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Saturday Oct 8, 2011 #
11 AM
Running 7:48 0.9 mi (8:42 / mi) +2m 8:39 / mi
ahr:139 max:154
Orienteering 35:44 2.82 mi (12:40 / mi) +35m 12:12 / mi
ahr:168 max:181 17c
Ontario Orienteering Champs, Middle @ Hidden Meadow & Spreckley's Trails
Fun terrain, detailed, medium visibility, needed non-stop focus! Little trails are dangerous, quite indistinct, but helpful if you get them. Better are contours, but they're only 2.5m, so not so distinct themselves...
Had a good race, flub-up on 5, which was silly, but good otherwise, oh, actually bad route choice to 1, should have opted for straighter trails, lost a fair bit to hammer there. And actually, maybe a few times I could have done more-around-on bigger trail routes, had perhaps to much of a go-straight mentality.
Up on Pippa by about 45 seconds, Katarina S another minute back I think?
295/2000
Fun terrain, detailed, medium visibility, needed non-stop focus! Little trails are dangerous, quite indistinct, but helpful if you get them. Better are contours, but they're only 2.5m, so not so distinct themselves...
Had a good race, flub-up on 5, which was silly, but good otherwise, oh, actually bad route choice to 1, should have opted for straighter trails, lost a fair bit to hammer there. And actually, maybe a few times I could have done more-around-on bigger trail routes, had perhaps to much of a go-straight mentality.
Up on Pippa by about 45 seconds, Katarina S another minute back I think?
295/2000
Running 9:48 1.0 mi (9:46 / mi) +3m 9:41 / mi
ahr:140 max:156
3 PM
Running 9:02 1.0 mi (9:04 / mi) +2m 9:01 / mi
ahr:111 max:151
Drills 5:05 0.34 mi (14:49 / mi)
ahr:148 max:162
Orienteering 18:31 1.91 mi (9:42 / mi) +1m 9:41 / mi
ahr:175 max:187 20c
Ontario Champs Sprint
Well, not such a super race, but somehow just snuck in front of Pippa, by 1 second, she also had a few off ones here and there. It was pretty tricky in the woods bits, indistinct trails and not too much more... hard!
6: almost caught by going past trail, but ok
7: oooh, tricky tucked right behind boulder
8: bah, hill too far east I think (15s)
13: straight, through green... maybe not best?
14: bah, issues in from the open on top of the hill, picked wrong indistinct trail (i.e. a not mapped one) sent me down the wrong reentrant, relocated via building, (25s?)
15: uh, lost trail on my way, wasn't even an indistinct one! jeez (15s)
16: fine, caught Alex who started 2 min up
17: terrible!! wanted to go to nearby indistinct trail and run along then pop down, not entirely sure what happened, but ended up in big open after little trails didn't make sense had been trying to go on conotours (2min)
18-19-20: fast as possible trying to get a bit of time back after disaster
And overnight score has me at 200 and Pippa at 200, Alex at 228. Scoring based on 100 for the winer and then 1 extra point for every percent back you are. Men's elite is pretty tight at 200-207-210-210 for Will Critchley, Eric Kemp, Serghei Logvin, and Jeff Teutsch.
315/2000
Well, not such a super race, but somehow just snuck in front of Pippa, by 1 second, she also had a few off ones here and there. It was pretty tricky in the woods bits, indistinct trails and not too much more... hard!
6: almost caught by going past trail, but ok
7: oooh, tricky tucked right behind boulder
8: bah, hill too far east I think (15s)
13: straight, through green... maybe not best?
14: bah, issues in from the open on top of the hill, picked wrong indistinct trail (i.e. a not mapped one) sent me down the wrong reentrant, relocated via building, (25s?)
15: uh, lost trail on my way, wasn't even an indistinct one! jeez (15s)
16: fine, caught Alex who started 2 min up
17: terrible!! wanted to go to nearby indistinct trail and run along then pop down, not entirely sure what happened, but ended up in big open after little trails didn't make sense had been trying to go on conotours (2min)
18-19-20: fast as possible trying to get a bit of time back after disaster
And overnight score has me at 200 and Pippa at 200, Alex at 228. Scoring based on 100 for the winer and then 1 extra point for every percent back you are. Men's elite is pretty tight at 200-207-210-210 for Will Critchley, Eric Kemp, Serghei Logvin, and Jeff Teutsch.
