Training Log Archive: mikeminiumIn the 30 days ending Apr 30, 2020:
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Thursday Apr 30, 2020 #
road running 33:10 [3] 3.08 mi (10:46 / mi)
Green Valley, AZ.
Miles: 11:18, 11:01, 10:09
Family of quail ran across the road in front of me, fuzzball babies no bigger than a cottonball. All but one made it up over the curb, the one couldn't quite get up and after running frantically back and forth, turned back into the road. I stopped a car, gently caught the little fuzzball, and deposited it by the bushes into which the family had disappeared.
Miles: 11:18, 11:01, 10:09
Family of quail ran across the road in front of me, fuzzball babies no bigger than a cottonball. All but one made it up over the curb, the one couldn't quite get up and after running frantically back and forth, turned back into the road. I stopped a car, gently caught the little fuzzball, and deposited it by the bushes into which the family had disappeared.
walking 17:01 [1]
Dusk, gentle hills.
Lots of bats. Saw the great horned owl fly to the top of a tall Italian cypress, where it took up a post to watch for an unwary rabbit or other small critter.
Lots of bats. Saw the great horned owl fly to the top of a tall Italian cypress, where it took up a post to watch for an unwary rabbit or other small critter.
Wednesday Apr 29, 2020 #
road running 58:26 [3] 5.28 mi (11:04 / mi)
shoes: Blue 2019
Warm and very dry.
Miles: 10:50, 10:50, 10:49, 11:28, 11:36
Gently hilly terrain.
Miles: 10:50, 10:50, 10:49, 11:28, 11:36
Gently hilly terrain.
walking 34:39 [1] 2.01 mi (17:14 / mi)
At dusk, gentle hills.
Tuesday Apr 28, 2020 #
road running 39:10 [3] 3.62 mi (10:49 / mi)
shoes: Blue 2019
Green Valley, AZ.
Miles 11:01, 10:27, 11:22
Gently hilly terrain. Warm and very dry.
Saw a big (at least 5 foot) Sonoran Gopher Snake crossing the road.
Miles 11:01, 10:27, 11:22
Gently hilly terrain. Warm and very dry.
Saw a big (at least 5 foot) Sonoran Gopher Snake crossing the road.
walking 23:40 [1]
At dusk. Saw lots of feeding bats and heard the Great Horned Owl that hangs out in the bell tower of the Presbyterian Church.
Sunday Apr 26, 2020 #
road running 32:42 [3] 3.07 mi (10:39 / mi)
Green Valley, AZ.
Hot! and very dry. (94 degrees F, 8% humidity). A few gentle hills.
Miles: 10:42, 10:23, 11:01
Hot! and very dry. (94 degrees F, 8% humidity). A few gentle hills.
Miles: 10:42, 10:23, 11:01
Saturday Apr 25, 2020 #
road running 32:17 [3] 3.3 mi (9:47 / mi)
shoes: Blue 2019
Miles 9:35, 9:52, 9:58. Pleasant, dry conditions.
Roswell NM, suburban streets at dusk.
Roswell NM, suburban streets at dusk.
Thursday Apr 23, 2020 #
road running 36:13 [3] 3.4 mi (10:39 / mi)
Light rain.
Miles 11:01, 10:31, ??.
(into Oxford. Didn't take GPS watch since it gets condensation inside if I use it in rain. But I know exactly where miles 1 and 2 occur going into town. And actually, mile 1 might be about 100-100 meters long, since I started the watch and run about that far before the "zero" point.)
Miles 11:01, 10:31, ??.
(into Oxford. Didn't take GPS watch since it gets condensation inside if I use it in rain. But I know exactly where miles 1 and 2 occur going into town. And actually, mile 1 might be about 100-100 meters long, since I started the watch and run about that far before the "zero" point.)
