Training Log Archive: RosstopherIn the 31 days ending May 31, 2013:
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Friday May 31, 2013 #
12 PM
Innebandy 45:00 [4]
5 PM
Track 34:44 5.26 km (6:36 / km) +1m 6:36 / km
ahr:130 max:181
Thursday May 30, 2013 #
8 PM
Trail run (backbana) 29:45 [4]
orienteering 14:09 [5] 3.35 km (4:14 / km) +50m 3:56 / km
ahr:96 max:179
Wednesday May 29, 2013 #
6 PM
orienteering 56:29 [5] 9.14 km (6:11 / km) +34m 6:04 / km
Tuesday May 28, 2013 #
6 PM
Trail run (intervals) 43:00
Sunday May 26, 2013 #
10 AM
orienteering race 1:30:45 [5] 11.39 km (7:58 / km) +173m 7:24 / km
1 PM
orienteering 56:53 [3] 4.71 km (12:05 / km) +29m 11:43 / km
Saturday May 25, 2013 #
11 AM
orienteering 1:01:25 [4] 7.86 km (7:49 / km) +46m 7:36 / km
4 PM
orienteering 40:39 [4] 6.02 km (6:45 / km) +64m 6:25 / km
Thursday May 23, 2013 #
5 PM
Road run 8:40 [2] 0.93 km (9:22 / km) +5m 9:07 / km
I ran to the track and did one lap around it. And then walked back to work. Because, you know, that's how I roll.
Tuesday May 21, 2013 #
6 PM
orienteering 45:00 [4]
No idea. This could be intervals... Seems a bit silly the day before Blodomloppet, but I'm strong. Where's the gps track? I need some sort of clue.
Monday May 20, 2013 #
5 PM
Trail run 53:14 [3] 8.92 km (5:58 / km) +143m 5:32 / km
Run with coworkers after work. Then to rock gympa. and Innebandy.
Sunday May 19, 2013 #
10 AM
Trail run 13:04 [2] 2.09 km (6:16 / km) +115m 4:55 / km
Again, running to the start.
orienteering 1:17:01 [5] 8.66 km (8:54 / km) +158m 8:09 / km
Another open course. I ripped my contact when trying to put it in my eye and had to go to the medical tent to have them help me get it out. So I ran with only one contact in. That messes up your depth perception a bit and it was hard to actually see the flags. Not as good as yesterday, but mostly due to only having one eye.
Saturday May 18, 2013 #
12 PM
Trail run 12:09 [2] 1.86 km (6:32 / km)
Uh, maybe I warmed up? Yes, it was a long way to the start. I ran an open course of some sort today.
orienteering 40:20 [5] 4.75 km (8:29 / km) +178m 7:09 / km
If I remember correctly, today went well. I was running a bit slower because of my elbow, and was clean. The terrain was very challenging today, so go me!
Friday May 17, 2013 #
9 PM
Road run 22:11 [2] 2.97 km (7:28 / km) +41m 6:59 / km
Today I had surgery to get the pins removed from when I broke my elbow (twice) last summer. Super happy go get them out, as now I can do planks again and I no longer shout in pain when I bang my elbow in the shower. But now I have lots of stitches and it's a bit gross looking. Headed to Sundsvall for the weekend with Linné because I like hanging out with people more than sitting around alone at home. Plus, they're pretty awesome people.
Arrived and went running with Kate. She made sure I didn't fall into a ditch from being still woozy from the surgery drugs.
Arrived and went running with Kate. She made sure I didn't fall into a ditch from being still woozy from the surgery drugs.
Thursday May 16, 2013 #
7 PM
Road run 20:02 [3] 3.56 km (5:38 / km) +24m 5:27 / km
Warmup, running with Elisa and Anna over to the hill where Elisa decided we were going to run hills. Beautiful day and I managed to carry on about 5 minutes of conversation in Swedish before I ran out of vocabulary. Progress!
Trail run (Hills) 48:28 [5] 8.54 km (5:40 / km) +252m 4:57 / km
Beautiful day for a hill workout. 10 x 1 minute hills with jogging rest back down to the bottom (1.30 or so). Hardest part was feeling motivated to get out the door. Worked hard on the hills and felt light and strong. Nice.
