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Saturday Dec 31, 2011 #
9 AM
XC skiing (classic) 1:15:00
At Ole's. Had a brilliant plan to arrive early and ski before the snow turned to klister-requiring, but were already to late at 9am. Boo. (Tried both VR60 and then 80, fail.) But, Peter offered his fishscales, so totally took him up on it. They were flexed too soft for me, but whatever, still a workout.
Started drizzling about 45 min in. C'mon winter, this is not respectable behavior!
Started drizzling about 45 min in. C'mon winter, this is not respectable behavior!
11 AM
XC skiing (skating) 1:06:00
Brief brake, ate 3 slices of Mom's homemade bread, changed baselayer tops, but some CH10 on the classic skis and headed back out. Rain had at least stopped, but slow suction-y snow.
Skating around and around, kept to the better loops of the airport and Rock n'Rolling. I passed this one group families it must have been 4 times. They were enjoying themselves, one of the dads had ascended a manure pile on his xc skis and was obviously proud of himself... righty =). Also totally scared one dude who had headphones in when I passed him.
Skating around and around, kept to the better loops of the airport and Rock n'Rolling. I passed this one group families it must have been 4 times. They were enjoying themselves, one of the dads had ascended a manure pile on his xc skis and was obviously proud of himself... righty =). Also totally scared one dude who had headphones in when I passed him.
Friday Dec 30, 2011 #
10 AM
XC skiing (skating) 1:47:00
Woo! It's winter up here! Out the door in 12F and snowing, beautiful!
A long ski at Ole's, warm up with Stephi, but she woke up with a high morning HR, so in the post-mono wake is taking an easy day. Then out to the Pasture loops (the 4s) and did 3 x 5 min there, then 1 x 3 min on the hill on the way back, and then another set of 3 x 5 min on Rock n' Rolling. Rock n' Rolling was the best skiing out there, super fun. Very happy to be on my skis for real!
A long ski at Ole's, warm up with Stephi, but she woke up with a high morning HR, so in the post-mono wake is taking an easy day. Then out to the Pasture loops (the 4s) and did 3 x 5 min there, then 1 x 3 min on the hill on the way back, and then another set of 3 x 5 min on Rock n' Rolling. Rock n' Rolling was the best skiing out there, super fun. Very happy to be on my skis for real!
2 PM
XC skiing (classic) 44:15
Big bowl of chilli (new cook there) for lunch, then waxed skis for a bit. The purple-grind pair that I used at Craftsbury maybe needs some cleaning. CH10 is being repelled from areas of the ski, like they have flurous embedded. Probably because flurous went on with barely any other wax underneath... whoops.
Anyways, slapped on some special purple (VR 45, I think?) and back out for my first classic ski in ages. Arms felt a bit tired, but very nice to stride. We'll see how the hip flexors fare...
Anyways, slapped on some special purple (VR 45, I think?) and back out for my first classic ski in ages. Arms felt a bit tired, but very nice to stride. We'll see how the hip flexors fare...
Thursday Dec 29, 2011 #
12 PM
Running 1:09:01 8.43 mi (8:11 / mi) +161m 7:44 / mi
ahr:142 max:167
Nice mellow noonie run with a good crowd - Alejandro, Sergio, Paul B., and Rob H. We all went up via Robert Frost to Atkins, then once around on the trails, then Alejandro and Rob decided to road it back, while the rest of us took Robert Frost again- trails are better than roads!
Wore compression tights for the first time. Felt fine, suppose they are supposed to make your muscles happy?
Breathing was fine during and even after- woo! Very happy about this!
Wore compression tights for the first time. Felt fine, suppose they are supposed to make your muscles happy?
Breathing was fine during and even after- woo! Very happy about this!
4 PM
Strength 22:00 [1]
3 x 23 pushups
hammies
core
And up to VT where there is apparently a bit of snow!
hammies
core
And up to VT where there is apparently a bit of snow!
Wednesday Dec 28, 2011 #
8 AM
Rollerskiing 1:12:25 9.46 mi (7:39 / mi) +84m 7:27 / mi
ahr:132 max:159
Woke up wheeze-coughing again at 5.50 am, not that pleased! But slept a bit more after using my inhaler, then headed out for a morning distance double pole. Did 20 stroke sprints a bunch of times throughout.
Read Howpas, which was British Middle Distance champs a few years ago, one of the WOC spectator maps from 2010 and ski-o map from Tahoe XC last winter. One guy running was really amused by my skiing, gave me a very enthusiastic "Happy New Year!".
Read Howpas, which was British Middle Distance champs a few years ago, one of the WOC spectator maps from 2010 and ski-o map from Tahoe XC last winter. One guy running was really amused by my skiing, gave me a very enthusiastic "Happy New Year!".
2 PM
Note
weight:155lbs
When my wheezing started up again in the afternoon, decided it was time to go to the doctor. Or nurse practitioner, as it were, which is totally fine. She proclaimed my lungs were indeed squeaky and agreed that using the albuterol inhaler nearly constantly isn't really the right way to deal with this. Peak flow was 440 in whatever units they measure, predicted to be 500 for my height/weight/gender, but unsure what the error bars are. Nurse practitioner seemed to think it was in fact low.
Anyways, she suggested drug or other, after scaring me that it's going to take my airway weeks to heal from this. (Really??) But then I had to hand her the list of all the things that are banned from WADA. Right. So she went out and found a doctor and arrived that I should take Advair, which isn't banned. Woo! Very psyched to (hopefully) not wake up wheeze-coughing tonight!!
Anyways, she suggested drug or other, after scaring me that it's going to take my airway weeks to heal from this. (Really??) But then I had to hand her the list of all the things that are banned from WADA. Right. So she went out and found a doctor and arrived that I should take Advair, which isn't banned. Woo! Very psyched to (hopefully) not wake up wheeze-coughing tonight!!
6 PM
Running 13:32 1.24 mi (10:55 / mi) +39m 9:56 / mi
ahr:141 max:159
Errand of picking up new inhaler, went off and did drills while they filled the prescription. Colder this eve!! Added 3 sets of 20 jumps to drills, as doing those with Stephi hurt so much, go plyos!
Drills 9:26 0.58 mi (16:11 / mi)
ahr:151 max:167
Running 11:44 1.28 mi (9:08 / mi) +17m 8:46 / mi
ahr:137 max:166
Tuesday Dec 27, 2011 #
Note
Hm, rough night of needing inhaler and woke up with a headache, so didn't head out for an early double pole. I think a day without breathing cold air and being out of the dog house should let my respiratory system heal...
