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Sunday Sep 12, 2010 #
9 AM
Running warm up/down 11:00 [1]
Warm up joggeroo to the beach and back. Legs felt ok, woo!
2 PM
Orienteering 1:24:49 [4] 8.1 km (10:28 / km) +10m 10:24 / km
18c
Pawtuckaway Camping Weekend, Blue Day 2
This went pretty darn well! Only very minor bobbles, and was pretty aggressive running the whole way through. Psyched! Wish that added up to < 10 min/k, but guess it's still Pawtuckaway and that's tough. Oh, and totally climbed more than the 10m my Garmin claims...
3- Confused by what trails did after bridge, then was nervous in the low-vis stuff right around control
9- I did the trail route choice, Ross figured folks would go straight. Wonder what was faster. Did get to read ahead a bit on the trail at least.
10- Right through green swamp. Yeah dry!
13- I went right of the swamp, wonder if left was quicker? You'd have to go down steepness right at the beginning though... maybe in wetter conditions b/c I wouldn't have been able to cut the swamp corner as much as I did.
15- Checked out one other boulder before the right one, 15-20s lost?
16- Had no desire to stay in contact in the Land of Boulders so just bailed on a bearing to the yellow swamp. Worked, but still just tough going to get through all that stuff!
18- Contemplated road, went straight, worked fine.
253/2000
This went pretty darn well! Only very minor bobbles, and was pretty aggressive running the whole way through. Psyched! Wish that added up to < 10 min/k, but guess it's still Pawtuckaway and that's tough. Oh, and totally climbed more than the 10m my Garmin claims...
3- Confused by what trails did after bridge, then was nervous in the low-vis stuff right around control
9- I did the trail route choice, Ross figured folks would go straight. Wonder what was faster. Did get to read ahead a bit on the trail at least.
10- Right through green swamp. Yeah dry!
13- I went right of the swamp, wonder if left was quicker? You'd have to go down steepness right at the beginning though... maybe in wetter conditions b/c I wouldn't have been able to cut the swamp corner as much as I did.
15- Checked out one other boulder before the right one, 15-20s lost?
16- Had no desire to stay in contact in the Land of Boulders so just bailed on a bearing to the yellow swamp. Worked, but still just tough going to get through all that stuff!
18- Contemplated road, went straight, worked fine.
253/2000
C • 244/2000 14
Saturday Sep 11, 2010 #
12 PM
Running warm up/down 11:11 1.24 mi (9:01 / mi) +1m 9:00 / mi
ahr:138 max:153
Orienteering race 1:10:46 6.3 km (11:14 / km) +154m 10:01 / km
ahr:162 max:175 19c
Pawtuckaway Camping Weekend Red Course, Day 1
Sunny gorgeous day, and warmed up well, so hamstring felt ok! All in all pretty good orienteering, but significant mistakes to 3, 6 and 17. Erin and I were really close, for 1 and 2, just 45s apart.
1- Bit hesitant as veg got denser close to the control.
2- Round pond, up reentrant, behind hill.
3- Was in great contact til halfway, then lost it going up hill. Looking at my GPS track, looks like I was perfectly on line, but didn't go quite far enough before freaking out and investigating elsewhere...
4- Over spur, other side of little pond.
5- Attack from nearby big green marsh.
6- Argh! Looks like my bearing was off right from the start, too much south. So went into the saddle between hills and kept going for a bit, and had to come back.
7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14: This whole bit of the butterfly went pretty well. Pretty slow to keep in contact, and definitely used contour and water features more than rocks, because there are far too many rocks in there!!!
15- Oops, forgot, this one was also not perfect, drifted significantly left of the line, probably because nicer to run there, reoriented based on huge-normous boulder.
16- Fine, but maybe quicker to stay low closer to ponds?
17- Again, drifting/pushed by terrain issues, ended up on the hill overlooking the pond.
18- Over hilltop, looked too flat to bother going around.