315/2000
Running 9:53 1.01 mi (9:47 / mi) +1m 9:45 / mi
ahr:147 max:157
Friday Oct 7, 2011 #
2 PM
Rollerskiing 1:08:38 10.1 mi (6:48 / mi) +407m 6:02 / mi
ahr:143 max:178
Pre-Canada ski with Alex. Specific strength on River Rd., another perfect temp day! Body felt good, attempted to not go too hard because lots of fun racing to do over the weekend!!
Thursday Oct 6, 2011 #
Note
And back in Amherst, after a leisurely 2.5 day trip from Cerro Tololo.
1) Cerro Tololo -> La Serena, eve spent finding hostel, making friends, eating fast food and going to a hard rock beer garden, drinking $2.5 per L beer surrounded by Iron Maiden posters with 2 French, 1 Australian, 1 Canadian
2) La Serena -> Santiago, 7hr bus trip, some sleep, some amazing views out the window, ocean and cliffs and desert and then orchards and gradually, gradually city...
3) Santiago: a few hours to grab last Chilean meal, visit Cultural Centre museum (exhibts: kids games!, Violet Parra - loved her tapestries, less so paintings)
4) Santaigo -> JFK: chatted with Argentinian (but lives in Garrison, NY) seatmate who first asked if I had kids, then a husband, then a boyfriend, right... we watched the Motorcycle Diaries together, in Spanish, English subtitles, required syncing our displays at beginning- tricky! Good film.
5) JFK -> Peekskill: air train, subway, train, reading Vargas Llosa's The Way to Paradise. Was walking up to Neil's when he pulled up to give me a ride, nice!
6) Peekskill: played O at BM, long lunch on porch, perfect perfect weather!
7) Peekskill -> Poughkeepsie: picked up by dad, catching up on Wall Street protests, discussing the world
8) Poughkeepsie: Dinner, good to see both Mom and Dad!
9) Poughkeepsie -> Amherst: Tea, podcasts and driving...
1) Cerro Tololo -> La Serena, eve spent finding hostel, making friends, eating fast food and going to a hard rock beer garden, drinking $2.5 per L beer surrounded by Iron Maiden posters with 2 French, 1 Australian, 1 Canadian
2) La Serena -> Santiago, 7hr bus trip, some sleep, some amazing views out the window, ocean and cliffs and desert and then orchards and gradually, gradually city...
3) Santiago: a few hours to grab last Chilean meal, visit Cultural Centre museum (exhibts: kids games!, Violet Parra - loved her tapestries, less so paintings)
4) Santaigo -> JFK: chatted with Argentinian (but lives in Garrison, NY) seatmate who first asked if I had kids, then a husband, then a boyfriend, right... we watched the Motorcycle Diaries together, in Spanish, English subtitles, required syncing our displays at beginning- tricky! Good film.
5) JFK -> Peekskill: air train, subway, train, reading Vargas Llosa's The Way to Paradise. Was walking up to Neil's when he pulled up to give me a ride, nice!
6) Peekskill: played O at BM, long lunch on porch, perfect perfect weather!
7) Peekskill -> Poughkeepsie: picked up by dad, catching up on Wall Street protests, discussing the world
8) Poughkeepsie: Dinner, good to see both Mom and Dad!
9) Poughkeepsie -> Amherst: Tea, podcasts and driving...
Note
Back to work, in charge of dept. colloquium, two interesting visitors, similar stuff to what I do but higher redshift, molecular gas in big galaxies.
Wednesday Oct 5, 2011 #
12 PM
Running warm up/down 3:22 0.26 mi (12:43 / mi) +13m 11:02 / mi
ahr:111 max:124
Orienteering 1:13:11 4.69 mi (15:36 / mi) +229m 13:33 / mi
ahr:138 max:168
Whew, and orienteering back into the life! Stopped by the new Neil home, he planned us both courses (thanks!), his was beginning and end of mine. BM really is *right* outside his door, see how short warm-up was.
