Training Log Archive: PG

Got the fat/tired/sore trifecta, but that's still a lot better than sitting through Spike's flights home from the Pig.

Classic day at the Pig. Felt pretty beat after yesterday. Course was the usual very hilly stuff for the first half and then mostly flat the second half. Didn't have any zip in the hills, not so bad on the flats even though the running there wasn't so easy, combination of thickish vegetation and a lot of standing water. Navigation was generally fine, but not much of a sense of urgency.

I may be still a little tired from the half marathon. Hopefully will be better this coming weekend.

Classic-Red - Splits

U.S. Sprint Champs. Real nice event. Three courses, ran M45 on the Blue/Rd course, 22nd overall I think, first M45. Best was Patrick Goeres from Canada, about 14:30, closest American (Clem?) was just under 16 I think.

I had a pretty good run, but didn't feel particularly energetic. But not too bad.

Warm-up for the sprint.

U.S. Relay Champs, unofficial CSU 8-point team of Suzanne, Gail, me and Mikell. Another decent run withverying energy. Didn't have any zip climbing the many steep hills, but had moments in the latter part of the course when I felt fine. Orienteering was interesting, especially the route choices. I think there were two team ahead of us, the winning DVOA team and an unofficial Canadian team.

Warm-up for the relay.

Sprint-Blue - Splits

Event: Flying Pig X (OCIN)
 

Flying Pig, first day (middle distance), M45. Same map as used for the 3rd day of the Team Trials last year. Hillsides are still steep and muddy, though a good bit of the course was on more gentle terrain.

3 mistakes, all easily avoidable, not sure what I was doing, total maybe 2-3 minutes. Ran ok, didn't really push it. Problems seemed to start when I got near the home for abandoned pigs, don't know why. Need to get my head straight for tomorrow, get rid of the "I don't like this terrain" thoughts.

Met Max for the first time. Didn't seem to scare him, like I often do with little kids. And he kept coming back for more of my Cliff Bar.

I'll post routes when I get back.

C • FOOD!! 10

Out to the start.

C • Abandoned Pig Houses 5

Red Middle Distance - Splits

Day off today with the Pig starting tommorow. So I went over to the golf course and hit a few golf balls for the first time in 6 months. Didn't whiff a single time, though there were a couple of close calls.

Will has bailed on our relay team (citing academic obligations and something to do with his PhD dissertation, talk about having your priorities screwed up...), but I think we have recruited mindsweeper for a non-official CSU 8-point team with Suzzane, Gail, and me. Suprising/sad that CSU can't even get a single official team there. Need to get our act together.

C • sad! 2

13 hills loop. Relaxed pace for the first half, a little more energetic on the way back. Another perfect day, trails in excellent shape, clearly not very useful preparation for the mud and thorns this weekend. Or the NEOC meet next weekend. But just right for Northern Nipmuck the weekend after that.

Still feeling the effects of the race/cake, plus various warnings from SF about the effect of a change in the G on international economic conditions, have combined to make me feel unduly stressed, since I now feel obligated to not post the daily reading until after the market closes for the day. By which point, I have trouble remembering not only what the morning reading of the G was, but also just what sort of workout I did at my usual 1 pm outing and what clever/amusing thoughts may have occupied my mind and kept it off the discomforts at hand.

But I will try.

I do remember that I added a little extra onto the end of my 13 hill loop, making it the 16 hill loop ("hill" is defined quite loosely, though it does always indicate movement in an upward direction), and that quite early in the loop where I cross Mountain Road there was all sorts of excitement -- a couple of fire engines, an ambuance, a couple of police cars, traffic halted. I correctly surmised that it had nothing to do with me (if I'd already posted the day's upward break-out of the G , then I might have been concerned that they were just keeping an eye on me in case of sudden terminal cake induced obesity). A little further along I came upon the rescue operation, perhaps 10 people escorting a stretcher with someone presumably strapped on, though I couldn't see for sure. But no signs of blood, no screaming, for all I know it was a case of acute pison ivy. Or maybe just a drill in case the terrorists come to Greenfield and start mugging people in the woods.

The only other item of interest is that last night on the way home I killed a cat. Seriously. Just down the street. It darted out and before I could hit the brakes I had hit it. Right by the Williams Farm. The light was on in their house, so I went and knocked on their door, and they opened up, an old couple, very fine people, I've known them for 20 years, and I told them I'd killed one of their cats. And they said they had about 20 "barn cats" and it happens from time to time and there was nothing to be done and don't worry about it. But I still felt like crap.

C • Terorist Attack on Tower foiled! 1