Training Log Archive: maprunner

I will continue to do my full PT exercise routine, but I don't want to add it to my weekly training total any more.

PTOC meet at SMP. Dick N's courses kept us on trails for a lot of the course. Unfortunately, when we weren't on trails, the woods were gross. What a surprise :( It was a hot day, which took a lot out of everyone, I think.

I tried to make this a real practice event, which is hard in a suburban park that I know so well. Worked on taking it slow, reading ahead, "blowing up" the control circle. I ignored my own plan to start slow, and made the rookie runner's mistake of running too far on the trail to 3. After that, I settled down and stuck with my plan. In the end, I jogged about a third of the course. Knees always hurt a bit during warm up, but are fine once I start.

Enjoyed a relaxing night at home tonight, which gave me time to upload Mike's fabulous photos from Iceland:
http://picasaweb.google.com/maprunner

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at SMP after work. Four 8/2 repeats.

at SMP after work. Three 7 X 3 repeats.

Checking out the Woodridge map. Mike printed a map, with a course designed by Ken Walker. That was unexpected!

Walked the whole time, because
1. I stopped a lot to check out the map
2. the woods were crap, and the grass in the "yellow" was as tall as me
3. but mostly because I was tired.

Nice course, and the map has held up very well over the past 10 years. Too many spiderwebs still; one big fat ugly spider even made it into my bra: ugh. Knees felt fine :)

After three quarters, I'm a little bit behind my plan for 100 hours of orienteering this year (65 hours so far). But, given how hard it is to get in some hours during the summer, I'm doing better than I expected.

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