Also, QuickRouted and noticed the end of the course on the 1:10 version is different than the 1:15 version yesterday. Whoopsie. Should have done 1:15 version, looks more interesting, and would have gotten me back to the right parking lot. And probably would have been a bit farther back from Boris/Sergei... ah well =)
Also, QuickRouted and noticed the end of the course on the 1:10 version is different than the 1:15 version yesterday. Whoopsie. Should have done 1:15 version, looks more interesting, and would have gotten me back to the right parking lot. And probably would have been a bit farther back from Boris/Sergei... ah well =)
Strength 21:00 [1]
A little strength action before dinner chez Gagarin
3 x 22 pushups
3 x 15, 15, 15 hammies
10 min abs
2 min back
2 min SJJs
And a fun plan for spring: Western Mass 5 days. Squished in time just a bit, perhaps into Memorial Day weekend, we'll see =)
3 x 22 pushups
3 x 15, 15, 15 hammies
10 min abs
2 min back
2 min SJJs
And a fun plan for spring: Western Mass 5 days. Squished in time just a bit, perhaps into Memorial Day weekend, we'll see =)
Monday Dec 26, 2011 #
10 AM
Running 9:42 1.12 mi (8:40 / mi) +7m 8:30 / mi
ahr:136 max:149
Orienteering 1:23:16 9.3 km (8:57 / km) +493m 7:05 / km
ahr:163 max:175 9c
Christmas Harriman training, part 2, Long on Surebridge
9.3k, 9 controls, so long legs. Was great fun, cruising around, seeing some of the more rugged areas of Harriman (deep ravines). Enjoyed route choicing, will need to compare with the other guys, see if my choices were ok. It's a great course to work on long legs, if you intend to do it, don't read next bit, it'll spoil it partly, at least, if you have a good memory.
1 - I went right, having checked out and seen that it looked good. But as I started booking it down the road noted that the left road had less green on the way in, maybe the faster way.
2 - Initially bent a bit too far right, but was just trying to move fast and get out of the green.
3 - Checked out routes, decided straight, took my Clif Shot on the uphill slog.
4 - First cool ravine, out into flat, ran on road/trail around the bend for no reason, should have just gone straight. Or maybe there were prickly plants, hm, forget.
5 - Fun leg to make up a route, maybe possible to make one with the trail to the right? But I liked the straight up the stream, up the slope before the green got thick, stay high until ravine got manageable, then in.
6 - Left of marsh, ended up left of stream too, had to get wet at somepoint, blah. Bit tired climbing the hill...
7 - Right reentrant route, not so full of energy, but beautiful beautiful Harriman. The woods were so runable. Or would have been if not so hilly. =) Issue on edge of circle, throught the cliff on north edge was the control feature for a bit. Hmph.
8 - Went for left trail route, was pretty fast, I thought.
9 - Mmm, pretty much a trail run, cut at the beginning. Knew I wasn't going to be the ~80 min Boris + Sergei had run, but wasn't far off... Slight hesitation, first turned off trail at little rocky hilly instead of bigger one, then no streamer.
2 puffs of inhaler before, was fine while out there, getting into the warm car (parked facing sun), triggered coughing fit afterwards, a few more puffs got things under control. One more asthma attack since then, hopefully will calm back down now that I'm out of the allergen-hosting house, wish body wasn't so finicky!
Very happy to have gone out and trained, but I have got to find a better route to Amherst. Maybe just heading Taconic-90-91 is better on days I expect traffic on 84...
QuickRoute
1048/2000
9.3k, 9 controls, so long legs. Was great fun, cruising around, seeing some of the more rugged areas of Harriman (deep ravines). Enjoyed route choicing, will need to compare with the other guys, see if my choices were ok. It's a great course to work on long legs, if you intend to do it, don't read next bit, it'll spoil it partly, at least, if you have a good memory.
1 - I went right, having checked out and seen that it looked good. But as I started booking it down the road noted that the left road had less green on the way in, maybe the faster way.
2 - Initially bent a bit too far right, but was just trying to move fast and get out of the green.
3 - Checked out routes, decided straight, took my Clif Shot on the uphill slog.
4 - First cool ravine, out into flat, ran on road/trail around the bend for no reason, should have just gone straight. Or maybe there were prickly plants, hm, forget.
5 - Fun leg to make up a route, maybe possible to make one with the trail to the right? But I liked the straight up the stream, up the slope before the green got thick, stay high until ravine got manageable, then in.
6 - Left of marsh, ended up left of stream too, had to get wet at somepoint, blah. Bit tired climbing the hill...
7 - Right reentrant route, not so full of energy, but beautiful beautiful Harriman. The woods were so runable. Or would have been if not so hilly. =) Issue on edge of circle, throught the cliff on north edge was the control feature for a bit. Hmph.
8 - Went for left trail route, was pretty fast, I thought.
9 - Mmm, pretty much a trail run, cut at the beginning. Knew I wasn't going to be the ~80 min Boris + Sergei had run, but wasn't far off... Slight hesitation, first turned off trail at little rocky hilly instead of bigger one, then no streamer.
2 puffs of inhaler before, was fine while out there, getting into the warm car (parked facing sun), triggered coughing fit afterwards, a few more puffs got things under control. One more asthma attack since then, hopefully will calm back down now that I'm out of the allergen-hosting house, wish body wasn't so finicky!
Very happy to have gone out and trained, but I have got to find a better route to Amherst. Maybe just heading Taconic-90-91 is better on days I expect traffic on 84...
QuickRoute
1048/2000
C • Map? 7
Running 10:13 1.12 mi (9:08 / mi) +31m 8:24 / mi
ahr:150 max:173
Sunday Dec 25, 2011 #
7 AM
Rollerskiing 51:31 7.95 mi (6:29 / mi) +284m 5:50 / mi
ahr:147 max:177
Morningski intervals, skate rollerskiing, Stephi came down with a cold, so no company. Kinda chilly, but very empty roads b/c of Christmas morning, maybe saw 5 cars the entire time?
Did 3 times Todd Hill, 2 times Croft Hill. Last time up Todd, I force V2'ed it- 10 seconds faster, interesting.
Did 3 times Todd Hill, 2 times Croft Hill. Last time up Todd, I force V2'ed it- 10 seconds faster, interesting.
Saturday Dec 24, 2011 #
11 AM
Running warm up/down 3:01 0.31 mi (9:38 / mi)
ahr:129 max:146
Drills warm up/down 5:41 0.38 mi (15:03 / mi)
ahr:138 max:156
Running 17:28 1.1 mi (15:49 / mi) +117m 11:54 / mi
ahr:145 max:167
Orienteering 43:25 5.0 km (8:41 / km) +167m 7:26 / km
ahr:169 max:181 13c
Christmas Harriman training, part 1 = Rockhouse Middle
Nice course on Rockhorse, we all set 1 control and Greg had done the far set, so actually had flags out, which was really, really nice. I started in the middle, 2 min gaps, Sergei F., Sergiuy G., me, Sergei Z., Boris. (Lots of Sergei-s!)
Had debated with Boris about doing it sans compass beforehand, but with flags out, and with people to race around, sounded like a better idea to just take it for real and race it. So did that, and went pretty well, and was fun to have others around, caught the two Sergeis in front, had a race in with G., but Z. cruised by me 5 -> 6 and then just steadily gained, did it 4 min faster in 39.
1 - rough times, I was not a happy camper in the green. I think the trail would have been faster for me.
