uh, last week, ski'd thursday and friday, biked, once maybe? ran a bunch, lifted twice, pretty good... this saturday, ski'd, then ran mile repeats (1.3 miles to park, 2 x 1 mile w/ 3 min recovery, ran .25 mile to library, picked up tax forms, ran home, so w/ recovery jogging, maybe 5-5.5 w/ the recovery jogging between runs).... pretty good. the ski was fantastic, the runs... i think i ran the repeats at 6:30 pace, which was pretty easy, compared to 6 down to 5:40 ish last year 'in season'... and the effort was 'moderate' so i think i'm pretty fit, if not run specific prepared... i did taxes the rest of the day... so i missed the first day of the gandy goose... uh, plus it was 43 and raining, and i'm a wuss, and etc. fully prepared to go out sunday, i woke up w/ a norovirus, or food poisoning, or something... i slept/slept w/ tv on/ returned to sleeping allday, and finally went to sleep at 8 pm... blech. they managed to pull it off with out me...
the full grooming season is now over, with partial grooming wednesdays and saturdays... i'll make an effort to hit both...
last fridays 1 day tournament was an eye opener for the team... i split them X/Y, and as you can imagine, the talent is pretty accross the board in a one month hs season... kids got whomped... mission accomplished. the whole team has buy in to a varsity/JV split from here on out, which would not be the case if I'd done it arbitrarily... so, that's good. i'm missing 2 clear starters (one surgery, one prolonged achilles thing) but the varsity should be OK w/ a couple weeks of practice.
monday practice was pretty good, exhausted, I couldn't even jog w/ the team (dehydration/muscle cramps)... but much better focus at practice... the 30 minute scrimmage was mixed, but the last 10 minutes i used a 'freeze/discuss' to stop play when everything went to crap (clustering/need to break, etc)... and it cleaned up quite a bit.
today, i wanted to stretch my legs after 10 hours of bustin' it at the office (3 shows daily, all different, stay for the veal)... so i ran 10 minutes, then did 3 hill repeats of 4, 3:40, 3:30... legs were a little tight, but lungs and cardio felt great. exact same time i ran 2 years ago, 'in season', so, I think it would have been no problem to crank out at the least, 2 more 3:30's..., if not faster... pretty happy with fitness, if the legs aren't specifically run trained...
tomorrow, i'll coach, then go for a couple hour bike ride... maybe ski if the opportunity arises... thursday is league night, i'll try to make it... frankly, i'd prefer to run a few 800's first... league lasts for 10 more weeks...
funny story, made short, thursday, i grabbed my skis, went to mountain, put on skis, and only then realized that i had the wrong poles. wrong as in they weren't mine. i'd grabbed the wrong ones out of someones car the sunday before. these had no straps (which are sort of key to nordic skiing, totally key to proper power application and recovery phase), these are this kind that clip to the special proprietary glove (which i don't have)... so that led to a series of stroke, stroke, stroke, leave the pole stuck in the snow...
that's all
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Sunday, April 08, 2007
Sup
The Planet Earth thing on Discovery is indescribably good. If you've not seen it, you're missing out... scenes are incredible... breaching great whites, seal vs. king penguin... so cool...
What's up: Trained my butt off this weekend.
Saturday, AMAZING ski... pouring rain, slight slush, but fast, fast, FAST. covered a ton of ground in 1.4 hours, like 20 km (so not race pace, but super fast, considering it was all 'zone 1' (60-70% of max)... then 45 minutes of running and core and weights, then 1.25 hours of riding at zone 1, then another 30 minutes of biking to have dinner w/ friends...
Sunday, ski'd an hour plus of crust cruising... skiing around in the wilderness, including this big frozen lake... very fun. The aesthetic was a 10. My skiing, less so.I was skiing horribly though, hay fever? don't know... fatigue mabye... just wasn't feeling it... so i ate a bar, and ski'd another 15 km ish easy... on the trails. then rode for 1.75 hours, again, at zone 1, then went out to pick up play to throw for a cool down...
Weekend totals:
Zone 1 cardio, 6 hours
Zone 2 (run) 30 minutes
Weights: 30 minutes
Threw.
Reading Will Durant's history of civilization (10 volumes, 9 zillion pages)... just started. kind of fun.
This week, focus on zone, and flat stack. and we have a return of winter weather... so HOPEFULLY some afternoon skis after practice.
Uh, that's all.
What's up: Trained my butt off this weekend.
Saturday, AMAZING ski... pouring rain, slight slush, but fast, fast, FAST. covered a ton of ground in 1.4 hours, like 20 km (so not race pace, but super fast, considering it was all 'zone 1' (60-70% of max)... then 45 minutes of running and core and weights, then 1.25 hours of riding at zone 1, then another 30 minutes of biking to have dinner w/ friends...
Sunday, ski'd an hour plus of crust cruising... skiing around in the wilderness, including this big frozen lake... very fun. The aesthetic was a 10. My skiing, less so.I was skiing horribly though, hay fever? don't know... fatigue mabye... just wasn't feeling it... so i ate a bar, and ski'd another 15 km ish easy... on the trails. then rode for 1.75 hours, again, at zone 1, then went out to pick up play to throw for a cool down...
Weekend totals:
Zone 1 cardio, 6 hours
Zone 2 (run) 30 minutes
Weights: 30 minutes
Threw.
Reading Will Durant's history of civilization (10 volumes, 9 zillion pages)... just started. kind of fun.
This week, focus on zone, and flat stack. and we have a return of winter weather... so HOPEFULLY some afternoon skis after practice.
Uh, that's all.
Thursday, April 05, 2007
Week 1
This week i broke the frisbee instruction into 2 parts. Basic footwork, and intro to zone.
Footwork was primarily applied to pivoting, and cutting. Zone instruction is at it's most rudimentary. We'll build.
Mon, Tues, and Thursday were skills, fundamentals and conditioning.
Wednesday was warmup, and game simulation.
Here is todays practice:
Unstructured throwing while i basked in the amazing 60 degree weather and collected my thoughts. Then while i set up the field, i suggested students work on throwing short completions instead of flinging junk about.
20 minutes, intro to zone, culminating in 5 minutes of zone 'o' with a tennis ball to focus on positional movement.
Warm up (about 1km),
Dynamics
event x 25 yds, stride, event by 25 yds, stride
butt kicks
high knees
skips
side to sides
25 yd build ups (x2)
50 yd build ups
(1 km total)
handler drill
goto drill
sprints
throw in pairs
away drill
.75 km fast jog
dutch drill, run .75 km between game, throw 10 passes while winded.
10 min scrimmage, subs run .75km between points
5 x 40 sprints. told kids that our focus needs to move towards speed
2 minute finishing talk, positive reinforcement.
25 minutes working with 3 students, one got help in huck form, one (newer) worked on flick, one didn't need much help.
Personally,
I did most of the workout w/ kids.
Yesterday, warmup, drills, and Scrimmage. there is one player who tips the field enough with his abillity that I have to play some to balance the game. Then a 25 mile road ride.
Tuesday, lots of drills, and conditioning games (short field, make it take it, dutch drill). Then one hour of mixed unicycling and juggling. Big break through was 2 starts where i actually step up onto the other pedal, without stepping up and rocking back and going. This is hard to describe, but significant. Got one decent trick with the clubs.
Monday, drills, and skills.
Tommorrow, a full team scrimmage, which i'll just watch. I'm going to lift in the AM, and take the pm off. It's a rest day. Saturday and sunday, I'll ski and bike.
Left knee is aching a tad... common for me in early season. Kind of a chondromalacia or something... usually goes away quickly if i'm dilligent about stretching my quad. The sprints were pretty successful. I'd hardly call them sockeye quality, but i was moving pretty good, and the hammy seems to be training up ok...
That's all
Footwork was primarily applied to pivoting, and cutting. Zone instruction is at it's most rudimentary. We'll build.
Mon, Tues, and Thursday were skills, fundamentals and conditioning.
Wednesday was warmup, and game simulation.
Here is todays practice:
Unstructured throwing while i basked in the amazing 60 degree weather and collected my thoughts. Then while i set up the field, i suggested students work on throwing short completions instead of flinging junk about.
20 minutes, intro to zone, culminating in 5 minutes of zone 'o' with a tennis ball to focus on positional movement.
Warm up (about 1km),
Dynamics
event x 25 yds, stride, event by 25 yds, stride
butt kicks
high knees
skips
side to sides
25 yd build ups (x2)
50 yd build ups
(1 km total)
handler drill
goto drill
sprints
throw in pairs
away drill
.75 km fast jog
dutch drill, run .75 km between game, throw 10 passes while winded.
10 min scrimmage, subs run .75km between points
5 x 40 sprints. told kids that our focus needs to move towards speed
2 minute finishing talk, positive reinforcement.
25 minutes working with 3 students, one got help in huck form, one (newer) worked on flick, one didn't need much help.
Personally,
I did most of the workout w/ kids.
Yesterday, warmup, drills, and Scrimmage. there is one player who tips the field enough with his abillity that I have to play some to balance the game. Then a 25 mile road ride.
Tuesday, lots of drills, and conditioning games (short field, make it take it, dutch drill). Then one hour of mixed unicycling and juggling. Big break through was 2 starts where i actually step up onto the other pedal, without stepping up and rocking back and going. This is hard to describe, but significant. Got one decent trick with the clubs.
Monday, drills, and skills.
Tommorrow, a full team scrimmage, which i'll just watch. I'm going to lift in the AM, and take the pm off. It's a rest day. Saturday and sunday, I'll ski and bike.