Then jogging back home, stopping by a hittaut point that Elisa and Anna hadn't yet collected. I really love the trainingsbank on the Linné website.
Then jogging back home, stopping by a hittaut point that Elisa and Anna hadn't yet collected. I really love the trainingsbank on the Linné website.
Wednesday May 15, 2013 #
8 PM
Road run (Hittaut) 1:33:21 [3] 17.41 km (5:22 / km) +209m 5:04 / km
I missed the two group trainings tonight, and didn't sign up for the race that Sam went to in Stockholm. Instead, I went for a nice Hittaut run down south, on the pretext of needing to return the clubhouse key for the computer storage room.
Listening to Tiesto's Club Life podcasts for a constant stream of techno and remembering the codes by making a sentence/string of words as I went.
Wretched Knave, Gratuitously Benevolent, Pernicious Yodeler's Unseeming Exclaimations Continue
Only a week until the Blodomloppet 10k, my coworkers are training hard too, should be fun!
Listening to Tiesto's Club Life podcasts for a constant stream of techno and remembering the codes by making a sentence/string of words as I went.
Wretched Knave, Gratuitously Benevolent, Pernicious Yodeler's Unseeming Exclaimations Continue
Only a week until the Blodomloppet 10k, my coworkers are training hard too, should be fun!
Tuesday May 14, 2013 #
Note
Travel Day - Prep Day
Both flights on my return were delayed by an hour or more, but I made it back to the apartment by 8:30 pm local time. I was pretty tired after the long distance on Sunday and then the travel. Very grateful to all those who helped drive me around this weekend, especially Alex and Ed for really taking charge of me.
After a lovely dinner prepared by Sam, I headed back out to get some things together in preparation for a junior meet we're putting on tomorrow evening. Programming SI controls, sorting them into piles for the placement teams, and then biking to get the equipment locker key so I can pull together a few club laptops and printers to build the download station tomorrow.
We've got almost 300 juniors and beginners signed up. Very cool.
Both flights on my return were delayed by an hour or more, but I made it back to the apartment by 8:30 pm local time. I was pretty tired after the long distance on Sunday and then the travel. Very grateful to all those who helped drive me around this weekend, especially Alex and Ed for really taking charge of me.
After a lovely dinner prepared by Sam, I headed back out to get some things together in preparation for a junior meet we're putting on tomorrow evening. Programming SI controls, sorting them into piles for the placement teams, and then biking to get the equipment locker key so I can pull together a few club laptops and printers to build the download station tomorrow.
We've got almost 300 juniors and beginners signed up. Very cool.
Sunday May 12, 2013 #
9 AM
orienteering race 1:53:50 [5] 13.77 km (8:16 / km) +464m 7:04 / km
US Team Trials - Long Distance
Routegadget page
Cool area, good map, tough and challenging course. I went into the morning feeling confident and wanting to prove myself after the debacle of yesterday.
The start of the race was exactly as planned. I felt in control, holding back just slightly but still moving well up the first of many hills.
Things got messy on the way to 5. I wouldn't have been able to say where I went wrong without downloading the garmin. It turns out that I was in a classic parallel error but I was somehow convinced that I was far north when really I was a bit south. There was another runner in the same area messing around on the early hill and that threw me off too. Since I was so sure that I was north, I kinda had this feeling that I was off the edge of the map, and I was struggling with my compass and the shape of hills.
I rallied a bit, had a nice feeling again on 6 and 7, but then dropping down off the cliffs into 8, I lost my sense of control again and dropped two minutes messing around on that vague hillside.
Last mistake of note was the epic climb to the wrong hill on 12. Evidence that my fight with the compass was not over.
So, I guess I am happier with today. My fitness feels okay, I really bombed a few controls, but I fought hard through to the finish. However, If I am honest, I am disappointed with my racing this weekend. I did not show my best, but I will use this disappointment as fuel as I train for the big events of the summer.
Routegadget page
Cool area, good map, tough and challenging course. I went into the morning feeling confident and wanting to prove myself after the debacle of yesterday.
The start of the race was exactly as planned. I felt in control, holding back just slightly but still moving well up the first of many hills.
