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Monday Oct 12, 2009 #
Note
So much for my efforts to create regular, weekly WCOC training sessions. We had six of these in the end of August and September, all of which I organized and which were attended by anywhere from 3 to 20 people. I really hoped that when I went away to Sweden for three weeks, someone would step up and organize a session or two.
I suppose what we need is more active people who are less geographically spread out, as it is really hard for people to travel far, especially on a weekday. I am not in the business of recruiting people to orienteering - some people like spreading the gospel, but I am not one of them. The options that remain, then, are to bring more existing orienteers to New Haven and to increase the appeal of New Haven as a place to train for orienteering. There is also, of course, the default option of not bothering - just doing my own training and that's it. Well, I am not quite done trying yet, so I'll just have to rethink my approach.
I suppose what we need is more active people who are less geographically spread out, as it is really hard for people to travel far, especially on a weekday. I am not in the business of recruiting people to orienteering - some people like spreading the gospel, but I am not one of them. The options that remain, then, are to bring more existing orienteers to New Haven and to increase the appeal of New Haven as a place to train for orienteering. There is also, of course, the default option of not bothering - just doing my own training and that's it. Well, I am not quite done trying yet, so I'll just have to rethink my approach.
Note
A true inspiration and one of the nicest guys you'll ever meet. Go World Champion Marc: http://www.marclauenstein.ch/ !
Running 27:07 [2] 4.72 km (5:45 / km)
shoes: Blue Asics 2009
A shuffle around the flat part of East Rock with Kat, followed by a whole lot of stretching. Felt stiff and sore, of course, but not too bad. The most painful thing was the toe I stubbed on a step in Kat's parents' apartment before leaving for the Highlander yesterday.
Sunday Oct 11, 2009 #
Event: Hudson Highlander
Running 5:00 [2] 0.83 km (6:00 / km)
shoes: Fall 2009 VJ Falcons
Jogging to the start. Managed to slice off the tip of my right middle finger somehow, so I was bleeding quite a bit even before the start.
Orienteering race 3:21:27 [3] ***** 26.3 km (7:40 / km)
spiked:21/26c shoes: Fall 2009 VJ Falcons
Hudson Highlander XIV, Harriman State Park.
I flew in from Sweden on Saturday and managed to get a good night of sleep before waking up at 4am, ready to go. Two days of not running did their job, and I felt surprisingly good at the start on a gorgeous fall morning - sunny and cool, perfect weather for running. Before the start, Ross suggested a goal of CSU going 1-2-3 in the race to be the best non-Frenchman. Given the presence of Ross, Kenny, and Will, I was fairly certain this could be accomplished without my involvement. I just wanted to have fun, navigate confidently and see how long I would last in my given injured state. CSU boys at the pre-start: http://my.opera.com/borisgr/albums/showpic.dml?alb...
Map 1,2: http://www.dxdeluxe.se/linnekartparmen/show_map.ph...
Start-1: 16:52 Place: 5.
Thierry disappeared right away, going right and cutting up the hill to the water tower. I was one of the last people off the start, taking a long time to pick out a route choice and finally also settling for going right. Was behind Will, Ross, and Jon Torrance for most of the leg, with Clem and Jean-Baptiste right around me. At the end of the camp road, Will and Jon cut up almost right away, while Ross and I went around, but ended up drifting further left than I would have liked. Ross was flying the last few hundred meters to the control, and I had no chance to stay with him.
1-2: 4:36 Place: 6.
King of the Mountain. Straight up Echo Mt., short and steep: about 90m of climb in 300m of "running." I was slow here, just trying to keep going. JBB passed me here, and Clem punched right behind. No sign of Thierry, Will, Ross, or Jon.
2-3: 7:25 Place: 8.
Very tentative down the hill, as I have very little confidence in my left knee right now. Clem and JBB with me. We were hesitating quite a bit navigating through the cliffs on the hillside going into the control - probably should have gone over the top of the nose, as that was better running. Wyatt catches up, Matthieu appears from above. Kenny, Francis and others right behind.
3-4: 19:52 Place: 7.
The French guys, with Clem and Wyatt in tow, disappeared going straight and slightly left of the line. Kenny and I stopped a while and discussed routes. I suggested going right, terrified of the attack through the green on the left/straight route. Kenny agreed, and we took off, with no one else behind us. Executed the leg well and had a good, but not killer, pace on the trails. Legs felt good here. As we were coming in, the French guys and Clem were just leaving. Apparently, we passed Ross here somewhere.
