Training Log Archive: piutepro

Two speed training session in Central Park orienteering at Bushy Ridge/Pelton Pond: First an ultra slow trail run with constant overly detailed map reading on trails. Then a break, stretching and relaxing in the middle of the woods and a run back at full speed while reading on the fly.
The first part should cure the bad habit of cruising on trails while forgetting to read the map or overrunning because of the speed. Plus running on trail needs side navigating, meaning I use elements left and right of the trail, because the trail itself doesn't really give me any information. Bends are often unreliable, so I look for little hills and point features on the side.
The second part is navigation at full speed, glancing at the map very quickly and see what comes. I find a good rhythm of checking what comes in the next 100m or so, run full speed and only check when I reach the end of the short distance. If I read too much I waste time by slowing down a little bit. Very scientific, everything. Or at least a mental game to make things interesting.

In the middle of the woods near a tremendously huge old maple. I stretch, breathe, do some martial arts and soak in the perfect and warm and sunny and crisp moment in the woods. A piece of art, right there. Just being there is a fine moment of being in the moment of a moment while knowing about the moment.

Post run stretch and breathe. Kind of exhausted from doing not much. Maybe rather from not sleeping much.