where the scale claims my G value dropped significantly during my recent two weeks of travelling and orienteering. Will have to confirm with another scale somewhere else when the opportunity comes.

C • Aha! 1

Just abdominal stuff.

Commute in. Somewhat warmer though still not up to seasonal norms.

In other news, I confirmed in Estonia that my Silva battery charger works, though it appears there's a need to check and make sure the leads are making good electrical contact with with battery. I've now got a battery I left charging overnight distinctly warm to the touch so it appears I have a functioning lighting system. I've no idea why combining my voltage converter with Clem's charger didn't work when I tried that but I'm not required to tie up all the loose ends.

BTW, if you take UK size 12. Letro Sport AB has dropped their last pairs of Jalas Black FLX 2005's to 200 kroner (about $40, approximately a third of the price for the latest model). At the risk of being crowded out of my room by O shoes (a purge is in order), I ordered two pairs.

C • What size is that in the US? 4

C • I had that problem too... 1

Run home from the AFI Silver (saw Jean-Pierre Melville's "L'Armee des Ombres") through Rock Creek Park with my now functional headlamp system. Got as close as I've ever been to a very young opossum (small enough to be taken for a normal sized rat at first glance) on the Pine Branch Trail just a few meters from where it joins 16th St. I find, on reflection, a certain pleasing strangeness in the fact that, as far as I recall, I've seen possums in the wild twice and both sightings occurred within that hotspot of wildlife viewing, the District of Columbia. Though I have the vague notion that the possum's range doesn't extend as far north as Ottawa so I guess that really isn't all that surprising.

C • Opossums 6

Warmup/cooldown.

4x100 m strides, silly walks and bounding.

Commute in again. Surprisingly cool this morning as yesterday morning. Warmer going home and then walking onwards to see a documentary about cantors at the DCJCC.

Commute in. Have much training to enter from the past two weeks but I'm not about to get that done today. One comment for now - I've never removed as many ticks from my body as after the US Team Trials long course yesterday. Three when I got to my car afterwards, three more when I stopped for gas a bit later, even one tiny one from my leg during my last paranoid search during my stopover in Atlanta in the evening. Made for a very unquiet evening and night what with thinking every random itch might be a final one I had missed.

Commute home with some grocery shopping.

C • Tiny ticks 4

Back to doing strength now that my two weeks of orienteering are done. While watching 24 wrap up.