Training Log Archive: AliCIn the 31 days ending May 31, 2013:
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Friday May 31, 2013 #
6 PM
Strength 4:00 [0]
Hammies, 3 x 12. Eyes woke up really unhappy this morning, presumably because of all the bugs yesterday...
Thursday May 30, 2013 #
5 PM
Running 11:43 [2] 1.38 mi (8:29 / mi) +3m 8:26 / mi
Early to work, early to leave, and go to Sidecut Metropark to play tempo. A group of guys meets there to do workouts Thursdays, Kevin said they were my speedish and wouldn't mind me crashing the party. So I did. All friendly and I'd met some of them here or there before, at local races.
Running 30:11 [3] 4.83 mi (6:15 / mi) +1m 6:15 / mi
3 x Sidecut Meadow loop. Kinda reminded me of Port Meadow. Except fewer cows and horses. =) Did the first loop following tall blondish guy (forget names, already, boo), which was great to learn the way, but he was doing 2 x 1 loop intervals, so next loops on my lonesome.
Great little grassy loop and I felt strong. Only downside was gross clouds of gnats that are impossible not to breathe in and get stuck in your eyes. Which made me wonder - is it possible to breathe a gnat all the way into your lungs? What would happen if it did? Does it get cleaned out somehow eventually, or form a permenent residue a la smoking?
Great little grassy loop and I felt strong. Only downside was gross clouds of gnats that are impossible not to breathe in and get stuck in your eyes. Which made me wonder - is it possible to breathe a gnat all the way into your lungs? What would happen if it did? Does it get cleaned out somehow eventually, or form a permenent residue a la smoking?
Running 13:25 [2] 1.58 mi (8:29 / mi) +41m 7:51 / mi
Back to the parking lot, a'chatting, and then oh! the skies totally opened up. At least washed the gnat corpses off... blech.
Wednesday May 29, 2013 #
8 AM
Running 50:20 6.9 mi (7:18 / mi) +43m 7:09 / mi
Morning track workout with Kevin. Kinda out the door with some haste, forgot maps to read as well as normal-person shoes for the rest of the day. Ah well, it's summer!
Did 5 x 1k at around 3.30s, Kevin dropped of on the last one, his wife worked him hard in Boot Camp yesterday eve, apparently (she's the instructor). Then I finished up with some 200s which were rather amazingly slow in 35s. Gosh, I should probably do a bit more speedwork!!
Did 5 x 1k at around 3.30s, Kevin dropped of on the last one, his wife worked him hard in Boot Camp yesterday eve, apparently (she's the instructor). Then I finished up with some 200s which were rather amazingly slow in 35s. Gosh, I should probably do a bit more speedwork!!
4 PM
Running 7:10 [1] 0.78 mi (9:11 / mi) +39m 7:57 / mi
Read Vuokatinvaara, the course Brendan emailed out to the team. Didn't get all the way through there + back, but really good to do. First, tried to make a plan for the leg, then tried to visualize, esp. in the circle, what will lead me to the flag. #1 was hard. Has anyone else solved it well??
Also! The forefoot/rearfoot study that I was in at UMass was reported on in Runner's World, here! (Also published in Journal of Applied Physiology, for those really interested.) Cool to see. Basically, the study took naturally rear-foot and fore-foot striking individuals and measured VO2 data as we ran at the same pace (actually 3 different set paces, if I remember) both fore-foot and rear-foot striking. The result? Rear-foot strikers are most efficient rear-foot striking, but, perhaps surprisingly, fore-foot strikers are also more efficient rear-foot striking... (But not all, in either case, so as for applying this to one specific individual, eh... )
Also! The forefoot/rearfoot study that I was in at UMass was reported on in Runner's World, here! (Also published in Journal of Applied Physiology, for those really interested.) Cool to see. Basically, the study took naturally rear-foot and fore-foot striking individuals and measured VO2 data as we ran at the same pace (actually 3 different set paces, if I remember) both fore-foot and rear-foot striking. The result? Rear-foot strikers are most efficient rear-foot striking, but, perhaps surprisingly, fore-foot strikers are also more efficient rear-foot striking... (But not all, in either case, so as for applying this to one specific individual, eh... )
Aerobics 49:34 [1] 3.86 mi (12:50 / mi) +50m 12:21 / mi
Zumba! Thought I might be the only person for Johanna's class, but two other girls came about a minute into it, then another later on. Phew. I mean, would have still been fun, but just a little awkward to have just me and the instructor! Good prancing-around times. Her moves and even music selection are pretty different from Maria, but I love the chacha song towards the end, as I perhaps also expressed last week =). Turns out Johanna is a psych major, wanting to be an occupational therapist.