2 - down and back up because I was sick of green, probably not the fastest route, through the marsh left of the line looks like it should be mostly open
3- fine, legs kinda felt the up hill
4 - went left of green to start, wasn't 100% on top o fhill, but reentrant made it clear on far side
5 - rough compass, hit marshes, had debated using the indistinct trail, but eh, it was indistinct
6- behind Z. since he passed me, felt legs again on up
7 - straight on, a bit extra confidence from seing Z punch and change directions
8 - straightish, out on trail, along it until liffy grey thing to north, decided to dip through flat and head to reentrant straight-on. a bit hesitant trying to make sense of cliffs on way in
9 - eh, went low then climbed again, not the best plan
10 - went on road, I think I lost time to G
11 - attmepted to remain low on flattish bit below cliffs, but was forced up by some green. some how found a decent deer trail or something through the green on top, then chasing down G and F
12 - leading G+F, smooth into control
13 - paused a bit to make sure I was ok with my ledges, G passed me, just barely punched before
Finish - racing G into the finish, right together really
Fun times! Thanks so, so much to Greg for setting! And so nice to have training company!
Nice course on Rockhorse, we all set 1 control and Greg had done the far set, so actually had flags out, which was really, really nice. I started in the middle, 2 min gaps, Sergei F., Sergiuy G., me, Sergei Z., Boris. (Lots of Sergei-s!)
Had debated with Boris about doing it sans compass beforehand, but with flags out, and with people to race around, sounded like a better idea to just take it for real and race it. So did that, and went pretty well, and was fun to have others around, caught the two Sergeis in front, had a race in with G., but Z. cruised by me 5 -> 6 and then just steadily gained, did it 4 min faster in 39.
1 - rough times, I was not a happy camper in the green. I think the trail would have been faster for me.
2 - down and back up because I was sick of green, probably not the fastest route, through the marsh left of the line looks like it should be mostly open
3- fine, legs kinda felt the up hill
4 - went left of green to start, wasn't 100% on top o fhill, but reentrant made it clear on far side
5 - rough compass, hit marshes, had debated using the indistinct trail, but eh, it was indistinct
6- behind Z. since he passed me, felt legs again on up
7 - straight on, a bit extra confidence from seing Z punch and change directions
8 - straightish, out on trail, along it until liffy grey thing to north, decided to dip through flat and head to reentrant straight-on. a bit hesitant trying to make sense of cliffs on way in
9 - eh, went low then climbed again, not the best plan
10 - went on road, I think I lost time to G
11 - attmepted to remain low on flattish bit below cliffs, but was forced up by some green. some how found a decent deer trail or something through the green on top, then chasing down G and F
12 - leading G+F, smooth into control
13 - paused a bit to make sure I was ok with my ledges, G passed me, just barely punched before
Finish - racing G into the finish, right together really
Fun times! Thanks so, so much to Greg for setting! And so nice to have training company!
Orienteering 13:21 0.69 mi (19:21 / mi) +58m 15:21 / mi
ahr:151 max:167 4c
Control pick-up, did this sans compass at least. Was fine, so much stuff to use at Harriman!
1039/2000
1039/2000
Running 10:13 0.85 mi (11:58 / mi) +1m 11:55 / mi
ahr:143 max:164
Friday Dec 23, 2011 #
Note
Just answered all the q's for IOF January athlete! (Thanks to PG for maybe suggesting me to them.)
Was asked to weigh in on the IOF's Nov11 plan for WOC, which was the most stressful part of it.
For those who haven't bothered reading it, it suggests:
1) sprint: qual+final (3 from each country can do qual)
2) mixed sprint relay, 2 men, 2 women
3) middle prologue + chase (3 from each country)
4) relay (1 team per country)
5) long (3 for countries 1-6, 2 for countries 7-12, 1 for countries 13-24)
My stand is that it isn't terrible, but that I hate to see the middle turn into the prologue + chase. Chases can be totally awesome and a cool event in their own right, but they just don't replace the solo orienteering technicality of the middle. It's also kinda sad that probably only one woman and one man would get the chance to run the long each year, but I guess that just means the TT long will more or less takes the place of the long quali.
Do I like the idea of split and alternating sprint/woods WOCs better? Eh, not sure. It's fun to have both woods and sprint races, the years without one or the other would be kind of missing the other type. Would all the world cups that year also be more sprint or woods focused? Then you'd get such a flip-flop...
Was asked to weigh in on the IOF's Nov11 plan for WOC, which was the most stressful part of it.
For those who haven't bothered reading it, it suggests:
1) sprint: qual+final (3 from each country can do qual)
2) mixed sprint relay, 2 men, 2 women
3) middle prologue + chase (3 from each country)
4) relay (1 team per country)
5) long (3 for countries 1-6, 2 for countries 7-12, 1 for countries 13-24)
My stand is that it isn't terrible, but that I hate to see the middle turn into the prologue + chase. Chases can be totally awesome and a cool event in their own right, but they just don't replace the solo orienteering technicality of the middle. It's also kinda sad that probably only one woman and one man would get the chance to run the long each year, but I guess that just means the TT long will more or less takes the place of the long quali.
Do I like the idea of split and alternating sprint/woods WOCs better? Eh, not sure. It's fun to have both woods and sprint races, the years without one or the other would be kind of missing the other type. Would all the world cups that year also be more sprint or woods focused? Then you'd get such a flip-flop...
7 AM
Rollerskiing 59:50 6.56 mi (9:07 / mi) +158m 8:29 / mi
ahr:126 max:168
Morningski with Stephi, specific strength over at the Red Hawk Hollow development. Steeper hill than the River Rd. norm, and I was on slow, old, heavy V2s. But good to do, good to have the company! No no-poles or V2 because we were on classic skis, but did back in abs-only.
Thursday Dec 22, 2011 #
9 AM
Rollerskiing 2:10:51 21.06 mi (6:13 / mi) +445m 5:50 / mi
ahr:142 max:166
Ouchie, much sore from yesterday's jumping! Guess I have not done enough plyos recently!
But went for a long skate rxc anyways with the Steph (who was also quite sore), some new terrain being the bike path around the local soccer field complex and the bike path from Maloney to Diddell Rd. (an old railway one). She broke a pole tip at around 1h15, so scampered back home and switched poles for Mom's before heading out for a last loop.
Good to get a long one in, trying to ski before work hasn't really allowed for 2h efforts!
But went for a long skate rxc anyways with the Steph (who was also quite sore), some new terrain being the bike path around the local soccer field complex and the bike path from Maloney to Diddell Rd. (an old railway one). She broke a pole tip at around 1h15, so scampered back home and switched poles for Mom's before heading out for a last loop.
Good to get a long one in, trying to ski before work hasn't really allowed for 2h efforts!
Wednesday Dec 21, 2011 #
10 AM
Running 15:23 1.18 mi (13:02 / mi) +46m 11:38 / mi
ahr:120 max:158
And home! Which means I have an automatic sister training partner. Who dragged me away from my telescope planning out into the rain mid-morning for a pre-strength joggeroo.
Learned about a circuit Stephi's building for a solar-heating-energy project she's working for. Oh, and if anyone knows any cool engineering internships in Boston over the summer, she might be interested...
Learned about a circuit Stephi's building for a solar-heating-energy project she's working for. Oh, and if anyone knows any cool engineering internships in Boston over the summer, she might be interested...
Drills 6:01 0.09 mi (1:06:47 / mi) +1m 1:04:33 / mi
ahr:135 max:163
Part of the current Stephi-plan is to have stronger legs. Which involves plyos/spenst, so we jumped around for a bit.
Running 2:07 0.2 mi (10:35 / mi) +3m 10:06 / mi
ahr:128 max:142
Post jump jog around the house, planning how to map various bits... =)
Strength 16:55 0.01 mi (28:21:33 / mi)
ahr:108 max:156
10 min abs, 2 min back, 2 min SJJs, whatever else 3 x 22 pushups.