Left knee is aching a tad... common for me in early season. Kind of a chondromalacia or something... usually goes away quickly if i'm dilligent about stretching my quad. The sprints were pretty successful. I'd hardly call them sockeye quality, but i was moving pretty good, and the hammy seems to be training up ok...
That's all
Sunday, April 01, 2007
let it begin!
official beginning of frisbee tommorrow. 4 days per week, fridays off.
plan for this week:
Monday and Tuesday: Focus is footwork... whether faking / or throwing, teaching the proper pivots for new throwers. Likewise, for cutting. Planting on outside foot, and setting first steps to 'seal off' the defender...
Wednesday and Thursday: Zone intro. If it's real windy, i use a ball, and allow it to hit and roll: the goal is to force the defense to win with positioning and movement, not win because the newer throwers can't yet hit easy ones. The goal is to make the zone 'd' better before our own skills are good enought to truly challenge the 'd'
daily structure:
free throwing while i set up
offer individual suggestions as i move around
warm up run
structured throwing
dynamics
marking drill
groups of 5-7, and movements through stations with small field games (ex: endzone practice), cutting/throwing drill, scrimmage...
one day, weather permitting, will offer a prolonged scrimmage (usually 2 games of 7 a side, teams basically even)... but i prefer, early in the season, to do these on the occasional low wind day.
Me: I'll do the drills, and warm-ups, as i work on improving turnover and stride. but most of my practice is spent highlighting theme of day, and correcting individual areas... i'll run or bike or ski or roller ski everyday after practice... goal is morning lift or yoga or run everyday... we'll see how that goes. hopefully, if it stays cool here, I can still ski in the afternoon: but it's pretty quickly getting to where skiing is a morning pursuit...
this weekend, my first juggling convention. basically, 5 plus hours of juggling and unicycling. marked improvement in both. getting pretty solid with 3 clubs, better with 4 balls, and significant improvement in current unicycle issue of starting without holding on to something...
sides: the discovery science channel planet earth series is flipping amazing. the preview for eaglevsshark looks pretty funny.
"tell him, justice is waiting"
"OK Justin, I'll tell him you called"
"no wait JUSTICE. JUSTICE"
plan for this week:
Monday and Tuesday: Focus is footwork... whether faking / or throwing, teaching the proper pivots for new throwers. Likewise, for cutting. Planting on outside foot, and setting first steps to 'seal off' the defender...
Wednesday and Thursday: Zone intro. If it's real windy, i use a ball, and allow it to hit and roll: the goal is to force the defense to win with positioning and movement, not win because the newer throwers can't yet hit easy ones. The goal is to make the zone 'd' better before our own skills are good enought to truly challenge the 'd'
daily structure:
free throwing while i set up
offer individual suggestions as i move around
warm up run
structured throwing
dynamics
marking drill
groups of 5-7, and movements through stations with small field games (ex: endzone practice), cutting/throwing drill, scrimmage...
one day, weather permitting, will offer a prolonged scrimmage (usually 2 games of 7 a side, teams basically even)... but i prefer, early in the season, to do these on the occasional low wind day.
Me: I'll do the drills, and warm-ups, as i work on improving turnover and stride. but most of my practice is spent highlighting theme of day, and correcting individual areas... i'll run or bike or ski or roller ski everyday after practice... goal is morning lift or yoga or run everyday... we'll see how that goes. hopefully, if it stays cool here, I can still ski in the afternoon: but it's pretty quickly getting to where skiing is a morning pursuit...
this weekend, my first juggling convention. basically, 5 plus hours of juggling and unicycling. marked improvement in both. getting pretty solid with 3 clubs, better with 4 balls, and significant improvement in current unicycle issue of starting without holding on to something...
sides: the discovery science channel planet earth series is flipping amazing. the preview for eaglevsshark looks pretty funny.
"tell him, justice is waiting"
"OK Justin, I'll tell him you called"
"no wait JUSTICE. JUSTICE"
Thursday, March 29, 2007
spring break 07
another great day.... ski'd pretty steady for just under 1.5 hours? i'd call it hardish skiing... then read, and napped, (oh throw in eat a few times) and coached ultimate... pretty tired.
summary of spring break 07
saturday: ski
sunday: ski, bike
monday: ski, drills and sprints, bike
tuesay: ski, drills and sprints, bike (in ridiculously cold rain)
wed: ski, drills and sprints
thursd: repeat.
i think it's funny: call the frisbee dryland (and mix it up for the non ultimate heads to include soccer, pole running, and weights) and it becomes a ski camp. people from around the country would champ at the bit to ski in winter conditions, and do dryland in shorts. here, it's either par for the course, or i'm just weird.
i'm thinking of shutting off the comments. interestingly, i've been diving again in frisbee. also interestingly, i have no real interest in playing like i used to, but i'm actually trying some when i play. weird.
summary of spring break 07
saturday: ski
sunday: ski, bike
monday: ski, drills and sprints, bike
tuesay: ski, drills and sprints, bike (in ridiculously cold rain)
wed: ski, drills and sprints
thursd: repeat.
i think it's funny: call the frisbee dryland (and mix it up for the non ultimate heads to include soccer, pole running, and weights) and it becomes a ski camp. people from around the country would champ at the bit to ski in winter conditions, and do dryland in shorts. here, it's either par for the course, or i'm just weird.
i'm thinking of shutting off the comments. interestingly, i've been diving again in frisbee. also interestingly, i have no real interest in playing like i used to, but i'm actually trying some when i play. weird.
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
spring break, continues
spring break 07 continues... luke gone wild...
lessee, it's tuesday, so i ate (huevos rancheros type thing on toast w veggie sausage), ski'd, ate, read (re-reading hunt for red october, just finished louis l'amours The Lonesome Gods, yes, classic spring break junk reading). The pile of grading awaits.
The ski was good, classic skiing, with a story: I'm standing there, on a VERY gentle hill, and i go to drink some water from my water bottle, and WHOOMBAMO, legs go flying down hill, flop to the ground... THEN i spit out my mouthfull of water... and laugh for a full 2 minutes...
Then, I ate more (oh, i already said that), then went to coach for a bit, then, read some more, then played guitar for an hour, then ate some more...
tommorrow more of the same...
oh, yesterday, i ski'd, coached, then went for a bike ride... and now i can check something off my list of things i will never do. i rode for an hour in POURING RAIN, 50 degrees or less... i was so cold, and numb that when i was fumbling around in the back pocket of my bike vest for my keys... i found my pump... i tried again, and found my tube... each time my frozen brick like hands were sure i had the keys...
so, woo hoo.
lessee, it's tuesday, so i ate (huevos rancheros type thing on toast w veggie sausage), ski'd, ate, read (re-reading hunt for red october, just finished louis l'amours The Lonesome Gods, yes, classic spring break junk reading). The pile of grading awaits.
The ski was good, classic skiing, with a story: I'm standing there, on a VERY gentle hill, and i go to drink some water from my water bottle, and WHOOMBAMO, legs go flying down hill, flop to the ground... THEN i spit out my mouthfull of water... and laugh for a full 2 minutes...
Then, I ate more (oh, i already said that), then went to coach for a bit, then, read some more, then played guitar for an hour, then ate some more...
tommorrow more of the same...
oh, yesterday, i ski'd, coached, then went for a bike ride... and now i can check something off my list of things i will never do. i rode for an hour in POURING RAIN, 50 degrees or less... i was so cold, and numb that when i was fumbling around in the back pocket of my bike vest for my keys... i found my pump... i tried again, and found my tube... each time my frozen brick like hands were sure i had the keys...
so, woo hoo.
Sunday, March 25, 2007
spring break 07 woohoo.
yeah deschutes county... wooo hoo...
well i'm spending my spring break in the traditional manner. i'm going to ski 9 days straight, coach some ulti, and bike and run.
wait, that's not traditional?
yesterday, ski'd for an hour or so, and watched some ski races... last night i put a good (read, semi expensive) wax on my skis, in anticipation of this morning. i went up, probably sortof in time to race, but chose to sit out the 30 km race because, well, i'm frankly raced out, and the conditions were marginal...
i did ski for an hour, came home, and rode my bike for an hour. i'm skipping pickup ultimate now, but i'll do some coaching this week so i'll get my throwing in.
should be really good skiing this week. fresh snow everyday, and a mild return of winter means the nordic skiing should be good, and i may go telemark or alpine a day or two. if i can find my snow board boots, i'll do that too.
i'm at a training lull. i'm skiing fine, but i feel flat (another reason for not spending 50 bucks this morning), and i just want to work on form and technique a bit as the season comes to a close. the mountain will stop grooming daily in 3 weeks... so i'll be a weekend warrior. i'm thinking i'll roller ski twice/week until i can no longer weekend ski, and then do no specific ski training until june.
i'll coach ultimate, so look for updates. the team is playing pretty well: this is the most returners i've ever had, but most are sophmores. so in one sense we will be good, but in the past i've always gotten good late season results out of physically mature players playing in their first year with some desparation. this year, i'll have my most technically sophisticated team: but they are physically young, and it will be an interesting season.
for my own training, i'm looking to start increasing running, and weights. maybe i'll play at the local tourney in a month (but that's still ski season, and in fact, the last days of grooming)... i'm planning on going to solstice, so that's my 'frisbee' goal, but there is no local team. it seems the days of pick up teams at solstice are over, but i'll probably just drop in and try to pick up with a team. given my absence from the game, i'm sure this assures me of no specific team, but i'll network to the best of my limited abillity...
