Training Log Archive: TomNIn the 7 days ending Feb 7, 2015:
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Saturday Feb 7, 2015 #
Orienteering race 58:48 [5] *** 7.0 km (8:24 / km)
34c shoes: Icebug olx 2nd
The QOC Bumble, rapidly becoming an annual tradition. One course, 5 windows, mass start. Handicap/course level determines how many windows you can skip, you choose which ones. Then if everyone has self-handicapped correctly, it's a mass finish too.
It turns out Morven Park was a good place to hold this event. I skipped the forest window, but in retrospect I think it would have been better if I had skipped the open field window at the far eastern end of the course. That one was kind of fun, but a lot of cross-country running, and the skip would have cut off a big chunk of distance. I was all alone at that point, but got in with some others on the next window with the weird rock mounds, and finished together with a few of the blue and green runners, so the handicapping worked out pretty well.
It turns out Morven Park was a good place to hold this event. I skipped the forest window, but in retrospect I think it would have been better if I had skipped the open field window at the far eastern end of the course. That one was kind of fun, but a lot of cross-country running, and the skip would have cut off a big chunk of distance. I was all alone at that point, but got in with some others on the next window with the weird rock mounds, and finished together with a few of the blue and green runners, so the handicapping worked out pretty well.
Friday Feb 6, 2015 #
Road running 33:00 [3] 3.7 mi (8:55 / mi)
shoes: Adrenaline 14-2nd
Morning run around the usual neighborhood loop. Fairly wide divergence in the temperature estimates, but I think it's safe to say it started in the teens, and on the rise. Nice conditions, comfortable running.
Wednesday Feb 4, 2015 #
Road running 38:00 [3] 4.3 mi (8:50 / mi)
shoes: Adrenaline 14-2nd
Around the Goddard perimeter road. Fine day, high 40s and sunny.
Monday Feb 2, 2015 #
Road running 38:00 [3] 4.3 mi (8:50 / mi)
shoes: Adrenaline 14-2nd
Easy run around the GSFC perimeter road. There was a break between the rain stopping and the wind coming up, and I took it. Turns out a bunch of other runners did too. Warm enough for shorts.
Sunday Feb 1, 2015 #
Road running 34:00 [3] 3.8 mi (8:57 / mi)
shoes: Adrenaline 14-2nd
Another trip around the regular neighborhood loop. At least I think that's what I did. The problem is I have absolutely no memory of the middle section of it. I remember running up the hill towards the stairs, and wondering whether there was going to be ice on the path by the tennis courts, but no memory of climbing the stairs, or going by the tennis courts, or the condition of the path, or passing the playground equipment, or where I went after that. Coming back down the hill and turning left on Fernwood is the next memory I have. Probably 10 minutes are missing.
I know this has happened before, in road races. It's a nifty trick, helps the miles go by and probably delivers more oxygen to the legs, since it's not going to the brain. But I can report from personal experience that temporary amnesia during an orienteering race is not helpful at all.
I know this has happened before, in road races. It's a nifty trick, helps the miles go by and probably delivers more oxygen to the legs, since it's not going to the brain. But I can report from personal experience that temporary amnesia during an orienteering race is not helpful at all.