Training Log Archive: LenIn the 31 days ending Oct 31, 2014:
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Friday Oct 31, 2014 #
Swimming 30:00 [3] 1.0 mi (30:00 / mi)
shoes: Purple 34
Wednesday Oct 29, 2014 #
Walking 12:00 [3] 1.2 mi (10:00 / mi)
Tuesday Oct 28, 2014 #
Walking 12:00 [3] 1.2 mi (10:00 / mi)
Monday Oct 27, 2014 #
Wood splitting 30:00 [3]
Sunday Oct 26, 2014 #
Orienteering 58:34 [3] 6.88 km (8:31 / km) +175m 7:33 / km
ahr:156 max:173 shoes: VJ Integrator
After a long weekend I definitely chose the right course. My legs were shot by the end. I was heading right to control 10 then deviated low and had to loop around to get it. I think I was just exhausted and dropped my concentration.
#5 messed me up a bit as I initially was going to #1 the #10
#7 could have been much cleaner on the attack. I knew there was a new unmarked trail but I stayed on it too long and overshot the control.
Bad choice leaving #8 to take a trail that petered out. I should have stayed on the road.
Overall, I'm happy with the effort. At 40 minutes I was planing to be under 1 hour. At 47 minutes I was praying I would be under 1 hour (a looong uphill climb to ctrl #9)
Orienteering 30:00 [3] 2.5 km (12:00 / km)
Saturday Oct 25, 2014 #
Hike / Trek 2:00:00 [3] 5.0 mi (24:00 / mi)
Friday Oct 24, 2014 #
Walking 12:00 [3] 1.2 mi (10:00 / mi)
Swimming 40:00 [3] 1.0 mi (40:01 / mi)
shoes: Purple 34
Thursday Oct 23, 2014 #
Walking 12:00 [3] 1.2 mi (10:00 / mi)
Wednesday Oct 22, 2014 #
Walking 15:00 [3] 1.2 mi (12:30 / mi)
Tuesday Oct 21, 2014 #
Walking 14:00 [3] 1.4 mi (10:00 / mi)
Monday Oct 20, 2014 #
Wood splitting 1:30:00 [3]
Hike / Trek 1:00:00 [3] 2.2 mi (27:16 / mi)
Wood splitting 1:00:00 [3]
Sunday Oct 19, 2014 #
Orienteering 1:03:50 [3] 5.7 km (11:12 / km) +150m 9:54 / km
ahr:154 max:171 shoes: VJ Integrator
Decided to go to Silas today. good choice. the woods were more open than I remember and I was able to move through the map using large features like ridges, hills, cliffs, and swamps. A couple more like that and I could get the hang of moving fast through rough orienteering to an attack point. I think I take too much time focusing on the early parts of the route.
Note: not sure the spiked shoes where the right choice. Very little grip on steep, smooth, large expanses of rock.
Saturday Oct 18, 2014 #
Digging earth 2:00:00 [3]
Friday Oct 17, 2014 #
Walking 12:00 [3] 1.2 mi (10:00 / mi)
Swimming 35:00 [3] 1.1 mi (31:49 / mi)
shoes: Purple 34
Wood splitting 1:00:00 [3]
Thursday Oct 16, 2014 #
Walking 12:00 [3] 1.2 mi (10:00 / mi)
Wednesday Oct 15, 2014 #
Note
Middle 41.6 vs. 43.1
Long 45.0 vs. 45.4
Sprint 47.0 vs. 54.3
Walking 12:00 [3] 1.2 mi (10:00 / mi)
Tuesday Oct 14, 2014 #
Note
Interesting start to the weekend. The Canadian customs officer was flustering me. She asked why we were coming to Canada. I said 'For an orienteering event'. she said 'what's that? I never heard of it? As I was trying to explain she interrupted at least tow more times saying she never heard of orienteering. I gave up and just waited for the next question.
Now that we're back. I need time to download and add a brief overview of what I did... or didn't do.
Walking 12:00 [3] 1.2 mi (10:00 / mi)
Monday Oct 13, 2014 #
Orienteering 22:31 [3] 4.1 km (5:30 / km)
ahr:156 max:172 shoes: inov8 x-talon 190
I really enjoyed this and wish I was in better shape to kick some butt. I am very happy with the min/km. I would not have thought I could maintain that in a race.
My victory was inching out the two places below me each by only one second.