Without compass, and with Neil around distracting me was a goof to 1 and 2... hm, cannot talk and orienteer-how do Sam and Hilly do it? Rest went well although not fast, part due to lacking compass, part due to it just being technical BM, part trying to keep ankle happy. At least one not-great route choice. Kept pretty on track even without compass, is def good to think this way sometimes. Amused much by guitar at number something-or-other...
Is amazingly delightful woods out there, so much fun to play in!
278/2000
Without compass, and with Neil around distracting me was a goof to 1 and 2... hm, cannot talk and orienteer-how do Sam and Hilly do it? Rest went well although not fast, part due to lacking compass, part due to it just being technical BM, part trying to keep ankle happy. At least one not-great route choice. Kept pretty on track even without compass, is def good to think this way sometimes. Amused much by guitar at number something-or-other...
Is amazingly delightful woods out there, so much fun to play in!
278/2000
Running warm up/down 3:55 0.39 mi (10:06 / mi) +4m 9:47 / mi
ahr:124 max:139
Strength 7:00 [0] 0.4 mi (17:30 / mi) +19m 15:15 / mi
Push ups/hammies. Could even do all hammie exercises, because Neil has a exercise ball.
Monday Oct 3, 2011 #
11 AM
Running 5:05 0.45 mi (11:18 / mi) +31m 9:18 / mi
ahr:122 max:136
To bed after a good night (telescope was behaving better!) at 7.30, up at noon to squish in a quick final last altitude training!
Drills 8:35 0.6 mi (14:18 / mi) +1m 14:14 / mi
ahr:133 max:155
Jumpity jump, knee fine
Running hills 33:41 2.84 mi (11:52 / mi) +270m 9:09 / mi
ahr:139 max:174
Finally trust the ankle to do a bit more on trail, uphill intervals from dormitorio to telescope road x 6, pretty good, get steepest at end and with stairs, lactic much!
2.22
2.29 (space out?)
2.21
2.20
2.18
2.20
A good observing run, all but one of our target galaxies with sufficient data now! We'll just have to leave that one be, they're taking the instrument we're using off this telescope in 2 weeks and moving it to Arizona. So Southern galaxies will not be observable in Brackett gamma, at least for the next 2 years...
2.22
2.29 (space out?)
2.21
2.20
2.18
2.20
A good observing run, all but one of our target galaxies with sufficient data now! We'll just have to leave that one be, they're taking the instrument we're using off this telescope in 2 weeks and moving it to Arizona. So Southern galaxies will not be observable in Brackett gamma, at least for the next 2 years...
Sunday Oct 2, 2011 #
Event: Hudson Highlander XVI
5 AM
Note
Woo, a good night! Clear, dark skies, good seeing (how much the pesky atmosphere fuzzes up the image), but the telescope wouldn't point worth crap. Luckily the FOV is huge, so still have our galaxies. Still, not much confidence if the telescope can't point within an arcmin!!
Last few standard star obs, then sleepy times!
Last few standard star obs, then sleepy times!
12 PM
Running long 2:00:31 9.88 mi (12:12 / mi) +779m 9:48 / mi
ahr:134 max:168
Long run in honor of Highlander- wish I was there! Woke up, slapped on the sunscreen and headed out. A bit down Neil's road and back and just on all available roads/paths at the observatory. Some are pseudo-paths that are really just raised dirt mounds covering water pipes (I think). There's even a mini-ascensor from a building slightly lower up to the telescopes, not sure if I noticed that before!
Ate a granola bar before, stopped 1h20 in for water and some durazno néctar, trying to be more conscious of eating/drinking for long things... stomach was fine with both options, but of course, wasn't going near race pace. Requested a bunch of food for night lunch tonight, will eat lots at dinner, but still have the rest of the night to weather!
Ate a granola bar before, stopped 1h20 in for water and some durazno néctar, trying to be more conscious of eating/drinking for long things... stomach was fine with both options, but of course, wasn't going near race pace. Requested a bunch of food for night lunch tonight, will eat lots at dinner, but still have the rest of the night to weather!
Strength 8:00 0.02 mi (6:42:20 / mi)
ahr:118 max:158
3 x 12 push ups
3 x 15, 12 hammies
3 x 20 dips
3 x 15, 12 hammies
3 x 20 dips