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Thursday May 6, 2010 #
7 PM
orienteering 22:58 [5] 2.01 mi (11:26 / mi)
I like Ian, but that may be because my legs are just used to it :)
Woof, just one of those days where all the plans get thrown out the window. Wanted to running terrain loops in the AM, but didn't get up and going in time. Then wanted to leave work at a reasonable time to get to the park o at a reasonable time... instead I took tail biopsies from 130 mice pups for DNA extraction and eventual genotyping.
Anywho, got to the park-o very late, rushed as quickly as I could through registration to start. It was recommended that I wear leg covering, but I had only brought shorts. I have a reputation to maintain, regardless.
Cleanish run, was trying to cut through the woods to 2, but then changed my mind (woods really do suck on Pine Hill south) when I got out to the trail and then I went around. Everything else seemed pretty good, though I didn't see the flag in the re-entrant at 6 so I went on to the wall and back in. After it was all over, Eric and I went back out to clear out the second half of the course... it got pretty dark.
I forgot that I was supposed to be visualizing what I was going to see next ( a training goal that comes from the analysis of my West Point races) until I was on the way to control 6. Even after I remembered it was hard to force myself to really plan ahead well. Closing my eyes sort of helped, but it is untenable to treat the park-o as both a race and a training session. Should have been more of a training.
Woof, just one of those days where all the plans get thrown out the window. Wanted to running terrain loops in the AM, but didn't get up and going in time. Then wanted to leave work at a reasonable time to get to the park o at a reasonable time... instead I took tail biopsies from 130 mice pups for DNA extraction and eventual genotyping.
Anywho, got to the park-o very late, rushed as quickly as I could through registration to start. It was recommended that I wear leg covering, but I had only brought shorts. I have a reputation to maintain, regardless.
Cleanish run, was trying to cut through the woods to 2, but then changed my mind (woods really do suck on Pine Hill south) when I got out to the trail and then I went around. Everything else seemed pretty good, though I didn't see the flag in the re-entrant at 6 so I went on to the wall and back in. After it was all over, Eric and I went back out to clear out the second half of the course... it got pretty dark.
I forgot that I was supposed to be visualizing what I was going to see next ( a training goal that comes from the analysis of my West Point races) until I was on the way to control 6. Even after I remembered it was hard to force myself to really plan ahead well. Closing my eyes sort of helped, but it is untenable to treat the park-o as both a race and a training session. Should have been more of a training.
9 PM
orienteering 14:23 [1] 0.67 mi (21:28 / mi)
I brought my headlamp and finally got out to Prospect to rescue a night-o flag that has been sitting up on a cliff since Feb 23rd. Now I can check that off the list. It's so weird that something small like that can really weigh on my conscience, when all the other random stuff is water off a duck's back.