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Monday Feb 18, 2008 #
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Back from interscholastics. It was AWESOME. More later once routegadget is up. I'll do all the posting-and-summarizing in one shot. Yeah.
Walking 40:00 [1]
Walking the dog with my mom today. It was a beautiful day, and if it weren't for this AWFUL, raw, inch-wide, oozy blister I have on my right heel, I would have gone biking or running or something. But I can't wear normal shoes as is, and most sandals irritate my shins if I walk in them, so instead I sat around the house moping that it was so beautiful outside until my mom convinced me to throw on some pseudo-flip-flops with tabi socks and walk the dog. My shins aren't too happy with me... but it's such a beautiful day! What can you do?
Sunday Feb 17, 2008 #
Orienteering race 50:33 [5] 5.1 km (9:55 / km) +69m 9:17 / km
shoes: New Balance
Definitely the fastest race of my life. I was the very last start, so I already knew that Alison had run in 54:42 including a few bobbles. I knew I could make it in 50 minutes if I ran totally clean. Then right before I left I heard a coach on a walkie-talkie mention Claudia's time at 44-something... and off I went on my course. Talk about pressure!
It was a good thing, though, because I was constantly aware that "every second counts". Physically and mentally I pushed myself the hardest I ever have in an orienteering race. I forced myself to keep moving, never to pause but to read on the run, plan ahead, pay attention, use every spare second to prepare for the next control, and if I got lost not to walk/ponder but to run while I relocated (not something I usually do), and if I was tired to take only a few steps walking then to start jogging again. I honestly can't say I've ever put as much effort into a race or held myself to such high expectations.
It wasn't my cleanest race. I set off at the wrong angle towards 1, took a while finding 4, took a few stabs to find 8, and completely overestimated the distance to 12. But given that I was definitely pushing myself to the high end of my navigation skills, I'm *very* surprised I didn't mess up on a grander scale.
I'm very proud of my route to 7, and the "just keep moving" attitude I took through the rest of the controls.
Another 3rd place run, behind Claudia and Tori, and right in front of Holly (who, granted, had an 8 minute error to end up there.. but still!), Alison, and Anna Urbanova. Never mind the massive blister I came away with - it was well worth it. No pain, no gain, eh?
(Also, look, ma, I broke 10 mins/km in an A-meet! w00t!)
It was a good thing, though, because I was constantly aware that "every second counts". Physically and mentally I pushed myself the hardest I ever have in an orienteering race. I forced myself to keep moving, never to pause but to read on the run, plan ahead, pay attention, use every spare second to prepare for the next control, and if I got lost not to walk/ponder but to run while I relocated (not something I usually do), and if I was tired to take only a few steps walking then to start jogging again. I honestly can't say I've ever put as much effort into a race or held myself to such high expectations.
It wasn't my cleanest race. I set off at the wrong angle towards 1, took a while finding 4, took a few stabs to find 8, and completely overestimated the distance to 12. But given that I was definitely pushing myself to the high end of my navigation skills, I'm *very* surprised I didn't mess up on a grander scale.
I'm very proud of my route to 7, and the "just keep moving" attitude I took through the rest of the controls.
Another 3rd place run, behind Claudia and Tori, and right in front of Holly (who, granted, had an 8 minute error to end up there.. but still!), Alison, and Anna Urbanova. Never mind the massive blister I came away with - it was well worth it. No pain, no gain, eh?
(Also, look, ma, I broke 10 mins/km in an A-meet! w00t!)
Saturday Feb 16, 2008 #
Orienteering race 54:29 [4] 5.13 km (10:37 / km) +90m 9:46 / km
shoes: New Balance
Another very fun race, and fairly clean for as fast as it was, though again, not at my maximum speed.
Two main issues here. One was a very poor route choice to 10, compounded with an even worse execution (I ran north along the fence then cut in to find the trail, but wasn't sure where on the trail I was - I should have just run east to the fence once I realized I had lost contact). I also misinterpreted the yellow surrounding point 13 as white forest (um, what? I should know what yellow stands for by now) and so spent a little while searching around the forest for a point that was in the clear. Great.
