Training Log Archive: BigWillyStyleIn the 28 days ending Feb 28, 2014:
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Friday Feb 28, 2014 #
Cycling hills (morning) 24:12 [4] 6.79 mi (16.8 mph) +107m
Cycling hills (evening) 32:00 [4] 7.27 mi (13.6 mph) +201m
Thursday Feb 27, 2014 #
Cycling hills (morning) 22:13 [4] 6.79 mi (18.3 mph) +107m
Miles:
1. 3:55
2. 2:24
3. 3:39
4. 2:39 ***PR***
5. 3:34
6. 3:11
7. 2:51 (0.79)
Cycling hills (evening) 29:35 [4] 7.26 mi (14.7 mph) +201m
1. 3:43
2. 3:18
3. 5:11
4. 4:45
5. 3:18
6. 4:19
7. 4:10
8. 0:50 (0.26)
Wednesday Feb 26, 2014 #
Cycling hills (morning) 24:30 [4] 6.8 mi (16.7 mph) +107m
Cycling hills (evening) 31:10 [4] 7.27 mi (14.0 mph) +201m
Tuesday Feb 25, 2014 #
Cycling hills (morning) 26:04 [4] 6.79 mi (15.6 mph) +107m
Cycling hills (evening) 32:43 [4] 7.26 mi (13.3 mph) +201m
Sunday Feb 23, 2014 #
Note
Strength 27:00 [3]
Saturday Feb 22, 2014 #
Running 36:16 [3] 4.53 mi (8:00 / mi) +100m 7:30 / mi
Friday Feb 21, 2014 #
Running warm up/down 3:46 [2] 0.48 mi (7:51 / mi)
Orienteering 17:49 [4] ** 3.0 km (5:56 / km) +60m 5:24 / km
20c
Splits:
1. 0:32
2. 0:43
3. 0:27
4. 0:40
5. 0:38
6. 0:50
7: 0:55
8. 0:50
9. 0:41
10. 1:31
11. 1:12
12. 1:15
13. 0:55
14. 0:52
15. 0:57
16. 1:12
17. 0:52
18. 1:00
19. 1:06
20: 0:36
F: 0:06
Orienteering 13:14 [4] ** 2.0 km (6:37 / km)
15c
Splits:
1. 0:34
2. 0:41
3. 1:00
4. 0:48
5. 0:37
6. 1:42
7. 1:38
8. 0:51
9. 1:16
10. 0:44
11. 0:50
12. 1:06
13. 0:27
14. 0:32
15. 0:22
F. 0:06
Running warm up/down 9:00 [3] 0.95 mi (9:28 / mi) +30m 8:38 / mi
Thursday Feb 20, 2014 #
Cycling hills (morning) 25:03 [4] 6.79 mi (16.3 mph) +107m
Cycling hills (evening) 34:33 [4] 7.26 mi (12.6 mph) +207m
Wednesday Feb 19, 2014 #
Cycling hills (morning) 25:51 [4] 6.81 mi (15.8 mph) +107m
Cycling hills (evening) 30:18 [4] 7.27 mi (14.4 mph) +201m
Tuesday Feb 18, 2014 #
Note
Anyone who can provide information leading to the location and apprehension of this missing map, please call my toll-free number, open 24 hours a day.
Strength 27:00 [3]
Monday Feb 17, 2014 #
Cycling hills (morning) 25:55 [4] 6.79 mi (15.7 mph) +107m
Cycling hills (evening) 32:06 [4] 7.26 mi (13.6 mph) +201m
Sunday Feb 16, 2014 #
Note
Running warm up/down 6:04 [2] 0.62 mi (9:47 / mi) +30m 8:30 / mi
Orienteering 43:23 [4] ** 5.4 km (8:02 / km) +75m 7:31 / km
16c
I ran Course 7 from the WIOL meet at Bridle Trails on December 1, 2012. Things went fine until I misread some of the small trails around 11-12 and got COMPLETELY turned around. Just goes to show that with a moment of carelessness you can screw things up nicely, even in your home park.
Splits:
1. 2:12 (+14s)
2. 1:57 (+13s)
3. 3:19 (+11s)
4. 4:20 (-10s)
5. 2:11 (+12s)
6. 5:55 (+22s)
7. 2:08 (+5s)
8. 2:40 (+6s)
9. 3:07 (+4s)
10. 1:37 (+1s)
11. 5:55 (+213s)
12. 2:14 (+69s)
13. 2:47 (+49s)
14. 0:59 (+1s)
15. 0:35 (-4s)
16. 1:14 (+9s)
F. 0:13 (+1s)
My splits are pretty consistently a few seconds slower than Ghost Man Jourdan Harvey, although I'm confident that I could pretty easily equal/beat that pace were I rested and in full race mode.
