Training Log Archive: jtorrancIn the 29 days ending Feb 29, 2004:
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Sunday Feb 29, 2004 #
Orienteering 1:40:08 [4] 10.83 km (9:15 / km)
Long course at Bowie - extremely flat, water features (and areas that aren't usually water features) still very full though no longer in flood, thorns everywhere. The park (not precisely the same parts of it, naturally) was much more runnable covered in several inches of snow last year. No major errors bar running about a hundred meters past the ideal place to leave a trail but compass technique needs work. Though I can blame much of the trouble on the impossibility of running anything like straight through the vegetation.
Running 1:00:00 [2]
Scouting control locations in College Park - Greg and I being worried that Vytenis might be short on time for course setting, we thought we'd offer him a selection of hangable sites. Very uneven effort since I speeded up enormously as I ran out of time at the end to make my rendezvous with Greg.
Saturday Feb 28, 2004 #
Mapping 4:20:00 [1]
Last chance to do any meaningful field survey in College Park before the event.
Friday Feb 27, 2004 #
Cycling 33:00 [3] 6.5 mi (5:05 / mi)
The other half commute. Very late at night (early in the morning) with the flashing yellow lights - I'll be quite happy to have this mapping project at the University of Maryland over and done with. Until the next iteration, anyway - can't possibly be sooner than several months off.
Thursday Feb 26, 2004 #
Cycling 33:00 [3] 6.5 mi (5:05 / mi)
Half commute - left bike at work and went directly to Kennedy Center by Metro to see the Batsheva Dance Company (Israeli) perform an evening length work almost as strange as what they did when they were here in 1998. The absence of a solo by a shaven-headed man in a gold lame dress dancing to the Fanfare for the Common Man left it falling just short.
Wednesday Feb 25, 2004 #
Cycling 1:06:00 [3] 13.0 mi (5:05 / mi)
Tuesday Feb 24, 2004 #
Cycling 1:06:00 [3] 13.0 mi (5:05 / mi)
Discovered after years of this commute that it's possible to make it through one series of three traffic lights on the way to work if I manage to get to the front of the line and do a lung-busting sprint out of the traffic light preceding them. Think of all the hours I've wasted - probably three or four all told.
Monday Feb 23, 2004 #
Cycling 1:06:00 [3] 13.0 mi (5:05 / mi)
Saturday Feb 21, 2004 #
Mapping 5:30:00 [1]
Walking and standing in the part of the UMD College Park campus I hadn't given the once over as yet. More time consuming than my other sections thus far - they've built some new buildings where they used to have parking lots plus the area has more buildings and less open space than the other sections. I'll be deeply aware of the map's imperfections when we debut it in just over two weeks but it should be "good enough".
Friday Feb 20, 2004 #
Cycling 1:06:00 [3] 13.0 mi (5:05 / mi)
Thursday Feb 19, 2004 #
Cycling 1:06:00 [3] 13.0 mi (5:05 / mi)
Wednesday Feb 18, 2004 #
Cycling 1:21:00 [3] 16.5 mi (4:55 / mi)
Tuesday Feb 17, 2004 #
Cycling 1:15:00 [3]
Longer than necessary commute - teach me to try taking a direct route through a section of Maryland suburbia I don't know well.
Monday Feb 16, 2004 #
Cycling 1:06:00 [3] 13.0 mi (5:05 / mi)
Work commute - still a little wiped from racing the day before.
Sunday Feb 15, 2004 #
Cycling 1:26:00 [3]
Vienna Metro to Great Falls, VA for orienteering meet and back. If we had an intensity 2.5 I would use it - didn't want to overdo it heading out and couldn't heading back.
Orienteering 1:14:04 [4] 10.5 km (7:03 / km) +295m 6:11 / km
spiked:20/21c
Blue course at Great Falls, VA. Spur and reentrant except for control 6 in a flat area of seriously undermapped rock detail - should have been much more careful executing compass technique since I made a massive parallel error given the distance in question, not helped at all by the unmapped pond where I drifted to that I initially assumed was the mapped one just east of the control. Stopped for thirty seconds to tell someone where they were on the map between 8 and 9. Probably should have dropped down to the trail and done all the climb at the end on 13 to 14 rather than head straight through even the mountain laurel shown on the map in an attempt to spread out the climb. Irritating to lose to Vytenis by about a minute and a half but also satisfying progress - a few years ago losing one medium-sized error wouldn't have put me anywhere near Vytenis.
Saturday Feb 14, 2004 #
Cycling 1:00:00 [3]
General errand running, including trying to renew my driver's license. It appears I need to get my prescription updated again - not a bad idea in any case since I'd hate to miss any of the lovely details in Harriman maps in May and others.