the weather here is really cool right now. ski'd in winter (snow, cold) conditions, then came home and biked in light gear. if i went to play today, it's in the 50's, and i could wear shorts and a t-shirt... pretty nice.
so that's all.
coaching stuff: i'm introducing a euro offense, that is slightly different than the 3-4 that everyone else on the west coast plays. my goal is two fold. it serves my teams talents better, and i do want to give my team some opportunity to play against a style they will see every where (every single high school team in oregon runs a 3-4 horizontal stack). but my overall goal remains unchanged. develop young high school players to love the sport, and have a basic understanding of the ways that the game is played at a higher level. i want them to advance, and have options.
well i'm spending my spring break in the traditional manner. i'm going to ski 9 days straight, coach some ulti, and bike and run.
wait, that's not traditional?
yesterday, ski'd for an hour or so, and watched some ski races... last night i put a good (read, semi expensive) wax on my skis, in anticipation of this morning. i went up, probably sortof in time to race, but chose to sit out the 30 km race because, well, i'm frankly raced out, and the conditions were marginal...
i did ski for an hour, came home, and rode my bike for an hour. i'm skipping pickup ultimate now, but i'll do some coaching this week so i'll get my throwing in.
should be really good skiing this week. fresh snow everyday, and a mild return of winter means the nordic skiing should be good, and i may go telemark or alpine a day or two. if i can find my snow board boots, i'll do that too.
i'm at a training lull. i'm skiing fine, but i feel flat (another reason for not spending 50 bucks this morning), and i just want to work on form and technique a bit as the season comes to a close. the mountain will stop grooming daily in 3 weeks... so i'll be a weekend warrior. i'm thinking i'll roller ski twice/week until i can no longer weekend ski, and then do no specific ski training until june.
i'll coach ultimate, so look for updates. the team is playing pretty well: this is the most returners i've ever had, but most are sophmores. so in one sense we will be good, but in the past i've always gotten good late season results out of physically mature players playing in their first year with some desparation. this year, i'll have my most technically sophisticated team: but they are physically young, and it will be an interesting season.
for my own training, i'm looking to start increasing running, and weights. maybe i'll play at the local tourney in a month (but that's still ski season, and in fact, the last days of grooming)... i'm planning on going to solstice, so that's my 'frisbee' goal, but there is no local team. it seems the days of pick up teams at solstice are over, but i'll probably just drop in and try to pick up with a team. given my absence from the game, i'm sure this assures me of no specific team, but i'll network to the best of my limited abillity...
the weather here is really cool right now. ski'd in winter (snow, cold) conditions, then came home and biked in light gear. if i went to play today, it's in the 50's, and i could wear shorts and a t-shirt... pretty nice.
so that's all.
coaching stuff: i'm introducing a euro offense, that is slightly different than the 3-4 that everyone else on the west coast plays. my goal is two fold. it serves my teams talents better, and i do want to give my team some opportunity to play against a style they will see every where (every single high school team in oregon runs a 3-4 horizontal stack). but my overall goal remains unchanged. develop young high school players to love the sport, and have a basic understanding of the ways that the game is played at a higher level. i want them to advance, and have options.
Saturday, March 17, 2007
guns, gold and glory...
today, the new bend biathlon club hosted it's first clinic... led mainly by the head coach... so i went and helped set that up for the participants... this was dryland... so mostly just shooting, and at the end, we ran some of the kids around so that they could feel the feeling of shooting when winded... i shot, but i didn't do the run and shoot as it was pretty late by that point. mostly, i just made sure rifles were pointed in the same directions... the guns were sweet... a couple of Anschutz, and a Baikal... I was pretty poor in my first Go, but went 5/5 on my second prone attempt, and like 3/5 standing the second time... need work though... it's pretty tricky, it's mostly about trigger pull... ridiculously hot.... like 65 degrees (yes, that's ridiculously hot here)
came home, and took a nap, then went for a 17 mile ride (nice and easy, just to work out the kinks) then went for a 25 minute 'fitness run'. ya know, there are those things near my house, chin-up/dip/situp... there were 6 total, so i'd do a station, run a lap, etc... pretty pleasant... when i get my new bb gun (no compass in the stock, but the vegas odds do have me at 1:2 to 'shoot my eye out kid) (and it's actually going to be a high quality pellet gun) i'll throw that in there for fun...
friday, kids had practice, i ran with them since there was no school that day and it was pretty low-key. just an easy scrimmage cause the weather was so nice.... by easy i mean, no structure, just goofing off on a lazy day... i ran hard, and even dove... first time i'd played w /them this year, probably the last for a while: too much value in full time coaching, too many reader comments about me being Kramer from seinfeld taking Karate w/ 10 year olds... oh, and ski'd 20km friday morning, and then spent 1.25 hours helping dig a biathlon target entombed in 6 inches of ice... chopping with an axe and a spike... then ran some errands on the road bike...
tommorrow, long ski, a run, and i might play some city league pick-up... it's super nice weather, but the field is small, and it's kind of cluster something with a little league game going on in the endzone, and 40 people trying to play 7v7 on a 55 yad field... supposedly city league is coming up, but i'm having a hard time getting fired up for the 4-peat... i may just go in the draft, but i'd rather play a couple tournaments, play in an occasional more competetive pick-up game, and train up for summer tourneys (like run/intervals/sprints)... besides...there are still oh, 2 months of good skiing, and i'd like to focus on that...
so some general goals for the next year of training.
Frisbee: While weather permits 3-7 days of throwing. 3-4 days of sport specific running (i.e., make sure to do my high knees). Tourneys, uh, Maybe the Local Gandy goose in a month. Weather dependent, i might walk out on saturday and pickup w/ a team... got to make sure there is not a HS tourney i have to coach at that weekend. Attend Potlatch, Play fall series. Continue to improve.
Skiing: Improve. Curently I'm a 'competent recreational racer.' I'd like to improve on that. Focus on going fast on flats and downhills (technically challenging), continue to improve technique accross board, and fitness. I have some specific goals like 28 min in a 10 km, but more significantly, i'd like to get w/i fewer percentage points of the winners...
Running: Sub 18 5k. I know that's not that impressive in the grand scheme, but it'll be pretty good for me... my best time trial was around 19:11 for 5km last year...
biking: no real goals, just participate in some bike races and duathlons...
oh, food....
meager food day... plowman's platter, salad, smoked salmon, good cheddar, apple, olives, cherry tomatoes, good piece of bread... and a guinness... after all, it's st. Patrick's day...
came home, and took a nap, then went for a 17 mile ride (nice and easy, just to work out the kinks) then went for a 25 minute 'fitness run'. ya know, there are those things near my house, chin-up/dip/situp... there were 6 total, so i'd do a station, run a lap, etc... pretty pleasant... when i get my new bb gun (no compass in the stock, but the vegas odds do have me at 1:2 to 'shoot my eye out kid) (and it's actually going to be a high quality pellet gun) i'll throw that in there for fun...
friday, kids had practice, i ran with them since there was no school that day and it was pretty low-key. just an easy scrimmage cause the weather was so nice.... by easy i mean, no structure, just goofing off on a lazy day... i ran hard, and even dove... first time i'd played w /them this year, probably the last for a while: too much value in full time coaching, too many reader comments about me being Kramer from seinfeld taking Karate w/ 10 year olds... oh, and ski'd 20km friday morning, and then spent 1.25 hours helping dig a biathlon target entombed in 6 inches of ice... chopping with an axe and a spike... then ran some errands on the road bike...
tommorrow, long ski, a run, and i might play some city league pick-up... it's super nice weather, but the field is small, and it's kind of cluster something with a little league game going on in the endzone, and 40 people trying to play 7v7 on a 55 yad field... supposedly city league is coming up, but i'm having a hard time getting fired up for the 4-peat... i may just go in the draft, but i'd rather play a couple tournaments, play in an occasional more competetive pick-up game, and train up for summer tourneys (like run/intervals/sprints)... besides...there are still oh, 2 months of good skiing, and i'd like to focus on that...
so some general goals for the next year of training.
Frisbee: While weather permits 3-7 days of throwing. 3-4 days of sport specific running (i.e., make sure to do my high knees). Tourneys, uh, Maybe the Local Gandy goose in a month. Weather dependent, i might walk out on saturday and pickup w/ a team... got to make sure there is not a HS tourney i have to coach at that weekend. Attend Potlatch, Play fall series. Continue to improve.
Skiing: Improve. Curently I'm a 'competent recreational racer.' I'd like to improve on that. Focus on going fast on flats and downhills (technically challenging), continue to improve technique accross board, and fitness. I have some specific goals like 28 min in a 10 km, but more significantly, i'd like to get w/i fewer percentage points of the winners...
Running: Sub 18 5k. I know that's not that impressive in the grand scheme, but it'll be pretty good for me... my best time trial was around 19:11 for 5km last year...
biking: no real goals, just participate in some bike races and duathlons...
oh, food....
meager food day... plowman's platter, salad, smoked salmon, good cheddar, apple, olives, cherry tomatoes, good piece of bread... and a guinness... after all, it's st. Patrick's day...
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
today, at practice, for the actual frisbee fans. (somewhere out there, billy layden is looking at his netscape icon, and trying to decide if he should click it)...
