Training Log Archive: JanetT

In Chatham. A couple of places were a little stiff and sore, less so after the class. Stretching very good, as always after a weekend of "O". Right shoulder a little sore from a fall I took yesterday; not as hard a fall as it could have been. I would NOT want to show off all my scratches to this crew; they'd think I'd fallen totally off my rocker (I think they already think I'm crazy for the part of orienteering they understand).
:-)
Jen (instructor) said she saw an article about Geocaching in the weekend newspaper. I said it was somewhat similar to O, but not really the same focus--good for families...

I should really enter a mix of intensities, because I was moving well on the legs I did find on, but not at all on the one I really messed up.

Started out fine; temperature was a little warmer than Saturday morning but still quite comfortable compared to mid day when it was close to 70F. Not really efficient crossing creek to first control but no trouble finding it. Next two controls good, too. Then I thought I'd be smart to 4 and try to stay close to the beeline. Not a good plan in retrospect as the "orange-ish" route would have been so much better not only physically but also navigationally, though it added 200m more distance (again in retrospect, not that much more on an almost 500m leg, though it looked "twice as far" to my eyes on the map). My leg to 4 took me 23 minutes (~45m/km!). Fran Armstrong who ran in F60 took the around route (which she described as orange-ish) and took about 12:30... (Jim Eagleton was fastest, in about 7:25. ...But, hey, I had the fastest split on #8 ! :/ )

Parallel features, too high, lost in the green; you name it, I did it. May this be the last big navigation mistake I make this year!

Recovered (for a bit) with a good leg to 5, then in my exuberance/wish to cancel out the mistake, I overran 6 and had to double back about 70m. No problem from there on in, just slow. Bleah.

Anyway, my legs are proudly wearing their badges of honor from 3 days of exposure to the rose thorns. I think in a year or three, some areas of this map will rival the Land of the Vikings in NE PA for gnarly green.

[added note - I need to delete point 11 - I think I restarted my watch briefly/accidentally after getting back to the car and that "leg" is still in there]

Sunday Middle - Brown - Splits

At East Fork, north side of the lake. Got to spend a lot of time in the light green (including multiflora rose) or on mucky horse trails. I remember the first half of the course's area from a previous course here (a year or so ago).

3-4 aimed off to avoid the worst of the wet/swampy flatlands but still went through areas of several-inch deep pools; fortunately, tho I missed the ditch I we headed for, there was a nice fence catching feature not far beyond. Corrected quickly.

Fourth on brown today (was second yesterday), about 12 minutes back of Allen Edwards of SMOC.

Legs tired this evening, probably partly due to a lot of standing around after
run.

Went to Newport (across river in KY) and walked across the Purple People Bridge back to Cincinatti & around waterfront for a bit. Then had dinner at an Irish Pub. Had a different sandwich--chicken/Swiss cheese melt with a spinach/artichoke spread on sourdough. It was quite tasty.

Saturday Long - Brown - Splits

Event: Flying Pig XIV - U S Interscholastic Championship
 

Model event, across the road from the courses. Got a sense for how wet the flatlands were going to be, and how thick the different levels of "green" are, which was useful later. Found the controls I was looking for. :-)

At East Fork SP/Turkey Ridge area. Went well....... well, all except for ONE control in the middle of the course. For some bizarre reason my mind told me I was looking for a spur when it was a reentrant off the side of a shallow reentrant (extension of a gully/ditch). When I was most of the way to it, I didn't see anything resembling a spur so I turned back and went most of the way to the previous one before realizing what I should have done. A 180m leg turned into a 370m one as I backtracked and lost about 4 minutes... phooey. Otherwise very happy with routes and execution. Not a lot of competition on Brown; but I wouldn't have liked the climb that would have accompanied a green course.

[added route via Garmin FR]

Friday Middle 6-Brown - Splits

At the Y, using bands.

Incline set at 1%, speed at 4.2 mph.

Incline up and down between 3 and 10%. HR ~125 after one of the "steeper" sections.

Good session, using exercise balls. The one where you have your feet on the ball and then alternately raise and lower your butt is a killer (hamstring press). Pushups with shins on ball (couldn't do many because I bruised my right shin on Sunday hitting it on a rock--ow); having my hands supported on weights is easier on my shoulder than having them flat.

Warm up for intervals, watching "Who Wants to Be a Millionnaire."

The last fellow I saw, who didn't last long, couldn't reason some of the easy questions out (ex.: one question mentioned "ringing" and he couldn't choose correctly from bell / harmonica / kazoo / drums. The other question he missed which could have been reasoned out was--choose the other line in the nursery rhyme that includes "its fleece was white as snow" from 4 answers, only two of which ended in something that rhymed with snow and only one of those that mentioned a lamb...his excuse was that he didn't know any nursery rhymes). Makes me wonder how he even got to be a contestant.

Intervals on indoor track, 5 * 345m hard / 230m walking (jogging took too much energy). Took pulse after last hard interval, ~150-155.
203 / 151
200 / 202
200 / 211
200 / 210
200 / 251 (where I was taking my pulse)
NOTE: Last week's intervals took 1002 for the 5*hard.

Cool down jog.