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Wednesday Jun 15, 2011 #
Orienteering 20:00 [3]
shoes: Integrator
Seemed to be an ill-fated attempt to get out... Knew I couldn't make the sprint or score-O, but thought I could get over to Mendon with enough time to run the sprint (without controls) as a little workout.
The foreshadow was when I was driving into the park, looked into the woods and thought - wow, it's rather dark in there...
So things start reasonable enough - I take the trail route. (looking now - that does look optimal to me. That's 3 or 4 full contours to avoid the pleasant trail run...-) I'm reasonably sure I did that right, and noticed someone picking controls with a headlamp on already, och...
And then I couldn't really tell where the 2 was. I could see some things, but not enough. Decided that back to the outer trail would let me see the map and if it wasn't the right way, it would still be ok. And then I used the light to look things over and saw that 2 was right there, and saw the flow of the course.
So I jumped into the woods and decided I was at 2.
3 - looked to be beyond where I was with 1, and I might as well run though this light forest to get back (instead of retracing to the trail) I took off at a good clip and several steps in the forest floor grabbed me. My left foot hadn't fully extended, and I was picking my right up and it caught under a thick branch. It was like someone yanked my feet back because my upper body extended and then I fell like a rock. (If someone had been able to see it, I'm sure it would have looked spectacular;-)
I'm actually quite happy that I wasn't really injured. (always wondered how that "breakfall" thing works - apparently like that) A couple light scrapes on the arms, chest, and side of my face, but nothing impaled or seriously damaged. My thumb compass however - bent, and magnifier broken (again!). I'm thinking it took quite some force to bend the directional portion on the front end of it - glad that wan't on a finger or something...
Dusted myself off and jogged along for a bit thinking "am I ok?"...
Reached where I thought 3 would be, and then down to 4 - but not quite sure - with a control it would be easy - "along the trail till you hit the control", but I think I overshot it, and went back.
5 was interesting in that I thought I was there, didn't see a ruined fence, and searched more, got to the trail beyond it and came back and did see some vague stones, and decided it must be a very indistinct ruined stone fence...
Got to where 6 should be, and then the darkness and inattention struck. I see now what happened - I thought I needed to cross the swamp, and couldn't find the path across that the trail seemed to give... Well, if you fold your map, and can't see in the dim light, you might just think you're at 6 when you're at 9 - and the lines go across the thing that's in front of you, and that's a swamp... (and no reading glasses or magnifier to clear things up)
Well, I went around the edge of the swamp for a bit and decided that I really didn't want to be running through it, and the effort was mostly a loss anyway, and perhaps it would be better to just head back - so I did;-)
Humbling, but an interesting time of it.
Did get to see first firefly of the year.
The foreshadow was when I was driving into the park, looked into the woods and thought - wow, it's rather dark in there...
So things start reasonable enough - I take the trail route. (looking now - that does look optimal to me. That's 3 or 4 full contours to avoid the pleasant trail run...-) I'm reasonably sure I did that right, and noticed someone picking controls with a headlamp on already, och...
And then I couldn't really tell where the 2 was. I could see some things, but not enough. Decided that back to the outer trail would let me see the map and if it wasn't the right way, it would still be ok. And then I used the light to look things over and saw that 2 was right there, and saw the flow of the course.
So I jumped into the woods and decided I was at 2.
3 - looked to be beyond where I was with 1, and I might as well run though this light forest to get back (instead of retracing to the trail) I took off at a good clip and several steps in the forest floor grabbed me. My left foot hadn't fully extended, and I was picking my right up and it caught under a thick branch. It was like someone yanked my feet back because my upper body extended and then I fell like a rock. (If someone had been able to see it, I'm sure it would have looked spectacular;-)
I'm actually quite happy that I wasn't really injured. (always wondered how that "breakfall" thing works - apparently like that) A couple light scrapes on the arms, chest, and side of my face, but nothing impaled or seriously damaged. My thumb compass however - bent, and magnifier broken (again!). I'm thinking it took quite some force to bend the directional portion on the front end of it - glad that wan't on a finger or something...
Dusted myself off and jogged along for a bit thinking "am I ok?"...
Reached where I thought 3 would be, and then down to 4 - but not quite sure - with a control it would be easy - "along the trail till you hit the control", but I think I overshot it, and went back.
5 was interesting in that I thought I was there, didn't see a ruined fence, and searched more, got to the trail beyond it and came back and did see some vague stones, and decided it must be a very indistinct ruined stone fence...
Got to where 6 should be, and then the darkness and inattention struck. I see now what happened - I thought I needed to cross the swamp, and couldn't find the path across that the trail seemed to give... Well, if you fold your map, and can't see in the dim light, you might just think you're at 6 when you're at 9 - and the lines go across the thing that's in front of you, and that's a swamp... (and no reading glasses or magnifier to clear things up)
Well, I went around the edge of the swamp for a bit and decided that I really didn't want to be running through it, and the effort was mostly a loss anyway, and perhaps it would be better to just head back - so I did;-)
Humbling, but an interesting time of it.
Did get to see first firefly of the year.
Dance 1:00:00 [1]
Show in Chili.
Tuesday Jun 14, 2011 #
Exercises 30:00 [2]
Reps of situps (16), leg stretches, pushups(8), shoulder stretches x 6.
Monday Jun 13, 2011 #
Morning Run (pavement) 25:00 [3] 3.0 mi (8:20 / mi) +35m 8:03 / mi
shoes: New Balance 479 - V3
Light run with no watch, felt nice...
Saturday Jun 11, 2011 #
Morning Run (pavement + trails + hills) 1:47:00 [4] 8.3 mi (12:53 / mi) +315m 11:32 / mi
shoes: New Balance 479 - V3
Nice hill workout over at Lincoln park. w Garmin.
Transcribed the garmin data below - climb times:
4:13, 4:22, 4:28, 4:48, 4:29, 4:35, 4:45
Distance seemed to average 670-680m (same trip 7 times has a bit of variability...)
20:12 warmup and into park, 3.5k
3:50 rest
4:13 643m 45m climb (Garmin reports 106m up 77m down, but it is clearly 45m up on the map and as I recall - no down...)
1:49 254m return to bottom
1:55 rest
4:22 667m 45m climb
1:52 276m return
2:46 rest
4:28 679m 45m climb
1:53 267m return
2:36 rest
4:48 689m 45m climb
1:52 227m return
2:27 rest
4:29 681m 45m climb
1:47 262m return
2:34 rest
4:35 684m 45m climb
1:58 284m return
2:26 rest
4:45 685m 45m climb
4:10 walk/rest
13:15 2.2k warmdown
7:54 .8k walk
Transcribed the garmin data below - climb times:
4:13, 4:22, 4:28, 4:48, 4:29, 4:35, 4:45
Distance seemed to average 670-680m (same trip 7 times has a bit of variability...)
20:12 warmup and into park, 3.5k
3:50 rest
4:13 643m 45m climb (Garmin reports 106m up 77m down, but it is clearly 45m up on the map and as I recall - no down...)
1:49 254m return to bottom
1:55 rest
4:22 667m 45m climb
1:52 276m return
2:46 rest
4:28 679m 45m climb
1:53 267m return
2:36 rest
4:48 689m 45m climb
1:52 227m return
2:27 rest
4:29 681m 45m climb
1:47 262m return
2:34 rest
4:35 684m 45m climb
1:58 284m return
2:26 rest
4:45 685m 45m climb
4:10 walk/rest
13:15 2.2k warmdown
7:54 .8k walk