4-5: 6:33 Place: 7.
Didn't look ahead at this leg and paid the price with sloppy execution. Right off the line and slow coming out to the trail, and then deciding to go left and all the way around the hill instead of going straight up the reentrant, which probably would have been better from the point we hit the trail. Saw Thierry on the trail, headed out on the trail run.
5-6: 3:57 Place: 7.
Uneventful. Saw JT on the trail run.
6-7 (Trail run) 35:47 Place: 6.
Was very thankful to have Kenny for company on the trail run, as chatting and catching up on the last few months made time go by a lot quicker. We remembered to read the map sometimes too and managed to stay on the line the whole way. As we were starting the trail run, we saw Ross and Eddie headed to 6 and assumed they would catch us on the trail run. Wyatt was just behind us the whole way, but lost a bit of ground when he made a wrong turn when the trail starts going up the pipeline. Ross followed, but we yelled at them to go back to the right trail. Matthieu stopped halfway through the trail run, and Clem and JBB pulled away from us quite a bit, maybe 3 minutes.
Map 3: http://www.dxdeluxe.se/linnekartparmen/show_map.ph...
7-8 7:32 Place: 7.
Kenny and I had seen JBB running the road to 8 and we did the same, while Ross (who caught us while we were eating at the aid station), cut earlier and pulled away from us steadily, spiking 8.
8-9 2:55 Place: 7.
Looked like a straightforward leg, but I drifted left and hit the cliff and rocks on the edge of the circle, losing about 30 seconds.
9-10 4:40 Place: 5.
Kenny and I decided to go around, which was a good idea, but this was still a hard control. Was a bit nervous going along the hillside, but was relieved to see the distinct reentrant just SE of the circle. We were a bit low, but not much. Pleased to see Ross and Clem running up to the flag from the SW, having missed it.
10-11 5:37 Place: 5.
All four of us together, going straight, mostly sticking to the flatter parts. Going through the high blueberry out of the control was the first time I felt tired. No problem with the control.
11-12: 4:16 Place: 5.
Ross and Clem went a bit right out of the control, I a bit left, but we were all together again at the trail. Ross and Clem then started going along the hill and the green patches, while Kenny and I climbed straight up, spiking the control.
12-13: 1:20 Place: 7.
My self-congratulations were short-lived, as I immediately messed up control 13, ominously named PG. This change of pace with the three short legs was a great bit of course-setting!
13-14: 1:15 Place: 7.
Aid station again.
14-15: 2:20 Place: 7.
Cheered by Alex and Brendan on this leg. Nice to have some hardcore CSU support out there! Eating a cookie on this leg and shamelessly following Ross slightly left and around the hill.
15-16: 8:46 Place: 6.
Wanted to go a little left of the line and around the green, but ended up going more left than I wanted to and climbed straight up to the trail on top of the mountain, rather than cutting up to it. Kenny was with me, Clem, who was clearly running faster than us, way right, running on the line, Ross a bit behind him. Ross and I crossed paths, as I stayed on the trail and he dropped down rough open hill. This was the last I saw of him. Attacking this control from above was easy, right down the big reentrant, and Kenny and I came into right with Clem.
16-17: 5:40 Place: 5.
Clem was running ahead and took a nice line to the saddle between the two mountains, but then started hesitating. I got in front, climbed a bit, ran past twin boulders and then just below a distinct nose, along the flat part of the slope to the first rock, dropped a bit and went straight to the control. Excellent.
17-18: 2:28 Place: 6.
Contouring and leading the way, until just before the control, where I toppled over onto some rocks, and Clem got back ahead.
18-19: 2:34 Place: 6.
To the aid station again, eating another cookie and a GU before setting off in the pursuit of Clem for the final loop.
Map 4: http://www.dxdeluxe.se/linnekartparmen/show_map.ph...
19-20: 6:36 Place: 6.
Went right, climbing up the road and then through the picnic area. Down the reentrant and right, being led into the control by a long string of Lowlanders. Clem took the left route with the harder attack and spiked it, getting well ahead of Kenny and me.
20-21: 10:12 Place: 6.
