Training Log Archive: barb

Ran to Star Market to pick up some echinacea tea for David, who is coming down with a cold. I think I have some symptoms as well, so I'm going to go heavy on the echinacea too. I'm a believer.

Canoe-O with the girls. We were over time due to some navigational difficulty on Horse Island. It was fun, and a nice time of day to be on the water. I am hoping I did not exacerbate my right elbow/wrist/forearm injury that has been worsening over the past two months. But paddling was probably a bad idea.

Shadowed Isabel on white. Fartlekky. When she sprints I can not keep up.

There is a lot of talent developing on white and yellow. Rachael, Theron and David all completed a yellow course; Rachael was fast enough to secure 3rd place, though I think 3 kids were within a minute of her time - hotly contested. Isabel shadowed Elizabeth on white. It is nice to see the kids developing. I'm hoping that Isabel, Rachael, David and Ceire will all make it to the HVO training. It would be nice to see Theron there too, but he may stay in town to go to his 3 hour advanced math class taught by Russians on Saturdays. I was psyched to find a nerd kid willing to orienteer because (a) orienteering is totally fun for nerds, and (b) Theron doesn't play soccer or baseball (which inevitably conflict with orienteering) - I never realized that weekend *math* classes might be an issue.

5k green course. Tried to move quickly, but only managed sub-15 min/km.

I love Pawtuckaway. Lots of nice running areas and map simplfication challenges.

I am grateful to UNO and all the folks who set up the Pawtuckaway Experience. It is such a beautiful place, and always a fun weekend. Thanks to J-J, Nancy, Goulds, Bundschuhs, Ernst, etc etc etc for some really great orienteering!

Event: UNO Camping Weekend
 

Blue course, though I think I copied one control wrong. Started early, 6:15 am, so that I could drive the girls from Pawtuckaway back down to Lexington for an away game, first of the season.





It was hot.

Night-O. Not sure of exact time. I'm still a scaredy cat in the woods at night on my own. And I was on my own a lot, particularly after control 9. At first Dean and a couple others were around, and I saw a few others near other controls, but then I was solo for the deepest belly of Pawtuckaway. Took the trails around from 11 to 12 because I'd had some trouble threading between marshes on the way to 11, and thought I'd play it safe. It was a blast to run at night on the trails, except I wiped out pretty good on one. Scraped up my knee and shoulder. I picked my feet up extra high after that. The new mountain bike trail is particularly fun to run on at night.

For the most part I was in touch with the map: I took accurate bearings, walked, and checked off features. I lost contact between 11 and 12, which is how I ended up struggling a bit.

Did some errands on the way to work including stopping by the Bermans' for some compasses. Maybe if I have a brand new Moscow compass this weekend it will make up for my total lack of training, and I'll be able to run 3 blue courses, including one at night in a thunderstorm, in record time. Got 4 compasses for the 5 kids I'm bringing.

Commute

With all this inactivity, running several long courses this weekend should be... interesting.

Pretty bad... Trying to finally do some things I've been putting off, which means I sit around pretending to work instead of going running and the like. Anyway, today I picked Isabel up at the bus stop and she rode the rack on the back of my bike back to my work, where she checked email and then attended a meeting with me.

First day of school.