30 kids, and it felt like a dissapointing practice. stud number one was recovering from a long term growth spurt achilles injury, but he was throwing, and it was sick... he'll be back, i hope. great girl noname (i will no longer list people's names on my blog) was throwing great, but seems to be suffering from a chronic knee subluxation issue: she'll be back. another kid, fresh frosh, suffered a bit before confessing he had a hamstring pull... i told him... see a PT, but barring that, walk till it doesn't hurt, run till it doesn't hurt, sprint, then play.
that said, 28 kids playing, it was warm (55, and only if you lived here would you understand that that means shorts and a TShirt), 1/2 mile warm up, full dynamics, mor throwing, walk through, more throwing, and then practice.
a scrimmage field, and a drill field. i cover the drills. i like the kids to scrimmage (right now) with minimal interference. i watch, but i'm minimizing comment for now. the drill of the day.
a give and go drill. this is part of my initial plan for teaching basic 4person plays. the drill is a throw from a line to another. line one has disc. line two makes a horizontal handler cut, and receives the disc. thrower cuts down line. later options will describe specific cuts.
endzone offense. ours is simple. call for a flood and isolate. we also have false floods, and varying H-stack offenses. today was simple stack/flood and ISO. i'm a big fan of 7 v 7 everybody's it tag (see previous post for details), call for a play.. it works because it teaches the values of
1) recover after chaos
2) burn time for effectiveness
3) communication...
then we ran some drills...
then, changed from short field 5 v 5 scrimmage to full field 7 v 7, for 15 minutes of full field scrimmage. here i would run back and forth between points and note: make a goal line call.
plan for later; allow longer scrimmage time, and call STOP before a mistake happens. this is usually to identify a point where the team has collapsed on the sideline... encourage kids to either huck and hope, or burn time to reset and set up...
that is all
oh, personal.
saturday: ski'd twice. 1:25 classic in the morning. 1:25 skate in the afternoon.
sunday: 1:30 skate. 4 mile run to drop off a bill. in the middle, i stopped off at the local sunday game, borrowed some cleats, andplayed probably 10 points. threw some goals, made some cuts. the field was the size of a 5 v 5 game...
monday: 34 minute run. probably 4.5 miles.
tuesday: (today), coached, see above. then, 50 minutes of skiing.funky, molten crust, 12km, ski'd abit w/ my room mate, and then, randomly took a digger... back at car, realized i'd lost my shades on the digger, went back found sunglasses in a tree well, went home...
that's all
30 kids, and it felt like a dissapointing practice. stud number one was recovering from a long term growth spurt achilles injury, but he was throwing, and it was sick... he'll be back, i hope. great girl noname (i will no longer list people's names on my blog) was throwing great, but seems to be suffering from a chronic knee subluxation issue: she'll be back. another kid, fresh frosh, suffered a bit before confessing he had a hamstring pull... i told him... see a PT, but barring that, walk till it doesn't hurt, run till it doesn't hurt, sprint, then play.
that said, 28 kids playing, it was warm (55, and only if you lived here would you understand that that means shorts and a TShirt), 1/2 mile warm up, full dynamics, mor throwing, walk through, more throwing, and then practice.
a scrimmage field, and a drill field. i cover the drills. i like the kids to scrimmage (right now) with minimal interference. i watch, but i'm minimizing comment for now. the drill of the day.
a give and go drill. this is part of my initial plan for teaching basic 4person plays. the drill is a throw from a line to another. line one has disc. line two makes a horizontal handler cut, and receives the disc. thrower cuts down line. later options will describe specific cuts.
endzone offense. ours is simple. call for a flood and isolate. we also have false floods, and varying H-stack offenses. today was simple stack/flood and ISO. i'm a big fan of 7 v 7 everybody's it tag (see previous post for details), call for a play.. it works because it teaches the values of
1) recover after chaos
2) burn time for effectiveness
3) communication...
then we ran some drills...
then, changed from short field 5 v 5 scrimmage to full field 7 v 7, for 15 minutes of full field scrimmage. here i would run back and forth between points and note: make a goal line call.
plan for later; allow longer scrimmage time, and call STOP before a mistake happens. this is usually to identify a point where the team has collapsed on the sideline... encourage kids to either huck and hope, or burn time to reset and set up...
that is all
oh, personal.
saturday: ski'd twice. 1:25 classic in the morning. 1:25 skate in the afternoon.
sunday: 1:30 skate. 4 mile run to drop off a bill. in the middle, i stopped off at the local sunday game, borrowed some cleats, andplayed probably 10 points. threw some goals, made some cuts. the field was the size of a 5 v 5 game...
monday: 34 minute run. probably 4.5 miles.
tuesday: (today), coached, see above. then, 50 minutes of skiing.funky, molten crust, 12km, ski'd abit w/ my room mate, and then, randomly took a digger... back at car, realized i'd lost my shades on the digger, went back found sunglasses in a tree well, went home...
that's all
Thursday, March 08, 2007
this is madness...
THIS IS SPARTA!!!
Ok, i'm a hedonist. Mr. train all the time is going to the midnight show of 300... what can i say... i'm raised on star wars, raiders, jaws, and matrix, 3 of which i saw on opening day....
today at practice: 34 kids. here's how i organized it. 6 groups of 5. the extra 4 showed up late. 1 full field (technically small, 90 x 30). 2 dutch drill fields. one space for drills.
throw.
1 mile warm up
pair throwing (while i set up cones)
dynamics : each event, 30 yds w/ 30 yd stride. 3 x high knees (strides), butt kicks (Strides), side to side (Strides), karaoke (stride), teardowns (strides), skips (strides), 2 x build ups.
marking drill (one set no arms, one set full mark, both develop foot work, and confidence in new throwers)
then, 1 hour of 6 minute sets of cycling through. if you were group 1, you would go, scrimmage, scrimmage, dutch, dutch, drill, drill... there was some overlap that led to varied competitiion.
mixed in: i would pull aside 1 kid for every set, play catch, and then give them 'something to work on'. so, i only got to a small fraction, but with this system, i'll get to every kid every week or two for a few minutes. today, i coached handlers. mostly focused on simple stuff. basic practice form. and mark breaking. i might have had the same kids huck, but it was windy, and i was looking for success. also, i've got a few 'special athletes'... new players juggling track v. frisbee, and they are good, so frankly i gave them some help.
then i spent 5 minutes only reviewing our simple endzone 'o' version one. it's very simple, so i won't share it. then we scrimmaged 2 fields for 20 minutes.
then, i built a 2nd field, and let them play. i got in a few throws then, then i'd concentrate on running out to tell the 'o' team to 'run the play we've drilled' and 'burn some time on the goal line to get an endzone play call'.
pretty successful.
so i've got 35 kids. 17 don't know what a mark or a force is yet. and the result is positive. by not playing, i'm already seeing new players take leadership roles. i'm also missing 10 players who are ski racing still. 3 of them are 'varsity'. i may end up with 50 kids! sweet. the structure of the practice, my large single field (equivalent to 2.5 full fields) allows me to set up stations easily:
coaching strategy:
i had my 'varsity' run an endzone drill. here is the way i do that for HS.
13 players and me... you get a partner. we play everybody's it tag (if you are tagged, you are frozen, until the person who tagged you is touched, then you are free. the point is to get kids to run willy nilly around for a few seconds. then, i grab my partner, usually the best kid, and one of goes, WHITE ON OFFENSE. STACK. The defender yells FORCE SOMETHING (forehand, backhand (i'll bring up my reasons for opposing use of home/away later) They jump up, and stack, and we call our offense.
works well.
Personal. After practice, i went for a 40 minute, 11Km ski. Felt good. Got dinner, now, up too late..
THIS IS SPARTA!!!
Ok, i'm a hedonist. Mr. train all the time is going to the midnight show of 300... what can i say... i'm raised on star wars, raiders, jaws, and matrix, 3 of which i saw on opening day....
today at practice: 34 kids. here's how i organized it. 6 groups of 5. the extra 4 showed up late. 1 full field (technically small, 90 x 30). 2 dutch drill fields. one space for drills.
throw.
1 mile warm up
pair throwing (while i set up cones)
dynamics : each event, 30 yds w/ 30 yd stride. 3 x high knees (strides), butt kicks (Strides), side to side (Strides), karaoke (stride), teardowns (strides), skips (strides), 2 x build ups.
marking drill (one set no arms, one set full mark, both develop foot work, and confidence in new throwers)
then, 1 hour of 6 minute sets of cycling through. if you were group 1, you would go, scrimmage, scrimmage, dutch, dutch, drill, drill... there was some overlap that led to varied competitiion.
mixed in: i would pull aside 1 kid for every set, play catch, and then give them 'something to work on'. so, i only got to a small fraction, but with this system, i'll get to every kid every week or two for a few minutes. today, i coached handlers. mostly focused on simple stuff. basic practice form. and mark breaking. i might have had the same kids huck, but it was windy, and i was looking for success. also, i've got a few 'special athletes'... new players juggling track v. frisbee, and they are good, so frankly i gave them some help.
then i spent 5 minutes only reviewing our simple endzone 'o' version one. it's very simple, so i won't share it. then we scrimmaged 2 fields for 20 minutes.
then, i built a 2nd field, and let them play. i got in a few throws then, then i'd concentrate on running out to tell the 'o' team to 'run the play we've drilled' and 'burn some time on the goal line to get an endzone play call'.
pretty successful.
so i've got 35 kids. 17 don't know what a mark or a force is yet. and the result is positive. by not playing, i'm already seeing new players take leadership roles. i'm also missing 10 players who are ski racing still. 3 of them are 'varsity'. i may end up with 50 kids! sweet. the structure of the practice, my large single field (equivalent to 2.5 full fields) allows me to set up stations easily:
coaching strategy:
i had my 'varsity' run an endzone drill. here is the way i do that for HS.