Things got messy on the way to 5. I wouldn't have been able to say where I went wrong without downloading the garmin. It turns out that I was in a classic parallel error but I was somehow convinced that I was far north when really I was a bit south. There was another runner in the same area messing around on the early hill and that threw me off too. Since I was so sure that I was north, I kinda had this feeling that I was off the edge of the map, and I was struggling with my compass and the shape of hills.
I rallied a bit, had a nice feeling again on 6 and 7, but then dropping down off the cliffs into 8, I lost my sense of control again and dropped two minutes messing around on that vague hillside.
Last mistake of note was the epic climb to the wrong hill on 12. Evidence that my fight with the compass was not over.
So, I guess I am happier with today. My fitness feels okay, I really bombed a few controls, but I fought hard through to the finish. However, If I am honest, I am disappointed with my racing this weekend. I did not show my best, but I will use this disappointment as fuel as I train for the big events of the summer.
Saturday May 11, 2013 #
4 PM
Trail run 15:54 [2] 0.1 km (2:42:15 / km) +33m 1:00:27 / km
A little warmup in the rain on the way to the start. Running until I started talking with people, then hiked the rest of the way.
orienteering 1:01:07 [5] 7.6 km (8:02 / km) +62m 7:43 / km
US Team Trials - Middle Distance
Rainy weather. Started out this morning feeling very confident. In previous races and trainings at Moreau I have had really good map contact and flow. I felt, in a way, like Moreau was a good friend and I never imagined I would have any trouble with the course at all.
On the start line I flipped the map and immediately zeroed in on the start triangle, read the first leg, made a plan and sprinted out of the blocks. I crested the first little rise checking off the cliffs as I passed and then things fell apart.
A true disaster. I discovered that, with all the rain and wet conditions, I couldn't figure out what was a marsh and the leaves on the trees really cut down on the visibility that I was recalling from previous visits, and once I started to falter I guess I just panicked.
I didn't have a good relocation plan. I ran around, at high speeds, trying to make sense of hills, marshes, cliffs, and each time I thought I was somewhere I would reorient and dash back into the fray only to discover that once more things were not matching up.
It was an eternity before I found the first control. But even then I did not settle in. I was running in a very jittery, brittle, frantic adrenaline haze. I massively overshot the next control and bounced through the next set of controls much like a pinball but with far less direction. As I relocated to find 13, after nearly a dozen errors of varying degree, I felt incredibly frustrated with my inability to reset - to shake the etch-a-sketch and do the orienteering I know that I am capable of.
I was getting tired, but I was also angry enough at myself that I kept pushing hard. I strung a couple of good controls together at the end, and saw a glimpse of what I had thought my course might be like.
Massively disappointed. Not sure what the lesson is here. Will need to come up with a strategy that allows me to deal better in these high pressure situations.
Rainy weather. Started out this morning feeling very confident. In previous races and trainings at Moreau I have had really good map contact and flow. I felt, in a way, like Moreau was a good friend and I never imagined I would have any trouble with the course at all.
On the start line I flipped the map and immediately zeroed in on the start triangle, read the first leg, made a plan and sprinted out of the blocks. I crested the first little rise checking off the cliffs as I passed and then things fell apart.
A true disaster. I discovered that, with all the rain and wet conditions, I couldn't figure out what was a marsh and the leaves on the trees really cut down on the visibility that I was recalling from previous visits, and once I started to falter I guess I just panicked.
I didn't have a good relocation plan. I ran around, at high speeds, trying to make sense of hills, marshes, cliffs, and each time I thought I was somewhere I would reorient and dash back into the fray only to discover that once more things were not matching up.
It was an eternity before I found the first control. But even then I did not settle in. I was running in a very jittery, brittle, frantic adrenaline haze. I massively overshot the next control and bounced through the next set of controls much like a pinball but with far less direction. As I relocated to find 13, after nearly a dozen errors of varying degree, I felt incredibly frustrated with my inability to reset - to shake the etch-a-sketch and do the orienteering I know that I am capable of.
I was getting tired, but I was also angry enough at myself that I kept pushing hard. I strung a couple of good controls together at the end, and saw a glimpse of what I had thought my course might be like.
Massively disappointed. Not sure what the lesson is here. Will need to come up with a strategy that allows me to deal better in these high pressure situations.
