Training Log Archive: bbrookeIn the 7 days ending Feb 23, 2008:
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Saturday Feb 23, 2008 #
Orienteering race (Sprint) 29:38 [3] 1.94 mi (15:17 / mi) +131ft 14:21 / mi
slept:8.0 weight:125lbs
I was running with as much speed as I could muster (well, maybe an 8 on a scale of 1 to 10), and my GPS tracks show that I was fairly accurate (except for mistakes at #6 and #10). John Pascal finished just six seconds behind me. p.s. I'm 36 and he's in his 70s. Wow.
GPS Tracks (I'm not sure why the tracks are so disjointed...):
Orienteering race (Green Course) 1:15:33 [3] 4.4 mi (17:10 / mi) +558ft 15:20 / mi
slept:8.0 weight:125lbs
I felt pretty happy about my accuracy today. But, I made the Dumb Route Choice of the Century on my way to #5. Sigh... (I thought running fast on the trail would be better than rocky footing and going up-and-down across those reentrants and spurs. But, the suprs weren't really all that steep or high, and the trail option took me so far out of the way...) DUMB!
GPS Tracks:
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Dinner at Guadalajara Grill. We were starving when we got there, but we figured it must be good if the parking lot was overflowing and there was a 30-minute wait... It was really good.
C • wait 2
Friday Feb 22, 2008 #
Orienteering (Training Course) 1:16:57 [3] 3.34 mi (23:02 / mi) +262ft 21:27 / mi
slept:8.0 weight:125lbs
A fun training course at TSN's Arthur Pack map -- with tons of cool cactus varieties. The terrain was pretty flat, so the focus was on precision compass work.
I skipped #6 when I realized I had missed it, and then I had an error at #7.
GPS Tracks:
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After the training course, we headed to the Titan Missile Museum. Very cool!
And then we saw Vantage Point. Not as cool! (The last movie I saw was "No Country for Old Men". So, this one seemed just that much more cheesey and Hollywood-mainstream in comparison...)
Dinner at Grimaldi's Pizza.
Dessert and festivities at Cristina's (flourless chocolate cake -- YUM!).
Thursday Feb 21, 2008 #
Event: US Team training activity
Orienteering tempo 1:52:48 [3] ***
slept:6.0
A fun contour-only training course with a few sections of Line-O added in, at TSN's "Italian Trap" map.
It would have been nice if specific driving directions had been posted sooner than 9:30pm last night, for those of us who are "on the road". About 10 of us sat waiting at two different (wrong) parking lots after following the directions that were originally posted...("follow the directions on the TSN web site").
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We were able to do a quick tour of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum before it closed for the day. It's actually more of a botanical garden and zoo than a museum. We missed the hummingbirds, but highlights of our tour included seeing: a roving group of grunty javelinas, a pack of obese prairie dogs, bobcats eating chunks of mystery meat, and some other exotic cat eating a dead bird.
Dinner at El Charro.
Tuesday Feb 19, 2008 #
Soccer intervals (indoor) 45:00 [3]
slept:10.0 weight:125lbs
Indoor soccer -- a new Monday night league at a different facility that's twice as big as the one in Boulder. Holy cow! Lots of running...(since the place was bigger and we only had one sub). We lost, mainly due to the fact that most of us were sucking wind after about 15 minutes...