13 players and me... you get a partner. we play everybody's it tag (if you are tagged, you are frozen, until the person who tagged you is touched, then you are free. the point is to get kids to run willy nilly around for a few seconds. then, i grab my partner, usually the best kid, and one of goes, WHITE ON OFFENSE. STACK. The defender yells FORCE SOMETHING (forehand, backhand (i'll bring up my reasons for opposing use of home/away later) They jump up, and stack, and we call our offense.
works well.
Personal. After practice, i went for a 40 minute, 11Km ski. Felt good. Got dinner, now, up too late..
THIS IS SPARTA!!!
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
training...
lastnight, 30 minutes of formwork, some running and dynamics(buttkicks, etc)... 20x30 buildups
tonight, 45 minutes, easy 10km on a sheet of ice....
coaching: i've in the past had local players scrimmage w/ kids to help train. i've decided that it's kids v. kids... and i saw some good stuff happening.
initial focus is on a basic stack play. a 4 person play, disc to 1-6-3 (one makes a handler cut, 6 makes a check up, 3 goes deep). so i show the play, then we run a drill for just the handler cut. then we are able to turn the handler cut into a recycling drill. then i add each bit of the play, show how the drill relates to the play, then we can run the drill only... so far so good.
tommorrow, i'll warm-up and do some drills, then just jog around and keep the athletes moving... then, 45 minutes of skiiing...
dat's all.
tonight, 45 minutes, easy 10km on a sheet of ice....
coaching: i've in the past had local players scrimmage w/ kids to help train. i've decided that it's kids v. kids... and i saw some good stuff happening.
initial focus is on a basic stack play. a 4 person play, disc to 1-6-3 (one makes a handler cut, 6 makes a check up, 3 goes deep). so i show the play, then we run a drill for just the handler cut. then we are able to turn the handler cut into a recycling drill. then i add each bit of the play, show how the drill relates to the play, then we can run the drill only... so far so good.
tommorrow, i'll warm-up and do some drills, then just jog around and keep the athletes moving... then, 45 minutes of skiiing...
dat's all.
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
ski season mid point.
This weekend the somethng'th annual par for the course, winner based on most improved. I was second most improved over 10km, in a time of 31: something on so so snow. I didn't fall over in the start... I almost did miss my start, but it actually worked out that i ski'd up, and was ready for my start (:30 second intervals, someone goes) w/ oh, :35 to spare.
Still lots of room for improvement. In a year, I should be skiing around 28 ish (Assuming decent snow), w/ commensurate marathon times.
Now, It's just ski, ski, ski and coach. But the afternoon skis will be done in about 4 weeks due to warming (so only weekend warrior-ing) and a shift to biking/running/ and coaching ultimate. Which usually only costs me about 3-400 a year.
I thought this pic was Ok. Usually I look like a bigger, clumsier tool.
Monday, February 26, 2007
Scotland, w/ boring, what I ate today
uhm, i think i'm up to 75 ski days. today was a 30 minute run... i don't know how far. more than 3.5miles, less than 5. i'd estimate 4 miles. this weekend, a trip to McCall Idaho for the Payette marathon. I'm not sure why 30km is a marathon: I think the Greek tradition would have died after the battle if that were the case, phillipides might have lived a ripe old anonymous life as a farmer (although, as an olympic champ, he would have been afforded god-like status as a farmer)...
anyway, ski'd the race in 1:40. in an epic display of nerdery, i've determined that among the 30 odd racers who ski'd this race, and the 32 km i ski'd 2 weeks earlier, i made up ground or beat the ones in front of me, and put a bigger gap on the ones behind me. so i'm still improving relative to the herd, but i still suck. the good news, is w/ room to improve, i think i can get to a respectable level in oh, 2 or 3 years.
my pace was 3.2 min/km, which is faster than i skied 10 km earlier this year (3.7 min/km). my fastest measured time was a time trial on rippin' fast snow, and i ski'd that in about 3.1 min/km w/ no warmup, and a lot left at the end. this weekend, a race, and with heavy snow right now (like 1 foot a day) it's unlikely conditions will give me a PR.
the snow in town is putting HS frisbee on hold a bit: the fields here don't tolerate much moisture. So I've got 3 more races, the 10km, then in about 3 weeks, there's a 15 km classic on saturday and a 15 or 30 km on Sunday. I haven't decided what i'll do. Probably either both short races, or the long race on sunday.
Then, if snow cooperates, i'll probably cut back to fewer, longer, slower skis to finish the season and hone my technique, film myself, midweek runs (difficult to ski in the evenings due to the effects of melt/refreeze turning the snow to icy death), and HOPEFULLY late season powder skiing w/ no crowds for the month of april and may.
i should probably start getting on the bike, too. i will probably focus on biking and the odd road race this summer, coach, and try to go to a tournament or 2 this summer (solstice/potlatch)...
this was my first experience using 'HF' wax. that means High Flourine, and it's what every 'real' racer would use. You can go even more expensive than that... but that's sort of beyond my willingness to do at this point: i mean, when i'm 200 out of 1000, or 37 out of 80... it's kind of trivial. if i get a little more competetive, i'll be more inclined to go to the trouble.
OK, fine, some frisbee content.
I went to Worlds in Scotland in 1999. My team was too bad. And that was the name. Partying ensued. I played OK, this was sort of the transitional period in my development from fairly fast Atlanta player to stupid slow Seattle player. These were the 3 years when i traveled a ton to tournaments, and developed some skills, some understanding of the game, and had a lot of fun. I was well on my to becoming a suprisingly effective slow player. I like to think i developed the same crafty moves as Jerry Rice. I think it's fairer to say that like Jerry rice in the nadir of his career, I have developed the abillity to juke all over the place with out moving anywhere. Sometimes the defense moves more than me and i miraculously get open. Combine that with the fact that i'm left handed (bordering on incompetently ambidextrous, I can actually cause turnovers with both hands), and voila. Marginal effectiveness.
Anyway, Scotland. This was maybe my favorite worlds ever. St. Andrews is beautiful, the pubs were great, I had no real pressure to win or lose. The weather was what I assume to be traditionally Scottish. Wet, and flipping cold all the time. And basically, all 150 teams would party together every night.
After our last loss (Actually, we may have won our last game, some inconsequential seeding match), ribaldry continued. All but 4 teams (the top 2 boy and girl teams) were done, and it was shennaniriffic.
Eileen and Timmy and I were wandering around late at night/early morning, enjoying the relatively warm (50 F) evening and the questionable decision was made to get to the top of the old chapel, the tallest building in st. andrews to see the sun rise over the Firth of Forth. Well that was squashed by the walls and gates and barbed wire... so we headed back to the main campus. Looking at the old dorm where most of us were staying, I decided that the central tower of this building (like, an old castle tower) was the SECOND tallest building in St. Andrews, and that would do.
We found the closet door that contained the stairs, and up we went... in pitch black, illuminated by watch lights, we found the top door. Secured by a tiny little lock, like a luggage lock, we headed down the stairs where either EILEEN ACCIDENTALLY PUSHED OPEN a secret panel. Like pitch dark. Totally lucky. This opened on to an attic door. There was a window accross the attic, faintly revealed by the predawn light glowing behind it. I walked accross the joists, and when I arrived at the window, i noticed i was covered in cobwebs. No one had been here for years. The window was openable. I climbed out, shimmy-d around to the roof pitch, and there, 20 feet away, was the top few feet of the turret. At 6'2, I was just able to reach the low part of the parapet, and was able to chin up, and help my fellow miscreants up.
Spread out below us was all of St. Andrews, and the beautiful calm waters of the Firth (i think it means Bay or something). Slowly the sun came up. Awesome.
We descended, I jogged home, and went and watched the last matches in Torrential rain. Quidditch-erriffic.
What made the trip even better was spending another 7 days hiking and hitching around scotland, but that memory was great. Oh, for a camera...
anyway, ski'd the race in 1:40. in an epic display of nerdery, i've determined that among the 30 odd racers who ski'd this race, and the 32 km i ski'd 2 weeks earlier, i made up ground or beat the ones in front of me, and put a bigger gap on the ones behind me. so i'm still improving relative to the herd, but i still suck. the good news, is w/ room to improve, i think i can get to a respectable level in oh, 2 or 3 years.
my pace was 3.2 min/km, which is faster than i skied 10 km earlier this year (3.7 min/km). my fastest measured time was a time trial on rippin' fast snow, and i ski'd that in about 3.1 min/km w/ no warmup, and a lot left at the end. this weekend, a race, and with heavy snow right now (like 1 foot a day) it's unlikely conditions will give me a PR.
the snow in town is putting HS frisbee on hold a bit: the fields here don't tolerate much moisture. So I've got 3 more races, the 10km, then in about 3 weeks, there's a 15 km classic on saturday and a 15 or 30 km on Sunday. I haven't decided what i'll do. Probably either both short races, or the long race on sunday.
Then, if snow cooperates, i'll probably cut back to fewer, longer, slower skis to finish the season and hone my technique, film myself, midweek runs (difficult to ski in the evenings due to the effects of melt/refreeze turning the snow to icy death), and HOPEFULLY late season powder skiing w/ no crowds for the month of april and may.
i should probably start getting on the bike, too. i will probably focus on biking and the odd road race this summer, coach, and try to go to a tournament or 2 this summer (solstice/potlatch)...
this was my first experience using 'HF' wax. that means High Flourine, and it's what every 'real' racer would use. You can go even more expensive than that... but that's sort of beyond my willingness to do at this point: i mean, when i'm 200 out of 1000, or 37 out of 80... it's kind of trivial. if i get a little more competetive, i'll be more inclined to go to the trouble.
