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Thursday Mar 10, 2016 #
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I have to film the Teanaway Classic just so I can use this song!
Haven't been exercising. Just working and finishing the Cascade site. Gotta launch this baby soon!
Haven't been exercising. Just working and finishing the Cascade site. Gotta launch this baby soon!
Sunday Mar 6, 2016 #
Orienteering race 54:53 [3]
Ha! Okay, I think Fort Steilacoom is my course. This is the third time I've won here, and I think that I've won less than 10 COC races in my whole career!
What's more exciting though, is that both Nina and I had reasonably clean races, and I still squeaked out a win against a "runner." I'm surprised by this, because I ran a pretty chill pace for most of the race, until number 15, when I thought, "oh geez, the race is almost over! Maybe I should run faster." Then I ran a comfortable tempo, and kicked into the finish. And thank goodness, because that got me the win.
Basically, the way the race went down between Nina and me:
Nina stretched out a 1.5 minute lead on me by taking 10-20 seconds per control on me through number 9...
Then I got a minute of that back on the long leg to 10 (did she make a mistake or did I have a better route?).
I almost blew it on the way to 14, when I got onto the wrong trail. But spidey senses went off and I busted through the Junipers and popped out with the control 10 yards in front of me. Whew! Still in striking distance.
The clincher leg was number 16. I turned up the pace, and despite being bobbly in my approach, it was enough to give me the lead.
It's exciting to play the back-and-forth scenario in my head, even though I never even saw Nina that day! (watching our dots on Route Gadget, even without the routes, is pretty fun)
This is also the little bit of encouragement I need to get back to a training plan. Hmm... what should be my target race? The Fishtrap Goat? It would be really great to be on-form when there's an opportunity to hang on to some faster/similar runners in a mass-start...
I need to bug Gina, Julie, Emily, Alison, Sue, and Abra to all be there, because that would be a fun PACK!
Yes, yes I think I am motivated by the Goat.
What's more exciting though, is that both Nina and I had reasonably clean races, and I still squeaked out a win against a "runner." I'm surprised by this, because I ran a pretty chill pace for most of the race, until number 15, when I thought, "oh geez, the race is almost over! Maybe I should run faster." Then I ran a comfortable tempo, and kicked into the finish. And thank goodness, because that got me the win.
Basically, the way the race went down between Nina and me:
Nina stretched out a 1.5 minute lead on me by taking 10-20 seconds per control on me through number 9...
Then I got a minute of that back on the long leg to 10 (did she make a mistake or did I have a better route?).
I almost blew it on the way to 14, when I got onto the wrong trail. But spidey senses went off and I busted through the Junipers and popped out with the control 10 yards in front of me. Whew! Still in striking distance.
The clincher leg was number 16. I turned up the pace, and despite being bobbly in my approach, it was enough to give me the lead.
It's exciting to play the back-and-forth scenario in my head, even though I never even saw Nina that day! (watching our dots on Route Gadget, even without the routes, is pretty fun)
This is also the little bit of encouragement I need to get back to a training plan. Hmm... what should be my target race? The Fishtrap Goat? It would be really great to be on-form when there's an opportunity to hang on to some faster/similar runners in a mass-start...
I need to bug Gina, Julie, Emily, Alison, Sue, and Abra to all be there, because that would be a fun PACK!
Yes, yes I think I am motivated by the Goat.