Note
13 years after my first attempt, I finally earned a place on the WOC team. Now if I can somehow get into my Nov. '07 shape in 6 more weeks, I'll have at least a very remote chance of making an A-final, if it's a really, really tricky qualifier, and I managed to navigate very, very well. I'll be doing what I can to make it possible.
My knees held up quite well this weekend too. Much better after the 3 days (no pain yet, as of 8pm), than my Friday rest day where it was annoying much of the day.
Orienteering race 1:39:15 [4] *** 12.0 km (8:16 / km) +400m 7:05 / km
shoes: O-VJ Integrator Spikes
Day 3 of the Team Trials
+ very happy that my knee held up - better even after the race than before (with the R-knee a tiny bit tweaked, but it's the good one so I'm okay with that.)
+ also happy with my time - given the loss of training while injured all winter, I wasn't expecting to be able to run within 10% of the winner, and I more or less did. I think a big part of that was nav., which was pretty clean - apparently picking the better routes most of the time too. Physically I held up okay (vs. the competition) in the 2nd half, but was getting beaten regularly in the 1st half, and was nowhere close to Erin's good legs - he flew by me like the European orienteers do...
- several sloppy attacks, and a timid route on 13 did cost 3-4 minutes I'd have liked to have back.
- L-foot outside edge, which I smashed (ankle twist the 2nd most common way) early in the Middle was giving me problems, esp. when I'd bang it again, which was often in the rocks. Ran on the toe of that foot in most of the rough terrain of the course. I think that kept me a bit slow in the forest, but maybe that made the knee happy??
Running 40:00 [2] 4.0 mi (10:00 / mi)
shoes: R-Saucony Gray
Bits of jogging with AJ on White between my finish and the Team Trials results announcements - without straps and knee was okay. Kind of a cool-down for the race (for which I didn't really warmup.)
Plus another 2 miles in 21:20 with AJ in the evening. He loves looking at his Attackpoint totals so much he's running just to log it and see the miles go up.