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Saturday Sep 22, 2012 #
Event: NEOC: Nobscot Night-O
10 AM
Running 11:50 1.26 mi (9:23 / mi) +63m 8:08 / mi
ahr:129 max:150
Drills 7:28 0.56 mi (13:20 / mi) +1m 13:16 / mi
ahr:136 max:154
Running 4:24 0.55 mi (8:00 / mi) +27m 6:57 / mi
ahr:140 max:166
Running race 10:27 3.0 km (3:29 / km)
ahr:173 max:180
And back in Boston and to the track with Ian! Just good to put the benchmark up there for the season and to see what type of shape I'm in. There were oodles of people around the track, because of a soccer game in the interior, but mostly they were aware and only slightly messed with lane 1...
It went ok, but not great, it's hard to be 25s off my PR, but I think this is a better performance than recent trail 5ks, so perhaps getting back in shape!
It went ok, but not great, it's hard to be 25s off my PR, but I think this is a better performance than recent trail 5ks, so perhaps getting back in shape!
Running 10:57 1.01 mi (10:51 / mi) +31m 9:54 / mi
ahr:135 max:144
6 PM
Orienteering 40:16 2.71 mi (14:52 / mi) +113m 13:09 / mi
ahr:125 max:157 9c
NEOC Nobscot Night-o by Alex and Ed
So, Alex said something to indicate Markku V., IOF ski-o event advisor extraordinaire, was in Boston over lunch, so I quickly dropped him a facebook invite. He's doing a 2 month program at Harvard Business School for super-business types, it sounds very, very intense. They do something like 200 case studies in that timeframe? Chatting about some of the case studies on the way to the race gave lasting impressions about the hugeness of US defense spending and minuteness about US savings rates... not new ideas, but he had numbers and direct comparisons to other countries to back it up.
At the race, chit-chattering, then thought I'd go out early so I could actually jog a bit while able to watch where I was putting my feet. Markku helped me tape up my ankle, I should definitely be doing that, taping a taught band from forefoot, over heel, anchored just above ankle felt like it might help prevent the extreme dorsi-flexion.
So joggeroo'ed the short course, although when it got dark, walked in the woods, because it was too hard to see where to put my feet definitely safely. Was super-fun, I do really, really, really like orienteering! But my orienteering was pretty sloppy. Since I haven't had a race in awhile, here's a full analysis.
1 - Well, the map is maybe not stellar to 1, but I stayed on trails until the stone wall, then followed that in.
2 - Easy-peasy one, trail to boyscout amphitheatre. (Alex did plan the short as a hard orange, I hear.)
3 - Not great on bearing, at one point found myself veering right, so overcorrectd left and was a bit further left when I came out to control than I would have liked.
4 - First one I'm really not pleased with, from the big trail bend in the steep section, I apparently lost many contours (plan was flat) to end up by the ruin by the stream. Not sure at all how I descended so much, bad!
5 - Trail the whole way there, although got faked out by a zone of rough open to a ruin that seemed trail-like when I passed it in the dark and then made me question what was going on...
6 - Fine, short little leg!
7 - Whoops, worst one. Got quite close on trail, then came off trail too early and searched not-far-enough before coming back out to a trail, relocating and heading back in.
8 - Trail jogging in the dark!
9 - Stayed on upper trail and headed south from a trail junction.
To finish - Um, whoops, upon arriving at trail I went up instead of down. Not cool Ali, just look at your map or compass and that would have been avoided!!
So it was great to get out, see New England orienteering folk and just be in the woods. Ed had a super-cool projector system for the results, which was fun. Oh, and Markku recommends reading a book called "Running" or something like that by Timothy Noakes on physiology. Has anyone read?
So, Alex said something to indicate Markku V., IOF ski-o event advisor extraordinaire, was in Boston over lunch, so I quickly dropped him a facebook invite. He's doing a 2 month program at Harvard Business School for super-business types, it sounds very, very intense. They do something like 200 case studies in that timeframe? Chatting about some of the case studies on the way to the race gave lasting impressions about the hugeness of US defense spending and minuteness about US savings rates... not new ideas, but he had numbers and direct comparisons to other countries to back it up.
At the race, chit-chattering, then thought I'd go out early so I could actually jog a bit while able to watch where I was putting my feet. Markku helped me tape up my ankle, I should definitely be doing that, taping a taught band from forefoot, over heel, anchored just above ankle felt like it might help prevent the extreme dorsi-flexion.
So joggeroo'ed the short course, although when it got dark, walked in the woods, because it was too hard to see where to put my feet definitely safely. Was super-fun, I do really, really, really like orienteering! But my orienteering was pretty sloppy. Since I haven't had a race in awhile, here's a full analysis.
1 - Well, the map is maybe not stellar to 1, but I stayed on trails until the stone wall, then followed that in.
2 - Easy-peasy one, trail to boyscout amphitheatre. (Alex did plan the short as a hard orange, I hear.)
3 - Not great on bearing, at one point found myself veering right, so overcorrectd left and was a bit further left when I came out to control than I would have liked.
4 - First one I'm really not pleased with, from the big trail bend in the steep section, I apparently lost many contours (plan was flat) to end up by the ruin by the stream. Not sure at all how I descended so much, bad!
5 - Trail the whole way there, although got faked out by a zone of rough open to a ruin that seemed trail-like when I passed it in the dark and then made me question what was going on...
6 - Fine, short little leg!
7 - Whoops, worst one. Got quite close on trail, then came off trail too early and searched not-far-enough before coming back out to a trail, relocating and heading back in.
8 - Trail jogging in the dark!
9 - Stayed on upper trail and headed south from a trail junction.
To finish - Um, whoops, upon arriving at trail I went up instead of down. Not cool Ali, just look at your map or compass and that would have been avoided!!
So it was great to get out, see New England orienteering folk and just be in the woods. Ed had a super-cool projector system for the results, which was fun. Oh, and Markku recommends reading a book called "Running" or something like that by Timothy Noakes on physiology. Has anyone read?