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Saturday Oct 31, 2009 #
Map Hike/Run 1:00:00 ***
shoes: Inov-8 Mudlcaw 330 August 2009
Hanging controls at Rocky Woods.
Friday Oct 30, 2009 #
Run warm up/down 30:00 [2]
shoes: Inov-8 Mudlcaw 330 August 2009
To the Sheepfold.
Run 1:15:00
shoes: Inov-8 Mudlcaw 330 August 2009
Skyline Trail with Brendan.
Run warm up/down 30:00 [2]
shoes: Inov-8 Mudlcaw 330 August 2009
Back to Oak Grove from the Sheepfold.
Thursday Oct 29, 2009 #
Note
(rest day)
Unscheduled rest day.
This occurred because I had World Series tickets offered to me ~Tuesday, and after a very quick consideration, decided it would be insane not to go. So, go I did.
Yesterday I did the bike before departure to NYC on the Acela (which was an hour late, of course--not making the rendezvous easy, but it did work out.)
And the game was amazing! Cliff Lee--muy, muy buen!
So, when it was over, had some drinks with my benefactor, then to Penn Station for a 3AM train back to Boston. Again, I get some fitful sleep on the train, but by the time I alight from it, my eyes are burning and feeling exhausted. Not a good follow-on to Sunday's antics. I needed to buckle down and get some sleep and get back to a human schedule (rather than the Ian one I found myself on.)
This occurred because I had World Series tickets offered to me ~Tuesday, and after a very quick consideration, decided it would be insane not to go. So, go I did.
Yesterday I did the bike before departure to NYC on the Acela (which was an hour late, of course--not making the rendezvous easy, but it did work out.)
And the game was amazing! Cliff Lee--muy, muy buen!
So, when it was over, had some drinks with my benefactor, then to Penn Station for a 3AM train back to Boston. Again, I get some fitful sleep on the train, but by the time I alight from it, my eyes are burning and feeling exhausted. Not a good follow-on to Sunday's antics. I needed to buckle down and get some sleep and get back to a human schedule (rather than the Ian one I found myself on.)
Wednesday Oct 28, 2009 #
Bike 1:00:00 [2]
Level 8 hills.
Tuesday Oct 27, 2009 #
Run 1:00:00
shoes: 9 2007 Saucony
Level 8 hills. Tempo at 48, 10mph at 56, 10.5 at 57, and 11 at 59. All speeds felt good.
1034 calories.
1034 calories.
Note
Missed my track work for the first time in weeks, sadly.
I got dressed to go, and even got outside, but the weather was marginal at best. I made an executive decision that due to my recent adventures, etc., I may have been sufficiently run down, sleep deprived, etc., that in conjunction with drizzly weather, I would be setting myself up for an epic fail and would be inviting at least a frustrating performance and quite possibly illness.
I think this was the right choice.
I got dressed to go, and even got outside, but the weather was marginal at best. I made an executive decision that due to my recent adventures, etc., I may have been sufficiently run down, sleep deprived, etc., that in conjunction with drizzly weather, I would be setting myself up for an epic fail and would be inviting at least a frustrating performance and quite possibly illness.
I think this was the right choice.
Monday Oct 26, 2009 #
Note
http://www.attackpoint.org/viewlog.jsp?userid=20&p...
10/21 this time. Clear progress. At this rate, assuming the field keeps shrinking, I'll converge on a medal again. Kind of like Zeno.
I was so much better in the last century. I wish I had some results prior to AP.
1996, Ohio, ?
1997, QOC, 3/39 US, 9/45 overall
1998, Teanaway Forks, ?
1999, Spooner Lake, ?
2000, course setter
2001: CNYO, 43/58 overall (injured, buck sucked anyway)
2006: RMOC, 14/25 overall (since I suck at the US Champs, incremental suckitude from altitude seems indiscernible.) ;)
2007: QOC, 15/27 overall
2009: BGR, 10/21 overall
Clearly, one of the big problems of this year's champs was no foreign competitors. Still, the overall numbers were too low notwithstanding.
10/21 this time. Clear progress. At this rate, assuming the field keeps shrinking, I'll converge on a medal again. Kind of like Zeno.
I was so much better in the last century. I wish I had some results prior to AP.