Friday May 10, 2013 #
9 PM
orienteering race 15:16 [5] 2.8 km (5:27 / km) +61m 4:55 / km
US Team Trials - Sprint Distance
Cool weather. Forest Sprint. I started out 1 minute behind Ethan Childs and as I waited on the start line I had an uninterrupted view of the first leg of the sprint. I could see exactly where he ducked off the trail and so when it was my turn, I hit the trail at top speed.
I was not thinking about conserving climb for such a short race, and so I planned to go up and over the hill on the way to 2, though I modified that when I got to the hill and realized the footing wasn't so good.
Saw Ethan's back as I climbed towards 3, and got even closer as I neared the buildings at 4. I watched as he rounded the hut and a moment or so later I saw him sprint towards 5. I kinda turned off my brain for an instant, then, and was worried when I came around the first hut and didn't see a flag at all. I did a lap, and even tried to run inside the hut to find this flag before realizing that I was still one building too early.
I hit the next set pretty cleanly, and saw Ethan up ahead as I cut through the forest down the hill to 12. I lost the plot once more at 13, ending up on the wrong side of the building and would have kept searching if I hadn't caught a glimpse of the flag in my peripheral vision.
Proud of my route to 14, back on Ethan's heels, and closing in on the finish of the course. However, I made one more error and counted trail junctions badly which ended with me cutting down the hillside on the way to 16 much too early. Was disoriented and confused, saw the flag for 12 and recognized that I had punched that control code earlier, and scanned my descriptions to discover that I was at control 12.
Pushed hard to the finish. Was glad to be fastest of the team trialers today, and was rueful that I ended 2 seconds behind BigE. Not my best sprint, but the legs were moving well, and a win is a win, right? :)
Congrats to Ethan for running himself into a Gold Medal... impressed that he held me off so surely.
Cool weather. Forest Sprint. I started out 1 minute behind Ethan Childs and as I waited on the start line I had an uninterrupted view of the first leg of the sprint. I could see exactly where he ducked off the trail and so when it was my turn, I hit the trail at top speed.
I was not thinking about conserving climb for such a short race, and so I planned to go up and over the hill on the way to 2, though I modified that when I got to the hill and realized the footing wasn't so good.
Saw Ethan's back as I climbed towards 3, and got even closer as I neared the buildings at 4. I watched as he rounded the hut and a moment or so later I saw him sprint towards 5. I kinda turned off my brain for an instant, then, and was worried when I came around the first hut and didn't see a flag at all. I did a lap, and even tried to run inside the hut to find this flag before realizing that I was still one building too early.
I hit the next set pretty cleanly, and saw Ethan up ahead as I cut through the forest down the hill to 12. I lost the plot once more at 13, ending up on the wrong side of the building and would have kept searching if I hadn't caught a glimpse of the flag in my peripheral vision.
Proud of my route to 14, back on Ethan's heels, and closing in on the finish of the course. However, I made one more error and counted trail junctions badly which ended with me cutting down the hillside on the way to 16 much too early. Was disoriented and confused, saw the flag for 12 and recognized that I had punched that control code earlier, and scanned my descriptions to discover that I was at control 12.
Pushed hard to the finish. Was glad to be fastest of the team trialers today, and was rueful that I ended 2 seconds behind BigE. Not my best sprint, but the legs were moving well, and a win is a win, right? :)
Congrats to Ethan for running himself into a Gold Medal... impressed that he held me off so surely.
Wednesday May 8, 2013 #
6 PM
orienteering 1:07:45 [0] 14.17 km (4:47 / km) +177m 4:30 / km
Tuesday May 7, 2013 #
6 PM
orienteering 6:27 [0] 1.46 km (4:25 / km) +24m 4:05 / km
orienteering 16:49 [0] 3.93 km (4:16 / km) +15m 4:12 / km
Sunday May 5, 2013 #
6 AM
orienteering 1:41:16 [0] 16.66 km (6:05 / km) +222m 5:42 / km
4 PM
orienteering 1:20:48 [0] 12.82 km (6:18 / km) +118m 6:01 / km
Wednesday May 1, 2013 #
5 PM
orienteering 49:09 [0] 7.38 km (6:39 / km) +23m 6:33 / km