Orienteering race 57:13 7.39 km (7:44 / km) +193m6:51 / km ahr:166 max:176 shoes: O-Icebug - Blk Spirit II OLX 3
Mid-Atlantic Champs Red (no Blue), chasing Vadim with a 2.5 min. head start. Saw him perhaps 45 sec ahead at #2 after he bobbled big, but could not reel him in. Never saw him directly ahead except. at #10 when he was punching it way above me (down on the trail), but probably saw him ~10 times on in/out of control areas, for no more than 5-10 seconds each. HR high aligns with the hard breathing I felt - not sure how much of that was cold-recovery (0-10% I'd guess), nor how much was just Vadim being suprisingly fast these days (esp. vs. me, where I seem to have slowed a few % in the past few months.)
Technically I was semi-clean. Perhaps :30 sec lost wide right on #2, and 1:00 lost in some dark green on the way to 9 - fully dead-stopped and had to back up and find tree branches to throw on the green at to get past it at one point. Maybe :20-30 lost on 12 where I unneccesarily went way around medium green (only the dark was terrible - the rest was normal-late-fall easier-than-mapped.)
Jon T. got me by a sliver, good to see him back in shape. And Ryzhkov was in decent form nearly 15% ahead...
Orienteering race 21:09 3.06 km (6:54 / km) +161m5:28 / km ahr:162 max:174 shoes: O-Icebug - Blk Spirit II OLX 3
Cold not quite fully recovered, so was a bit out of gas for this, and for an unknown reason, my L-IT attachment point (just below the knee, in front/outside) was intermittently sharp-paining me (esp. on the 1st half) - as it had begun to do near the end of the race.
Somewhat strangely, and probably relatedly, because this problem is usually r-side-prevalent in me, but sometimes toggles to the left (due to hip-alignment/running form changes, IMO) - the R-side attachment point is more sore than the L-side this evening - and there is red-mark evidence of blunt force trauma on the R-side. Perhaps I banged that early in the course, compensated, and then overused the L-side. All the more reason to continue the Valerie-Brill-advised strength training that's designed to valuably reduce such asymmetries.
Pretty solid navigation, but was 1.5 min. behind Jon T., and a bit less behind Vadim (who had each other.)
On a positive note - this was still sufficient for the US Relay Championship team (6-pt) of myself, AJ & Angelica (slow w/a rib injury) to with the Mid-Atlantic championships - both in 6pt, and overall, thanks (unfortunately) to a circus of mis-punches...
Running30:00 [2] 5.0 km (6:00 / km) +50m5:43 / km shoes: R-NB 481 Gray/Orange 3
Ran in the rain with AJ with a totally misbehaving Garmin FR 620, so distance is a guess.
Finally figured out what was wrong with it: Windows apparently remapped a HD letter (J:) from a no-longer-with-us backup HD, to the Garmin - and a backup script was trying to backup my HD to the Garmin. Clearly not enough space there for that. ;) Totally not Garmin's fault - cool - I really like the 620 and I'm glad I don't need to get sad on that.
On a positive note, during the debug, I (re)discovered Garmin Connect - and realized it's been mirroring my activites for a while. And it has a cool thing called 'segments' where it look at every Garmin user that runs various segments of road/trail - and compares splits. There are now 3 places in VF park where I have a goal of taking somewhere between #1 & #3 on the leaderboard, on my next local hill/tempo run - perhaps Nov. 21st...