Running 8:33 [1] 0.84 mi (10:09 / mi) +14m 9:39 / mi
Tuesday May 28, 2013 #
Note
What has made the US women's xc ski team rock in the past few years? Training and all, for sure, but also simple awesome team chemistry. Jessie Diggins's article on this is great.
6 AM
Running 19:04 [1] 2.33 mi (8:11 / mi) +2m 8:10 / mi
Orienteering 18:58 [3] 2.34 mi (8:06 / mi) +49m 7:37 / mi
20c
Kicked myself out of bed at early o'clock for one last training in Boston-land. Went back to Tufts to rerun the course I did on Friday backwards, hoping to go faster. Nope! I think I was almost there, but then just majorly goofed #1, my last control due to confusion in the construction zone that I should really know is there by now... Argh!!! Good to go for it, at least.
Running 18:29 [2] 2.32 mi (7:58 / mi)
Scamper back, quick shower, breakfast with Ian + Stephi and then to Logan!
Monday May 27, 2013 #
1 PM
Running warm up/down 16:00 [1]
Warm up with Ian at Franklin park. Memorial day + free museum meant the MFA had a line around the block, so we skipped that part of the plan...
Orienteering 26:41 [2]
33c
Alex's control pick from earlier this week. Focus on changing direction well, having at least some plan for control exit before arriving. Not sure I did that well to the one in the far SW corner of the map, but I'm not sure the map is 100% down there? And then otherwise, some sections of light yellow were woman-eating Japanese knotweed that was pretty darn tough (and a little scary?) to get through!
Orienteering 34:53
27c
And, followed by Alex's o-tervals! Kinda tired to o-terval, but hey, that'll happen in the race too. Ian did the first 3 with me, then solo.
First - Good to 1, 2, 3, possibly off to 4 and then on a bearing from what I thought was 4, couldn't find the finish boulder. Worst o-terval of the bunch. Better distance evaluation/grey blob counting to get to 4 correctly?
Second - Good to 5, 7 and the finish, but hesitated to 6, almost starting down the wrong staircase. Needed a better picture of the control circle before arriving.
Third - All good, used the trail to 10, which was faster, it's thick out there these days!
Fourth - Most fun o-terval of the bunch! Playing on a nice open rocky top. Kept my patience on the trail to 9, all good, then good to 10, 11. Slightly R of the finish by the boulder, took me too long to figure out, really.
Fifth - Boo, missed the turn off on my trail run to 12! Think I was distracted by the two little girls playing by the trail, whoopsie. I wanted to take off in the wrong direction from 13, but my compass told me better.
Sixth - Aw, up up up to start and legs had no zing whatsoever! Wimped out on the straight option to 19, it looked really nasty, so backtrack to the path...
First - Good to 1, 2, 3, possibly off to 4 and then on a bearing from what I thought was 4, couldn't find the finish boulder. Worst o-terval of the bunch. Better distance evaluation/grey blob counting to get to 4 correctly?
Second - Good to 5, 7 and the finish, but hesitated to 6, almost starting down the wrong staircase. Needed a better picture of the control circle before arriving.
Third - All good, used the trail to 10, which was faster, it's thick out there these days!
Fourth - Most fun o-terval of the bunch! Playing on a nice open rocky top. Kept my patience on the trail to 9, all good, then good to 10, 11. Slightly R of the finish by the boulder, took me too long to figure out, really.
Fifth - Boo, missed the turn off on my trail run to 12! Think I was distracted by the two little girls playing by the trail, whoopsie. I wanted to take off in the wrong direction from 13, but my compass told me better.
Sixth - Aw, up up up to start and legs had no zing whatsoever! Wimped out on the straight option to 19, it looked really nasty, so backtrack to the path...
