Training Log Archive: cedarcreek

12 x 25m swimming, time estimated. Spent 40 minutes in the water.

Sounds like intervals, and I guess they are, but it's basically my first swimming in a year, and my first laps in many years. The 25m was about all I could do before I had to stop, so I had a lot of recovery. The first three laps I was going a little too fast, and I lost my form in the last 10m, causing me to screw up my breathing---I had to stop twice 5m from the end of the pool because I sucked in water.

But the good news is: I survived, I had a blast, I got better (I'm barely a swimmer), and I'll be going back. It was so wonderful to be at an outdoor pool with the sun low in the sky and...It was just wonderful.

Legs d-e-a-d dead at first. And, uhhh, TMI alert, way way more midsection numbness than normal.

Nice effort in spite of feeling depleted. Highest HR of the workout (minus the swim).

Cool down.

Event: OCIN FAST-O Caesar Creek
 

5km is an estimate. I did a fair bit of driving, but the time is quite small (and subtracted). 24 Controls. Click blue globe...

Beautiful fifth of July. Took 5 hours off work---a good use of vacation time.

I also drove to Harveysburg for cold beverages about 15 minutes before anyone arrived, so it was pretty comfortably timed. Still took longer than I expected. (Had water in the car, but it was hot!)

2 hours of map updates at Caesar Creek. Claiming 30 minutes. (GPS was stopped accidently for about 40 minutes.) Intentionally left GPS on when I drove to Harveysburg for beverages afterwards. Last week I took GPS coordinates at 5 points around the perimeter of the big map---When I did the UTM grid overlay, it indicated the map scale was off by a few percent---I'm hoping to fix that, or at least reduce the error.

One lesson from today: Mapping is really complicated sometimes. Especially when the green is too thick to see through.

Another lesson is: Take a GPS with 1 second updates. The smart recording kinda sucks for mapping.

Event: OCIN-FAST-O Sebald Park
 

Sprint-Middle at Sebald Park. A lot of fun, although I did get my hat knocked off like 20 times, got flipped in the cornea by a branch, got scraped in the eyelid and eyebrow by another branch, and walked glasses first into a small tree, bending my glasses (fixed on the spot). Not my best day. I have 2 slowest splits (ouch), but I really deserve them both. Allergies kicked in really hard in some of the green.

Sprint (2.2km) at Sebald Park. Again, very slow. Had fun anyway, plus I really needed the workout. I must find my HR Monitor Strap so I can figure out why I'm going so slow.

Control 1 was where I walked into a tree glasses first and spent maybe 40 seconds bending them back. 2 was my only real boom.

And if you're wondering about my gps track (click the little blue globe), yeah, I totally went to Half Price Books after. With my GPS running.

OCIN FAST-O Sebald Park Sprint - Splits

OCIN FAST-O Sebald Park Sprt_Middle - Splits