This was all urban and park setting. I wore the talons as they are very light.
A little surprised to see I lost about 20 seconds to the winning time on each of the first 3 controls but I was pacing myself as I didnt know really how far I could go.
Botched the last third of leg 6 by dropping my concentration and entering two consecutive residential driveways instead of the church driveway.
lost over 1 minute on #9 even though I liked my route choice. This could just have been running out of gas.
Lost a bunch on #11 also. I almost ran past it and had to stop and think of where I was. I definitely shut my brain off for 20 - 30 seconds after punching ctrl #10 and it cost me.
I felt a bit too cautious in the arena area but I wanted to be sure I was punching the correct control.
I had the fastest time to the go control but lost some time in the finish shoot. It was a 'U' shape and as I rounded the turn, the finish was not distinguishable. There were all sorts of banners and pop-up tents just behind the finish and the shoot opened to multiple areas (I'm guessing, for the relay later that day) I let up briefly to give me a chance to identify the finish control.
Overall, very fun and I'm glad my course stayed out of the woods. I just needed something different.
Sunday Oct 12, 2014 #
Orienteering 1:18:00 [3] 4.49 km (17:22 / km)
ahr:145 max:174 shoes: VJ Integrator
Funny, I covered less ground in the Long than I did yesterday in the Middle.
I felt I had a better run and had better map contact except a long leg near the end (#8) a 1.2km leg that I spent too much time on the first quarter of the distance trying to keep track of what trail I was on. Happily, I threw that plan out the window and started running in a NNE direction with the plan to hit the power line (which was about 200m to the control) this worked perfect and I had a good attack point from there. I should have done that from the start of the leg.
I'm glad I switched to my spiked O-shoes. They were snug and gave me good traction.
Hike / Trek 2:00:00 [3] 3.0 mi (40:00 / mi)
Saturday Oct 11, 2014 #
Orienteering 1:08:30 [3] 5.91 km (11:35 / km)
ahr:153 max:175 shoes: inov8 x-talon 190
bad start with a warmup map that I could not figure out where I was, but it helped identify the type of map I would be looking at.
felt good until #7 - 300m into woods and missed the mark had to come back out to the powerline cut to reorient. Found the stream and followed it up to the control. The stream was not very distinct in parts, fanning out into a wide hilly marsh.
I had a reasonable finish with the last 6 controls or so. running neck and neck with 2 other o'ers. I beat them on several - small errors were going back an forth. I chickened out on my approach to the go control and took the trails. I should have run straight at the control - only 100m
Friday Oct 10, 2014 #
Walking 12:00 [3] 1.2 mi (10:00 / mi)
Thursday Oct 9, 2014 #
Walking 12:00 [3] 1.2 mi (10:00 / mi)
Wednesday Oct 8, 2014 #
Walking 12:00 [3] 1.2 mi (10:00 / mi)
Walking 1:00:00 [3] 2.0 mi (30:00 / mi)
Tuesday Oct 7, 2014 #
Walking 12:00 [3] 1.2 mi (10:00 / mi)
Monday Oct 6, 2014 #
Wood splitting 30:00 [3]
Sunday Oct 5, 2014 #
Orienteering 1:27:11 [3] 8.26 km (10:33 / km)
ahr:153 max:176 shoes: inov8 x-talon 190
This was not the confidence builder I was hoping for going into next weekend.
I had some good legs but I botched a few also. Surprisingly, the buildings threw me off.
My two worst orienteering moments were going to #7 and realizing (even after verifying compass bearing) that I took the wrong trail for over 100m and #12 when I came out of a ravine, got turned around and was standing next to the bathroom building for 30 seconds trying to figure out where I was.
Friday Oct 3, 2014 #
Swimming 35:00 [3] 1.1 mi (31:49 / mi)
shoes: Black Box Cut #2
Thursday Oct 2, 2014 #
Wood splitting 30:00 [3]
Wednesday Oct 1, 2014 #
Cycling 2:00:00 [3] 14.0 mi (7.0 mph)
shoes: NB-Vibram1520
nice day - embarrassingly, crashed into group of stopped bikes as I was looking at a stream crossing and had my camera in my hand. Knocked over a woman in our group who is a commissioner of Bucks County - oops
Wasn't totally my fault, the person in front of them just stopped in the middle of the trail. no injuries, no bike damage, no foul.