Cycling 20:00 [1]
Cycling much more than 20 minutes, but most fairly leisurely to and fro Franklin Park.
Sunday May 26, 2013 #
9 AM
Orienteering 27:39 [1] 1.84 mi (15:02 / mi) +103m 12:48 / mi
5c
Setting out my 5 o-terval streamers! Whoa there, Lynn woods + its map are pretty awesome, major wake-up call!
Orienteering 42:56 [1] 1.65 mi (26:01 / mi) +99m 21:56 / mi
Corridor training by Brendan. Good stuff, I was using features + compass and stayed pretty much within corridor, although I was not going quickly... well, a bit quicker at beginning where it was opener, but through the thicker zones, hard to stay in full contact and move. I think it'd be great training to do more of these, but also think more about trying to push the pace, not just being lazy and happy I'm in contact!
Orienteering 10:30 [3] 0.76 mi (13:49 / mi) +23m 12:38 / mi
3c
First o-terval. So, well, the o-tervals kinda ate me alive today and I didn't cope that well with that. Thinking about it afterwards, part was orienteering difficulty - it is just hard terrain and I could use much more practice on stuff like this - but a bunch of it was just really physical running that I didn't seem to do all that well with. And once I was upset about how I was doing, it was really hard to push that emotion away. Thanks to Ian, Brendan and Alex for putting up with upset-Ali.
1 - Looked like I could just fly away, keeping marsh on my left, swinging around until whatever the two big black linear blobs turned out to be and go between them. After crossing the trail, came quickly to a rocky little thing, for a sec, thought it might be yellow hilltop, but realized it was too close to trail, so had to be light-grey nose. So hopped from there to yellow hill to boulder.
2 - Ian and Brendan were taking away going the right direction to the next control (yeah, both had caught me by 30s and 60s, respectively, to 1), so tried to keep up with them for a bit. But I wasn't following the map well, didn't have a plan, so dropped off so I could navigate. Couldn't make awesome sense out of anything, so stayed on my bearing. Came out to the trail, realized I was about where I wanted to be, so headed in using the greys.
3 - I didn't see the route to the right on the big trail, I guess that was a good one. I used the little trail on the left, doing the same thing I had putting out the flag. Maybe could have strung together the cleared areas better at the end.
1 - Looked like I could just fly away, keeping marsh on my left, swinging around until whatever the two big black linear blobs turned out to be and go between them. After crossing the trail, came quickly to a rocky little thing, for a sec, thought it might be yellow hilltop, but realized it was too close to trail, so had to be light-grey nose. So hopped from there to yellow hill to boulder.
2 - Ian and Brendan were taking away going the right direction to the next control (yeah, both had caught me by 30s and 60s, respectively, to 1), so tried to keep up with them for a bit. But I wasn't following the map well, didn't have a plan, so dropped off so I could navigate. Couldn't make awesome sense out of anything, so stayed on my bearing. Came out to the trail, realized I was about where I wanted to be, so headed in using the greys.
3 - I didn't see the route to the right on the big trail, I guess that was a good one. I used the little trail on the left, doing the same thing I had putting out the flag. Maybe could have strung together the cleared areas better at the end.
Orienteering 10:56 [3] 0.7 mi (15:37 / mi) +28m 13:53 / mi
4c
Second o-terval.
4 - Well, had also done this setting, I guess I left 3 going south for unknown reasons, but ended up just where I wanted in the reentrant, anyways, coming out insight of the low cliff to lead me in.
5 - In setting I'd gone pretty straight, which actually worked well, but I thought I'd try to the left this time. Mostly worked, until the end, when I don't remember exactly what happened now, but a marsh was where I didn't expect it, so had to readjust.
6 - Was mostly trying to go on a bearing after skirting the first marsh/green, but ended up much more right of the line (other marsh) and then still being right of the line (cliffs) after trying to readjust. Just very pushed by the thick off compass?
7 - Used the little trail to take me close, then used openings and headed to the grey nose to look below it for the boulder.
4 - Well, had also done this setting, I guess I left 3 going south for unknown reasons, but ended up just where I wanted in the reentrant, anyways, coming out insight of the low cliff to lead me in.
