Training Log Archive: Becks

Event: WCOC Osbornedale State Park
 

Today was much better! I thought Osbornedale would be a bit boring due to having been there too many times, but Jim and Rich planned an excellent course with plenty of micro and macro route choice, and my knowledge only helped in a couple of places. Totally spooned number 1 again - didn't have a strong enough attack point and was way too far to the right. I liked my early route choice to go high, but should have been more regimented on the descent. After that not too bad at all, a slight miss on 6 when I dropped off the western single contour spur instead of the eastern, placing me west of the control. 10 was very difficult to get to, as some unhelpful person had left a load of cut spiky things in the way. 11 and 12 I was not confident with, looking slightly too early for 11 and going way too high up the re-entrant for 12. Should have stayed low and attacked from the crag instead of trying to go straight. The rest was a dream, although a very achey legged one up the final hill! Physically felt a lot better today, legs feeling tired but strong, and actually got some decent speed in places. Yey! Just beat my goal of being faster than yesterday, despite slight increase in distance and way more climb.

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Wow, number 12 was a way worse mistake than I thought at the time. I did so much extra climb! Clearly didn't do a good enough compass check when I was climbing out of the re-entrant.

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Event: NEOC: Big River, RI
 

Becky and Nellie's Saturday Rhode Trip (see what I did there?!). John-Eric was kind enough to let me tag along on the way to Big River today, to check out not only a new map, but also another new state for me to orienteer in. I didn't go anywhere near far enough along the ridge to number one, the subtle re-entrants on the map looked way bigger in real life, and had to drop out to the road and head back in. After that I was lacking in confidence and my legs were pretty dead. The bad route choice was intentional to 6 in the early stages, after I failed to plan ahead and didn't realise the track I wanted went straight back down the hill again just after I had climbed to the top. So I maintained my height, and after that none of the tracks really made sense, despite many compass checks. I somehow ended up close to the control, and was way too slow going in. Then for 7 I went way too far north, still no idea how that happened, but a few others did it too. After that things improved, hesitant finding the actual sites in the thick pines on a couple, but as I got used to the map style things got a bit easier. Very happy to nail 10, as that seemed like a danger control.

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After that we extended our road trip by heading for lunch at a diner in Niantic, and then onto my favourite place, the Book Barn, which also seems to be one of Nellie's favourite places too. We had a lovely day, with excellent company, which I then extended further by strolling up to Judges Cave on West Rock with Rob just before the sun came down. Spring=awesome.

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DOMS, DOMS DOMS DOMS....DOMS, DOMS DOMS DOMS DOOOOOMS.

Must've been those lunges.

Rest day number two -it's been a busy week. Two chances to O' this weekend which I may well take - I'm guessing Big River and Osbornedale will still be on even if the weather is awful?

Cross fit Taster Session. Dan did an evaluation of our ranges of movement, tested us on max rep number/time on a few basic exercises, then gave us a mini circuit to do. 20cals on bike, 10 ring pulls, 20 press ups to the floor, 30 sit ups, 40 walking lunges, 20 cals on bike. It was fun! And Dan was not at all scary and macho. I think I will be going back. Only logging as level 1 as it's not running, but was sweating and wobbly legged by the end. Yey fun!

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Ran home from work in the glorious evening. Stiff! That's what core work feels like. It's a feeling I've missed. Looped round like a dizzy thing until I'd been out for 50, then headed home.

Getting back to being competitive step 1! Where should I start? I hear the very beginning is a very good place to start. Made the right choice skipping running yesterday and woke full of beans at 6 this morning to get in 4 x 400 before the dentist. Put a 12min 3km into vdot and it reckons a 97 sec 400. It felt good - strong and consistent but not leg and lung burny. Pretty sure Kitch mentioned something about that 6 months ago :s Just under the aim each time.

Roughly 6 months till North Americans. It took less to turn me into a semi decent marathon runner, so let's go!

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Also, it's definitely summer, as portaloos and geese have returned to the track.

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Oh no. It seems to be morning already.

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The anger and frustration is slowly dissipating, and I have realised I am incredibly tired. Rest day!

Yey! Got the dates my parents arrive wrong! They actually arrive in perfect time for the North Americans!

Just when I thought my day was turning out quite nicely after all...

"I don't think this paper has any chance of being accepted. You should analyse only the genes you want to see changes in, and forget the other 9500 that you detected in your experiment."

Paraphrasing, of course. Except not the first line of the e mail. It's now 10.11. Deadline is 12.00. Rob is currently writing a very angry e mail. I am currently trying not to punch a wall. He has had this data for six months. And now he wants more time. Except it's my name at the top, and it therefore reflects badly on me.

This man is so bad for my health. I am so angry right now.

C • It sounds very much like th... 1

11.36pm. No word. Guess I'm not submitting after all then.

Arse.

Wasn't going to run today, as I presumed I would be tired and was definitely stressed out over getting this paper all together for the deadline. But then Boris arrived, and I couldn't not run if Boris was here, so we headed out just as it got dark. And everything felt surprisingly awesome. So that was nice.