With Clem getting away, I decided to give it all I had to chase him down, and so I ran hard (not fast - that was impossible at this point, but just hard) to try and catch him. Saw him most of the way and caught him on the approach to the control down the stony reentrant, as he drifted a bit right.
21-22: 4:31 Place: 6.
Tired here, and Clem was getting away again. Dropped down to run along the marsh and the contouring to the control on the spur, an easy location necessitated surely by the atrocious quality of map printing.
22-23: 5:14 Place: 6.
Clem was gone by the time we climbed up to the trail, but again dropped down to the control at a strange angle, and so we caught up once more, for the final time.
23-24: 8:58 Place: 6.
On this leg, it started being about surviving and no longer about racing. I had done all I could to catch or pass Clem, but he was just too strong for Kenny and me. After failing to cross the marsh to the parking lot, we stumbled along the rocky wetland and crossed the stream, climbing the hill until just below the steep part. This was a pretty bad route choice, as it was slow going and longer than necessary. The huge boulder with the control was visible from very far away, but getting to it still took a long time.
24-25: 13:37 Place: 6.
Kenny and I agreed that the key was to keep moving, and taking the trail route to the left was the best way to do that. We shuffled up the trail to the three-way junction, then contoured a bit through the high blueberry, dropped down to avoid the hill with the green slash and ran around the marsh before climbing up to the control. Kenny gave me a Gu here, for which I am very thankful.
25-26: 5:04 Place: 6.
Decided to go straight as it was the last control and the Gu gave us one last shot of energy. My left hamstring was starting to cramp up whenever I had to step over a log or a stone, but it never seriously bothered me. Punched 26 just ahead of Kenny, happy to be done.
26-Finish: 2:50. Place: 6.
Overall: 3:21:27 Place: 6. (1 - Thierry, 2 - Will, 3 - JBB, 4 - JT, 5 - Clem)
A really, really enjoyable race on fun courses in some of the most wonderful terrain in the world. Burgers and chili at the finish hit the spot, and all the familiar faces, as well as the international flavor provided by the French guys, made for a great atmosphere. My only complaint is about the horrible map printing on Silvermine, which included unreadable rock detail and square dot knolls.
Thanks Daniel, Paul and the rest of HVO for a great event and to Kenny for the company!
I should also add that I was very happy with my race, both technically and physically. Given my injuries and lack of training since spring 2008, this was a better physical race than I had any right to expect. Orienteering is not a time-sink, but an addiction, which I tried to get away from a couple of times since getting injured, but simply cannot. I just wish I could get uninjured so I can get back to training for real.
Results: http://hvo.us.orienteering.org/News/article/sid=21...
I flew in from Sweden on Saturday and managed to get a good night of sleep before waking up at 4am, ready to go. Two days of not running did their job, and I felt surprisingly good at the start on a gorgeous fall morning - sunny and cool, perfect weather for running. Before the start, Ross suggested a goal of CSU going 1-2-3 in the race to be the best non-Frenchman. Given the presence of Ross, Kenny, and Will, I was fairly certain this could be accomplished without my involvement. I just wanted to have fun, navigate confidently and see how long I would last in my given injured state. CSU boys at the pre-start: http://my.opera.com/borisgr/albums/showpic.dml?alb...
Map 1,2: http://www.dxdeluxe.se/linnekartparmen/show_map.ph...
Start-1: 16:52 Place: 5.
Thierry disappeared right away, going right and cutting up the hill to the water tower. I was one of the last people off the start, taking a long time to pick out a route choice and finally also settling for going right. Was behind Will, Ross, and Jon Torrance for most of the leg, with Clem and Jean-Baptiste right around me. At the end of the camp road, Will and Jon cut up almost right away, while Ross and I went around, but ended up drifting further left than I would have liked. Ross was flying the last few hundred meters to the control, and I had no chance to stay with him.
1-2: 4:36 Place: 6.
King of the Mountain. Straight up Echo Mt., short and steep: about 90m of climb in 300m of "running." I was slow here, just trying to keep going. JBB passed me here, and Clem punched right behind. No sign of Thierry, Will, Ross, or Jon.
2-3: 7:25 Place: 8.
Very tentative down the hill, as I have very little confidence in my left knee right now. Clem and JBB with me. We were hesitating quite a bit navigating through the cliffs on the hillside going into the control - probably should have gone over the top of the nose, as that was better running. Wyatt catches up, Matthieu appears from above. Kenny, Francis and others right behind.