1996, Ohio, ?
1997, QOC, 3/39 US, 9/45 overall
1998, Teanaway Forks, ?
1999, Spooner Lake, ?
2000, course setter
2001: CNYO, 43/58 overall (injured, buck sucked anyway)
2006: RMOC, 14/25 overall (since I suck at the US Champs, incremental suckitude from altitude seems indiscernible.) ;)
2007: QOC, 15/27 overall
2009: BGR, 10/21 overall
Clearly, one of the big problems of this year's champs was no foreign competitors. Still, the overall numbers were too low notwithstanding.
Note
This year's US Champs were great. Just a wonderful event.
And yet few people got to enjoy it. ~20 eligible finishers in M21? Way less than 10 in F21 and fewer yet in most of the <40 categories.
Not cool.
There were 45 in 2000 and 58 in 2001. Those were at least legitimate.
Clearly, if Ross didn't beat feet, no one else was likely to, so there is no doubt he was the US Champion. But, go a place or two down the list and it starts to get more equivocal.
People who missed this event missed a lot. But, where are these people? And who are they?
And yet few people got to enjoy it. ~20 eligible finishers in M21? Way less than 10 in F21 and fewer yet in most of the <40 categories.
Not cool.
There were 45 in 2000 and 58 in 2001. Those were at least legitimate.
Clearly, if Ross didn't beat feet, no one else was likely to, so there is no doubt he was the US Champion. But, go a place or two down the list and it starts to get more equivocal.
People who missed this event missed a lot. But, where are these people? And who are they?
Note
(rest day)
Rest day.
Sunday Oct 25, 2009 #
Run warm up/down 25:00
shoes: August 2009 Integrators
Orienteering race 1:08:53 **** 9.4 km (7:20 / km) +300m 6:19 / km
shoes: August 2009 Integrators
US Champs, Day 2, Blue
Note
So, for some reason I thought my arrival time in Boston (~9:00PM) was in fact my departure time from Milwaukee. Therefore, getting to the ticket counter at ~7:00PM should have been fine. Unless, of course, my plane was supposed to leave then, which it was.
So, I missed it. And no other AirTran flights out that night, indeed not really much happening at Milwaukee at all after 7:00PM. I make a half-hearted effort to get another rental car to return to the house, but the only ones available were $45 before tax, so that didn't seem good. So, I resign myself to staying in the airport.
With some TVs showing the Yankees game, it could have been worse.
And then Ian came along, so I would have company.
It would get to be a long, bleary night, but I probably got an hour or two of sleep on the floor, bivouacked between some couches. Nocturnal airport experiences give you a lot of insights into the rhythms of a place.
I also was able to finish the book i purloined from Boris (The Outliers.) Needless to say, greatly disappointed. All these books--NNT's, Gladwell's, etc., are so trite.
The only redeeming thing was the puzzle on page 87, which occupied me for 30 minutes before I derived a satisfactory solution. Of course, with these pattern completion things, conceivably another answer might be derived (couldn't it?) Need to think about that one more.
Anyway, the fact that Malc can cobble an "acclaimed" book together out of these anecdotes (some I will concede are interesting) really makes me inclined to write my own.
So, I missed it. And no other AirTran flights out that night, indeed not really much happening at Milwaukee at all after 7:00PM. I make a half-hearted effort to get another rental car to return to the house, but the only ones available were $45 before tax, so that didn't seem good. So, I resign myself to staying in the airport.
With some TVs showing the Yankees game, it could have been worse.
And then Ian came along, so I would have company.
It would get to be a long, bleary night, but I probably got an hour or two of sleep on the floor, bivouacked between some couches. Nocturnal airport experiences give you a lot of insights into the rhythms of a place.
I also was able to finish the book i purloined from Boris (The Outliers.) Needless to say, greatly disappointed. All these books--NNT's, Gladwell's, etc., are so trite.
The only redeeming thing was the puzzle on page 87, which occupied me for 30 minutes before I derived a satisfactory solution. Of course, with these pattern completion things, conceivably another answer might be derived (couldn't it?) Need to think about that one more.
Anyway, the fact that Malc can cobble an "acclaimed" book together out of these anecdotes (some I will concede are interesting) really makes me inclined to write my own.