Training Log Archive: cfosp1

8:45 AM. Hamline Midway/Como Park. Burned 467 calories.
13.2 °C

Recovery jog after yesterday's busy schedule, followed by a good stretching session. Quite a bit cooler, too.

9:15 AM. Home.

Event: MNOC - Mille Lacs Kathio State Park
 

6:48 AM. Hamline Midway/Como Park. Burned 334 calories.
20.5 °C

To Human and Sport Performance Lab at UMN

8:56 AM. Hamline Midway/Como Park. Burned 324 calories.
25.4 °C

Ride back from lactate testing, against the wind.

8:07 AM. UMN Human and Sport Performance Laboratory. Burned 261 calories.


VO2 Max, on threadmill increasing speed and incline over 15 minutes. Body Composition measurement in water tank and Wingate Anaerobic 30 Cycle Test.

12:11 PM. Mille Lacs Kathio State Park. Burned 994 calories.
27.8 °C

Write-up with map can be found here: http://cfospruns.blogspot.com/2012/05/mille-lacs-k...

Great course though I was so close to throw it after it took me close to 30' to get to CP8 and returning to CP8 when heading for CP9. In the end I was glad I hung in there.Removed six ticks on the way home. Lots of animals in the park. Trillium in blossom.

CP1: went along E side of wetland instead of W. Knew where I was when I came across connecting ditch.
CP2: Headed for overgrown beaver dam to cross wetland. Spiked 2.
CP3: Still under the illusion to be able to preserve my dry feet for a little longer I rounded the pond S and got wet feet crossing narrow stretch of wetland. Spiked 3.
CP4: After wet feet wet knees Oh well, at least I spiked 4.
CP5: No trouble with 5 and 6, either, carefully following small wetlands and contours. Starting to feel rather cocky about this course.
CP7: First longish leg, proceeded with caution and spiked 7 as well. Skeeters are an impediment to map reading. Glad for the little breeze.
CP8: Took a little sightseeing detour and got very frustrated. Ended up heading for one of the larger ponds to get re-oriented. It worked but I lost 15'
CP9: Wetland-hopping in the right direction, but what happened. I misoriented the map and without realizing it I headed back towards whenst I came from. I decided to call it a day and clicked the lap button on my Forerunner. I turned around and spotted a CP. Could this be 9? Oh the agony, had returned to 8! Stephen arrived, punched and left again in the direction I had initially taken. I decided to take a longer and what I thought somewhat safer way, with lots of handrails. I made it to 9 just after Steven punched and I was back in the race.
CP10: Beat Stephen to 10, the only time I beat anyone anywhere during this event.
CP11: Spiked. Is this where I ran into Jim for the first time? I called "hi Jim" and fell on my face.
CP12-finish: no further issues except my exhaustion.

I was sopping wet from sweat when I got in. Picked off the first tick when I was changing at the car, four more while I was driving and one last whenI got out of the car at home. I am so glad I hung in there, better to finish slowly than not to finish at all. Some nice flowers in bloom, large-flowered trillium and some others. Multiple deer, woodpeckers and tons of mosquitoes about the size of pigeons.

C • good run! 2

Blue - Splits

12:25 PM. Hamline Midway/Como Park. Burned 69 calories.
31.1 °C

Hot ...

12:40 PM. Midway YMCA. Burned 572 calories.


Trying out a couple of new pairs of goggles, AquaSphere Seal Swim Mask and AquaSphere Kaiman Swim Goggle The split type goggle don't seem to work for me. The masks do a little better.

C • are you racing any triathlons? 2

1:50 PM. Hamline Midway/Como Park. Burned 78 calories.
33.2 °C

Even hotter!

4:56 PM. Hamline Midway/Como Park. Burned 233 calories.
33.3 °C

Walked my short Energy Park Drive loop, in part to test the foot pod (about 61 steps/100 m) and looking for the yellow clover-like plant which grows on roadsides. Lotus corniculatus? Would love to have this for a particularly dry and barren stretch of my boulevard. The crop sequence will be dandelions-lotus corniculatus-parched grass. Also picked up another legume, (cow vetch?) and an artemisia-like plant. Mellie loved the slow pace, that way she could explore at her leisure. Reminds me of when I did this with Barley, Mellie's predecessor and Colin in the baby-backpack. Barley would run tirelessly up and down the embankment between the BN tracks and the Energy Park Drive parking lots, retrieving the ball.

8:33 AM. Hamline Midway/Como Park. Burned 679 calories.
13.0 °C

Beautiful morning, hardly sore from yesterday's fitness test.

9:15 AM. Home.

7:40 AM. Hamline Midway/Como Park. Burned 334 calories.
16.2 °C

Ran into little Vincent and his mom on Hamline U campus. Vincent was not interested at all in Mellie because there were a couple of small utility vehicles driving by. Then we met a friendly bulldog and her friendly owner. Perfect temp for a light jog.

8:02 AM. Home.

6:47 PM. Battle Creek West, St. Paul. Burned 200 calories.
20.2 °C

Also checked out a potential loop for sprint races.

7:21 PM. Battle Creek West, St. Paul.


First of the monthly fitness tests: Max repetitions during 1' followed by 1' rest.
Pull-ups: 12 (counts triple=36)
Sit-ups: 58
Push-ups: 40
Bench hops: 52
Dips: 39
Score=225
225 divided by body weight 185 lbs=1.22

C • Were you with a group, or d... 3

7:34 PM. Battle Creek West, St. Paul. Burned 352 calories.
18.4 °C

Ran up hill from Point Douglas Rd and Lower Afton to near top of Battle Creek West. Finished the session with 4 reps of bounding up short hill.

7:39 AM. Hamline Midway/Como Park. Burned 569 calories.
16.6 °C

Another beautiful morning.

8:15 AM. Home.