19- To big reentrant with blue dots, then up reentrant with ponds.
Finish- To road, then south.
215/2000
Sunny gorgeous day, and warmed up well, so hamstring felt ok! All in all pretty good orienteering, but significant mistakes to 3, 6 and 17. Erin and I were really close, for 1 and 2, just 45s apart.
1- Bit hesitant as veg got denser close to the control.
2- Round pond, up reentrant, behind hill.
3- Was in great contact til halfway, then lost it going up hill. Looking at my GPS track, looks like I was perfectly on line, but didn't go quite far enough before freaking out and investigating elsewhere...
4- Over spur, other side of little pond.
5- Attack from nearby big green marsh.
6- Argh! Looks like my bearing was off right from the start, too much south. So went into the saddle between hills and kept going for a bit, and had to come back.
7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14: This whole bit of the butterfly went pretty well. Pretty slow to keep in contact, and definitely used contour and water features more than rocks, because there are far too many rocks in there!!!
15- Oops, forgot, this one was also not perfect, drifted significantly left of the line, probably because nicer to run there, reoriented based on huge-normous boulder.
16- Fine, but maybe quicker to stay low closer to ponds?
17- Again, drifting/pushed by terrain issues, ended up on the hill overlooking the pond.
18- Over hilltop, looked too flat to bother going around.
19- To big reentrant with blue dots, then up reentrant with ponds.
Finish- To road, then south.
215/2000
2 PM
Orienteering 11:30 [4] 1.3 mi (8:51 / mi)
9c
Sprint Team Fundraiser/ try SI course!
Almost forgot I did this! And do forget how many controls, and my map drowned along with my canoe-O map with my splits, so if anyone knows, let me know! (Update: Ross says 9.)
Did it sans compass as required for team members, and that was fine for the first bit around trails, but was definitely uncomfortable without being able to use bearings in the woods bit!
Calf cramped up badly afterwards, so I didn't do the mini-challenge of map-memory-sprinting the first 4 controls.
224/2000
Almost forgot I did this! And do forget how many controls, and my map drowned along with my canoe-O map with my splits, so if anyone knows, let me know! (Update: Ross says 9.)
Did it sans compass as required for team members, and that was fine for the first bit around trails, but was definitely uncomfortable without being able to use bearings in the woods bit!
Calf cramped up badly afterwards, so I didn't do the mini-challenge of map-memory-sprinting the first 4 controls.
224/2000
3 PM
Rowing (Canoe-O) 1:18:10 5.51 mi (14:11 / mi) +26m 13:59 / mi
ahr:136 max:173 10c
Long Canoe-O!
Ken and I went out to do the long canoe-O which was a blast. There were 3 controls on land too, so had to plan when to dump someone off (me) and find those, we even did an extra by land #4, which think made sense. We made a big mistake on the way to 3, which you can tell in the GPS track. Mistook islands. Oops! I also had issues with one of the land controls, which is embarrassing! I vote the 4 controls accessed via land count towards the 2000. Using kayak paddles rocked!
228/2000
Ken and I went out to do the long canoe-O which was a blast. There were 3 controls on land too, so had to plan when to dump someone off (me) and find those, we even did an extra by land #4, which think made sense. We made a big mistake on the way to 3, which you can tell in the GPS track. Mistook islands. Oops! I also had issues with one of the land controls, which is embarrassing! I vote the 4 controls accessed via land count towards the 2000. Using kayak paddles rocked!
228/2000
8 PM
Orienteering (Night-O) 1:22:30 [1] 2.92 mi (28:15 / mi) +2m 28:12 / mi
7c
Wicked Hard Night-O
Although I was pretty much wimpy and only did 1-4 and then 12-13-14. I wasn't staying in great contact at the beginning, found it really tough orienteering, but the streams of people made it easier. At 4, I decided to do my own thing, contemplated doing 9 and in, but was even wimpier and just went straight for 12. Still, actually found those last 3 controls totally on my own and without big mistakes, just going painfully slow.