3-4: 19:52 Place: 7.
The French guys, with Clem and Wyatt in tow, disappeared going straight and slightly left of the line. Kenny and I stopped a while and discussed routes. I suggested going right, terrified of the attack through the green on the left/straight route. Kenny agreed, and we took off, with no one else behind us. Executed the leg well and had a good, but not killer, pace on the trails. Legs felt good here. As we were coming in, the French guys and Clem were just leaving. Apparently, we passed Ross here somewhere.
4-5: 6:33 Place: 7.
Didn't look ahead at this leg and paid the price with sloppy execution. Right off the line and slow coming out to the trail, and then deciding to go left and all the way around the hill instead of going straight up the reentrant, which probably would have been better from the point we hit the trail. Saw Thierry on the trail, headed out on the trail run.
5-6: 3:57 Place: 7.
Uneventful. Saw JT on the trail run.
6-7 (Trail run) 35:47 Place: 6.
Was very thankful to have Kenny for company on the trail run, as chatting and catching up on the last few months made time go by a lot quicker. We remembered to read the map sometimes too and managed to stay on the line the whole way. As we were starting the trail run, we saw Ross and Eddie headed to 6 and assumed they would catch us on the trail run. Wyatt was just behind us the whole way, but lost a bit of ground when he made a wrong turn when the trail starts going up the pipeline. Ross followed, but we yelled at them to go back to the right trail. Matthieu stopped halfway through the trail run, and Clem and JBB pulled away from us quite a bit, maybe 3 minutes.
Map 3: http://www.dxdeluxe.se/linnekartparmen/show_map.ph...
7-8 7:32 Place: 7.
Kenny and I had seen JBB running the road to 8 and we did the same, while Ross (who caught us while we were eating at the aid station), cut earlier and pulled away from us steadily, spiking 8.
8-9 2:55 Place: 7.
Looked like a straightforward leg, but I drifted left and hit the cliff and rocks on the edge of the circle, losing about 30 seconds.
9-10 4:40 Place: 5.
Kenny and I decided to go around, which was a good idea, but this was still a hard control. Was a bit nervous going along the hillside, but was relieved to see the distinct reentrant just SE of the circle. We were a bit low, but not much. Pleased to see Ross and Clem running up to the flag from the SW, having missed it.
10-11 5:37 Place: 5.
All four of us together, going straight, mostly sticking to the flatter parts. Going through the high blueberry out of the control was the first time I felt tired. No problem with the control.
11-12: 4:16 Place: 5.
Ross and Clem went a bit right out of the control, I a bit left, but we were all together again at the trail. Ross and Clem then started going along the hill and the green patches, while Kenny and I climbed straight up, spiking the control.
12-13: 1:20 Place: 7.
My self-congratulations were short-lived, as I immediately messed up control 13, ominously named PG. This change of pace with the three short legs was a great bit of course-setting!
13-14: 1:15 Place: 7.
Aid station again.
14-15: 2:20 Place: 7.
Cheered by Alex and Brendan on this leg. Nice to have some hardcore CSU support out there! Eating a cookie on this leg and shamelessly following Ross slightly left and around the hill.
15-16: 8:46 Place: 6.
Wanted to go a little left of the line and around the green, but ended up going more left than I wanted to and climbed straight up to the trail on top of the mountain, rather than cutting up to it. Kenny was with me, Clem, who was clearly running faster than us, way right, running on the line, Ross a bit behind him. Ross and I crossed paths, as I stayed on the trail and he dropped down rough open hill. This was the last I saw of him. Attacking this control from above was easy, right down the big reentrant, and Kenny and I came into right with Clem.
16-17: 5:40 Place: 5.
Clem was running ahead and took a nice line to the saddle between the two mountains, but then started hesitating. I got in front, climbed a bit, ran past twin boulders and then just below a distinct nose, along the flat part of the slope to the first rock, dropped a bit and went straight to the control. Excellent.
17-18: 2:28 Place: 6.
Contouring and leading the way, until just before the control, where I toppled over onto some rocks, and Clem got back ahead.
18-19: 2:34 Place: 6.
To the aid station again, eating another cookie and a GU before setting off in the pursuit of Clem for the final loop.
Map 4: http://www.dxdeluxe.se/linnekartparmen/show_map.ph...
