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Tuesday Apr 20, 2010 #
6 PM
Running 45:00 [3] 5.0 mi (9:00 / mi)
ahr:153 max:178
Wow. I really did not feel like going for a run, and I should've listened to myself.. when I got out there the entire thing felt like the first run in a whole year. So awkward, uncomfortable and exhaustive. frustrating. Hope the rest of the week goes better.
Monday Apr 19, 2010 #
Note
(rest day)
Had intentions of going for an easy run today to loosen up after the weekend, but instead took the day off, catching up on a lot of the stuff that I've been letting slip the past week.
Sunday Apr 18, 2010 #
10 AM
Orienteering (Middle Dist simulation) 46:27 [3] **** 4.6 km (10:06 / km) +190m 8:22 / km
ahr:173 max:181
Great course...poor run. what do I expect?
1min start intervals and I think I started behind PatrickG and just ahead of JoeB, then MarieA. Big uphill to the 1st control and then into the thick of technical-ish features. Was not focusing. excited to be doing a 'real' course? pressure from JoeB? distracted from his indecent comments at the start? not sure, but I totally whiffed the first two controls, letting Joe catch me and giving him the opportunity to chastise me for it. Stuck with him for the next few controls, catching some people and losing others. Marie caught me quickly and we were together off and on for the rest of the way, losing and gaining where there were actually route choices, or each of us made some menial error.
Lots of climb this afternoon and I realize how weak i am on the hills.. UPhills. Down I can fly still (thankfully I haven't lost that) and throughout the weekend I noticed that I began feeling more and more sure of my footing. But every single little up, i have hands on knees and it such a trudge! frustrating!
Great course and great to have people all around to run with, just like a big A meet! I love middle distance.. technical, short, fast.. fun!
1min start intervals and I think I started behind PatrickG and just ahead of JoeB, then MarieA. Big uphill to the 1st control and then into the thick of technical-ish features. Was not focusing. excited to be doing a 'real' course? pressure from JoeB? distracted from his indecent comments at the start? not sure, but I totally whiffed the first two controls, letting Joe catch me and giving him the opportunity to chastise me for it. Stuck with him for the next few controls, catching some people and losing others. Marie caught me quickly and we were together off and on for the rest of the way, losing and gaining where there were actually route choices, or each of us made some menial error.
Lots of climb this afternoon and I realize how weak i am on the hills.. UPhills. Down I can fly still (thankfully I haven't lost that) and throughout the weekend I noticed that I began feeling more and more sure of my footing. But every single little up, i have hands on knees and it such a trudge! frustrating!
Great course and great to have people all around to run with, just like a big A meet! I love middle distance.. technical, short, fast.. fun!
2 PM
Orienteering (2 person relay) 1:07:00 [4] **** 6.0 km (11:10 / km)
Day2 Afternoon session: 2 person relay, 3x2km each, Surebridge north
We all hiked in quite a ways from Tiorati to the top of a pleasantly breezy and chilly (but often sunny) hilltop. Amy and her husband Matt showed up just before we headed into the woods so I didn't quite realize just how far we had hiked since I was preoccupied catching up with her! ( What a great surprise!!)
Boris split us into teams when we got to the start/finish hilltop. For whatever crazy reason he decided to pick me for his teammate..silly man. ;) And then he decided to put me on first leg! hah! On 'go' i grabbed my map and bombed off the hilltop, compass pointed perfectly....south. dammit!!! I heard someone yell 'wrong way' ...but that's just what people do at mass starts, right?... surely it wasn't for me. (or the other 2 or 4 people that did the same exact thing.) Corrected nicely and hit the rest of the controls on the C loop fine-ish. On 3 I took a gamble and came in low (no clue descriptions to say top or bottom of the cliff) and ended up having to hike back up. Then the last one I was way too far right going around the swamp and ended up on the wrong hill and had to contour/slab back over and up. (again the uphills killing me.)