5 - In setting I'd gone pretty straight, which actually worked well, but I thought I'd try to the left this time. Mostly worked, until the end, when I don't remember exactly what happened now, but a marsh was where I didn't expect it, so had to readjust.
6 - Was mostly trying to go on a bearing after skirting the first marsh/green, but ended up much more right of the line (other marsh) and then still being right of the line (cliffs) after trying to readjust. Just very pushed by the thick off compass?
7 - Used the little trail to take me close, then used openings and headed to the grey nose to look below it for the boulder.
Running 2:50 [1] 0.21 mi (13:29 / mi) +5m 12:34 / mi
Scamper across the green marsh with the crew.
Orienteering 8:12 [3] 0.62 mi (13:13 / mi) +29m 11:33 / mi
4c
Third o-terval.
9 - Trail beginning, then cut by the smile cliff to next trail and headed in. Following the lots of rocks and a bearing and was just getting anxious about seeing my cliff, when a streamer popped out. Not necessarily confident.
10 - On a bearing across 3 trails, came out exactly where I wanted confronted with cliffs on the last one. Followed the opening around, just missed streamer by a bit and almost ended back out on trail.
11 - Pretty straight did it, although I was scared I didn't have the right big boulder on the way in.
12 - On a bearing again, which checked out straight-on by boulder sight at the first trail. Then let the reentrant shape after the second trail crossing guide me in.
9 - Trail beginning, then cut by the smile cliff to next trail and headed in. Following the lots of rocks and a bearing and was just getting anxious about seeing my cliff, when a streamer popped out. Not necessarily confident.
10 - On a bearing across 3 trails, came out exactly where I wanted confronted with cliffs on the last one. Followed the opening around, just missed streamer by a bit and almost ended back out on trail.
11 - Pretty straight did it, although I was scared I didn't have the right big boulder on the way in.
12 - On a bearing again, which checked out straight-on by boulder sight at the first trail. Then let the reentrant shape after the second trail crossing guide me in.
Orienteering 7:46 [3] 0.68 mi (11:26 / mi) +22m 10:23 / mi
4c
Fourth o-terval.
13 - Bearing, noticing features at trail crossings, then aiming to see hill admist the green on my right, worked.
14 - Bailed to the farther trail and back up. Probably not the fastest option for most, but I wasn't running well through the woods today.
15 - Up over hill shoulder, then on right side of reentrant.
16 - Used trail at the beginning then in and along rocky edge, popping above it at some point.
13 - Bearing, noticing features at trail crossings, then aiming to see hill admist the green on my right, worked.
14 - Bailed to the farther trail and back up. Probably not the fastest option for most, but I wasn't running well through the woods today.
15 - Up over hill shoulder, then on right side of reentrant.
16 - Used trail at the beginning then in and along rocky edge, popping above it at some point.
Running 6:00 [1] 0.4 mi (15:00 / mi) +15m 13:26 / mi
Whoops, waited by my lonesome in the wrong place for the others for awhile...
Orienteering 9:11 [3] 0.7 mi (13:07 / mi) +24m 11:51 / mi
4c
Fifth o-terval.
18 - The guys said this was a delightful leg, so I was going on line through green, but then saw the trail route to the left. Eh, going for it. Think it was faster, for me, today, even if I missed out on the awesomeness of rocky-land. (That probs would have been better training though...)
19 - Up up up, saw some of Alex, nosey clearing made itself pretty clear as we slogged up.
20 - Ok, race down. R side of cliff, tople to trail, over rocky hill top, then slower, rocks, rocks everywhere, after a bit of hesitation, kept heading W to marsh edge right to the right boulder. Could have used more to guide me in perfectly, a bit lucky.
21 - N through some thick, to the trail, descending, pass one giant boulder then see one kinda on it's own, the right one. And that's that!
Guess I'm happy I at least kept myself together enough to do all of the o-tervals. They were certainly great training!
18 - The guys said this was a delightful leg, so I was going on line through green, but then saw the trail route to the left. Eh, going for it. Think it was faster, for me, today, even if I missed out on the awesomeness of rocky-land. (That probs would have been better training though...)
19 - Up up up, saw some of Alex, nosey clearing made itself pretty clear as we slogged up.
