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Monday Apr 27, 2009 #
Road biking 30:00 [3] 7.0 mi (4:17 / mi)
Quick road ride around Daniels loop and back up County Rd with Kristoffer on his sweet new mtn bike and me on my road bike (so we kind of balance out our work effort!) First ride of the season without having to be all bundled up with booties, tights and full finger gloves! Gorgeous sunset on the way back to the house!
Sunday Apr 26, 2009 #
Orienteering race (Classic) 1:26:15 [4] 7.6 km (11:21 / km) +300m 9:29 / km
Day 2 Pine Hill
Started at 10:30 and the sun was blazing already! Heat was definitely a factor again today. Decided to use the trails as much as possible to avoid the green, which was pretty much everywhere. Slow to 1, got caught up in the green with my horrible route choice, and which set the tone for the rest of the race. I seemed to be overcompensating for the slowness of myself and the woods by overrunning a few controls, or perhaps it was just the heat frying my brain. Was also having trouble reading the map. After thrashing through the woods for a bit, I would have to stop and squint at my map to find the control circle that I was going to. The whole map was so green and black (trails and cliffs) that the overprinted purple seemed to blend right in!
I think this map would be absolutely fantastic if somebody would burn the place and get rid of all that scrubby sapling underbrush and briars!! That said, I think the course-setters did a fabulous job at utilizing the thick woods and creating route choices that didn't involve _just_ trails!
Great event! Thanks for all the hard work everyone!
Started at 10:30 and the sun was blazing already! Heat was definitely a factor again today. Decided to use the trails as much as possible to avoid the green, which was pretty much everywhere. Slow to 1, got caught up in the green with my horrible route choice, and which set the tone for the rest of the race. I seemed to be overcompensating for the slowness of myself and the woods by overrunning a few controls, or perhaps it was just the heat frying my brain. Was also having trouble reading the map. After thrashing through the woods for a bit, I would have to stop and squint at my map to find the control circle that I was going to. The whole map was so green and black (trails and cliffs) that the overprinted purple seemed to blend right in!
I think this map would be absolutely fantastic if somebody would burn the place and get rid of all that scrubby sapling underbrush and briars!! That said, I think the course-setters did a fabulous job at utilizing the thick woods and creating route choices that didn't involve _just_ trails!
Great event! Thanks for all the hard work everyone!
Saturday Apr 25, 2009 #
Event: CSU Pine Hill A-meet
Orienteering race (Middle Qualifier) 31:00 [4] 3.6 km (8:37 / km)
What an amazingly HOT weekend! I started at 11:30 and was just frying in the sun. So not ready for such heat.
I was kind of feeling like crap up to this point. The whole past week was spent studying every waking moment, without any time to run. I had taken wed and th. off of work to study, which meant no swimming either. All this hard brain working out stuff culminated Friday in the PE exam, an all day test that resulted in foggy brain, foggy vision (focusing on white sheets of paper 8" from my face all day!) and super dehydration. (Can't waste precious test-taking time peeing!) After this exam, i met up with my parents and we drove to boston to stay with Tora in the city. Which of course meant going out to eat. and drink. and go to bed late. Ahh, city life.
This was a great distraction that kept me from dwelling on all the problems that I got wrong on the exam!!
But, so after a long week of doing jack and then having a night like friday night, i felt like such the fat kid. I decided that, considering all that, and the heat, that I would just take it easy and see if I could remember how to orienteer. Turns out I can still run and nav, even at the same time. I came out of this qualifier in 1st, despite a few small bobbles and otherwise feeling like I was running quite slow. Now, we wait and wait in the hot sun for the final...
I was kind of feeling like crap up to this point. The whole past week was spent studying every waking moment, without any time to run. I had taken wed and th. off of work to study, which meant no swimming either. All this hard brain working out stuff culminated Friday in the PE exam, an all day test that resulted in foggy brain, foggy vision (focusing on white sheets of paper 8" from my face all day!) and super dehydration. (Can't waste precious test-taking time peeing!) After this exam, i met up with my parents and we drove to boston to stay with Tora in the city. Which of course meant going out to eat. and drink. and go to bed late. Ahh, city life.
This was a great distraction that kept me from dwelling on all the problems that I got wrong on the exam!!
But, so after a long week of doing jack and then having a night like friday night, i felt like such the fat kid. I decided that, considering all that, and the heat, that I would just take it easy and see if I could remember how to orienteer. Turns out I can still run and nav, even at the same time. I came out of this qualifier in 1st, despite a few small bobbles and otherwise feeling like I was running quite slow. Now, we wait and wait in the hot sun for the final...
Orienteering race (Middle Final) 41:00 [5] 5.0 km (8:12 / km) +150m 7:08 / km
Finally the final races started (my only gripe of the whole weekend...the middle and final should've started earlier, and perhaps with less of a gap between them.) but anyway.
I started 2mins back from Pavi and was surprised to catch her by CP3, this, however, totally distracted me and i messed up 4 and 5, losing over 2 mins. Ran hard down the rail trail to 6 to catch up and kind of toasted myself doing so. my head and feet felt like they were going to explode in the sun, but I had to keep running in order to get that little breeze. I only allowed myself to walk in the shade or up the steeper hills. Running back along the trail to 13 i just wanted it to be over so i set a good pace for myself. Collapsed into a heap at the finish, but had to get up quick to prevent the cramping that I could tell was coming. Quick, take shoes and socks off, douse water over head... ahh, much better! not ready for THIS heat yet! At least not for running around in!
I started 2mins back from Pavi and was surprised to catch her by CP3, this, however, totally distracted me and i messed up 4 and 5, losing over 2 mins. Ran hard down the rail trail to 6 to catch up and kind of toasted myself doing so. my head and feet felt like they were going to explode in the sun, but I had to keep running in order to get that little breeze. I only allowed myself to walk in the shade or up the steeper hills. Running back along the trail to 13 i just wanted it to be over so i set a good pace for myself. Collapsed into a heap at the finish, but had to get up quick to prevent the cramping that I could tell was coming. Quick, take shoes and socks off, douse water over head... ahh, much better! not ready for THIS heat yet! At least not for running around in!