Running26:40 3.19 mi (8:22 / mi) +5m8:19 / mi ahr:149 max:191
I don't understand the wonky of the HR monitor. Just jumped up halfway through. Got interrupted early on with a rather playful golden wanting to run along with us. Go home!
2 PM
Orienteering2:07:27 3.97 mi (32:06 / mi) +118m29:23 / mi ahr:101 max:189
One of the controls I thought I mis-set, turned out the streamer was where it was supposed to be. :)
Running27:47 3.11 mi (8:56 / mi) +5m8:53 / mi ahr:133 max:160
Intentionally tried to hover in the high 120s, low 130s. Rolled both my ankles a few times this weekend, and the left looked like a baseball and the right a softball. Wanted to see how it would do in a run. It was fine. The last couple of 10ths of a mile sprinted to see how it would feel. Felt fine. Looks terrible. Ice bucket, ice bucket, ice bucket.
On the positive... Yesterday when picking up controls my foot went right smack dab in fresh horse...well...remains. I brightened when I realized I had a creek crossing that would was it all off!
Orienteering1:54:33 [3] 4.81 mi (23:49 / mi) +189m21:13 / mi spiked:4/9c
Rust buster alert! Really felt awkward posting this, but it is part of the process. (I hope arthurd and others will still race with me!!! :) )
Not my finest...I swear Yankee has my number! And, yet I always can't wait to go back.
I had several problem areas. On my way to one, I panicked! Ugh...could not see the map straight. It was the worst I have ever experienced. Well, now I know, it is totally fine to pause for a moment, memorize route and GO.
Slight detour on 2, but corrected pretty quickly. Then on to 3, and decided to go with the feature rich route as opposed to the less feature route. According to the splits, this worked very well for me, 30s behind the leader.
3 to 4 worked well as well, 2.5m behind leader. I ran the trail to stay with the white woods. Ankle turn #1--left. The green wasn't too bad. Realized then if green was shorter, could go for it.
4 to 5 I fussed around with the river, and should have just run through it. What kind of Orienteer am i? Some kind of fragile flower? Sheesh.
5 to 6 was my learning moment. It was such a subtle feature on a pretty good feature. Made me nuts looking for it. But got it and exited well to 7. Finally redemption, got the best split on that leg.
Then, 8, which I undershot and 9 took too confident of an in terrain attack. Then 9 to F went well.
Sigh....such a humbling sport.
Orienteering1:05:18 2.52 mi (25:55 / mi) +118m22:37 / mi ahr:128 max:153 spiked:2/3c