OK, fine, some frisbee content.
I went to Worlds in Scotland in 1999. My team was too bad. And that was the name. Partying ensued. I played OK, this was sort of the transitional period in my development from fairly fast Atlanta player to stupid slow Seattle player. These were the 3 years when i traveled a ton to tournaments, and developed some skills, some understanding of the game, and had a lot of fun. I was well on my to becoming a suprisingly effective slow player. I like to think i developed the same crafty moves as Jerry Rice. I think it's fairer to say that like Jerry rice in the nadir of his career, I have developed the abillity to juke all over the place with out moving anywhere. Sometimes the defense moves more than me and i miraculously get open. Combine that with the fact that i'm left handed (bordering on incompetently ambidextrous, I can actually cause turnovers with both hands), and voila. Marginal effectiveness.
Anyway, Scotland. This was maybe my favorite worlds ever. St. Andrews is beautiful, the pubs were great, I had no real pressure to win or lose. The weather was what I assume to be traditionally Scottish. Wet, and flipping cold all the time. And basically, all 150 teams would party together every night.
After our last loss (Actually, we may have won our last game, some inconsequential seeding match), ribaldry continued. All but 4 teams (the top 2 boy and girl teams) were done, and it was shennaniriffic.
Eileen and Timmy and I were wandering around late at night/early morning, enjoying the relatively warm (50 F) evening and the questionable decision was made to get to the top of the old chapel, the tallest building in st. andrews to see the sun rise over the Firth of Forth. Well that was squashed by the walls and gates and barbed wire... so we headed back to the main campus. Looking at the old dorm where most of us were staying, I decided that the central tower of this building (like, an old castle tower) was the SECOND tallest building in St. Andrews, and that would do.
We found the closet door that contained the stairs, and up we went... in pitch black, illuminated by watch lights, we found the top door. Secured by a tiny little lock, like a luggage lock, we headed down the stairs where either EILEEN ACCIDENTALLY PUSHED OPEN a secret panel. Like pitch dark. Totally lucky. This opened on to an attic door. There was a window accross the attic, faintly revealed by the predawn light glowing behind it. I walked accross the joists, and when I arrived at the window, i noticed i was covered in cobwebs. No one had been here for years. The window was openable. I climbed out, shimmy-d around to the roof pitch, and there, 20 feet away, was the top few feet of the turret. At 6'2, I was just able to reach the low part of the parapet, and was able to chin up, and help my fellow miscreants up.
Spread out below us was all of St. Andrews, and the beautiful calm waters of the Firth (i think it means Bay or something). Slowly the sun came up. Awesome.
We descended, I jogged home, and went and watched the last matches in Torrential rain. Quidditch-erriffic.
What made the trip even better was spending another 7 days hiking and hitching around scotland, but that memory was great. Oh, for a camera...
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
upcoming frisbee related content...
in a time when darkness ruled the earth...
and snow draped the land...
one voice spoke out for freedom and justice...
naaah, but here's some upcoming ultimate related content...
my famed scotland secret door story...
the wallet (already done, but i mean, who doesn't love hearing about the Miracle on Ice, unless you are russian)
the taco bell story (kind of gross. low on the list)
my domination of low level co-ed and hat tournaments. 7-1, and the one came on a call made literally after i'd slapped hands w/ 5 players of the 'soon to be winning team'
also,
luke on cleats
luke on frisbee clothing for the lazy and cold averse, but don't want to look nanooky
luke on eye black/contacts and glasses
and snow draped the land...
one voice spoke out for freedom and justice...
naaah, but here's some upcoming ultimate related content...
my famed scotland secret door story...
the wallet (already done, but i mean, who doesn't love hearing about the Miracle on Ice, unless you are russian)
the taco bell story (kind of gross. low on the list)
my domination of low level co-ed and hat tournaments. 7-1, and the one came on a call made literally after i'd slapped hands w/ 5 players of the 'soon to be winning team'
also,
luke on cleats
luke on frisbee clothing for the lazy and cold averse, but don't want to look nanooky
luke on eye black/contacts and glasses
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
here ya go little orphan annie
At 11:09 PM , LittleOrphanAnnie44 said...
Lemme help you with the Ultimate-related commentary.
Please post (or several posts) on the difference in Sockeye then (mid to late 90s) to now (the '04-'06 teams).
i moved to seattle in dec/jan 96/97 with a plan to put my extensive educational background (9 years of college and a ba in history) to work in the booming seattle economy.
seattle was coming off it's finals appearance, i was coming off a good showing w/ atlanta's chain lightning...
my tryout was going OK, and i 1st reinjured a bad hamstring from the fall, nursed it back, played well on the winning side of a kleinmann split squad sockeye team, then pulled my groin 3 weeks before world.
conceiveably, like the other 'tryouts' i could have made the worlds squad, but i'd already committed to all parties to playing w/ atlanta at worlds.
sockeye went on to win the famed uglitimate game, chain was acceptable,and i played well, but i was cut, the thursday before the flight to chicago. i'd already paid for the ticket. it was a bummer. sockeye went to it's 3rd final
the next year, i vaguely attempted to try out. i think i was cut by email this time. sockeye was starting to attrit. a number of the old guard had faded. if i recall correctly. furious appeared to tank a game to make the dirt road easier, and sockeye fell at regionals.
i went to that 98 sandiego nationals as a spectator, a last minute decision to walk out the office door and catch a bus to the airport, and fly southwest to sandi. as i recall, i picked up a car ride w/ some frisbee tossers in the airport, and spent the weekend, spectating, drinking and couch surfing.
oh for the days of high income.
the next years 99, 2000 were relatively low years for seattle. still competetive on the national scene, the strength of the region proved too much.
the spring of 2001 found me again mired in ski season, w/ no real desire to 'properly' try out.
a dissapointing spring led to the collapse of the team's leadership structure in early summer. the arrival of john 'the kid' hammond and some good will i'd somehow put together by playing w/ a group of more talented players in the past two years (will henry, mike caldwell, dylan) and some occasional pickup success w/ various sub-sockeye groups (tribe, w/ chris page, D'arcy, Barney Ahouse, Gary Brady) combined to position me as the proverbial player to be named later.
My first season w/ sockeye almost ended as quickly as it began. Playing 500 w/ MC before the first Kleinmann game, i wrenched my groin. Depressed and frustrated, i gave serious consideration to getting in my car and driving home.
But i wisely reconsidered, made myself as valuable as possible as i could as a sideline player. High quality health insurance proved a role, as it turned out i had not a groin pull, but a dislocated pubic symphisis. They video'd me, and i may to this day be a display dvd in PT schools around the country... I had also torn my pcl l in the previous year, but rigorous (3 hours a day, no kiddin) pt, and some luck got me back on the field after the groin thing in a couple weeks. My first season, as slow as i've ever played in my life, my role was zone marker...
we had a poor showing at nationals, but a timely mcl strain allowed me to skip tryouts, and ski all spring... and i came back to be an effective, albeit limited player....
i had already commited to grad school, and it seemed like i would miss worlds. but somehow fates conspired, and despite missing the 3 weeks of practice prior to hawaii, i found myself on a plane to hawaii.
without my credit card. another story.
at worlds, i played, again, in a role, but had almost no turnovers, and in the bronze medal game, had a great line (like 3 goals and 3 assists in 7 points, no To's), and combined w/ steady play all weekend, the team kept me as mascot, and dependable reserve, despite the fact that i was commuting 7 hours for practice.
the next year, my final year, i finished grad school, and lived off loans and the last of my retirement fund. somehow i was promoted to subcaller, probably based on the assumtion (correct) that i would not over play myself compared to other players.
we were all dissapointed w/ our 5/6 finish, but my mom enjoyed the game:
highlight: catching the goal at half in our pool play victory over ring, there's a great shot of augie chucking me in the back as i catch the goal. my mom saw the pic, and emailed, 'look, i think that was a foul'...
by then, i was an impoverished substitute teacher living in ski town oregon, and the abillity to even try out on the new look sockeye was out of the question...
the rest is history. voting the weakest link off survivor island, sockeye rose to greatness
Lemme help you with the Ultimate-related commentary.
Please post (or several posts) on the difference in Sockeye then (mid to late 90s) to now (the '04-'06 teams).
i moved to seattle in dec/jan 96/97 with a plan to put my extensive educational background (9 years of college and a ba in history) to work in the booming seattle economy.
seattle was coming off it's finals appearance, i was coming off a good showing w/ atlanta's chain lightning...
my tryout was going OK, and i 1st reinjured a bad hamstring from the fall, nursed it back, played well on the winning side of a kleinmann split squad sockeye team, then pulled my groin 3 weeks before world.
conceiveably, like the other 'tryouts' i could have made the worlds squad, but i'd already committed to all parties to playing w/ atlanta at worlds.
sockeye went on to win the famed uglitimate game, chain was acceptable,and i played well, but i was cut, the thursday before the flight to chicago. i'd already paid for the ticket. it was a bummer. sockeye went to it's 3rd final
the next year, i vaguely attempted to try out. i think i was cut by email this time. sockeye was starting to attrit. a number of the old guard had faded. if i recall correctly. furious appeared to tank a game to make the dirt road easier, and sockeye fell at regionals.
i went to that 98 sandiego nationals as a spectator, a last minute decision to walk out the office door and catch a bus to the airport, and fly southwest to sandi. as i recall, i picked up a car ride w/ some frisbee tossers in the airport, and spent the weekend, spectating, drinking and couch surfing.
oh for the days of high income.
the next years 99, 2000 were relatively low years for seattle. still competetive on the national scene, the strength of the region proved too much.
the spring of 2001 found me again mired in ski season, w/ no real desire to 'properly' try out.
a dissapointing spring led to the collapse of the team's leadership structure in early summer. the arrival of john 'the kid' hammond and some good will i'd somehow put together by playing w/ a group of more talented players in the past two years (will henry, mike caldwell, dylan) and some occasional pickup success w/ various sub-sockeye groups (tribe, w/ chris page, D'arcy, Barney Ahouse, Gary Brady) combined to position me as the proverbial player to be named later.