Holly started perhaps 12 minutes after me, so my goal was for her not to catch up. If it weren't for some problems grabbing the wrong CD's at the start (no, Catherine, ISVF does *not* run Green) and wasting a few minutes going back, she wouldn't have caught me. But because of the mess-up, she slipped in front of me at point 13 and so I yelled "HOLLY!! NOOOOO!!! DAMN YOU!!" and chased her pell-mell through the last controls with total reckless abandon. I definitely gained several seconds that way. Huzzah!
My dramatic panting-and-wheezing finish was made all the more dramatic by the blood-streaked scratches covering my right arm. I slashed into some wait-a-minutes on my way from 11 to 12 and my arm started bleeding pretty badly. Thank you, paramedics, for helping me clean that up!
3rd place, behind Claudia and Holly. A very successful result, and great impetus to do even better the next day.
Two main issues here. One was a very poor route choice to 10, compounded with an even worse execution (I ran north along the fence then cut in to find the trail, but wasn't sure where on the trail I was - I should have just run east to the fence once I realized I had lost contact). I also misinterpreted the yellow surrounding point 13 as white forest (um, what? I should know what yellow stands for by now) and so spent a little while searching around the forest for a point that was in the clear. Great.
Holly started perhaps 12 minutes after me, so my goal was for her not to catch up. If it weren't for some problems grabbing the wrong CD's at the start (no, Catherine, ISVF does *not* run Green) and wasting a few minutes going back, she wouldn't have caught me. But because of the mess-up, she slipped in front of me at point 13 and so I yelled "HOLLY!! NOOOOO!!! DAMN YOU!!" and chased her pell-mell through the last controls with total reckless abandon. I definitely gained several seconds that way. Huzzah!
My dramatic panting-and-wheezing finish was made all the more dramatic by the blood-streaked scratches covering my right arm. I slashed into some wait-a-minutes on my way from 11 to 12 and my arm started bleeding pretty badly. Thank you, paramedics, for helping me clean that up!
3rd place, behind Claudia and Holly. A very successful result, and great impetus to do even better the next day.
Friday Feb 15, 2008 #
Event: Interscholastic Champs
Orienteering race (sprint) 19:23 [4] 2.28 km (8:30 / km) +63m 7:28 / km
shoes: New Balance
Interscholastics - Sprint A
A fun course, and a very good warmup. I definitely appreciate having some kind of competitive course (ie not just a model) before the actual event so that I can iron out all the kinks in a real, under-pressure situation.
Definitely could have run it faster, but no real errors other than that. Route choices were also fairly straightforward, though I went a little out of my way to point 10. Glad I saw the shore route to 11.
29th place out of 98 runners, right behind Claudia and Alison - not too shabby!
A fun course, and a very good warmup. I definitely appreciate having some kind of competitive course (ie not just a model) before the actual event so that I can iron out all the kinks in a real, under-pressure situation.
Definitely could have run it faster, but no real errors other than that. Route choices were also fairly straightforward, though I went a little out of my way to point 10. Glad I saw the shore route to 11.
29th place out of 98 runners, right behind Claudia and Alison - not too shabby!
Tuesday Feb 12, 2008 #
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slept:5.0
Super-late night last night - the kind I usually pull about twice a semester when there's a large project I don't make time for during the week because I realize only time pressure will get me to do it effectively. This time it was a story for fiction writing.
The end result was usual level of perkiness up until about noon or 1 o'clock, then a superlative "crash", including throbbing headache and pulling my coat over my head on the bus ride to block out sound and light.
Ehhhhh. I'm a wimp when it comes to sleep deprivation. Which is why I don't do it to myself that often.
So I didn't work out yesterday. Instead I lazed around the house, ate tylenol, finished my work, and went to bed.
The end result was usual level of perkiness up until about noon or 1 o'clock, then a superlative "crash", including throbbing headache and pulling my coat over my head on the bus ride to block out sound and light.
Ehhhhh. I'm a wimp when it comes to sleep deprivation. Which is why I don't do it to myself that often.
So I didn't work out yesterday. Instead I lazed around the house, ate tylenol, finished my work, and went to bed.