Monday Dec 19, 2011 #
11 AM
Running 1:20
ahr:132 max:145
Drills 1:27 0.12 mi (12:25 / mi)
ahr:116 max:141
Running 1:06:52 8.14 mi (8:13 / mi) +163m 7:44 / mi
ahr:145 max:172
Noon run with different folk- Christer and Daniel. Mostly trails which was nice, and one of Christer's two labs in Sweden is right where ski-o World Cups are in March, so he's going to try to set us up with lodging, hopefully will work!!
Also ran into another noonie in cafeteria for lunch, Barry, who is healing from knee surgery. He's also a physiologist and writing a chapter in the book which will be apparently the new sports nutrition bible, commissioned by the Olympic Commission or something, due for London 2012, so if you're interested in sports nutrition at a high level, stay tuned for it!
Also ran into another noonie in cafeteria for lunch, Barry, who is healing from knee surgery. He's also a physiologist and writing a chapter in the book which will be apparently the new sports nutrition bible, commissioned by the Olympic Commission or something, due for London 2012, so if you're interested in sports nutrition at a high level, stay tuned for it!
Sunday Dec 18, 2011 #
9 AM
XC skiing warm up/down 12:00
And, onto snow in the really-quite-cold! (Something like 8F, just a bit of a shock...) Two laps of the 1.5k snow-made loop up at Craftsbury, trying to get a sense of how to ski/go around corners and what the course was like...
Running warm up/down 7:00 [1] 0.48 mi (14:36 / mi) +21m 12:51 / mi
Rest of the warm-up on the road, as a very impressively organized CSU train of parents put speedy stuff on my skis!
XC skiing 11:55
The race! 3 x 1.5 loop, I was successful into being bumped up into the 2nd seeding group, which really helped, only had to pass 2-3. Anyways, figured I'd have to push the hills and then try to keep it going through the flat sections, at the start, you could spectate the early gals, and could tell that those who looked tired on the flats were loosing time. So off!
And went well, a pretty varied loop with 3 hills for 1.5k, but also *lots* of corners, which I didn't feel I did that well with, just not having the on-snow time yet. Ended up in 7th, 18 seconds back from Sophie Caldwell, and then only 6.6 seconds out of 2nd.
Nice to see familiar ski folk!
And went well, a pretty varied loop with 3 hills for 1.5k, but also *lots* of corners, which I didn't feel I did that well with, just not having the on-snow time yet. Ended up in 7th, 18 seconds back from Sophie Caldwell, and then only 6.6 seconds out of 2nd.
Nice to see familiar ski folk!
Running warm up/down 10:00 [1]
2 PM
Orienteering 48:32 2.52 mi (19:15 / mi) +130m 16:36 / mi
ahr:126 max:153
And on the way back to Boston, a stop at Burnt Mtn. First a line-o, with a bonus warm-up detour as we didn't start initially from where we thought we did, ok, and back around to it.
I was confused more than once, first shortly after Brendan passed mewhen there where just cliffs and nobbles everywhere and I couldn't connect to the map. And then later on, when things were just kinda bizarre on this one hillside. Cutoff the set loop a bit because there was a 2nd exercise and darkness threatened again!
I was confused more than once, first shortly after Brendan passed mewhen there where just cliffs and nobbles everywhere and I couldn't connect to the map. And then later on, when things were just kinda bizarre on this one hillside. Cutoff the set loop a bit because there was a 2nd exercise and darkness threatened again!
Orienteering 39:51 2.18 mi (18:17 / mi) +33m 17:28 / mi
ahr:124 max:156 3c
Brendan and I ended up at the line-o end at the same time, so headed off to alternate leads on the little course that he set for the next thing. So I led first and then everything was bizarre... ended up at a marshy thing taht must have been the blue lake on the map, went over, found a boulder, maybe the right one? Who knows, we decided that maybe that bit wasn't too field checked and we should go back to the part of the map with more squiggles...
From there, was a good training. Hard to keep up with Brendan and keep any map contact, althoughI tried! And felt a bit of added pressure with him behind me on my legs, which went ok.
1022/2000
From there, was a good training. Hard to keep up with Brendan and keep any map contact, althoughI tried! And felt a bit of added pressure with him behind me on my legs, which went ok.
1022/2000
Saturday Dec 17, 2011 #
3 PM
Running warm up/down 3:06 [1] 0.27 mi (11:28 / mi) +16m 9:41 / mi
ahr:115 max:130
Orienteering 59:55 3.88 mi (15:27 / mi) +122m 14:04 / mi
ahr:127 max:154 9c
Partial Billygoat '09 rerun on the way North with Brendan. Fun to be running in the woods, but was a wimp about avoiding swamps because it was *cold* out!! (Skipped #4 after two routes tried would have taken me through water.) From the start, I was attempting to focus on using contours more, but can't say I did a splendid job, think I lost the focus on that somewhere early on. Issues to #5 which should have been easy in from the trail. Lots of boulders were around, I needed to keep going the right direction a smidge longer.
1019/2000
1019/2000
Running 18:17 1.71 mi (10:42 / mi) +39m 9:59 / mi
ahr:122 max:132
Un-orienteeringable darkness descended at #10, so trail ran it back. Would have gone quicker, except was trying to keep the legs kinda fresh for tomorrow's race!
Friday Dec 16, 2011 #
7 AM
Rollerskiing 1:28:08 9.07 mi (9:43 / mi) +81m 9:27 / mi
ahr:115 max:150
Morning distance double pole. Elbows were feeling it by the end. Looked at the Shades of Death A-meet long, the Middle Qual from EOC Bulgaria and ski-o training map from Hogbo Bruk. Soo glad to have them, yay boredom relief!
Although rising sun was very pretty.
Although rising sun was very pretty.
Thursday Dec 15, 2011 #
Note
And just registered ($30) to race 3 laps around a 1.5k loop of snow in far northern VT (Craftsbury) on Sunday!! This is one of the big races for the East coast, called Eastern Cups, and probably at least 100 women racing, maybe 150?
This is actually very silly, will be my 1st time on snow (ok, 3rd, but October was so far away now, doesn't seem to count!) and all of the sudden racing. But should be fun to see where I stack up, and likely inspire better training, if I get my butt kicked... =)
This is actually very silly, will be my 1st time on snow (ok, 3rd, but October was so far away now, doesn't seem to count!) and all of the sudden racing. But should be fun to see where I stack up, and likely inspire better training, if I get my butt kicked... =)
5 PM
Strength 14:05 [1]
Abs, back, SJJs
Wednesday Dec 14, 2011 #
6 AM
Rollerskiing 1:10:44 8.93 mi (7:55 / mi) +32m 7:50 / mi
ahr:133 max:171
And a whirlwind morning! Up at early o'clock, out to specific strength (warmer than I thought it'd be at 31 F, nice). Then drove up to Putney to pick up some freshly ground skis and back down.
10 AM
Running 13:24 [1] 1.45 mi (9:14 / mi) +17m 8:55 / mi
Ran into work because otherwise I'd be late for morning coffee. Still haven't managed to pick up a new bike tube!