My first season w/ sockeye almost ended as quickly as it began. Playing 500 w/ MC before the first Kleinmann game, i wrenched my groin. Depressed and frustrated, i gave serious consideration to getting in my car and driving home.
But i wisely reconsidered, made myself as valuable as possible as i could as a sideline player. High quality health insurance proved a role, as it turned out i had not a groin pull, but a dislocated pubic symphisis. They video'd me, and i may to this day be a display dvd in PT schools around the country... I had also torn my pcl l in the previous year, but rigorous (3 hours a day, no kiddin) pt, and some luck got me back on the field after the groin thing in a couple weeks. My first season, as slow as i've ever played in my life, my role was zone marker...
we had a poor showing at nationals, but a timely mcl strain allowed me to skip tryouts, and ski all spring... and i came back to be an effective, albeit limited player....
i had already commited to grad school, and it seemed like i would miss worlds. but somehow fates conspired, and despite missing the 3 weeks of practice prior to hawaii, i found myself on a plane to hawaii.
without my credit card. another story.
at worlds, i played, again, in a role, but had almost no turnovers, and in the bronze medal game, had a great line (like 3 goals and 3 assists in 7 points, no To's), and combined w/ steady play all weekend, the team kept me as mascot, and dependable reserve, despite the fact that i was commuting 7 hours for practice.
the next year, my final year, i finished grad school, and lived off loans and the last of my retirement fund. somehow i was promoted to subcaller, probably based on the assumtion (correct) that i would not over play myself compared to other players.
we were all dissapointed w/ our 5/6 finish, but my mom enjoyed the game:
highlight: catching the goal at half in our pool play victory over ring, there's a great shot of augie chucking me in the back as i catch the goal. my mom saw the pic, and emailed, 'look, i think that was a foul'...
by then, i was an impoverished substitute teacher living in ski town oregon, and the abillity to even try out on the new look sockeye was out of the question...
the rest is history. voting the weakest link off survivor island, sockeye rose to greatness
Monday, February 19, 2007
it must be college season...
...cuz my hit count is off the charts... hundreds of daily opportunities to have new readers ask...
why is this guy on ultimatetalk.com...
well... the reason... is, i don't know.
but if you read the archives, you'll find nearly 10% of my content deals with ultimate.
this is somewhat different than jim parinella's blog.
where you can go to find out exactly how wrong i am about my actual ultimate content percentage.
but over the next month or two, i'll be sporadically coaching ultimate (sporadically, because, we'll practice no more than twice per week, and i have no problem cancelling practice when it snows. and snow it does, and frequently).
speaking of snow, a couple of awesome ski workouts this morning...
this am, a 5.5 km timetrial, 16 minutes... fastest ever measured workout, and i went relatively easy. the success came from the conditions, which were RIPPING fast, and the fact that my technique has improved enough that i'm able finally to go relatively fast on the flats and gentle downhills. on these terrains, it's necessary to accelerate, and it's been hard to keep the technique together... then another 10km at an easy pace...
then i went home, played guitar for an hour, read about the 10th mountain division, ate, ate more... did some laundry...
and went for another 18km ski. interestingly to me, at least, it had snowed about 2 inches... much, much slower... easy, sustained pace...
that's all
why is this guy on ultimatetalk.com...
well... the reason... is, i don't know.
but if you read the archives, you'll find nearly 10% of my content deals with ultimate.
this is somewhat different than jim parinella's blog.
where you can go to find out exactly how wrong i am about my actual ultimate content percentage.
but over the next month or two, i'll be sporadically coaching ultimate (sporadically, because, we'll practice no more than twice per week, and i have no problem cancelling practice when it snows. and snow it does, and frequently).
speaking of snow, a couple of awesome ski workouts this morning...
this am, a 5.5 km timetrial, 16 minutes... fastest ever measured workout, and i went relatively easy. the success came from the conditions, which were RIPPING fast, and the fact that my technique has improved enough that i'm able finally to go relatively fast on the flats and gentle downhills. on these terrains, it's necessary to accelerate, and it's been hard to keep the technique together... then another 10km at an easy pace...
then i went home, played guitar for an hour, read about the 10th mountain division, ate, ate more... did some laundry...
and went for another 18km ski. interestingly to me, at least, it had snowed about 2 inches... much, much slower... easy, sustained pace...
that's all
Sunday, February 18, 2007
take meat who you're lead ear.
I now reveal my true form. All your base are belong to us. My list of demands is simple. I'd like jambalaya for dinner tommorrow night. And peace in the middle east. What you say? No, I have no idea how difficult it is to find good quality chorizo in central oregon. Nor do I care.
Aren't photo programs fun.
Summit wins states. In my inspirational speech at the team meeting Friday night, I pointed out that this more than just a ski race. This was a chance to come heavy, go hard, go home w/ hardware, and be honored by having a 50% shot at getting their name in the paper mispelled.
How funny was it when the actual newspaper mistake was to List the event as occuring at a different mountain, some 1.5 hours away.
I served as the announcer. For those of you who don't know me, this is part of my ongoing plan to overcome my terrible fear of public speaking. Today, a 4 hour mix of mp3's, that literally ended the moment the awards ceremony began. The past two days have been miserable ski-wise. Like 7 or 10 km per day because of coaching duties.
Friday, i went for my first run of the year (29 minutes, no idea of distance), and first unibike of 07 on my sweet new 26" unibike (full size MTB wheel, instead of the usual 24" (BMX size) wheel. Rusty at both is an understatement.
The races were awesome, well run, smiles around, good results. There was an unfortunate incident w/ kids jostling for position which led to some necessary, but unwanted civil conversation and hopefully a result that was at least 'not unpalatable' for all.
We not only won, we dominated. Near perfect score for guys, girls missing top girl and 2/3 girl also crushed, albeit, a little less handily.
Little break, then frisbee coaching.
Tommorrow, ski, run.
That is all. Fullfill my demands, or meet the wrath of our technological superiority.
Thursday, February 15, 2007
heere comes the frisbee
I think there is a picture here. I've just changed my blog layout. I assume that this means that everything i've every written has been published. sorry idris. you seem to have dealt w/ such tribulations well in the past.
but in the meantime, whassup. couple races recently, a 30 km, and a 15 km, mixed bag of results... i'm generally skiing a lot better. 3 more years and i may know what i'm doing. my theory on this whole deal is that all the skills are learnable. it just takes some people (me) more time than others.
as is the consequence of coaching, i'm in a taper period corresponding w/ the team's gear up for states. for me, it's the middle of the skiing, although, racing wise, there is only like5 weeks left. There's 2 more 30km's, and a 10km, and a 15km classic. Hamstring a little strained, but sofar no biggy.
HS Frisbee starts next week. My focus, or theme for the year is to challenge the kids to learn by teaching... so, i'm thinking, for example, to do a drill where the kids throw for a bit, then make a correction of the other thrower, then repeat. May be a flop, but i want the kids to get owner ship. Also, i've gotten too drawn into to running around out there: I'll do it a little to model the habits I want, but not enough to cause them to get used to me having any specific role on the field. I.e., unlike Kramer, I don't want to dominate the jujitsu field. Plus, I'm getting a few players w/ 2 and 3 years now of experience, and they need the opportunity to dominate.
Interesting, I'm definitely exited about the team, but frankly, even as a diletantte ski racer, it's really my main focus. I'm currently so burned w/ my insane teaching loads, the volunteer hours, etc. (etc means i had to change rooms, have 2 classes of 47 plus etc), i'd love to have the time to be a wee bit more selfish... i.e., i'd love to start the frisbee coaching after spring break. oh well. just a mild kvetch. i know for a FACT that the first time i step on the field to toss the disc around, i'll be right back in it mentally.
General marks of late: 30 km in 1:32, skate race, all down hill except where it wasn't, fast snow except where it wasn't. area to work on: like a dummass, i set a goal of 1:35, and my mad math skills had me skiing to time, instead of to feel. skiing harder, a couple minutes faster, expensive wax a couple min faster, a taper (if i want), a little faster. All trivial, but at 2something out of 1000 skiers, i'd like to be top 100 next year.
15km race, 48 min? doesn't seem fast, but it was an acceptable result. that's about 3.2min/km, and in a straight up 10km skate race this year (early) i was 3.7min/km. In this race you change from classic to skate mid race, i didn't bother to brush my skis, i had some friends show up from atlanta at midnight.
