Training Log Archive: BigWillyStyleIn the 7 days ending Sep 5, 2019:
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Tuesday Sep 3, 2019 #
10 AM
Orienteering race 14:52 ** 3.03 km (4:54 / km) +43m 4:35 / km
ahr:147 max:177 15c
2 PM
Orienteering race 16:40 ** 2.97 km (5:37 / km) +77m 4:58 / km
ahr:158 max:176 13c
Monday Sep 2, 2019 #
10 AM
Orienteering race 56:43 9.23 km (6:09 / km) +208m 5:31 / km
ahr:167 max:183
Day 3 @ Upper Dutchman. A spectacular area and great course set by Ali. I finally had a solid run, which restored some of my faith in my ability to not be slow and bad at orienteering. Yay! I did a small bobble on 5 and a bigger one on 6, maybe 20-30s, and lost a minute on 10 - though by all rights I should have lost more, as I had no real idea where I was but stumbled into the control by luck after noticing five or six water jugs on the ground off to my left. Other than that generally clean, and felt better physically than the past couple days. Hopefully my legs just need some time to re-acclimatize to running.
12 PM
Cycling (MTB) 2:47:02 26.01 mi (9.3 mph) +263m
ahr:134 max:169
After the race, MTB'd back to Bend via the Mrazek trail, my 2017 favorite. Fairly slow going higher up where the trail was more technical, which my beater bike (and my riding skills) are not really equipped for, but got a pretty good rhythm going once on the smoother lower elevations. Great fun had by all. Crashed twice, both times because of sandy spots on a turn where my front wheel couldn't get traction and slid out. The first time I didn't fall, just had to hop off the bike. Second time went down and the gears scratched my thigh up a bit.
Sunday Sep 1, 2019 #
10 AM
Orienteering race 42:19 *** 6.77 km (6:15 / km) +63m 5:58 / km
ahr:169 max:185 20c
Day 2 @ Lava Butte. Usually they do a one-man relay here, which is always a good time, but this time it was a mass-start dog-bones course, which was also really fun. Out of the start Jourdan was ahead of me so I tried to stick with him, which was probably overly optimistic. It did work for about the first half of the course, but I was indecisive on 6 and took a weird route, then blew the second flag of 7, and also crashed pretty hard physically around that point and just didn't have any energy left in my legs.
Saturday Aug 31, 2019 #
Event: Deschutes Daze 2019
10 AM
Orienteering race 1:00:57 *** 8.64 km (7:03 / km) +154m 6:29 / km
ahr:163 max:180 17c
Deschutes Daze, Day 1 @ Lower Dutchman! Lost some time on 1, which seemed a bit misplaced, and goofed up my route to 8, but was going generally okay till losing ~7 minutes on 11 in the always-dangerous lava field. After that I was on tilt and not into it, and slowed down considerably. Still, always an absolute pleasure to orienteer in this terrain - though I was disappointed that the course setting disregarded a lot of the best stuff in favor of trail and field running. The forest is sooo nice here, just use it...
1 PM
Cycling (MTB) 1:57:07 18.48 mi (9.5 mph) +84m
ahr:123 max:209
Chill MTB with dad from Swampy Lakes trailhead back to Bend. Someday I will bring my road bike here and see exactly how fast I can do the ~20 miles from the Dutchman map all the way back down. Will aim for <45 minutes.