6 PM
Running 21:38 [1] 0.41 mi (52:45 / mi) +32m 42:27 / mi
Ran home, up to grab a burrito and back!
Strength 8:21 [1] 0.05 mi (2:47:59 / mi) +11m 1:39:32 / mi
And pushups (21) and hammies (15).
Tuesday Dec 13, 2011 #
Note
Started filling out whereabouts form for being the US's athlete that has to report for potential, but very unlikely, drug testing. Is going to take some concerted effort to figure out where I'll be each day Jan-March by Dec. 20th!! A first-guess effort for when I'd actually be here in my apt gave 30 days over the 3 months. And I thought I wasn't traveling much this winter... eep!
(You are allowed to later edit, this will save me!)
(Also, unsure that the telescope in Spain has any sort of address... how about 2850m up the Pico Veleta?)
(You are allowed to later edit, this will save me!)
(Also, unsure that the telescope in Spain has any sort of address... how about 2850m up the Pico Veleta?)
12 PM
Running 1:04:47 8.42 mi (7:42 / mi) +163m 7:15 / mi
ahr:150 max:173
Noonrun with Sanjay, Alejandro, Sergio. Up to Atkins and, new thing for me: around the reservoir once before coming back. Woo more trails! (To Alejandro's continual dismay, he is so anti-trail!)
Felt fine, longest run in a bit perhaps, awesomely nice day. Caught up on Hot Cocoa run gossip and plans for winter/next year, they're all happy classes are ending.
Felt fine, longest run in a bit perhaps, awesomely nice day. Caught up on Hot Cocoa run gossip and plans for winter/next year, they're all happy classes are ending.
Drills 6:50 0.48 mi (14:15 / mi)
ahr:140 max:155
Wahoo! Alejandro joined me for drills, nice to have company!
Monday Dec 12, 2011 #
7 AM
Rollerskiing 58:31 9.29 mi (6:18 / mi) +273m 5:46 / mi
ahr:142 max:174
Morningski intervals, "from the valley" variety, which means skiing up the inner two hills of the double bump, going back and forth. Each is ~2 min long, and works efficiently, no needing to slow down, turn around, just ski into the next one!
Felt good to do a bit speedier intervals, still not L5, but maybe need longer than 2 min (or a steeper hill) to do that. And L4 intervals are good for you =)
Bit chilly, 23 at start, 27 at end, brought out the lobster gloves already, jeez. Cold ears as helmet precludes (at least as set now) hat wearing. Still need to fix R pole strap, it's annoying!
Read ski-WOC 2011 Middle first map and the spectator sprint of WOC 2010.
Felt good to do a bit speedier intervals, still not L5, but maybe need longer than 2 min (or a steeper hill) to do that. And L4 intervals are good for you =)
Bit chilly, 23 at start, 27 at end, brought out the lobster gloves already, jeez. Cold ears as helmet precludes (at least as set now) hat wearing. Still need to fix R pole strap, it's annoying!
Read ski-WOC 2011 Middle first map and the spectator sprint of WOC 2010.
6 PM
Strength 22:00 [1]
3 x 21 pushups
3 x 15,15,15 hammies
10 min abs
2 min back
2 min SJJs
Hadn't done any strength for a bit, back to it! Esp as left hammie was unhappy racing Sat.
3 x 15,15,15 hammies
10 min abs
2 min back
2 min SJJs
Hadn't done any strength for a bit, back to it! Esp as left hammie was unhappy racing Sat.
Sunday Dec 11, 2011 #
Note
Notes on Texas:
1) Gas is way cheaper, filled up for $2.97/gal this morning. (Ok, given, if I'd filled up at the airport gas station it would have been $3.49- that is a huge premium for last-minutness!)
2) This area (Dallas-Ft. Worth) seems to seriously be called the Metroplex. I feel like I'm in a Batman film or something!
3) Lotsa choice for spanish-speaking (and salsa-music playing!) radio stations. Maybe 1/3. For reference, Amherst has one station that is spanish speaking for 3h/week. Also, I haven't been focusing learning Spanish for awhile, should take that back up.
4) Does greenbriar grow here? There was something that acted very similarly yesterday during the race.
5) And maybe most importantly: breakfast! Both days, I ate waffles in the shape of Texas, =).
And traveling home...
1) Gas is way cheaper, filled up for $2.97/gal this morning. (Ok, given, if I'd filled up at the airport gas station it would have been $3.49- that is a huge premium for last-minutness!)
2) This area (Dallas-Ft. Worth) seems to seriously be called the Metroplex. I feel like I'm in a Batman film or something!
3) Lotsa choice for spanish-speaking (and salsa-music playing!) radio stations. Maybe 1/3. For reference, Amherst has one station that is spanish speaking for 3h/week. Also, I haven't been focusing learning Spanish for awhile, should take that back up.
4) Does greenbriar grow here? There was something that acted very similarly yesterday during the race.
5) And maybe most importantly: breakfast! Both days, I ate waffles in the shape of Texas, =).
And traveling home...
Saturday Dec 10, 2011 #
9 AM
Running warm up/down 9:19 [1] 1.06 mi (8:47 / mi) +3m 8:42 / mi
Orienteering race 55:06 [4] 7.66 km (7:12 / km) +209m 6:20 / km
20c
Woo, orienteering in Texas! On a new map of Camp Wisdom Scout Camp, right outside of Dallas, so perfectly convenient for this trip, I'm a lucky duck that this happened in say the 4 free hours I have in the trip!
Organizer Richard Page was super-welcoming, let me start early so I could scamper away and head off to wedding in good time. As were all the other NTOA folks I met, major bummer Lisa and Tom are away at the Possum Trot!
Anyway, a pretty green map, as warned about in the meet notes, so was prepared to choose trail routes. Mostly did, but even hard to follow the trails sometimes! I had issues to 16 most of all, felt like I might get eaten by the green as I tried to locate the trail, did even some bonus green bashing towards the field above, where I heard a scout leader explaining what to do if you own your own bb gun at home (don't shoot styrofoam cups, don't know why, didn't stick around for explanation!).
Also lost the trail to 19, bailed to road then back up instead, but then also got distracted by a too-high control on trail junction. Eep, must focus til end of race!!
I did the scarier routechoice (find little trail through green with no good attackpoint to tell you where it is) to 14, but it worked well, I think a bit faster.
Fun times, super happy I could get out there, another state orienteered in! (NH, MA, NY, CT, NJ, PA, WA, CA, WI, MO and now TX, I think that's it?)
Oh, but left hammie felt it at end of the race. Haven't been amazing about exercises, and probably should have also warmed up with drills. Doesn't feel really pulled, but maybe need to be careful... esp running in cold!
1010/2000 - woo over 1000!
Organizer Richard Page was super-welcoming, let me start early so I could scamper away and head off to wedding in good time. As were all the other NTOA folks I met, major bummer Lisa and Tom are away at the Possum Trot!
Anyway, a pretty green map, as warned about in the meet notes, so was prepared to choose trail routes. Mostly did, but even hard to follow the trails sometimes! I had issues to 16 most of all, felt like I might get eaten by the green as I tried to locate the trail, did even some bonus green bashing towards the field above, where I heard a scout leader explaining what to do if you own your own bb gun at home (don't shoot styrofoam cups, don't know why, didn't stick around for explanation!).