There is an upcoming 10km where you ski the same course twice, in december, and in march. last year i'll reveal, at risk of disclosing my lack of talent, that i skied 44, then 38 (divide by 10 for min/km pace). I went 37 this december. I had set the preseason goal of 32 in march. Given recent performances (sim course, sim snow), i'm actually resetting my goal of 32 to 30 minutes. Frankly, either of these would be a rather ridiculous improvement from start of season to end. My 6 minutes of improvement last year was the 'best of bend' and if i can do it twice, moving up from sucktastic to medium tasic to pretty good tastic... I'd like to be skiing in the high/mid 20's before i peak. world class, probably in the low 20's, i think. in any event, i'll probably spend a little money on my remaining 3 ski races (wax wise. it would not be out of the question to use a flourinated wax and spend as much as 20 dollars on your last layer of wax for a race. you might wax 3 times. embarassingly, while i'm dilligent about waxing, i'm usually dealing w/ kids, and generally too frugal, (and too mediocre) to spend cash on wax that might speed me up by low single digit percentages. )
next time. frisbee time.
peace out.
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
fun with darth.
vader theme'd fun. of course none of this compares to the darthside...
http://tinyurl.com/2xmq9l
this one seems to be from adult swim. it's the must see clip of the bunch. claymation, i think, and hysterical
not bad... dubbed dialogue fun with field of dreams
http://tinyurl.com/2xmq9l
this one seems to be from adult swim. it's the must see clip of the bunch. claymation, i think, and hysterical
not bad... dubbed dialogue fun with field of dreams
Sunday, January 28, 2007
warning. mild ultimate content.
diet tip of week.
a pint of icecream the night before the race is not recommended.
but i'll be daaaaa_________ed if i won't keep dooing it.
Saw Borat tonight. I'm going to check de Toqueville's work out. Because Borat was outrageously on point in it's characterization of the american Zeitgeist. The american pronunciation is appopriate, because we came off ugly.
And it was accurate, if not fair.
I'm looking foward to the DVD and commentary to find out what was 'scripted' and what was 'au natural'. This will be the first DVD I watch the commentary first.
Frisbee thoughts.
This is specific to me. I've not run, (except that i tend to jog around like a UPS guy a lot... really), for months. I manage to get in probably 3 miles per week of, jogging to meet my carpool, jogging in the halls, etc. The weights will help, but, I strongly recommend a minimum of 3, 3 mile runs for 2-3 weeks before even light pick up ultimate. That seems like a silly number, but the stress of running is significantly different from skiing. I intend to do 1 mile warm-up, 1 mile of fartlek, and .5 mile cool down. The conditioning is not an issue, it's simply conditioning to pounding.
In other news, i picked up a new unicycle. It's a custom mountain uni, 26" wheel (most are 24, which i think is like a dirt bike)... so it's well suited for cruising about town. the neatest feature is that there is an air seat: on top of the regular seat is a sleeve, in which a folded inner tube is stashed. This will allow me to ride, without banging, er, ya know. This is important, even though right now, i mainly will be riding up and down my street continuing to develop my water starts (or as i say, warter starts).
Summary of week: Sunday, 10km classic race. 10th overall. best finish ever, but, i mean, the comp was what it was. i'm still craptacular, but, hey, first top 10, so i'll take it. Fell over humorously at the start. uh, heh, heh, meant to do that.
Saturday, 10km skate race. Really blew the carbon out of the engine on this one. 26th, but i missed the start. Maybe as high as 18th w/ a real start. heh, heh, meant to do that.
Friday, no ski, 12 miles of biking. Taught. heh, heh... oh wait.
thursday, 20km of skiing. steady. 6 am squats and lat pulldowns
wednesday, intervals on classic skis. 1min, 2min, 3min, 4min, 3min, 2min, 1min. rest equal to interval length.
tuesday, classic skiing. 10km. easy-ish .6 am squats and lat pulldowns
monday, skate skiing, too short. probably 12 km. moderate.
sunday, rest.
saturday, 36 km race. broken pole. heheh... nevermind.
friday, rest...
i can't remember farther (further?) back than that. lots of intervals.
this coming week i'll taper. not sure how the carpools will work out (and as a bike commuter, i'm usually pond, or pool, obviously not car)...
but here's the plan
monday: 10 min warm up, 5 x 3, 10 minute cool down, 50 min total.
tuesday: 1 hour steady
wed: 6 x 2, w/ 10 warmup and cool down
thursday, rest, and drive 10 hours.
friday, 10 km skate, easy.
saturday, 30 km race.
not much of a taper, but a little. the next week, will 2 days of 5x3 w/ a 15km race at end.
then 1 week base (easy), and one week of easy, one week of one tempo, one interval, with 2 1 hour skis, then, one week of 5x3, 6x2, with 2 'easy, short skis', then a 10km race.
that's what constitutes a taper for me, right now. after the 10km race, a week of easy long, then a week of short intervals, then a 15km race on saturday, and a 30km race on sunday, then i'm into spring break, and the goal is just steady state skiing, and afternoon frisbee. the 'race' season is over at that point, so i'll focus on technique and easy return to base training, and i'm going to train for bike season. i'll play ultimate this year some, but i'm going to shoot to be up to speed by jun 21, not before.
abuh, abuh, a that's all.
oh: diet. focus on small changes. for instance, if you like butter on your pancakes, try switching to a syrup yogurt mix, and cutting out the butter. or at least use less butter, and mix with bananas and microwave. try snacking on fruit during the day, so that you aren't as hungry at night. and move towards portion management. lots of small meals. but do focus on small things. one less cup of coffee. one more apple. one less meal eating out, or get the salad, not the fries. but better to eat out less, and when you do, get the fries. they're just tastier.
a pint of icecream the night before the race is not recommended.
but i'll be daaaaa_________ed if i won't keep dooing it.
Saw Borat tonight. I'm going to check de Toqueville's work out. Because Borat was outrageously on point in it's characterization of the american Zeitgeist. The american pronunciation is appopriate, because we came off ugly.
And it was accurate, if not fair.
I'm looking foward to the DVD and commentary to find out what was 'scripted' and what was 'au natural'. This will be the first DVD I watch the commentary first.
Frisbee thoughts.
This is specific to me. I've not run, (except that i tend to jog around like a UPS guy a lot... really), for months. I manage to get in probably 3 miles per week of, jogging to meet my carpool, jogging in the halls, etc. The weights will help, but, I strongly recommend a minimum of 3, 3 mile runs for 2-3 weeks before even light pick up ultimate. That seems like a silly number, but the stress of running is significantly different from skiing. I intend to do 1 mile warm-up, 1 mile of fartlek, and .5 mile cool down. The conditioning is not an issue, it's simply conditioning to pounding.
In other news, i picked up a new unicycle. It's a custom mountain uni, 26" wheel (most are 24, which i think is like a dirt bike)... so it's well suited for cruising about town. the neatest feature is that there is an air seat: on top of the regular seat is a sleeve, in which a folded inner tube is stashed. This will allow me to ride, without banging, er, ya know. This is important, even though right now, i mainly will be riding up and down my street continuing to develop my water starts (or as i say, warter starts).
Summary of week: Sunday, 10km classic race. 10th overall. best finish ever, but, i mean, the comp was what it was. i'm still craptacular, but, hey, first top 10, so i'll take it. Fell over humorously at the start. uh, heh, heh, meant to do that.
Saturday, 10km skate race. Really blew the carbon out of the engine on this one. 26th, but i missed the start. Maybe as high as 18th w/ a real start. heh, heh, meant to do that.
Friday, no ski, 12 miles of biking. Taught. heh, heh... oh wait.
thursday, 20km of skiing. steady. 6 am squats and lat pulldowns
wednesday, intervals on classic skis. 1min, 2min, 3min, 4min, 3min, 2min, 1min. rest equal to interval length.
tuesday, classic skiing. 10km. easy-ish .6 am squats and lat pulldowns
monday, skate skiing, too short. probably 12 km. moderate.
sunday, rest.
saturday, 36 km race. broken pole. heheh... nevermind.
friday, rest...
i can't remember farther (further?) back than that. lots of intervals.
this coming week i'll taper. not sure how the carpools will work out (and as a bike commuter, i'm usually pond, or pool, obviously not car)...
but here's the plan
monday: 10 min warm up, 5 x 3, 10 minute cool down, 50 min total.
tuesday: 1 hour steady
wed: 6 x 2, w/ 10 warmup and cool down
thursday, rest, and drive 10 hours.
friday, 10 km skate, easy.
saturday, 30 km race.
not much of a taper, but a little. the next week, will 2 days of 5x3 w/ a 15km race at end.
then 1 week base (easy), and one week of easy, one week of one tempo, one interval, with 2 1 hour skis, then, one week of 5x3, 6x2, with 2 'easy, short skis', then a 10km race.
that's what constitutes a taper for me, right now. after the 10km race, a week of easy long, then a week of short intervals, then a 15km race on saturday, and a 30km race on sunday, then i'm into spring break, and the goal is just steady state skiing, and afternoon frisbee. the 'race' season is over at that point, so i'll focus on technique and easy return to base training, and i'm going to train for bike season. i'll play ultimate this year some, but i'm going to shoot to be up to speed by jun 21, not before.
abuh, abuh, a that's all.
oh: diet. focus on small changes. for instance, if you like butter on your pancakes, try switching to a syrup yogurt mix, and cutting out the butter. or at least use less butter, and mix with bananas and microwave. try snacking on fruit during the day, so that you aren't as hungry at night. and move towards portion management. lots of small meals. but do focus on small things. one less cup of coffee. one more apple. one less meal eating out, or get the salad, not the fries. but better to eat out less, and when you do, get the fries. they're just tastier.
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