19-20: 6:36 Place: 6.
Went right, climbing up the road and then through the picnic area. Down the reentrant and right, being led into the control by a long string of Lowlanders. Clem took the left route with the harder attack and spiked it, getting well ahead of Kenny and me.
20-21: 10:12 Place: 6.
With Clem getting away, I decided to give it all I had to chase him down, and so I ran hard (not fast - that was impossible at this point, but just hard) to try and catch him. Saw him most of the way and caught him on the approach to the control down the stony reentrant, as he drifted a bit right.
21-22: 4:31 Place: 6.
Tired here, and Clem was getting away again. Dropped down to run along the marsh and the contouring to the control on the spur, an easy location necessitated surely by the atrocious quality of map printing.
22-23: 5:14 Place: 6.
Clem was gone by the time we climbed up to the trail, but again dropped down to the control at a strange angle, and so we caught up once more, for the final time.
23-24: 8:58 Place: 6.
On this leg, it started being about surviving and no longer about racing. I had done all I could to catch or pass Clem, but he was just too strong for Kenny and me. After failing to cross the marsh to the parking lot, we stumbled along the rocky wetland and crossed the stream, climbing the hill until just below the steep part. This was a pretty bad route choice, as it was slow going and longer than necessary. The huge boulder with the control was visible from very far away, but getting to it still took a long time.
24-25: 13:37 Place: 6.
Kenny and I agreed that the key was to keep moving, and taking the trail route to the left was the best way to do that. We shuffled up the trail to the three-way junction, then contoured a bit through the high blueberry, dropped down to avoid the hill with the green slash and ran around the marsh before climbing up to the control. Kenny gave me a Gu here, for which I am very thankful.
25-26: 5:04 Place: 6.
Decided to go straight as it was the last control and the Gu gave us one last shot of energy. My left hamstring was starting to cramp up whenever I had to step over a log or a stone, but it never seriously bothered me. Punched 26 just ahead of Kenny, happy to be done.
26-Finish: 2:50. Place: 6.
Overall: 3:21:27 Place: 6. (1 - Thierry, 2 - Will, 3 - JBB, 4 - JT, 5 - Clem)
A really, really enjoyable race on fun courses in some of the most wonderful terrain in the world. Burgers and chili at the finish hit the spot, and all the familiar faces, as well as the international flavor provided by the French guys, made for a great atmosphere. My only complaint is about the horrible map printing on Silvermine, which included unreadable rock detail and square dot knolls.
Thanks Daniel, Paul and the rest of HVO for a great event and to Kenny for the company!
I should also add that I was very happy with my race, both technically and physically. Given my injuries and lack of training since spring 2008, this was a better physical race than I had any right to expect. Orienteering is not a time-sink, but an addiction, which I tried to get away from a couple of times since getting injured, but simply cannot. I just wish I could get uninjured so I can get back to training for real.
Results: http://hvo.us.orienteering.org/News/article/sid=21...
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Friday Oct 9, 2009 #
Note
Ugh. Feeling really crappy when I got up this morning. No running today, just working and packing. Hope to feel better by Sunday, but a trans-Atlantic flight won't help matters.
Thursday Oct 8, 2009 #
Running 44:43 [2] 7.78 km (5:45 / km)
shoes: Fall 2009 VJ Falcons
From home to Vårdsätra and back
Orienteering 42:12 [3] *** 5.3 km (7:58 / km)
shoes: Fall 2009 VJ Falcons
25-manna training in Vårdsätra. I am really sad to be missing 25-manna. How on earth did i not manage to buy plane tickets for a flight that went five hours later??
Felt awful orienteering today. Just no confidence in placing my left (injured) leg on anything even somewhat uneven. It's a terrible feeling. Would be so nice to run without pain someday.
Felt awful orienteering today. Just no confidence in placing my left (injured) leg on anything even somewhat uneven. It's a terrible feeling. Would be so nice to run without pain someday.
Wednesday Oct 7, 2009 #
T.rex training 45:00 [1]
Strength at F&S, last time for a while.
Cross-Training 50:00
Spinning. Low on enthusiasm today.
Tuesday Oct 6, 2009 #
Running 1:09:12 [2] 11.53 km (6:00 / km)
shoes: 2009 VJ Falcons
A nice run around Rödmossen with Seb just before it got dark and rainy.