Also lost the trail to 19, bailed to road then back up instead, but then also got distracted by a too-high control on trail junction. Eep, must focus til end of race!!
I did the scarier routechoice (find little trail through green with no good attackpoint to tell you where it is) to 14, but it worked well, I think a bit faster.
Fun times, super happy I could get out there, another state orienteered in! (NH, MA, NY, CT, NJ, PA, WA, CA, WI, MO and now TX, I think that's it?)
Oh, but left hammie felt it at end of the race. Haven't been amazing about exercises, and probably should have also warmed up with drills. Doesn't feel really pulled, but maybe need to be careful... esp running in cold!
1010/2000 - woo over 1000!
Running warm up/down 5:01 [1] 0.52 mi (9:38 / mi) +4m 9:25 / mi
Friday Dec 9, 2011 #
7 AM
Rollerskiing 1:33:03 10.89 mi (8:33 / mi) +318m 7:50 / mi
ahr:143 max:171
Morning intervals with Alex, single-bumps, 2 x dp, 2 x no poles, 2 x normal. While reading *hard* maps, this year's WOC middle final and last years WOC middle qual. Both races I made huge mistakes on.... but the French map is really so hard to read while skiing, ski-o maps will seem like a piece of cake!!!
Bit of ice on the road gave us a smidge of trouble... real snow soon please?
Now, to Texas (Dallas)!
Bit of ice on the road gave us a smidge of trouble... real snow soon please?
Now, to Texas (Dallas)!
Thursday Dec 8, 2011 #
8 AM
Rollerskiing (double pole) 25:09 3.23 mi (7:47 / mi) +26m 7:36 / mi
ahr:138 max:150
To work, plus bonus there and back on nice bike path bit. Carrying backpack made a bit of extra work for the back!
7 PM
Rollerskiing (double pole) 25:55 3.14 mi (8:15 / mi) +26m 8:03 / mi
ahr:125 max:141
Back from work.
Running 10:17 [1] 1.03 mi (9:59 / mi) +46m 8:46 / mi
ahr:133 max:153
To/fro laundromat. Woo awkward snippets of training day!
Wednesday Dec 7, 2011 #
Note
Sloooow 3k 'time trial' today. Ended up being more about survival, considering the entirety of Lane 1 was pretty much underwater... time was 10.36, far off what I was hoping (to press for sub 10) and even pretty far of PR (10.18, I think).
But not super stressed, because it was terrible out and had no company. We'll call it a workout and that's that. Hope to be speedier in spring version!
Think I left Garmin at work, til tomorrow! Now for dinner with CSU-Amherst. =)
But not super stressed, because it was terrible out and had no company. We'll call it a workout and that's that. Hope to be speedier in spring version!
Think I left Garmin at work, til tomorrow! Now for dinner with CSU-Amherst. =)
11 AM
Running 12:34 1.68 mi (7:28 / mi) +2m 7:26 / mi
ahr:139 max:169
Drills 5:12 0.35 mi (15:01 / mi)
ahr:138 max:157
Running 1:03 [1] 0.12 mi (8:54 / mi)
ahr:108 max:118
Running 10:36 1.83 mi (5:48 / mi)
ahr:174 max:180
Running 11:41 1.27 mi (9:13 / mi) +30m 8:35 / mi
ahr:141 max:153
Tuesday Dec 6, 2011 #
6 PM
Running 3:32 0.38 mi (9:17 / mi) +1m 9:12 / mi
ahr:125 max:142
Orienteering 46:47 3.22 mi (14:32 / mi) +202m 12:10 / mi
ahr:142 max:163
Mt. Tom Night-o, backwards
And lotsa fog, so harder to see with all those little droplets reflecting back, tried lower light setting, but then I could just see less. Anyways, went around backwards, so it was kind of new at least.
14- Uphill, bit slow and green towards the top
13- slightly off bearing, abrupt 'Oh, there's the control' angle change right at end
12 - fine
11 - wasn't sure where I came off the road, the plan had been to wait for the cliff, but then there was a cliff shortly after the trail junction. part of me knew it couldn't be the mapped cliff 250m further on, but somehow, that part of me didn't win. relocated in the saddle below cliffs, where I then change direction distinctly.
10- trailed it, hard to tell trail attackpoints in the fog though
9 - fine
8 - blah, off to right of line wanted to go around hill top, but failed to swing back in correctly
7 - saved by giant cliff, woo!
6 - came off trail far too early....
5, 4, 3 - fine
2, 1 - had never done these cutting, worked, but think maybe I did extra climb to 2
Slower then Brendan and Neil were despite knowing where the controls were. Ah well, they had company, I had fog, and still exactly tied nemesis. =)
QuickRoute
990/2000
And lotsa fog, so harder to see with all those little droplets reflecting back, tried lower light setting, but then I could just see less. Anyways, went around backwards, so it was kind of new at least.
14- Uphill, bit slow and green towards the top
13- slightly off bearing, abrupt 'Oh, there's the control' angle change right at end
12 - fine
11 - wasn't sure where I came off the road, the plan had been to wait for the cliff, but then there was a cliff shortly after the trail junction. part of me knew it couldn't be the mapped cliff 250m further on, but somehow, that part of me didn't win. relocated in the saddle below cliffs, where I then change direction distinctly.
10- trailed it, hard to tell trail attackpoints in the fog though
9 - fine
8 - blah, off to right of line wanted to go around hill top, but failed to swing back in correctly
7 - saved by giant cliff, woo!
6 - came off trail far too early....
5, 4, 3 - fine
2, 1 - had never done these cutting, worked, but think maybe I did extra climb to 2
Slower then Brendan and Neil were despite knowing where the controls were. Ah well, they had company, I had fog, and still exactly tied nemesis. =)
QuickRoute
990/2000
Running 13:10 1.2 mi (10:58 / mi) +14m 10:35 / mi
ahr:124 max:147
Little extra loop since I had the time before salsa class.
Monday Dec 5, 2011 #
7 AM
Rollerskiing (specific strength) 1:10:55 8.6 mi (8:15 / mi) +45m 8:07 / mi
ahr:128 max:165
Whoa warm front! 45 degrees and foggy, wasn't expecting that at all. But forecast says possible snow Wed night...
So took off unneeded layers and headed out for specific strength on River Rd. Was reading Double Duck Flats Middle (NAOC 2010) and the Sprint of last year's ski-WOC. One of the cows was really loudly mooing for a good 30 seconds at one point, don't think I was what was troubling it, but a pretty darn insistent sound!
So took off unneeded layers and headed out for specific strength on River Rd. Was reading Double Duck Flats Middle (NAOC 2010) and the Sprint of last year's ski-WOC. One of the cows was really loudly mooing for a good 30 seconds at one point, don't think I was what was troubling it, but a pretty darn insistent sound!
6 PM
Strength 14:00 [1]
Abbity abs, back, SJJs. Abs sore from the morning. Um, why did I decide it was good to do this after a specific strength workout in the morning?
