Training Log Archive: maprunnerIn the 7 days ending Aug 16, 2014:
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Saturday Aug 16, 2014 #
10 AM
stretch 1 [0]
run/walk 1:15:00 7.75 km (9:41 / km) +91m 9:09 / km
ahr:112 max:149
Mike and I went to Clinton this morning. Right away we ran into a group of Trail Hawks who asked us to join them. Mike said yes, I said no, mostly because I was sure I couldn't keep up. But then I did! They took lots of walking breaks, which was surprising. (Found out later that they were in the last part of a 25 mile run; so the walking breaks made sense!) It was very strange to be running with others. I couldn't keep my usual steady pace. And they talked so much (well. two of them did). I'm so used to being alone with my thoughts during trail runs. I was happy to turn around at my half-way point, and run back on my own.
Friday Aug 15, 2014 #
5 PM
stretch 1 [0]
run/walk 19:00 [1]
orienteer 21:24 [2] +17m
ahr:122 max:148
orienteering on west campus. I decided to make it a big more challenging, so I arbitrarily drew some "impassable" features on the map. I had a hard time around 6, because the grass is very high and I didn't want to go through it. Overall, this was a fun exercise. route
Thursday Aug 14, 2014 #
6 PM
stretch 1 [0]
cycle 1:00:00 [2] 17.48 km (3:26 / km) +97m 3:20 / km
Went 400 meters further tonight. Lots of folks on the bike path. Had to educate one woman that her dogs were supposed to be on a leash.
Wednesday Aug 13, 2014 #
stretch 1 [0]
weights 30:00 [3]
cycle (recumbant) 30:00 [1]
Monday Aug 11, 2014 #
11 AM
stretch 1 [0]
run/walk (C25K) 30:00 [1]
Sunday Aug 10, 2014 #
10 AM
run/walk warm up/down 20:00 [1]
11 AM
stretch 1 [0]
orienteer 1:14:48 6.6 km (11:20 / km) +109m 10:28 / km
ahr:143 max:161
US Champs, Round Mountain, RMOC
A better day. My focus was good and I was reading the map. A small bobble on 3, but overall things were going well.
Until 6. As I approached it, I thought for the first time "I'm doing better today". Ha! I chose to go up the right side of the vegetation boundary. I didn't see that the out of bounds area was bordered by a fence. It's obviously the better route choice, along the fence and up the reentrant. Instead, I went up a parallel reentrant. When I missed, I still thought I was to the left of the control, so I went to the right. I found another marker and looked at it, but the location and number did not click. Only when I downloaded my track (tonight, two days later) did I realize that I had gone back to 3. I'm pretty embarrassed to see this now and realize that I was clueless at the time. The only salvation was that after a moment I did settle down, looked at the map, and figured out I had to go back.
9 to 10: I was surprised that I had drifted so far off the line, but I know now that the north lines were off. I figured out that I was off when I crossed the bare rock, and I ran to a marker I saw in the distance. Not mine, silly! On to the correct control.
From then on, the course was flat, easy and retraced our steps from yesterday. So I felt compelled to jog the whole way. Was very tired at the end,but glad that I had improved over yesterday.
Drove 2 hours to DEN, took 2 hours to return rental car, check luggage, go through security and grab a sandwich. Flight was delayed an hour. One hour flight, 30 minute wait for luggage, 1 hour drive home. Total travel time: 9 hours. Google maps estimates that we could have driven the same distance in 10 hours :)
Thanks to RMOC for great event. The woods were very pleasant (could have skipped the altitude though :) the event center was great, and all the logistics went well.
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A better day. My focus was good and I was reading the map. A small bobble on 3, but overall things were going well.
Until 6. As I approached it, I thought for the first time "I'm doing better today". Ha! I chose to go up the right side of the vegetation boundary. I didn't see that the out of bounds area was bordered by a fence. It's obviously the better route choice, along the fence and up the reentrant. Instead, I went up a parallel reentrant. When I missed, I still thought I was to the left of the control, so I went to the right. I found another marker and looked at it, but the location and number did not click. Only when I downloaded my track (tonight, two days later) did I realize that I had gone back to 3. I'm pretty embarrassed to see this now and realize that I was clueless at the time. The only salvation was that after a moment I did settle down, looked at the map, and figured out I had to go back.
9 to 10: I was surprised that I had drifted so far off the line, but I know now that the north lines were off. I figured out that I was off when I crossed the bare rock, and I ran to a marker I saw in the distance. Not mine, silly! On to the correct control.
From then on, the course was flat, easy and retraced our steps from yesterday. So I felt compelled to jog the whole way. Was very tired at the end,but glad that I had improved over yesterday.
Drove 2 hours to DEN, took 2 hours to return rental car, check luggage, go through security and grab a sandwich. Flight was delayed an hour. One hour flight, 30 minute wait for luggage, 1 hour drive home. Total travel time: 9 hours. Google maps estimates that we could have driven the same distance in 10 hours :)
Thanks to RMOC for great event. The woods were very pleasant (could have skipped the altitude though :) the event center was great, and all the logistics went well.
route