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Training Log Archive: RJM

In the 31 days ending Dec 31, 2007:

activity

time

miles

Running

8:35:55

Trail Run

4:20:52

Orienteering

2:58:31

14c

BikeCommute

2:15:00

Catching Features

1:45:00

21 /

45c

46%

Strength

1:00:00

Exercise Machine

51:52

XC ski

27:00

Total

22:14:10

21 /

59c

35%

[1-5]

20:29:10

averages - sleep:7.9 rhr:47 weight:178.2lbs

1:50

0:00

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Monday Dec 31, 2007 #

Trail Run long 1:46:08 [3]
slept:8.5 weight:179lbs shoes: Screwshoes -Brooks Adrenaline

home-cascade-gorge @ front&chestnut. chill but good footing. 1 deer (young buck)

Sunday Dec 30, 2007 #

Running (while reading) 41:21 [2]
rhr:47 slept:8.5 weight:180lbs shoes: Screwshoes -Brooks Adrenaline

windhurst-firestone-home, with science mag.

Friday Dec 28, 2007 #

Orienteering 1:23:45 [2] **
slept:8.0 weight:178.5lbs shoes: Innov-8 mudclaw 330

Control picking and remedial map reading at Hinckley east, from whipp ledges lot in a clockwise circle (up, s to cyclone fence, along stream). Ran off the map for first 1/3, then relocated, and tried running bearings - not too bad, but still drifting. Also did some on n w side. Map is very sketchy at the edges.

Catching Features 25:00 [0] ***
spiked:13/19c

Thursday Dec 27, 2007 #

Exercise Machine (nordictrack) 20:00 [2]
slept:8.0 weight:177.5lbs

Wednesday Dec 26, 2007 #

Trail Run hills 1:30:29 [3]
slept:9.0 weight:177.5lbs shoes: Screwshoes -Brooks Adrenaline

sand run double dip. 54:50 for the south sandrun/mingo loop. Sundown around bottom of schumacher made me concentrate hard on footing rest of trip. Some sloppy mud, esp on s.facing slopes
1 deer seen (young male)

Catching Features 20:00 [0] ***
spiked:5/6c

Monday Dec 24, 2007 #

Exercise Machine (nordictrak) 31:52 [2]
slept:7.5

Saturday Dec 22, 2007 #

Orienteering 1:34:46 [2] ***
14c slept:7.5 weight:178lbs shoes: Innov-8 mudclaw 330

RItchie ledges, using eastern edge of blue naoc course. Mostly working on running bearings (using the new replacement compass). I did better, but still drift off line pretty well, usually to the right. Went very slow and careful throughout, and finally figured out 12. I need to do a lot more of both of these things (bearing, and careful).

Strength 15:00 [1]

Friday Dec 21, 2007 #

BikeCommute 45:00 [2]
slept:7.5 weight:181lbs

Catching Features 1:00:00 [0] ***
spiked:3/20c

C • Spiked 3/20c 2

Thursday Dec 20, 2007 #

BikeCommute 45:00 [2]

slow and careful

Strength 15:00 [1]

Wednesday Dec 19, 2007 #

Running (commute) 1:08:47 [2]
slept:7.0 weight:178.5lbs shoes: Screwshoes -Brooks Adrenaline

AM tp, PM market. Slippery wet snow from past storms

Monday Dec 17, 2007 #

XC ski 27:00 [3]
rhr:47 slept:8.0 weight:178.5lbs

Snuck this one in on drive home (mustill-memorial overpass, back). Barely enough snow, barely enough time.

Saturday Dec 15, 2007 #

Running (Reading-Run) 51:09 [2]
slept:8.5 weight:178lbs shoes: Screwshoes -Brooks Adrenaline

First day of my attempts at improving on reading while running. Read 1 issue of science while running easy around firestone HS and back. Couldn't do it nearly as well or easily as I'd expected I could - only short glances at first before the bouncing made me lose my place, but could get more once I slowed down. Hopefully this is something I'll get better at.

Thursday Dec 13, 2007 #

Running (commute) 1:14:46 [2]
slept:7.5 weight:178.5lbs shoes: Screwshoes -Brooks Adrenaline

Freezing rain, a little slippery on memorial. no deer

Strength 10:00 [1]

Tuesday Dec 11, 2007 #

Running (commute) 1:09:00 [2]
slept:7.5 weight:176lbs shoes: Screwshoes -Brooks Adrenaline

rainy. towpath in, market back

Strength 10:00 [1]

Monday Dec 10, 2007 #

BikeCommute 45:00 [2]
slept:8.0 weight:179lbs

30's, damp

Note

BREAK. After the homerun for the homeless (in which I didn't do as well as I'd hoped), I decided to focus on non-exercise for a month or so, catch up on all the things I had been letting slide. Only now did I get around to logging that.
Early on there was an element of despair, in that I didn't move to the next level of O-competitiveness this year, though I had expected to. Training was going well (volume and quality, on and off maps), and I felt good, but I continued to make too many and too big mistakes on the course. After this break, I need to figure out what the problem is. Some of it involves the broken compass problem I discovered this summer (and didn't really figure out until after the QOC meet), but that's not all. Some of it is inexperience and new terrain at a meets (and I definitely have improved performance at local meets). Some of it is my (gulp) now definitely decaying eyesight. Some of it is impatience. But there is definitely room for improvement in my navigation. I probably need to find a way to get some time with a good coach (Stan or Olga?), but not sure how to work that.
For now, I'm finally getting on top of some things that really had gotten away from me both at home and at school, and I'm trying to really enjoy the change of pace.

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