20 - Ok, race down. R side of cliff, tople to trail, over rocky hill top, then slower, rocks, rocks everywhere, after a bit of hesitation, kept heading W to marsh edge right to the right boulder. Could have used more to guide me in perfectly, a bit lucky.
21 - N through some thick, to the trail, descending, pass one giant boulder then see one kinda on it's own, the right one. And that's that!
Guess I'm happy I at least kept myself together enough to do all of the o-tervals. They were certainly great training!
Running 5:05 [2] 0.31 mi (16:24 / mi) +31m 12:31 / mi
Quick stop up the firetower to see the view, then over to finish the line-o.
Orienteering 10:59 [1] 0.66 mi (16:39 / mi) +17m 15:25 / mi
Line-o - I think I messed up a bit at the beginning of this, but was kind of where I expected when I relocated, so not totally sure. Maybe I did some contour-reversing instead? Then the end was fun, just sailling, contouring across and open slope. Weee! Also helped that it had turned into a nice day by then =)
Running 4:30 [1] 0.2 mi (22:29 / mi) +10m 19:28 / mi
Joggeroo to fetch a streamer and my hat.
Saturday May 25, 2013 #
Event: NEOC: Nobscot
7 AM
Orienteering 1:00:00 [1]
24c
Putting out controls at Nobscot. We were clever and snuck into the water control from the North, woo! And then I did the Northern set leaving from there, returned to home base and went out to do the closer Northeastern set.
Upon return, got half changed, but then a troop of boyscouts needed some lessons, so did that. I should maybe observe someone who is actually good at teaching 12 year-olds orienteering. They were going out on a white course, so normally I'd skip the whole trying to do anything with a compass part, but the scout leader seemed keen in particular that they learn that, so attempted. One kid didn't get it at all though, got frustrated and started crying, so I guess I didn't do that well... Was slightly a frozen popsicle after that bit of standing around, so had some in-the-car time after!
Upon return, got half changed, but then a troop of boyscouts needed some lessons, so did that. I should maybe observe someone who is actually good at teaching 12 year-olds orienteering. They were going out on a white course, so normally I'd skip the whole trying to do anything with a compass part, but the scout leader seemed keen in particular that they learn that, so attempted. One kid didn't get it at all though, got frustrated and started crying, so I guess I didn't do that well... Was slightly a frozen popsicle after that bit of standing around, so had some in-the-car time after!
1 PM
Orienteering race 20:44 [4]
The great Brown-course sprint-off. =) Ian got me though, I really missed a control because I saw the path route, but when I didn't get to it quickly, skipped that plan and just meanered, ran into a trail, thought 'finally' and booked it for a bit, but then I checked my compass- wrong trail. Not good! The correlation between which splits each of Ian and I won and which controls we vetted + set seems to be significant =)
2 PM
Orienteering 1:10:00 [1]
Just wanted to say, it was great to see everyone at the meet and catch up in little bits and pieces!
This was control pickup, end of a longish day, but I did it without a compass to make it more interesting, which it kind of did. Messed up once fairly badly, but then again, that's in the section of map I'm not thrilled with. Hot cocoa from DD afterwards was pretty amazing. =)
This was control pickup, end of a longish day, but I did it without a compass to make it more interesting, which it kind of did. Messed up once fairly badly, but then again, that's in the section of map I'm not thrilled with. Hot cocoa from DD afterwards was pretty amazing. =)
Friday May 24, 2013 #
7 AM
Orienteering 1:03:29 [1] *** 3.85 mi (16:29 / mi) +168m 14:31 / mi
17c
Finally made it to Boston last night, delay, delay, delay... Then up early this morning and out to vet some controls at Nobscot for tomorrow's meet with Ian. Wet woods, but almost all of the control sites were ok, so no huge course changes required, I don't think. For folks in the Boston area, hopefully see you there tomorrow!
5 PM
Running 16:47 [2] 2.09 mi (8:01 / mi)
Orienteering 18:08 [3] 2.18 mi (8:19 / mi) +64m 7:37 / mi
21c
Tufts Uni, Brendan's CSU training from the winter. Great to get to do, but jeez was that a rainstorm! I should have cut out the control descriptions, a few times I faltered trying to read them from the map, but we'll call that relay practice. A bit hard to bring the fiesty I know I need for a sprint, but at least sort of was for the first 2/3s The end I just kinda fell apart, I wasn't reading ahead well and I wiped out because I wasn't using o-shoes...
