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Saturday May 24, 2008 #
orienteering 20:04 [3]
Team Trials- Sprint
Gorgeous day. longish downhill course. Felt odd not wearing spikes, but so much pavement and so many sidewalks so sneakers were probably best anyways.
to me it felt like the city sprint in Zermatt during the Swiss Six day. I felt very confident on the first control, which i spiked and which is a good way to start any race. my overall feeling during the race was one of not really moving so fast, but not being able to think any faster. When I finished and looked at my watch I was initially disappointed, because I was expecting the winning time to be closer to 18. I had one real route choice error, going left on the way to 15 when either middle or right would have been okay.
ended up 1 second slower than Eric Bone, but in 2nd place overall. Eric ran 1 second faster in the chute. I was quite pleased to have a good run.
Gorgeous day. longish downhill course. Felt odd not wearing spikes, but so much pavement and so many sidewalks so sneakers were probably best anyways.
to me it felt like the city sprint in Zermatt during the Swiss Six day. I felt very confident on the first control, which i spiked and which is a good way to start any race. my overall feeling during the race was one of not really moving so fast, but not being able to think any faster. When I finished and looked at my watch I was initially disappointed, because I was expecting the winning time to be closer to 18. I had one real route choice error, going left on the way to 15 when either middle or right would have been okay.
ended up 1 second slower than Eric Bone, but in 2nd place overall. Eric ran 1 second faster in the chute. I was quite pleased to have a good run.
Wednesday May 21, 2008 #
orienteering 23:30 [3] 3.5 km (6:43 / km)
CSU park-o. Franklin Park. Set by Vanessa.
A very nice sprint, and the rain held off, so that was nice too. I had seen a bunch of people leaving the start before me, and I left the start in that direction planning on getting my bearings as I went. Not a great idea actually, took me awhile to find the triangle and I think if I hadn't seen people leaving one way, I might have gone right instead of straight. Got bogged down in light green on the way to 11 and number 12 was very sneakily hidden behind the stone wall.
I might have been able to push harder, but I was happy with my run.
A very nice sprint, and the rain held off, so that was nice too. I had seen a bunch of people leaving the start before me, and I left the start in that direction planning on getting my bearings as I went. Not a great idea actually, took me awhile to find the triangle and I think if I hadn't seen people leaving one way, I might have gone right instead of straight. Got bogged down in light green on the way to 11 and number 12 was very sneakily hidden behind the stone wall.
I might have been able to push harder, but I was happy with my run.
Tuesday May 20, 2008 #
Road run 47:07 [3] 6.0 mi (7:51 / mi)
Today I just wanted to have a relaxing run home. My backpack was pretty heavy so that didn't help very much, and my lower calves are a bit sore from the track yesterday. It felt nice to be moving, though I did feel a little guilty for not pushing harder. I kept looking at my watch and seeing that I wasn't running as fast as normal.... some days can be running without intensity though.
Monday May 19, 2008 #
Track 30:00 [3] 1.25 mi (24:00 / mi)
Long time without posting, but fear not loyal readers ( anyone read Footrot Flats?) I have been training.
today I came home at a reasonable hour and went running with Sam. She wanted to do a track workout.
we ran 400s again. last time my splits were 71,71,71,70. today it was really windy though, which made things harder.
wanted us to do 6 x 400, but I was really tired and settled for 5 as a good compromise between what my head wanted and what my legs were willing to cede.
splits were ( truncating here, which is acceptable by Sam's standards) :
69,68,68,68,71
the rest inbetween ranged from 2 mins to 3 mins or so on the last one. felt quite tired.
trying to convince sam to go climbing tomorrow at the gym, but she's nervous. I think she could use a little attackpoint encouragement to try something new.
today I came home at a reasonable hour and went running with Sam. She wanted to do a track workout.
we ran 400s again. last time my splits were 71,71,71,70. today it was really windy though, which made things harder.
wanted us to do 6 x 400, but I was really tired and settled for 5 as a good compromise between what my head wanted and what my legs were willing to cede.
splits were ( truncating here, which is acceptable by Sam's standards) :
69,68,68,68,71
the rest inbetween ranged from 2 mins to 3 mins or so on the last one. felt quite tired.
trying to convince sam to go climbing tomorrow at the gym, but she's nervous. I think she could use a little attackpoint encouragement to try something new.
Sunday May 18, 2008 #
orienteering 52:32 [3] 5.8 km (9:03 / km)
Blue Hills - Red -
I tried to race quite hard, always a challenge for me at local events. Woods were very nice, Sam and Jeff set the course in such a way that the orienteering was interesting but the forests were clear ( not always so easy in the Blue Hills, I sometimes find ). I only had two substantial mistakes in my mind, controls 1 and 8. The rest of the stuff was relatively minor and I was in okay control.
1)2:15
* not a great start, overran the first control
2)2:28
3)4:01
* little hesitation coming down the re-entrant to the control, boulder seemed lower down the hill and farther to the right than I expected
4)5:11
* too far right. hard to stay on line through the green marsh
5)4:04
* not very graceful getting down the cliffs
6)4:39
* a little too far right of the control, probably wasn't worth trying to cut the corner
7)5:48
8)3:42
* this is the worst mistake I made, was running well, but after I crossed the road I was on a really shoddy bearing off into the vague hillside, and sorta wandered back towards the control to find the flag
9)3:33
* no problems with this, a bit bold to call the feature a spur in my mind
10)6:19
* didn't see the flag when I got to the circle, started to worry, but then I spotted it just a bit lower. Didn't really agree with the map that it should be a boulder cluster
11)3:14
* saw a different control first, which pulled me off line to the left. did an okay job reading the contours to get myself back to where the control really was
12)2:50
13)2:33
14)1:17
F)0:33
I tried to race quite hard, always a challenge for me at local events. Woods were very nice, Sam and Jeff set the course in such a way that the orienteering was interesting but the forests were clear ( not always so easy in the Blue Hills, I sometimes find ). I only had two substantial mistakes in my mind, controls 1 and 8. The rest of the stuff was relatively minor and I was in okay control.
1)2:15
* not a great start, overran the first control
2)2:28
3)4:01
* little hesitation coming down the re-entrant to the control, boulder seemed lower down the hill and farther to the right than I expected
4)5:11
* too far right. hard to stay on line through the green marsh
5)4:04
* not very graceful getting down the cliffs
6)4:39
* a little too far right of the control, probably wasn't worth trying to cut the corner
7)5:48
8)3:42
* this is the worst mistake I made, was running well, but after I crossed the road I was on a really shoddy bearing off into the vague hillside, and sorta wandered back towards the control to find the flag
9)3:33
* no problems with this, a bit bold to call the feature a spur in my mind
10)6:19
* didn't see the flag when I got to the circle, started to worry, but then I spotted it just a bit lower. Didn't really agree with the map that it should be a boulder cluster
11)3:14
* saw a different control first, which pulled me off line to the left. did an okay job reading the contours to get myself back to where the control really was
12)2:50
13)2:33
14)1:17
F)0:33
orienteering 1:00:00 [3]
Helping Sam and the clan with the blue hills meet. got up pretty early to get to Houghton's pond at 9am, set half of the white, yellow, orange flags. After it was all done, picked up a set of the advanced controls. was moving pretty fast both before and after, but wasn't using my compass or anything, just a really nice day to be outside.