Sunday Dec 4, 2011 #
Event: WCOC Sessions Woods
11 AM
Running 5:16 [1] 0.58 mi (9:02 / mi) +6m 8:45 / mi
ahr:120 max:145
Orienteering race 41:57 6.1 km (6:53 / km) +144m 6:09 / km
ahr:158 max:178 14c
WCOC Sessions Wood, Red
So kept up the feistiness from yesterday's chasing-start battle and ran fast, ended up winning, woo! (Just a few seconds up on Brendan, a minute on Neil.) A few smallish mistakes, to 6, 13, and then was really uncomfy right off the start, perhaps partially because I had some doubt whether 1 was in the right place or not, as there was some debate about that a bit before I left...
1 - nervous, unsure if control had been moved to right spot, or what was happening. and didn't manage to make sense of boulders along the way in anyways.
2 - out to trail right away, wanted to take first right turn, but didn't, momentarily really confused, but ended up taking the second one and it all worked, still, scary
3 - left 2 poorly, heading straightish at beginning, which meant up the spur and then back down through green, should have just started bailling down through green. then close to control, I had flipped the contours while envisioning, so had to have a rethink about that!
4, 5 - fine
6 - uhh, lost it in the vague saddle, went too high towards hilltop, hence pretty far right of control (80 m), luckily spotted it... not cool, could have been a way bigger mistake. should have thought about not going up at all from saddle, because shouldn't have needed to at all.
7, 8, 9 - fine
10 - road run! becomes paved ~100m before marked on map though...
11 - slightly indirect, going left of cliffs
12 - long leg, choose to go right, for a flat run along the marsh, a bit of up, then a trail run
13 - ug ug ug. distracted by mountain bikers, went to a cliff on the slope instead of the hill with marsh on both sides. ugly.
14, finish - fine
Thanks to WCOC for the meet!
QuickRoute
So kept up the feistiness from yesterday's chasing-start battle and ran fast, ended up winning, woo! (Just a few seconds up on Brendan, a minute on Neil.) A few smallish mistakes, to 6, 13, and then was really uncomfy right off the start, perhaps partially because I had some doubt whether 1 was in the right place or not, as there was some debate about that a bit before I left...
1 - nervous, unsure if control had been moved to right spot, or what was happening. and didn't manage to make sense of boulders along the way in anyways.
2 - out to trail right away, wanted to take first right turn, but didn't, momentarily really confused, but ended up taking the second one and it all worked, still, scary
3 - left 2 poorly, heading straightish at beginning, which meant up the spur and then back down through green, should have just started bailling down through green. then close to control, I had flipped the contours while envisioning, so had to have a rethink about that!
4, 5 - fine
6 - uhh, lost it in the vague saddle, went too high towards hilltop, hence pretty far right of control (80 m), luckily spotted it... not cool, could have been a way bigger mistake. should have thought about not going up at all from saddle, because shouldn't have needed to at all.
7, 8, 9 - fine
10 - road run! becomes paved ~100m before marked on map though...
11 - slightly indirect, going left of cliffs
12 - long leg, choose to go right, for a flat run along the marsh, a bit of up, then a trail run
13 - ug ug ug. distracted by mountain bikers, went to a cliff on the slope instead of the hill with marsh on both sides. ugly.
14, finish - fine
Thanks to WCOC for the meet!
QuickRoute
C • paved 27
Orienteering race 14:02 2.2 km (6:23 / km) +36m 5:54 / km
ahr:158 max:175 9c
WCOC Sessions Wood, Yellow
And back out to sprint around the yellow. But panic! Could not go the right way off the start at all!!! What? Do you know how to work a compass Ali? So did a wee little loop around the pavilion to start, was heckled, then had a nice time around the Yellow, which was reasonably technical, especially if you were willing to cut corners and run hard.
976/2000
And back out to sprint around the yellow. But panic! Could not go the right way off the start at all!!! What? Do you know how to work a compass Ali? So did a wee little loop around the pavilion to start, was heckled, then had a nice time around the Yellow, which was reasonably technical, especially if you were willing to cut corners and run hard.
976/2000
Saturday Dec 3, 2011 #
Event: NEOC: Cemetery Hill
10 AM
Orienteering race 23:19 [4] *** 2.22 mi (10:30 / mi) +108m 9:07 / mi
ahr:94 max:94 18c
Cemetery Hill Long Sprint
Woo, first real race on Phil's new map! Although have been on it a few times before for training races, so not entirely new to me. Still awesome fun to have other o-folks here!
This one was ok, but not splendid. Some little falters (1- nearly ran by, 4- didn't find right gap first time at beginning), a bigger mistake at 12, was unsure about path, couldn't find it's corner wandered a bit, really more than I should have. Unsure about best route to #16. I went fiddly straight-ish, but maybe just cruise in from the far right is best?
Over 2 min back from Boris, 30 seconds from Ian, 10 from Neil for 4th.
Woo, first real race on Phil's new map! Although have been on it a few times before for training races, so not entirely new to me. Still awesome fun to have other o-folks here!
This one was ok, but not splendid. Some little falters (1- nearly ran by, 4- didn't find right gap first time at beginning), a bigger mistake at 12, was unsure about path, couldn't find it's corner wandered a bit, really more than I should have. Unsure about best route to #16. I went fiddly straight-ish, but maybe just cruise in from the far right is best?
Over 2 min back from Boris, 30 seconds from Ian, 10 from Neil for 4th.
Orienteering race 15:27 [4] 1.48 mi (10:26 / mi) +66m 9:10 / mi
ahr:147 max:147 13c
Cemetery Hill Short Sprint
Brief pause while PG did his sprint so I could re-adopt his Garmin for round 2. And good to get a rest in too, definitely needed to find my inhaler. Cold air + breathing hard + residual irritation from Thanksgiving allergies = not happy airway.
Anyways, then out for the short version. Smoother in general. Found my route to 4 messy to execute, Ian's back out around W seems to have worked better. Oh corn-stalk bashing to 7!! I didn't really mind it too much though, they were hollow, knocked over easy.
Boris again bunches ahead, speedy dude. Then Giacomo and me, meaning I nemisesed Ian for the first time in ages! That ended the preliminary rounds with Boris having a huge gap, then Ian starting just 2 seconds in front of me, perfect setup for a showdown...
Brief pause while PG did his sprint so I could re-adopt his Garmin for round 2. And good to get a rest in too, definitely needed to find my inhaler. Cold air + breathing hard + residual irritation from Thanksgiving allergies = not happy airway.
Anyways, then out for the short version. Smoother in general. Found my route to 4 messy to execute, Ian's back out around W seems to have worked better. Oh corn-stalk bashing to 7!! I didn't really mind it too much though, they were hollow, knocked over easy.
Boris again bunches ahead, speedy dude. Then Giacomo and me, meaning I nemisesed Ian for the first time in ages! That ended the preliminary rounds with Boris having a huge gap, then Ian starting just 2 seconds in front of me, perfect setup for a showdown...
Running 7:05 [1] 0.83 mi (8:30 / mi) +12m 8:08 / mi
ahr:105 max:108
Warm up!
12 PM
Orienteering race 20:42 [4]
Cemetery Hill, Western Mass Sprint Champs! Final round...
Soo. Boris goes off, see the direction he goes, then wait, wait, wait. Ian, 2 seconds, me. Scamper off after him!!! He may have started a similar pace to the first leg of Billygoat re-running last week, i.e. hard! Punched 1 still easily in sight though, and then long mostly trail run to 2, kept in contact.
