Training Log Archive: JanetTIn the 7 days ending Jan 17, 2017:
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Monday Jan 16, 2017 #
9 AM
Orienteering race 2:11:08 [3] *** 7.48 km (17:31 / km) +181m 15:38 / km
spiked:24/24c slept:7.0 shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-B 2013-10
Extreme-O, short course A, with Glen. 60s and partly sunny
Fun course with only a few mapped segments; many were bearing/distance, aerial, memory, or other challenges. Got shoes wet debarking from the rowboat but it was near the end. Good exercise and mental challenges.
Details on Glen's log of the actual tasks.
Fun course with only a few mapped segments; many were bearing/distance, aerial, memory, or other challenges. Got shoes wet debarking from the rowboat but it was near the end. Good exercise and mental challenges.
Details on Glen's log of the actual tasks.
Sunday Jan 15, 2017 #
9 AM
Walking warm up/down (To start) 12:00 [3] 0.45 mi (26:40 / mi) +43m 20:31 / mi
shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-B 2013-10
Orienteering race 1:12:20 [4] 4.76 km (15:11 / km) +75m 14:04 / km
spiked:8/11c shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-B 2013-10
Brown day 2 at GNC, 4.1 km 155m climb nominal (I counted about 120), in the 60s when we started but warmed up to about 70; more clouds than yesterday.
Smaller mistakes today but several minutes to #6 per AP. Off to the left at 3 but I corrected; off to the left again to 7 where there was a flag. Did NOT check because there was no rootstock around (I figured it was in the reentrant S of our control). Came back out of 8 basically the same direction I went in and skirted S around the green (between it and the stream) which allowed me to count ditches after the trail crossing.
Surprised a bit to come out so far right to 10, hitting the trail near the bend, but it was easy from there.
I didn't climb to the road to 1 so may have lost seconds there but probably not much...I stayed in the woods just below and crossed the spur high.
Out of three in F60 only two of us finished both days. Shelley Pennington was a bit slower both days (injured?), so I pulled off the win. 17/40-some today. Awards were rectangles of stainless steel that had been laser-etched with the event name, with stickers on the other side for your place, and a hole cut out and shaped to make a bottle opener. :-)
Tomorrow is the Extreme O. We signed up to do the shorter version (~6 km instead of 10).
Smaller mistakes today but several minutes to #6 per AP. Off to the left at 3 but I corrected; off to the left again to 7 where there was a flag. Did NOT check because there was no rootstock around (I figured it was in the reentrant S of our control). Came back out of 8 basically the same direction I went in and skirted S around the green (between it and the stream) which allowed me to count ditches after the trail crossing.
Surprised a bit to come out so far right to 10, hitting the trail near the bend, but it was easy from there.
I didn't climb to the road to 1 so may have lost seconds there but probably not much...I stayed in the woods just below and crossed the spur high.
Out of three in F60 only two of us finished both days. Shelley Pennington was a bit slower both days (injured?), so I pulled off the win. 17/40-some today. Awards were rectangles of stainless steel that had been laser-etched with the event name, with stickers on the other side for your place, and a hole cut out and shaped to make a bottle opener. :-)
Tomorrow is the Extreme O. We signed up to do the shorter version (~6 km instead of 10).
Saturday Jan 14, 2017 #
11 AM
Orienteering race 1:24:28 [4] 5.66 km (14:55 / km) +108m 13:37 / km
spiked:7/9c slept:7.5 shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-A 2013-08
Classic Day 1 at Georgia Navigator Cup. FDR State Park in Pine Mountain, 4.7 km / 145m climb nominal. Temps in low 70s (we had later starts)!
Because I haven't been doing much O-specific training I was happy to see the climbs minimized though there was still plenty for us. Tired after about 65 minutes, so I'm not sure how much energy I'll have tomorrow. A couple of falls but the woods' surface had plenty of duff so no hard falls. I managed to find probably the only piece of barbed wire out there, still mostly attached to a tree, which tripped me up but no other damage.
