Training Log Archive: j-man

Dasha and I ran over to the school and I did a lap of the fields with her. She castigated me for wearing mostly black at night.

I did another three laps and they were really nice. Upper legs tight but I felt really good otherwise.

Event: DVOA Fair Hill
 

A little warmup with a few small hills.

Boulder Dash Blue, Day 2.

So this was not a good race. Frustrating really.

2 was crap. Somehow, I couldn't figure out what I was looking for--a cliff, obviously, but I couldn't make out the countour picture. I thought it was in a re-entrant rather than off a spur. Nonetheless, I navigated inside the circle, but it didn't match what I expected, and then I went of to the SW and wandered around. I went back to the north and found my control from the day before. I went back to the SW--it really didn't make sense there. The contours and especially green were not quite right.

Anyway, I found the control and then made a 180 out, climbing the hill to the clearing off the trail. So, I think this control cost 5-6 minutes.

Anyway, some of the next controls were good; some a little gnarly. The neat thing was that I felt I was moving so well through the terrain. Hills, rocks, green didn't phase me. That is nice.

Unfortunately, I would make errors in the whiter woods.

But no big ones until the punultimate control. I read going in that it would be tricky, but I was confindent in my ability to negotiate that stuff. However, I really think there is something fishy with the geometry/countour picture in there. I ended up out on the road, reattacked, and was still off.

Whatever. I did enjoy this terrain, the course setting, and even the map very much. Each were good. The map may have had some defficiencies but it also had a lot of positives.

Blue Day 2 - Splits

Event: Boulder Dash 2007
 

Easy warmup in the field.

Boulder Dash Blue, Day 1.

A good race, though sloppy. A little fast and loose on the first control--maybe 1-2 minutes? Clean to two when I saw Alexei who started (I found out later) 5 minutes ahead. Would see him off and on continously.

Generally orienteered OK--I would take trail routes whenever possible and get ahead of Alexei. I would inevitably let him catch back up going into controls. We were probably running similiar speed in the forest and I was probably faster on trails, but sloppiness at controls killed me.

Of course, we both ran by the penultimate contol and I then spent a really long time trying to find the GO control and he finished nicely ahead of me. I think I lost at least 30 seconds (maybe a minute) on the GO control--I was well ahead of him going to it.

A pretty hard mostly upper body session. 1 set of 30 lunges with 2 X 15 and some back extensions too.

414 calories, level 6 cross training.

Warmup and warmdown--mostly on the track.

TNT. With Sandy. 1200 meter intervals on the track.

408 (94)/217 (95)
414 (69)/230 (33)
413 (91)/225 (97)
417 (61)/215 (34)

Around the athletic fields with laps of the track interspersed because band practice prevented a full circuit. Distance is an estimate based on projecting (discounted) lap pace.

Down to the hills before hills and after--back to Sandy's and then down again to find Dasha.

TNT. It wasn't hard to convince Sandy to do hills and Ralph was even there to join us.

Definitely dark now--I used the headlamp for the first time.

118 (19) - /148 (46) +
120 (56) - /142 (78) +
121 (62) - /144 (22) +
121 (82) - /146 (13) +
122 (35) + /148 (92) +
120 (94) - /145 (95) -
122 (04) + /153 (55) -
122 (94) - /158 (66) -
122 (33) - /202 (69) -
117 (46) - /156 (00) -

average 120.5 (vs. 121.3) and 150.2 (vs. 150.4)

Beginning and ending intervals were faster than last week, others +/-