Tagged Boris and didn't have to wait long before I was back out on the B loop. Again an error on 3 (streamer hidden low behind a cliff in the middle of many many other cliffy outcrops) and then just slow moving through some mountain laural on the way back.
Last loop was A loop, supposedly the most pleasant of the courses. Unfortunately by this point I was thoroughly exhausted and couldn't really appreciate it, though #1 or 2 was really gorgeous, I remember, as I stood around in a grassy hillside trying to figure out whether the flag was in a reentrant or on a cliff, or on a boulder.. turns out cliff and I just never saw it as I ran right by it looking for the reentrant.
Slogged my way back up through the blueberries to the finish. exhausted.
Lots of fun, and pain, blasting through the woods with everyone else, feeling the pressure. I was sufficiently toast after this weekend and my legs were sore to the touch.. the drive home was a bit stiffening!
Loop C - 26.08 (again I think i forgot to stop my watch for a bit) 171/178 (ave/max HR)
Loop B - 20.59 168/179
Loop A - 19.56 167/179
Great weekend!! Thank you all so very much!! So great to see everyone again!!
We all hiked in quite a ways from Tiorati to the top of a pleasantly breezy and chilly (but often sunny) hilltop. Amy and her husband Matt showed up just before we headed into the woods so I didn't quite realize just how far we had hiked since I was preoccupied catching up with her! ( What a great surprise!!)
Boris split us into teams when we got to the start/finish hilltop. For whatever crazy reason he decided to pick me for his teammate..silly man. ;) And then he decided to put me on first leg! hah! On 'go' i grabbed my map and bombed off the hilltop, compass pointed perfectly....south. dammit!!! I heard someone yell 'wrong way' ...but that's just what people do at mass starts, right?... surely it wasn't for me. (or the other 2 or 4 people that did the same exact thing.) Corrected nicely and hit the rest of the controls on the C loop fine-ish. On 3 I took a gamble and came in low (no clue descriptions to say top or bottom of the cliff) and ended up having to hike back up. Then the last one I was way too far right going around the swamp and ended up on the wrong hill and had to contour/slab back over and up. (again the uphills killing me.)
Tagged Boris and didn't have to wait long before I was back out on the B loop. Again an error on 3 (streamer hidden low behind a cliff in the middle of many many other cliffy outcrops) and then just slow moving through some mountain laural on the way back.
Last loop was A loop, supposedly the most pleasant of the courses. Unfortunately by this point I was thoroughly exhausted and couldn't really appreciate it, though #1 or 2 was really gorgeous, I remember, as I stood around in a grassy hillside trying to figure out whether the flag was in a reentrant or on a cliff, or on a boulder.. turns out cliff and I just never saw it as I ran right by it looking for the reentrant.
Slogged my way back up through the blueberries to the finish. exhausted.
Lots of fun, and pain, blasting through the woods with everyone else, feeling the pressure. I was sufficiently toast after this weekend and my legs were sore to the touch.. the drive home was a bit stiffening!
Loop C - 26.08 (again I think i forgot to stop my watch for a bit) 171/178 (ave/max HR)
Loop B - 20.59 168/179
Loop A - 19.56 167/179
Great weekend!! Thank you all so very much!! So great to see everyone again!!
Saturday Apr 17, 2010 #
Event: CSU Spring Training Camp #2
10 AM
Orienteering 2:00:00 [1] ****
ahr:153
Session #1 of the CSU Training Camp: Line-O/Control-picking/contouring/control-picking. Surebridge
Was just about last to leave the parking lot, with Mom and AliC. Had a nice chat jogging down to the 'start' of the LineO. Ended up sticking together with my mom the whole way which I think was good for me, making me verbalize my thoughts of nav'ing rather than just 'go' like I usually do.
Was a really great way to get back into map reading, especially in Harriman where everything is so complicated. Figuring out which boulders were mapped and which weren't, cliffs, reentrants, wet spots etc. It's been a looooong long time it seems, and this was absolutely perfect. (especially after a week of doing absolutely nothing, it was great to eeeaaasseeee back into training!)