Running warm up/down 6:48 [2] 0.79 mi (8:37 / mi)
Cycling 20:28 [3] 4.18 mi (12.3 mph) +50m
Saturday Feb 15, 2014 #
Orienteering race 31:37 [5] *** 4.5 km (7:02 / km) +135m 6:07 / km
23c
Running 33:08 [4] 3.6 mi (9:12 / mi) +60m 8:45 / mi
Thursday Feb 13, 2014 #
Running 58:38 [3] 7.1 mi (8:16 / mi) +100m 7:55 / mi
1. 8:23
2. 9:02
3. 7:52
4. 6:57
5. 7:46
6. 8:44
7. 9:13
Wednesday Feb 12, 2014 #
Cycling hills (morning) 26:50 [4] 6.79 mi (15.2 mph) +107m
Cycling hills (evening) 30:31 [4] 7.26 mi (14.3 mph) +201m
Tuesday Feb 11, 2014 #
Cycling hills (morning) 24:04 [4] 6.79 mi (16.9 mph) +107m
Cycling hills (evening) 30:25 [4] 7.26 mi (14.3 mph) +201m
Monday Feb 10, 2014 #
Note
--Fourth place overall, after finishing 11th or 12th last year.
--First American overall.
--Two second-place finishes.
--Best individual non-Critchley score (983.81).
--Second overall after three of five SI races.
Honestly, if you had asked me at Sprint Camp a year ago if I would ever reach this level, I'd have said no way. It really is crazy what a little training and hard work will do. I'm so thankful and blessed. On to the next one!
Sunday Feb 9, 2014 #
Orienteering race 16:57 [5] ** 2.6 km (6:31 / km) +30m 6:10 / km
Easily the most frustrating race of the weekend. I was quite clean all the way through...until the very last control, 20, where I blew over a minute and a half. Looking at the splits, at 19 I was in fifth place, 14 seconds behind Eric and Adam Woods and 6 seconds behind Graeme Rennie.
If I had not made that one dumb mistake, I would've taken third overall. And what's also disappointing is that I would have finished the Setup ~15 seconds back of second place, meaning that I robbed myself of the challenge/opportunity to run with Adam, Eric and Graeme in the Chase, and hopefully try for second in the combined Setup/Chase. Oh well.
Orienteering race 16:19 [5] ** 2.6 km (6:17 / km) +30m 5:56 / km
Solid race, nothing really noteworthy. I was running with Ian Saari, Will Hubsch, and Patrick Saile for most of the race, and just didn't have the legs left in me to get away from them. I ended up in sixth, 0:28 behind the non-Critchley lead.
Saturday Feb 8, 2014 #
Orienteering race 13:23 [5] ** 2.6 km (5:09 / km) +10m 5:03 / km
Second, AGAIN! And just one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen seconds behind Will Critchley. Wow, unreal. My thought process upon seeing the results: "Duuhhhh...Can't be right...How many did I skip...???"
I maybe could've found another 10-15 seconds in twos and threes here or there, but that's extreme nitpicking. I started about a minute behind Eric, and caught up to him around 9. He was still recovering from sickness, so I was moving a bit faster and eventually got away on the way to 18. No navigational issues to speak of.
This race was almost certainly my best sprint race ever, and you could even argue that it's the best orienteering race I've run in my entire life. Would that I could get rankings points for this, or that I can repeat it ever again. And by ever again I mean at the Team Trials.
Orienteering 19:51 [3] ** 1.95 mi (10:11 / mi) +20m 9:52 / mi
Orienteering race 8:56 [5] ** 2.0 km (4:28 / km)
I thought I was going to be partnered with Nikolay, but they had him with Rex, so I ended up running with Sergio Fernandez, a Mexican guy who lives in Vancouver.
We finished second. My times seem slower than they should be - maybe I had the longer relay legs? I felt like I was moving pretty well out there.
Orienteering 31:46 [3] ** 2.54 mi (12:30 / mi) +40m 11:55 / mi
Orienteering race 14:37 [5] ** 2.1 km (6:58 / km) +50m 6:13 / km
Not a good race for me. I happened to start out on the wrong end of the mass of people and got caught in the crowds, then immediately made a wrong turn and lost ~30 seconds. The rest was okay, I just never got all the way into it. There was also a misplaced control that cost me ~20 seconds. This was probably my worst Sprint Camp race overall, but it was lots of fun!
Friday Feb 7, 2014 #
Orienteering race 12:16 [5] ** 2.4 km (5:07 / km) +10m 5:00 / km
18c
Second! Fantastic start to Sprint Camp. I felt strong and fresh after four days off, and wasn't bothered by the cold - it seems like a lot of other people are in various stages of sickness and are thus worse affected.
Wednesday Feb 5, 2014 #
Note
Monday Feb 3, 2014 #
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Sunday Feb 2, 2014 #
Note
Strength 27:00 [3]
Running tempo 1:04:01 [3] 8.0 mi (8:00 / mi) +50m 7:51 / mi
Saturday Feb 1, 2014 #
Orienteering race 44:05 [5] *** 4.8 km (9:11 / km) +180m 7:44 / km
16c
I was not in a good frame of mind when I finished, because I made several errors, especially one really dumb mistake 11-12 when I tried (and failed) to go through some dark green for no apparent reason other than navigational neglect. However, it looks like I still slid into second, ~4 min. behind Eric.
I count it as a good sign that I ended up with a relatively solid result even after a race I was unhappy with, and did not feel physically strong during.