Wednesday Apr 22, 2020 #
weights / strength 2:30:00 [3]
misc. yard and garden - hand weeding, pulaski, loppers, shovel, a little chainsaw. Cut down a couple small pioneer invasive Bartlett Pear, cut down and dug out a dead pine tree, replaced it with a new tree. Pulled a lot of invasive garlic mustard, dug / pulled out some honeysuckle bushes.
bicycling - road 22:48 [3] 4.53 mi (5:02 / mi)
mostly into the wind, net elevation gain. (home from Oxford)
trail running 1:03:58 [3] 5.2 mi (12:18 / mi) +100m 11:36 / mi
Mounds SRA. Glidewell Trail (long), plus...
miles: 13:06, 12:05, 13:50, 11:47, 11:08.
miles: 13:06, 12:05, 13:50, 11:47, 11:08.
Tuesday Apr 21, 2020 #
weights / strength 1:00:00 [3]
misc. yard and garden
road running 25:28 [3] 2.53 mi (10:04 / mi)
Mounds SRA, deserted campground.
miles: 10:01, 10:23.
miles: 10:01, 10:23.
Monday Apr 20, 2020 #
walking 58:00 [2] 3.5 mi (16:34 / mi)
Home from Oxford.
bicycling - road 15:00 [3] 3.6 mi (4:10 / mi)
time estimated. At 1 mile, watch said "low battery" and turned off. When I plugged it in to charge, it immediately showed 35%. WTF? It should have had plenty of life for a 15 minute ride into town. (home into Oxford)
weights / strength 40:00 [3]
misc. yard and garden.
Sunday Apr 19, 2020 #
Event: QOC Quantico CANCELLED
orienteering 1:10:00 [1] **
15c
Checking ParkQuest course at Garr Hill, replaced 5 missing tapes.
Saturday Apr 18, 2020 #
road running 48:28 [3] 4.5 mi (10:46 / mi)
Oxford Community Park, mostly very flat, looped thru the nature trail and the adjoining subdivision, intentionally crossed some of the berms and drainages to get in a little bit of climb. A few other people in the park, but they were easily avoided.
Miles: 10:49, 10:45, 10:45, 11:12.
Miles: 10:49, 10:45, 10:45, 11:12.
Friday Apr 17, 2020 #
Note
(rest day)
All-day rain. Got a lot of indoor work done putting up new bookshelves, sorting and cleaning map library, unboxing and shelving books that have been in storage, filled up a box of books to give away.
Thursday Apr 16, 2020 #
trail running 50:40 [3] 4.1 mi (12:21 / mi)
Miami Natural Areas. Pine, east and Reinhart Loops. Was a little concerned about meeting other people on the narrow parts of the trail system, but didn't encounter anybody on the trails. Several cars in the various parking lots, and 3 student-age young people sitting about 10 yards off the trail near the Bonham Rd entrance playing a guitar, but I did not encounter anybody else actually on the trails.
Wednesday Apr 15, 2020 #
weights / strength 3:00:00 [3]
yard and garden. chainsaw, pulaski, loppers, hauling. Getting rid of honeysuckle bushes; also cut down a couple osage orange trees that were leaning too close to the road.
Tuesday Apr 14, 2020 #
trail building / maintenance 2:30:00 [3]
Union County nature area. honeysuckle removal. pulaski, loppers, hauling. Woods took a big hit from the strong storms a couple days ago - several very large trees knocked down.
trail running 37:37 [3] 3.41 mi (11:02 / mi)
shoes: Blue 2019
very flat - cinder portion of Oxford perimeter trail, then back through Miami Cross Country course. Some sections of the cinder trail were washed out and rutted due to flooding of Four Mile creek a couple weeks ago.
Miles: 11:13, 11:20, 10:46.
Miles: 11:13, 11:20, 10:46.
Monday Apr 13, 2020 #
weights / strength 30:00 [3]
pulaski - dug out a few honeysuckle bushes on my property. A cold day and too windy to be in the woods for most of the day; caught up on a lot of indoor work.
Sunday Apr 12, 2020 #
road running 32:41 [3] 3.21 mi (10:11 / mi)
shoes: Blue 2019
miles: 10:52, 9:46, 10:10. Gently rolling blacktop.
Saturday Apr 11, 2020 #
weights / strength 1:00:00 [3]
yard and garden - chainsawed 3 medium-large honeysuckle bushes, loppers, hauling.
orienteering 48:09 [4] *** 3.8 km (12:40 / km)
11c shoes: Icebug 2016
ParkQuest brown course at Garr Hill, GPS distance 4.8 km.