235/2000
Although I was pretty much wimpy and only did 1-4 and then 12-13-14. I wasn't staying in great contact at the beginning, found it really tough orienteering, but the streams of people made it easier. At 4, I decided to do my own thing, contemplated doing 9 and in, but was even wimpier and just went straight for 12. Still, actually found those last 3 controls totally on my own and without big mistakes, just going painfully slow.
235/2000
Friday Sep 10, 2010 #
3 PM
XC skiing 59:58 [2]
Rollerski with Alex on River Road. Lovely to have company! 15 min w/o poles, 15 min with, 15 min w/o and then 15 min double poling alone. And Alex spent the last bit minutes picking grapes (being good to her elbow!), so yay, have those for breakfast tomorrow!!
Legs feeling more normal, happy!
Legs feeling more normal, happy!
Thursday Sep 9, 2010 #
5 PM
Running 51:28 [1] 5.29 mi (9:44 / mi)
Legs are on planet weird. They just feel tight and not very happy, so skipped the track work, went out for a waddle instead. But legs really felt like the hamstrings want to rip out of them if I stride out. So had a mega-stretching session when I got back, hopefully will feel better shortly!
Wednesday Sep 8, 2010 #
Note
Day off, actually meant to go running, but missed the group? But maybe it was for the best, left hamstring was iffy all day (hurting exactly where I pulled it 2 years ago), hopefully better tomorrow for some track work!
Tuesday Sep 7, 2010 #
Running warm up/down 13:00 [1]
Over to the Northampton 5k, finally! Registered myself and went out to warm up, ran into Sanjay out there, and he showed me the first lap of the course, at least. Left hamstring tight.
Running race 18:55 [4] 5.0 km (3:47 / km)
And the race! Started out for the first mile right around Sanjay and Paul, then went a bit quicker than them the second mile, although I bet our third mile splits were pretty even, felt Iike I was fading a bit (there's also a big hill in the 3rd mile, so some excuse for uneven splits!) I ran most of the race in 3rd, but a guy passed me right at the end.
Splits: 5:54, 5:53, 7:08
(so last bit was at 6:28 pace! definite fading, although I'd give 15 seconds of it to the hill)
So, at this race, they keep track of records for each age on the course. The F26 record is 17.56. Hmmmm. Possible? Unsure. Would have to be sometime next summer probably, there's only a few more this fall.
Splits: 5:54, 5:53, 7:08
(so last bit was at 6:28 pace! definite fading, although I'd give 15 seconds of it to the hill)
So, at this race, they keep track of records for each age on the course. The F26 record is 17.56. Hmmmm. Possible? Unsure. Would have to be sometime next summer probably, there's only a few more this fall.
Running warm up/down 8:50 [1]
Little loop with Sanjay and Paul, chattin'.
Monday Sep 6, 2010 #
5 PM
XC skiing 59:19 9.22 mi (6:26 / mi) +133m 6:10 / mi
ahr:125 max:155
15 min double pole, 30 min mostly w/o poles, then last ~15 min back to double pole. Gave River Road a try, on PG's recommendation. First bit was pretty flat, good DP territory and then a bit hillier, but nothing impossible to go down on the skis (did 'road-plow' a bit)! And nice pavement too.
Feeling better double poling, legs were way tired today, would have been a slump for sure if I had gone for a run. Afterwards, made sure to stretch, and found some ripe Concord grapes in the parking area- will see how they go crushed in some yogurt tomorrow! Also, on the way back, stopped at Bub's BBQ for all-you-can-eat sides and a pulled pork sandwich. Mmmmmm....
Feeling better double poling, legs were way tired today, would have been a slump for sure if I had gone for a run. Afterwards, made sure to stretch, and found some ripe Concord grapes in the parking area- will see how they go crushed in some yogurt tomorrow! Also, on the way back, stopped at Bub's BBQ for all-you-can-eat sides and a pulled pork sandwich. Mmmmmm....