After 3, Ian went the other way that I had decided to route-choice. Score! Time to try to get ahead. But was a bit nasty and I ended up totally caught in barbed wire fence. Foot was caught in one of the squares and pants caught by one of the barbs, awesome. Extracted self, but way annoyed, not going to get ahead with that time sink! And indeed, Ian punched yet again just in front.
5-6-7-8-9 fairly uneventful, happy to be led into 7 actually =). On descent to 10, Ian got trapped by some evil plan, made some noise to that effect, thought I might get a chance to get ahead, then bam, similarily caught myself... But not long after, got that chance as Ian ran wrong side of thickets to 12 and was going ahead to check out a control on a tree or something, nope, I looked around and found depression. Ok, now to lead!
Safe way to 13, but then lost my lead to 14, which I thought I was approaching well, but Ian was faster by just bashing straight. Hmph. Different route choies to 15, I went left with more down then up, Ian went further right on the trail, which comparing with others after, seems to have been best. So trailing leading into a trail run to 16, just couldn't make much of a dent. Brief hope when Ian slowed to check out an earlier control on way to 16, but nope, not fooled =) Came in with nearly same gap as start, fun, fun race. Probably due to constant competition, we were fastest, in front of defensively-running Boris, who easily took the championship.
953/2000
Soo. Boris goes off, see the direction he goes, then wait, wait, wait. Ian, 2 seconds, me. Scamper off after him!!! He may have started a similar pace to the first leg of Billygoat re-running last week, i.e. hard! Punched 1 still easily in sight though, and then long mostly trail run to 2, kept in contact.
After 3, Ian went the other way that I had decided to route-choice. Score! Time to try to get ahead. But was a bit nasty and I ended up totally caught in barbed wire fence. Foot was caught in one of the squares and pants caught by one of the barbs, awesome. Extracted self, but way annoyed, not going to get ahead with that time sink! And indeed, Ian punched yet again just in front.
5-6-7-8-9 fairly uneventful, happy to be led into 7 actually =). On descent to 10, Ian got trapped by some evil plan, made some noise to that effect, thought I might get a chance to get ahead, then bam, similarily caught myself... But not long after, got that chance as Ian ran wrong side of thickets to 12 and was going ahead to check out a control on a tree or something, nope, I looked around and found depression. Ok, now to lead!
Safe way to 13, but then lost my lead to 14, which I thought I was approaching well, but Ian was faster by just bashing straight. Hmph. Different route choies to 15, I went left with more down then up, Ian went further right on the trail, which comparing with others after, seems to have been best. So trailing leading into a trail run to 16, just couldn't make much of a dent. Brief hope when Ian slowed to check out an earlier control on way to 16, but nope, not fooled =) Came in with nearly same gap as start, fun, fun race. Probably due to constant competition, we were fastest, in front of defensively-running Boris, who easily took the championship.
953/2000
Orienteering 15:00 [1]
Garmin-less so unsure of time, but went to go pick up 8 controls, mostly ones along the river. Had to pause a bit for last starters to come through, feel bad, guess we should have waited longer!
3 PM
Orienteering 20:00 [3]
Hanging flags for night-o
Balter also volunteered to come help put out controls along with Boris and me, but only had 2 maps, so I sketched the first 6 (easy) controls and set those. Perfect timing really, I had only been done about 2 min before car descended with Boris and Balter. Woo, then for pizza!
Balter also volunteered to come help put out controls along with Boris and me, but only had 2 maps, so I sketched the first 6 (easy) controls and set those. Perfect timing really, I had only been done about 2 min before car descended with Boris and Balter. Woo, then for pizza!
Friday Dec 2, 2011 #
Note
Boo. Big results came back from the Herschel Observatory Telescope Allocation Committee and not so good for me. First proposal that was accepted for Priority 2 time last time was rejected and other one was put as Priority 2 time this round, so may or may not be observed.
Especial bummer because this telescope is running out of the coolant it needs to work, so this is the last proposal round and so there is no hope (at least in the foreseeable future) of getting good far-infrared imaging of these galaxies.
Especial bummer because this telescope is running out of the coolant it needs to work, so this is the last proposal round and so there is no hope (at least in the foreseeable future) of getting good far-infrared imaging of these galaxies.
7 AM
Running 2:02 0.17 mi (11:41 / mi) +11m 9:46 / mi
ahr:124 max:145
Orienteering 1:04:25 3.44 mi (18:44 / mi) +212m 15:43 / mi
ahr:112 max:147 14c
Brrrrrr.... Needed more clothes! Most specifically, warmer gloves, hands were very unhappy about this whole expedition.
Went to Mt. Tom to check out things for the night-o, make sure control sites were there and that things were clear for the first set of easy controls (first two are kinda yellow-level, next 4 are orange-ish, then up to more technical, although not crazy-hard, don't really want folks running off Mt. Tom cliffs in the dark!).
Was good to do check things out, there is one pesky trail that isn't kept up as a trail any more and is almost invisible right at the bottom where it starts (overgrown + brush put in the way, I passed by it at first...). Maybe we should map beginning of it as a ride? Because really is major trail-like just a bit further up. Anyways, will change 2nd control based on that.
Did this sans-compass, so thinking more about angles to go with respect to different contour features. Once inverted the contours and was really quite confused!!!
905/2000
Was going really slowly. Partly I blame going without a compass, but I think it was hard for me to focus when my hands hurt so much. Should probably think about training at least a smidgen faster though, probably doesn't help as much going this slowly.
Went to Mt. Tom to check out things for the night-o, make sure control sites were there and that things were clear for the first set of easy controls (first two are kinda yellow-level, next 4 are orange-ish, then up to more technical, although not crazy-hard, don't really want folks running off Mt. Tom cliffs in the dark!).
Was good to do check things out, there is one pesky trail that isn't kept up as a trail any more and is almost invisible right at the bottom where it starts (overgrown + brush put in the way, I passed by it at first...). Maybe we should map beginning of it as a ride? Because really is major trail-like just a bit further up. Anyways, will change 2nd control based on that.
Did this sans-compass, so thinking more about angles to go with respect to different contour features. Once inverted the contours and was really quite confused!!!
905/2000
Was going really slowly. Partly I blame going without a compass, but I think it was hard for me to focus when my hands hurt so much. Should probably think about training at least a smidgen faster though, probably doesn't help as much going this slowly.
Running 3:14 0.4 mi (8:09 / mi) +12m 7:27 / mi
ahr:137 max:152
Thursday Dec 1, 2011 #
7 PM
Running 17:38
ahr:127 max:137
After finishing last job application due today (woo!), ran home from work, dropped off stuff, then to track.
Job apps this week were to: Heidelberg; Charlottesville, VA; Munich; Toronto; and Ann Arbor.
Job apps this week were to: Heidelberg; Charlottesville, VA; Munich; Toronto; and Ann Arbor.
Drills 8:26 0.41 mi (20:34 / mi)
ahr:129 max:155
Drillification. Nice that there's a light that dimly illuminates the straightaway. Becoming chillier....
Running 6:12 0.65 mi (9:28 / mi)
ahr:121 max:137
Strength 14:01 [1] 0.08 mi (2:54:52 / mi) +1m 2:48:20 / mi
ahr:81 max:101
10 min abs, 2 min back, 2 min SJJs