Mapping 3:00:00 [1]
Walking part of the central area of the UMD campus - mostly mapping vegetation.
Running 6:00 [4]
Had to run to the Metro after all that walking and standing in place.
Friday Feb 13, 2004 #
Cycling 1:06:00 [3] 13.0 mi (5:05 / mi)
Thursday Feb 12, 2004 #
Cycling 1:06:00 [3] 13.2 mi (5:00 / mi)
Cycling commute once more.
Wednesday Feb 11, 2004 #
Running 14:00 [3]
Unavoidable running for getting to work purposes.
Running 30:00 [4]
Run from the King Street Metro tending uphill towards the QOC board of directors meeting in Arlington. Made it with just over ten minutes to spare before official beginning. Left leg feeling as though shinsplints are developing - good thing the roads look clear enough to revert to cycling for transport and keep running on softer surfaces where it belongs.
Monday Feb 9, 2004 #
Running 33:00 [3]
Home to the south end of the Rideau Canal and back.
Speed skating 30:00 [3]
More relaxed early morning end to end round trip on the canal before saying goodbye to winter sports for the season. Very few people on the canal. Bizarrely, almost half of them seemed to be runners - such a waste of a good ice sheet (when not part of a race).
Sunday Feb 8, 2004 #
Cross Country Skiing 2:10:00 [2]
Alone, in Gatineau Park again. Started from Penguin and went out to the Rampart Lookout over Meech Lake and back, again on classic only trails, including descending Western Trail to Fortune Lake Parkway - definitely one of Gatineau Park's most sustained thrill rides.
Saturday Feb 7, 2004 #
Speed skating 17:56 [4] 8.0 km (2:15 / km)
First leg of the Winterlude Triathlon in Ottawa, including transition to ski leg. Was third off the ice but the speed skating is much like a cycling race in that drafting makes breaking away from the pack is all but impossible. Eighth on the leg overall as people made the transition faster.
Cross Country Skiing (Skating) 19:12 [4] 4.5 km (4:16 / km)
4.5 km ski leg (strangely the same course they've always previously claimed was longer) tracked for skating but significantly softer than ideal. Not as slow as last year's slog though. My first time doing skating technique all year so I should probably be thankful I managed 17th on the leg. Though the women's winner blowing by me was just as annoying as last year what with the rubbing in of how much worse a skier I am than when I lived up north.
Running 21:28 [4] 5.0 km (4:18 / km)
5K run leg on a new course mostly on the ice surface of the canal. O shoes worked nicely. Passed five or six people including the women's leader just past the halfway point. Gratifying that, compared to last year when I caught her about 300m shy of the finish. 10th overall compared to 15th last year but 2nd back in 1999 - this race was better for my ego back when it was at low ebb, the fields were smaller and weaker, and the female winner was slightly less superhuman (though at least she's not quite so superhuman at running as at skiing) but the exercise would appear to indicate that I'm in at least slightly better shape now than I was the same time a year ago. Saw Marketa Graham going the other way at a turning point in the course but no sign of Brian who has been very regular at this race.
Cross Country Skiing 2:30:00 [1]
Long (duration more than distance) slow apres triathlon ski in Gatineau Park with my friend Ian. Light snow falling, lovely snow conditions. We started from Meech Lake and made our way to Fortune Lake Parkway and back sticking largely to smaller trails not groomed for skating technique.
Thursday Feb 5, 2004 #
Running 10:00 [3]
Getting to work.
Wednesday Feb 4, 2004 #
Running 51:00 [3]
Work, down into Rock Creek Park then climbing up to Connecticut Avenue and running down to Cleveland Park to buy groceries - was desperately low on produce. Distance to libraries and shopping along Connecticut may be about the same but the run is much more fraught with poorly lit, shoulderless and sidewalkless roads. Could be nice when I have more daylight and can run home through Rock Creek Park all the way but for now I need to get back to cycling. My shins are complaining a bit about all this pavement running.
Tuesday Feb 3, 2004 #
Running 20:00 [4]
Coming and going run-Metro-run sandwiches.
Monday Feb 2, 2004 #
Running 10:00 [4]
Running on the way to work - the new offices are much closer to Metro which will be nice in crappy weather as now.
Running 48:00 [4] 6.5 mi (7:23 / mi)
Turns out Mapquest says my Friday guess at how much shorter the new commute is was spot on. Much lighter though not quite insignificant load this time, still enough crappy footing in both irregular and slippery varieties but most of the sidewalks were tolerably passable. So, assuming I've got various timepieces not too far out of agreement, why is just over 10K at what I swear was as high an effort level as I would do in a race taking me so long?
Sunday Feb 1, 2004 #
Mapping 3:00:00 [1]
Surveying one section of the University of Maryland College Park campus.