Was just about last to leave the parking lot, with Mom and AliC. Had a nice chat jogging down to the 'start' of the LineO. Ended up sticking together with my mom the whole way which I think was good for me, making me verbalize my thoughts of nav'ing rather than just 'go' like I usually do.
Was a really great way to get back into map reading, especially in Harriman where everything is so complicated. Figuring out which boulders were mapped and which weren't, cliffs, reentrants, wet spots etc. It's been a looooong long time it seems, and this was absolutely perfect. (especially after a week of doing absolutely nothing, it was great to eeeaaasseeee back into training!)
2 PM
Orienteering (O-Intervals) 1:03:00 [4] ****
ahr:168 max:183
Afternoon session: Orienteering Intervals, Polebrook Mtn
There were 6 separate courses strung through the map, each about 4-6mins long with 4 controls each. People were split into groups of 4 or 5 and were to rotate through each interval who was leading, and then every 15s who was following. The goal was to be the first to the 'finish'. I did not do so well. I was in a group with JoeB, SamS, EthanC and IanS, all of which were much much faster!
The first one Ian led off with me 2nd and I must've pushed too hard right off the bat like that, it hurt! I slowed down more and more each consecutive interval as I grew more and more exhausted. I actually didn't fall off the pack too badly, not as bad as I would've thought considering my lack of focused (or any) training or terrain running as of late.
It did feel awesome to fly through the woods chasing the person ahead of you...where there was smooth ground...until you came to a stony boulder field and your eyes were watering too bad and you nearly smash your face in! that was great. No, i didn't crash, but the adrenaline was definitely moving.
1 - 6.35 (though i forgot to stop my watch for a bit after finishing) 177/182 (ave/maxHR)
2 - 5.58 178/183
3 - 6.08 177/182
4 - 4.15 175/183
5 - 5.03 175/179
6 - 5.49 173/179
cooldown with Sam jogging back to the parking lot - about 12.2 159/179
Great, great training exercise!! I know I get distracted all too often, and lose contact with the map, feel pressure from behind etc etc.. this pointed out all of these flaws so obviously. It was also great to see how fast (or slow at times) I can run through the woods when I'm not necesarily nav'ing all by myself.
It also glaringly pointed out how poor my speed endurance is currently. Hope I can change this in the next month/6months!
side note: I love Harriman.
There were 6 separate courses strung through the map, each about 4-6mins long with 4 controls each. People were split into groups of 4 or 5 and were to rotate through each interval who was leading, and then every 15s who was following. The goal was to be the first to the 'finish'. I did not do so well. I was in a group with JoeB, SamS, EthanC and IanS, all of which were much much faster!
The first one Ian led off with me 2nd and I must've pushed too hard right off the bat like that, it hurt! I slowed down more and more each consecutive interval as I grew more and more exhausted. I actually didn't fall off the pack too badly, not as bad as I would've thought considering my lack of focused (or any) training or terrain running as of late.
It did feel awesome to fly through the woods chasing the person ahead of you...where there was smooth ground...until you came to a stony boulder field and your eyes were watering too bad and you nearly smash your face in! that was great. No, i didn't crash, but the adrenaline was definitely moving.
1 - 6.35 (though i forgot to stop my watch for a bit after finishing) 177/182 (ave/maxHR)
2 - 5.58 178/183
3 - 6.08 177/182
4 - 4.15 175/183
5 - 5.03 175/179
6 - 5.49 173/179
cooldown with Sam jogging back to the parking lot - about 12.2 159/179
Great, great training exercise!! I know I get distracted all too often, and lose contact with the map, feel pressure from behind etc etc.. this pointed out all of these flaws so obviously. It was also great to see how fast (or slow at times) I can run through the woods when I'm not necesarily nav'ing all by myself.
It also glaringly pointed out how poor my speed endurance is currently. Hope I can change this in the next month/6months!
side note: I love Harriman.