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Saturday Apr 30, 2016 #
Event: QOC Patapsco Granite
Orienteering race 42:49 [3] *** 4.1 km (10:27 / km) +185m 8:31 / km
(injured) shoes: Vasque Velocity
Another stab at orienteering and testing out the post-surgery hip situation. Last attempt last month went really well, but between then and now I went for very low-key, slow pace 6 km run and something went wrong and jacked my hip up back to a worse condition- ugh! Had a lot of pain after sitting down for significant periods of time ever since and lately have had to do a lot of sitting in classes and driving, so the hips have been painful. But had some slight improvement late this past week so decided to go for a short course today, hence the Green.
Overall the course went well hip-wise without any issues, but as for my navigation I had a few significant screw-ups that I could blame on rustiness but can't because I know better. Out the gate at the start I was pretty slow to interpret the map and lots of doubting myself, but once I found the open field I picked up the pace. On the way to #3 I was basically just running out of gas on the uphills because of not being in good shape - not a whole lot I could do about that at that point! I liked my path to #4 although I was hesitating a lot. #7 was a big problem. I liked my initial plan to wrap around the hill, but I think I got sucked into looking at the wrong erosion gulley - I was farther south and west than I should have been. Liked my path to #8. #9 just didn't exercise good bearing disciple coming out of #8, and was going up the wrong reentrant, but quickly realized it was too dry and the next one over west of me was more lush as the map would suggest so scurried over and got it. #10 established a trend for me. On my way to 10 I was saying to myself, "ok last time you planned to aim off to the left and you weren't far enough over to the left, so this time you should aim off more to the left". That's what I said to myself but apparently I didn't actually do it because the same thing happened as last time. I thought I wound up farther east on the trail catching feature than I actually was, resulting in heading up the wrong reentrant on a parallel error, and had to thus backtrack east to the right reentrant. So a bit of a bad showing for me navigationally today. But that all said I was happy with how the hips carried me through the course and that is what really matters at this point for me. Didn't opt for the follow-on Sprint course in interest of not overdoing the hips today--too bad!!
As last time I was highly impressed w/ QOC's event and am really thankful for everyone who volunteered to organize and hold the great event. Perfect running weather -- no sun beating down on you and just the right temp too!
Now I wait to see how the hips feel tomorrow which is always the real test.
Overall the course went well hip-wise without any issues, but as for my navigation I had a few significant screw-ups that I could blame on rustiness but can't because I know better. Out the gate at the start I was pretty slow to interpret the map and lots of doubting myself, but once I found the open field I picked up the pace. On the way to #3 I was basically just running out of gas on the uphills because of not being in good shape - not a whole lot I could do about that at that point! I liked my path to #4 although I was hesitating a lot. #7 was a big problem. I liked my initial plan to wrap around the hill, but I think I got sucked into looking at the wrong erosion gulley - I was farther south and west than I should have been. Liked my path to #8. #9 just didn't exercise good bearing disciple coming out of #8, and was going up the wrong reentrant, but quickly realized it was too dry and the next one over west of me was more lush as the map would suggest so scurried over and got it. #10 established a trend for me. On my way to 10 I was saying to myself, "ok last time you planned to aim off to the left and you weren't far enough over to the left, so this time you should aim off more to the left". That's what I said to myself but apparently I didn't actually do it because the same thing happened as last time. I thought I wound up farther east on the trail catching feature than I actually was, resulting in heading up the wrong reentrant on a parallel error, and had to thus backtrack east to the right reentrant. So a bit of a bad showing for me navigationally today. But that all said I was happy with how the hips carried me through the course and that is what really matters at this point for me. Didn't opt for the follow-on Sprint course in interest of not overdoing the hips today--too bad!!
As last time I was highly impressed w/ QOC's event and am really thankful for everyone who volunteered to organize and hold the great event. Perfect running weather -- no sun beating down on you and just the right temp too!
Now I wait to see how the hips feel tomorrow which is always the real test.
C • Woo! 3
Friday Apr 29, 2016 #
Biking 20:00 [3]
Tuesday Apr 26, 2016 #
Biking 30:00 [3]
Monday Apr 25, 2016 #
Biking 25:00 [3]
Saturday Apr 23, 2016 #
Biking 1:30:00 [4]
Mountain biking - Difficult Run Stream Trail, Cross-Country Trail, up to Great Falls park and back.
