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Saturday Dec 8, 2012 #
10 AM
Orienteering race 30:00 [3] 3.0 mi (10:00 / mi)
shoes: Salomon Speedcross 3
Tough Persyn III up in Ely. Started with a 3 mile dodge ball, orienteering, poem writing, shot slamming run. Good fun. Slightly outperformed the midpoint. Didn't hurt the shoulder in dodge ball or fall flat on my face on the ice, so I consider it a win.
12 PM
Running 30:00 [3]
shoes: Salomon Speedcross 3
Tough Person III
Log haul, Caber toss, Wood identification Duathlon, Frozen hand knot challenge and log splitting. Good fun. I think I ended up 5th overall.
Log haul, Caber toss, Wood identification Duathlon, Frozen hand knot challenge and log splitting. Good fun. I think I ended up 5th overall.
Orienteering 6:03 0.47 mi (12:51 / mi) +35ft 12:00 / mi
ahr:123 max:191
Thursday Dec 6, 2012 #
6 PM
XC Skiing 1:00:00 [3]
shoes: Salamon S-Lab Equip 10
First day of LNR training. I showed up right at 6:30 to learn that the gathering location had changed, so I sprinted there, and learned that instead of dry land training, we were going to ski.... So, sprinted to the car, got my skis, and went to the small patch of snow and we did double poling and single sticking for 30 minutes. Back to running shoes where we did hill bounding for another 30 minutes plus.
Wednesday Dec 5, 2012 #
6 PM
Soccer race 50:00 [3]
Yikes.... we suck again... 5-1 loss. Thought we had a chance to beat this team. We may go winless the entire season.
Tuesday Dec 4, 2012 #
10 PM
Soccer 50:00 [3]
Good showing by our team. I finally had what I would consider a decent game. Good hustle and no major mistakes. 2 goals in the mix out of the 6 by our team. One was twice deflected, the other was a clean shot. I think we won 6-1.
Tom came and filled in a gap. It would have been a different affair with 0 subs.
Tom came and filled in a gap. It would have been a different affair with 0 subs.
Sunday Dec 2, 2012 #
8 AM
Orienteering race 3:22:52 [4] 13.11 mi (15:28 / mi) +1134ft 14:18 / mi
spiked:16/22c shoes: Innov8 Bare Grip 200
For a long race, this is not the way to start....
First control.... BOOM. 18 minutes on a 6 minute control. I wasn't on the map very well when we first entered the woods and way overestimated the distance traveled. I should have gone NW when I saw the first minor dip in the terrain, but continued North, going through several ups and downs before even finding the first control. I then settled down a bit, reoriented and went on my way. 2-6 was easy.
7... an early route choice flip flop. Head straight and deal with the elevation, or go around. How about start in one direction and then change your mind. I started direct, then changed and went NE. A little too far E, but made it to the trail... or linear mud feature. My split for this was almost mid pack. Surprising... Picked up Nadim at this point and raced with him through 17. We flip flopped for a few controls. Him leading, then me, then him. We settled down on the road run to 15 and had a nice chat.
8 Opted for the road route, but I think the lake may have been quicker.
9 Opted for the lake route. Legs tired leaving this control.
10 a little bit of a road run, then jumped on the spur and bombed down the hill after seeing the control from 300+ meters away.
11 Great attack plan. Went down through the reentrant and climbed up through the saddle, but then the terrain played nasty tricks on me.... and had to hit the trail to reorient.
12-14 I got in front of Nadim for a few controls.
15... long run. Legs starting to feel sluggish. No issues finding it or 16.
17 Opted for trails, which was probably not smart. It was a slog through the slop. Eventually went XC and sped up a bit.
18. Got dropped by Nadim. Ran in to expresso who had a few choice words for the course designer and said he was bailing. I fell in the creek. Nice to get the shoulders wet.... Was a little mis-oriented in the creek bottom, then got my head on straight and took the good route North. Easy find, and did the same for 19. While punching 19, here comes Nadim from behind. I leapfrogged him somewhere in there.
Nice route back to 20. Again dropped by Nadim. No nav issues until the last 100 meters. I aimed a bit off, and ended up a lot off...
21... for some reason, these flat areas were miserable for me. I got stuck in the green hash and wouldn't stay on bearing. Found the trail, found the vegetation boundary and 21 was no issue once the first 50% of the route was done.
Easy run to pick up the last two controls on the way in.
Nav obviously wasn't super great, but I think I lost more to fitness. Will work on that. Ended up 3rd, 66 minutes behind the winner, and 6 minutes behind Nadim... who I thought was in a different age group. 4 dnf's in the age group helped my standings I am sure. Perseverance....
First control.... BOOM. 18 minutes on a 6 minute control. I wasn't on the map very well when we first entered the woods and way overestimated the distance traveled. I should have gone NW when I saw the first minor dip in the terrain, but continued North, going through several ups and downs before even finding the first control. I then settled down a bit, reoriented and went on my way. 2-6 was easy.
7... an early route choice flip flop. Head straight and deal with the elevation, or go around. How about start in one direction and then change your mind. I started direct, then changed and went NE. A little too far E, but made it to the trail... or linear mud feature. My split for this was almost mid pack. Surprising... Picked up Nadim at this point and raced with him through 17. We flip flopped for a few controls. Him leading, then me, then him. We settled down on the road run to 15 and had a nice chat.
8 Opted for the road route, but I think the lake may have been quicker.
9 Opted for the lake route. Legs tired leaving this control.
10 a little bit of a road run, then jumped on the spur and bombed down the hill after seeing the control from 300+ meters away.
11 Great attack plan. Went down through the reentrant and climbed up through the saddle, but then the terrain played nasty tricks on me.... and had to hit the trail to reorient.
12-14 I got in front of Nadim for a few controls.
15... long run. Legs starting to feel sluggish. No issues finding it or 16.
17 Opted for trails, which was probably not smart. It was a slog through the slop. Eventually went XC and sped up a bit.
18. Got dropped by Nadim. Ran in to expresso who had a few choice words for the course designer and said he was bailing. I fell in the creek. Nice to get the shoulders wet.... Was a little mis-oriented in the creek bottom, then got my head on straight and took the good route North. Easy find, and did the same for 19. While punching 19, here comes Nadim from behind. I leapfrogged him somewhere in there.
Nice route back to 20. Again dropped by Nadim. No nav issues until the last 100 meters. I aimed a bit off, and ended up a lot off...
21... for some reason, these flat areas were miserable for me. I got stuck in the green hash and wouldn't stay on bearing. Found the trail, found the vegetation boundary and 21 was no issue once the first 50% of the route was done.
Easy run to pick up the last two controls on the way in.
Nav obviously wasn't super great, but I think I lost more to fitness. Will work on that. Ended up 3rd, 66 minutes behind the winner, and 6 minutes behind Nadim... who I thought was in a different age group. 4 dnf's in the age group helped my standings I am sure. Perseverance....