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Saturday Nov 3, 2012 #
10 AM
Road running 23:21 [3] 2.0 mi (11:40 / mi)
Warm-up run before the O-meet.
11 AM
Orienteering race 51:54 [4] 4.0 mi (12:59 / mi)
Colette and I went the EMPO final fall meet and club championships at Woods Hollow Nature Preserve in Milton, N.Y.
While there was some doubt about how nice the area might be, I found it to be great--nice soft footing with lots of sandy soil, pretty open woods for the most part and gently rolling terrain in parts, otherwise it was mainly flat.
Colette was doing the white course, and found it fairly difficult, especially control #2; we went out and walked from 1 to 2 after I finished and it was fairly evident why she, and many others on the white course, had a problem--the trails enroute to #2 weren't mapped very well and then there was a confusing junction of small trails, all of which were obscured by the fallen leaves. So, it would have required some better contour reading skills than most white course competitors would possess. She did manage to finish, after abandoning #2 and relocating some time later at another control. On her revisit to #2, the other approach was much easier.
I made a number of small navigational errors and only one that cost any significant time--I went to 12 before 11, which fortunately wasn't that far away.
Overall the orienteering wasn't that hard, so I should have done better, but found myself getting a bit tired about three-quarters of the way around. Might help to do some training again. :-)
While there was some doubt about how nice the area might be, I found it to be great--nice soft footing with lots of sandy soil, pretty open woods for the most part and gently rolling terrain in parts, otherwise it was mainly flat.
Colette was doing the white course, and found it fairly difficult, especially control #2; we went out and walked from 1 to 2 after I finished and it was fairly evident why she, and many others on the white course, had a problem--the trails enroute to #2 weren't mapped very well and then there was a confusing junction of small trails, all of which were obscured by the fallen leaves. So, it would have required some better contour reading skills than most white course competitors would possess. She did manage to finish, after abandoning #2 and relocating some time later at another control. On her revisit to #2, the other approach was much easier.
I made a number of small navigational errors and only one that cost any significant time--I went to 12 before 11, which fortunately wasn't that far away.
Overall the orienteering wasn't that hard, so I should have done better, but found myself getting a bit tired about three-quarters of the way around. Might help to do some training again. :-)
Thursday Nov 1, 2012 #
Dirt Road Running 38 [3] 3.75 mi (10 / mi)
Just a run to get some of the stiffness out of the legs--near Woods Pond.
Sunday Oct 28, 2012 #
Trail Running race 2:05:09 [4] 13.1 mi (9:33 / mi) +1275ft 8:45 / mi
Colette and I headed over to Thatcher State Park in Vorheesville, New York to run the Hairy Gorilla Half-Marathon trail race today. She had been entered in last year's race, but that early October snowstorm canceled the race.
The trails were a bit more muddy than I was expecting, but overall the conditions were good for racing--cool, well-marked course, lots of company, and fairly benign trails--not too hilly, nor rocky.
A ton of entrants dress up in their favorite Halloween costumes, making for a lot of distractions both before and during the race. The Albany Running Exchange, ARE, does a great job on this race, imo.
Colette ran 2:04:15 and I managed to scare her in the last couple of miles when I caught up to her at the last aid station, but I had no zip left at the end and was pleased to finish in 2:04:52.
We both placed third in our age group!
The trails were a bit more muddy than I was expecting, but overall the conditions were good for racing--cool, well-marked course, lots of company, and fairly benign trails--not too hilly, nor rocky.
A ton of entrants dress up in their favorite Halloween costumes, making for a lot of distractions both before and during the race. The Albany Running Exchange, ARE, does a great job on this race, imo.
Colette ran 2:04:15 and I managed to scare her in the last couple of miles when I caught up to her at the last aid station, but I had no zip left at the end and was pleased to finish in 2:04:52.
We both placed third in our age group!