Thursday Apr 21, 2016 #
Biking 25:00 [3]
Wednesday Apr 6, 2016 #
X-cntry running 37:00 [3] 6.3 km (5:52 / km)
shoes: Adidas
Trail run - slight incline. non-operated hip feels wonky today but not terrible.
Tuesday Apr 5, 2016 #
Biking 27:00 [3]
Trails
Monday Apr 4, 2016 #
Note
Its the day after the o-race trial on the hips and no pain! This is far better than in December when I tried the night-O for just 30 min's and I was hurting for the next few days afterwards. So I will take this as a sign I can start making small increases. Nothing too crazy until I'm done w/ training for the new job but nice to be at this stage.
Sunday Apr 3, 2016 #
Event: QOC Manassas
Orienteering race 35:50 [3] *** 4.0 km (8:58 / km) +50m 8:26 / km
shoes: Vasque Velocity
1st daytime o-race since the surgery 1.2 yrs ago, trial run to see how my hip handled it. The real test is how it feels the following day but so far so good today. Have to say it felt very liberating running through the woods orienteering again after so long. I'm not sure how the hip handled it just yet, but as for the rest of me it was very healing. And also have to say I was fairly happy w/ how I did today. I opted for a shorter course but still technical so as not to over-do it on the hip, so Brown seemed like a perfect option for me.
Fun course with a nice mix of long legs and short ones. Absolutely loved controls 6 through 9. Blew past #4 because I intended to deliberately aim off to the the right but didn't actually do it because of bad bearing discipline, so I got to the stream, turned left as planned, never saw the control, and then found myself at the footbridge on the trail unexpectedly... so then I backtracked and found it. oy! I also wasn't so hot on #5. Got to the intersection of streams as planned. But plan was to go from there to the southwest over to the clearing w/ the straight streambeds running E-W. What I actually did was went to the wrong clearing just north of those streambeds and fought through all that green and I got close to #5, just northeast of it in that big opening. The massive powerlines helped me home in when I was coming out of the fight.
For having only orienteered this time and once in December since the surgery, I can only be happy w/ how I did. Most of the course I was runnning confidently and doing many of the right things. Even physically I was feeling better than expected despite not being anywhere near my previous physique.
Nice to see some familiar faces too and very impressed w/ all the bells and whistles at the QOC event - from touchpad self-registration to real-time results, I felt like I was at an A-meet! Awesome job QOC, in all areas. Sunny skies and cool temp's helped make it even better. Hopefully I wake up tomorrow not in pain and I can start building myself back up to some longer distance capabilities again. My thanks to QOC for a great event and to everyone who has encouraged me to keep trying to get back into this. I will continue trying!
Fun course with a nice mix of long legs and short ones. Absolutely loved controls 6 through 9. Blew past #4 because I intended to deliberately aim off to the the right but didn't actually do it because of bad bearing discipline, so I got to the stream, turned left as planned, never saw the control, and then found myself at the footbridge on the trail unexpectedly... so then I backtracked and found it. oy! I also wasn't so hot on #5. Got to the intersection of streams as planned. But plan was to go from there to the southwest over to the clearing w/ the straight streambeds running E-W. What I actually did was went to the wrong clearing just north of those streambeds and fought through all that green and I got close to #5, just northeast of it in that big opening. The massive powerlines helped me home in when I was coming out of the fight.
For having only orienteered this time and once in December since the surgery, I can only be happy w/ how I did. Most of the course I was runnning confidently and doing many of the right things. Even physically I was feeling better than expected despite not being anywhere near my previous physique.
Nice to see some familiar faces too and very impressed w/ all the bells and whistles at the QOC event - from touchpad self-registration to real-time results, I felt like I was at an A-meet! Awesome job QOC, in all areas. Sunny skies and cool temp's helped make it even better. Hopefully I wake up tomorrow not in pain and I can start building myself back up to some longer distance capabilities again. My thanks to QOC for a great event and to everyone who has encouraged me to keep trying to get back into this. I will continue trying!