Training Log Archive: Spike

Easy jog on trails and in the woods at Wyandotte. Lots of rain, but not so cold (maybe 45). I took it easy and didn't feel especially good in the beginning or when I went up hills. Fun.

PTOC meet at Wyandotte (courses by Dan W.). I changed into dry clothes after my first jog, then went out on the course. The rain eased off as soon as I began.

The course was odd, but mostly fun, I guess.

My legs felt better than I'd expected (given how they felt in the pre-O' run). I feel a lack of hill training, though.

I lost a little time at one control where I'd mis-marked the map. Dumb.

Got home in time to watch the last few minutes of the Jayhawks' win over ISU. Then Gene, Mary and I ate some quesadillas.

I should probably start noting the armchair orienteering I'm doing. All week I've followed the same routine -- 20+ minutes of concentrated map study at lunch.

The map study involved looking at maps from old O' Sport and O' Today magazines, looking at some maps I've run on in the last couple of years, and a little bit of course setting for Thursday's night O.

I don't count the short looks at maps I find on the web or the short looks of maps sitting around the house.

I'll try to do a better job of noting my armchair O' in the next week.

I guess this is the end of a few (5) very easy days.

A short night O' course at SMP -- lots of fun. Strange weather -- temp around 60. 60 in January! That can't be good.

I ran without the Active Ankle. It felt pretty good. I'd say that more than half of the time the ankle felt normal and I was rarely thinking about it or being careful.

We had a decent turnout: Mary, Gene, Dick and Nancy.

Another very easy day. After eating some fish tacos, I rode the trainer while watching the Jayhawks on TV. They started the second half with a 16-0 run...very nice.

Jogging at PNS. I carried a map -- GPS tracks from a trail run at PNS last week displayed on top of the USGS topo -- and kept contact the whole way. I started just as it got too dark to read the map without my headlamp, though I could see the terrain pretty well. By the finish, it was dark.

It could probably consider this O' training (but I won't because it was so unstructured). It felt like some real map reading practice.

Some easy riding on the trainer. You might think that today's workout was a total waste of time and that a complete rest day would make more sense. But, then you just wouldn't understand.

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Easy running at Clinton SP. I ran on a mix of trails/open areas/forest. Another test of running without the Active Ankle. It seemed ok and felt better than yesterday (probably because of a longer warm up before taking any rough terrain and generally easier terrain).

Really nice day in the traditional sort of way (i.e. warm, little wind, sunny). I saw several eagles. It turns out it was "eagle day" at Clinton.

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3 short courses at Clinton SP. I kept the pace very easy.