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Tuesday Sep 27, 2011 #
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All this course setting and course vetting has me on track for the most training I have done in a month since my fracture in August 2010. It would be nice (of course) if the activity were actual O-training rather than just woods time, but I will take what I can get. I find myself tempted to take up Ski-O simply because all the mosquitoes are dead, but I ski like a duck.
Some performance goals:
- Sub 19:00 5k by Dec 31
- Sub 1:25 New Bedford half (6:30-ish/mile)
- 200+ bowling score by March 31, 2012
The top men in the World Cup long race in Liberec ran at sub 4:00/km pace (absolute speed, not leg distance/split) for the first leg of the race. So fast!
The Final Countdown, performed by the German brass, with gratuitous amounts of style. Note the impressive chops on the trumpet at 2:30.
Some performance goals:
- Sub 19:00 5k by Dec 31
- Sub 1:25 New Bedford half (6:30-ish/mile)
- 200+ bowling score by March 31, 2012
The top men in the World Cup long race in Liberec ran at sub 4:00/km pace (absolute speed, not leg distance/split) for the first leg of the race. So fast!
The Final Countdown, performed by the German brass, with gratuitous amounts of style. Note the impressive chops on the trumpet at 2:30.
7 AM
Orienteering 1:27:19 [1] 6.71 km (13:01 / km) +114m 12:00 / km
shoes: 201006 Inov-8 X-talon 212
Vetting controls at the Fells. I don't own a car, though I had one this weekend for the Night-O and a visit to IKEA. Route 2 is usually my standard for miserable commute traffic, since I witness it occasionally. However, Route 2 is dwarfed by the cesspool of gridlock and inefficiency that is Interstate 93. The commute into Boston was bad even at 8:45, when I drove home. I am quite certain that biking would have been faster.
Orienteering in the early morning is exhilarating. I will report statistics on control counts after the meet, but it was not a small number. I am considering making a "course setting/planning" category, because I have spent considerable time in the woods over the past year doing just that. While it's beneficial, it's not nearly as constructive as focused training, and my current logging inflates my O-time. Today, for example, I would often spend a minute or two in the control circle checking out features around me. I only ran at speed to "commute" between controls.
I weighed in at 185.6 after the session and some rehydration, though I imagine my current average weight is around 188-190.
One nice aspect of the Fells is that there is no poison ivy. The green briar found it and killed it all.
Control count = 129
Orienteering in the early morning is exhilarating. I will report statistics on control counts after the meet, but it was not a small number. I am considering making a "course setting/planning" category, because I have spent considerable time in the woods over the past year doing just that. While it's beneficial, it's not nearly as constructive as focused training, and my current logging inflates my O-time. Today, for example, I would often spend a minute or two in the control circle checking out features around me. I only ran at speed to "commute" between controls.
I weighed in at 185.6 after the session and some rehydration, though I imagine my current average weight is around 188-190.
One nice aspect of the Fells is that there is no poison ivy. The green briar found it and killed it all.
Control count = 129