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Friday Oct 6, 2006 #
Orienteering race 28:51 [5] ***** 3.1 km (9:18 / km)
shoes: Brooks
NAOC Sprint at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. I had a really good run, but Csaba beat me by a few minutes. I had several hesitations. As I'm getting faster, I need to work on memorizing the leg ahead, especially for sprints. There's just so much going on so fast (even at my pace) that I need to. As much as I prefer thumb compasses for regular courses, I'm going to look at the Spectra wrist-mounted compass or even a baseplate in my non-map hand. The difficulty of finely manipulating the map with the thumb compass is enough to make me consider something else. Another reason is the difficulty to finely thumb the map. Spike mentioned his compass pointer. I need to rethink my sprint processes to make them faster and more precise.
It was a very fun course, and one I really liked. The legs were a mix of easy and hard, with some quite complicated route choices---The biggest mistake was to hesitate. Sometimes it was so intense that I knew where I needed to go from memory, but I wasn't able to read the map---Twice I couldn't even find where I was without stopping, so I kept moving until I got to an easy place to read the map. It was nuts. I have no idea how the elites do this so fast. It's a whole other ballgame.
It was a very fun course, and one I really liked. The legs were a mix of easy and hard, with some quite complicated route choices---The biggest mistake was to hesitate. Sometimes it was so intense that I knew where I needed to go from memory, but I wasn't able to read the map---Twice I couldn't even find where I was without stopping, so I kept moving until I got to an easy place to read the map. It was nuts. I have no idea how the elites do this so fast. It's a whole other ballgame.
Tuesday Oct 3, 2006 #
Running 33:33 [3] 4.26 km (7:53 / km) +75m 7:14 / km
shoes: Brooks
After about 1 week off, I expected to feel slow. Big surprise. I felt great. I'm not just jumping on the AP wagon here. I felt awesome. I was, in fact, slow and steady, but it just felt good. I tried to stride out a few times and see if I could maintain a faster pace, but I could only hold it for a minute or so. I made it up the big hill without stopping, so that's good, and I managed a quicker pace the last 500m or so. Great night to run.
Note
Inadequate cool down! Oh man. I finished running 45 minutes ago, and I am sore. Back and Legs sore.
Oh---I've had a sore spot in my foot for about 2 days. I thought it might be arthritis, but it feels like I tweaked it somehow. It's the joint between my big toe and its metatarsal., or---get this---the metatarsophalangeal joint (MTP). (I got that from google.)
Oh---I've had a sore spot in my foot for about 2 days. I thought it might be arthritis, but it feels like I tweaked it somehow. It's the joint between my big toe and its metatarsal., or---get this---the metatarsophalangeal joint (MTP). (I got that from google.)