Friday Apr 10, 2020 #
weights / strength 1:00:00 [3]
misc. yard and garden - mostly honeysuckle removal - pulaski and hauling
Thursday Apr 9, 2020 #
weights / strength 1:30:00 [3]
misc. yard and garden, mostly removing honeysuckle - pulaski, loppers, hauling.
Wednesday Apr 8, 2020 #
weights / strength 1:00:00 [3]
removing some invasive aliens* from my property.
(* honeysuckle, multiflora rose, and garlic mustard)
(* honeysuckle, multiflora rose, and garlic mustard)
Tuesday Apr 7, 2020 #
weights / strength 5:00:00 [3]
yard and garden, mostly digging and wheelbarrow. Moved 2 scoops of topsoil, filled and seeded a couple areas, hauled the rest to the garden.
Monday Apr 6, 2020 #
orienteering 5:07:59 [3] ***
100c
Camp Tuscazoar Centennial Challenge. Should have been able to do this considerably faster, but didn't take water and needed to make a very costly (time, distance, steep climb) return to vehicle after about 3 hours. Very physical course. Fun.
River had finally gotten low enough to reach all controls, although the bottomlands were pretty muddy in places. There was one control where my intended route didn't work because of high water (I won't give it away), but the control itself was accessible.
Very open forest, a few patches of multiflora rose, but they generally were not too difficult to avoid.
Biggest complaint - Some of the controls are not very accurately marked on the map; probably spent a total of 20-30 minutes circling marked locations trying to find the plaque - it was a bit frustrating when they were marked on the opposite side of a trail, building, campsite, or other object.
I didn't take a compass; it might have been helpful in the central part of camp with the dense maze of intersecting trails and rides.
Very busy park, but a lot of room to spread out. Lots of fresh tracks of hikers, horses and bikes. Saw a few mountain bikers and a couple trail runners.
River had finally gotten low enough to reach all controls, although the bottomlands were pretty muddy in places. There was one control where my intended route didn't work because of high water (I won't give it away), but the control itself was accessible.
Very open forest, a few patches of multiflora rose, but they generally were not too difficult to avoid.
Biggest complaint - Some of the controls are not very accurately marked on the map; probably spent a total of 20-30 minutes circling marked locations trying to find the plaque - it was a bit frustrating when they were marked on the opposite side of a trail, building, campsite, or other object.
I didn't take a compass; it might have been helpful in the central part of camp with the dense maze of intersecting trails and rides.
Very busy park, but a lot of room to spread out. Lots of fresh tracks of hikers, horses and bikes. Saw a few mountain bikers and a couple trail runners.
Sunday Apr 5, 2020 #
trail building / maintenance 3:30:00 [3]
about 50 minutes of chainsaw; the rest hauling and lopping.
Saturday Apr 4, 2020 #
trail building / maintenance 2:00:00 [3]
honeysuckle eradication. mostly chainsaw. Union County Schools nature area.
weights / strength 15:00 [3]
chainsaw and hauling. cut down a pioneer Bradford (Callery) Pear . Noted 5 others on my property and will cut them down once they finish blooming.
weights / strength 1:00:00 [2]
Misc. yard and garden - digging / pulling out small honeysuckle, hauling tree branches.
Friday Apr 3, 2020 #
trail building / maintenance 5:00:00 [3]
Honeysuckle eradication. 40 minutes if chainsaw, the rest with loppers, pulaski, and hand pulling / hauling.
Thursday Apr 2, 2020 #
trail building / maintenance 1:45:00 [3]
Honeysuckle eradication. Union County Schools Nature Area. 45 minutes of chainsaw, about an hour of breaking up and hauling honeysuckle bushes.
Wednesday Apr 1, 2020 #
orienteering 30:00 [1] **
4c
Miami Middletown - located a vandalized control post, replaced a second with a temporary stake, visited 2 other controls.
weights / strength 30:00 [3]
post hole digger and shovel, replacing a permanent course post. hauling fallen tree branches off another control and breaking back some honeysuckle bushes that were also blocking / overgrowing it.