First control was a pit in bland woods, and of course the flag was barely visible from the surface so you had to be right on it. Shallow ditches nearby weren't mapped at all but you could kind of judge by distance from trails and from where the hill kicked up. Contours were somewhat generalized, which I learned early on; information that was helpful through the course. My only big mistake was on the long leg, 5-6, where I read the gully/stream as uncrossable as it looked gray to me (though it was apparently a stream mapped with narrow solid brown walls). I didn't find the step down/up to be all that noticeable that it deserved this depiction (which I'm not sure is ISOM) and would have been happier if they'd chosen either the stream *or* the gully symbol. I avoided going straight because of it, and apparently didn't notice how far off I had gone until I hit the hillside with lots of rootstocks south of the control, probably a good 200m off. Once I realized that's where I was it was an easy fix. Probably lost at least five minutes, and maybe more, being so far off line.
From 6-7 (control was a rootstock) I slowed down to check the code at another flagged rootstock but figured out it was the one about halfway there and kept trudging.
Lots of fellows ahead of me (the fastest time was over 56 minutes, TomN*), but only two women*, both at about 70 minutes. That surprised me because I was going extremely slowly out there--my run-in across the field illustrates my fitness level... Guess I stayed on course okay.
*When I last looked at results. Apparently there were one or two other women finishing later.
Because I haven't been doing much O-specific training I was happy to see the climbs minimized though there was still plenty for us. Tired after about 65 minutes, so I'm not sure how much energy I'll have tomorrow. A couple of falls but the woods' surface had plenty of duff so no hard falls. I managed to find probably the only piece of barbed wire out there, still mostly attached to a tree, which tripped me up but no other damage.
First control was a pit in bland woods, and of course the flag was barely visible from the surface so you had to be right on it. Shallow ditches nearby weren't mapped at all but you could kind of judge by distance from trails and from where the hill kicked up. Contours were somewhat generalized, which I learned early on; information that was helpful through the course. My only big mistake was on the long leg, 5-6, where I read the gully/stream as uncrossable as it looked gray to me (though it was apparently a stream mapped with narrow solid brown walls). I didn't find the step down/up to be all that noticeable that it deserved this depiction (which I'm not sure is ISOM) and would have been happier if they'd chosen either the stream *or* the gully symbol. I avoided going straight because of it, and apparently didn't notice how far off I had gone until I hit the hillside with lots of rootstocks south of the control, probably a good 200m off. Once I realized that's where I was it was an easy fix. Probably lost at least five minutes, and maybe more, being so far off line.
From 6-7 (control was a rootstock) I slowed down to check the code at another flagged rootstock but figured out it was the one about halfway there and kept trudging.
Lots of fellows ahead of me (the fastest time was over 56 minutes, TomN*), but only two women*, both at about 70 minutes. That surprised me because I was going extremely slowly out there--my run-in across the field illustrates my fitness level... Guess I stayed on course okay.
*When I last looked at results. Apparently there were one or two other women finishing later.
4 PM
Note
You just can't beat sitting outside drinking a frappuccino in January (when it's snowing and 30F at home). ;-)
Thursday Jan 12, 2017 #
10 AM
Zumba (gold) 50:00 [1]
slept:7.0 shoes: Sauc. Grid Cohes.9 -a 8.5W
Plus 5 min walking over and back.
3 PM
Walk/Jog (paved roads) 54:24 [3] 3.67 mi (14:49 / mi) +41m 14:20 / mi
shoes: Trail NB 704 8.5D
Went west to the end of West Hopewell, and took a short detour though the mini-McMansion development on the way back (Rolling Ridge to Curly Horse Rds). Glen says he was in the development at the same time but we never saw each other.
Upper 50s!! How could I not go out? Did some jogging on the flats and downhills until my rt knee said it had had enough.
Upper 50s!! How could I not go out? Did some jogging on the flats and downhills until my rt knee said it had had enough.