Running 17:31 [2] 2.19 mi (8:00 / mi) +35m 7:38 / mi
Thursday May 23, 2013 #
6 AM
Running 16:37 [1] 1.83 mi (9:05 / mi) +3m 9:02 / mi
TED talks on 1) learning some Chinese characters, which really would have benefited from actually seeing and 2) marketing in the modern age, not the biggest hit...
Drills 7:39 [1] 0.42 mi (18:13 / mi)
Normal running drills
Running 52:37 6.91 mi (7:37 / mi) +44m 7:28 / mi
Morning tempo in Wildwood, alternated sets of 3 minutes plain, 3 minutes looking at the course I planned on the Vuokatinvaara map. I wonder how distinct the distinct veg boundaries are - they might be helpful if they actually are...
Wednesday May 22, 2013 #
Note
Have train tickets to Jun 15-16 Training Camp at Moreau! Hope I can get some good zzzs on the train, pickup in Toledo is 3am...
Also, the Athlete's Commission for foot-o has been restablished (I didn't know it ever ceased to exist). Probably a good thing, because it seems like there has been a lot of the IOF pushing things that athletes aren't necessarily super-happy with recently. So maybe earlier communication between that group and rest of IOF will help. Maybe?
Also, the Athlete's Commission for foot-o has been restablished (I didn't know it ever ceased to exist). Probably a good thing, because it seems like there has been a lot of the IOF pushing things that athletes aren't necessarily super-happy with recently. So maybe earlier communication between that group and rest of IOF will help. Maybe?
7 AM
Rollerskiing 43:08 [1] 6.15 mi (7:01 / mi) +55m 6:50 / mi
Rollerskiing?
Yup. I woke up with some soreness on the inside of my right knee and running didn't feel great when I tried. So a day off from that. Switched footware and headed out. But then I was bored, so swung back home, dug my mapholder out of the closet and stuck in the old map of middle/relay terrain for WOC, good to start having a look at + planning routes for!
Yup. I woke up with some soreness on the inside of my right knee and running didn't feel great when I tried. So a day off from that. Switched footware and headed out. But then I was bored, so swung back home, dug my mapholder out of the closet and stuck in the old map of middle/relay terrain for WOC, good to start having a look at + planning routes for!
6 PM
Strength 12:00 [0]
Core: 10 min abs + 2 min back
Strength 4:10 [0]
Poor neglected hammies! - did 3 x 10s
Tuesday May 21, 2013 #
8 AM
Running 46:30
Track workout with a buddy! And it was only 75 instead of 90 and they even turned the sprinklers on at the track that sprayed us once a lap, perfect!
So Kevin and I did 12 x 400 with 200 roll-on. Kept switching the lead. Times:
82, 83, 82, 82, 79, 82, 82, 80, 81, 82, 79, 76
So Kevin and I did 12 x 400 with 200 roll-on. Kept switching the lead. Times:
82, 83, 82, 82, 79, 82, 82, 80, 81, 82, 79, 76
6 PM
Running 10:30 [1] 7.41 mi (1:25 / mi)
Running to and fro.
Aerobics 47:00 [1]
Late Zumba! Supposed to be Maria's class, but she's on vacation, so Johanna instead. A few new ones today, one was quite hard and I don't think any of the five of us got it at all. I liked the Mambo #5 number, and also the last chacha. Chacha is great, sort of slinky-sassy. You can do a lot pretty easily with it once you get the basic down...
Chatted with the guy who never goes the right way at the right time, he's a business PhD student. Recently passed his qual and is prepping to defend his thesis topic over the summer... didn't quite get to what that was, not many breaks!
Chatted with the guy who never goes the right way at the right time, he's a business PhD student. Recently passed his qual and is prepping to defend his thesis topic over the summer... didn't quite get to what that was, not many breaks!
Monday May 20, 2013 #
5 PM
Strength 12:00 [0]
Laaazy day. Legs are toast + it's hot out! (Hit 90.) Missing my Amherst basement already... =)
Sunday May 19, 2013 #
Orienteering 1:30:00
And SMOC meet held! Whoa, there, a lot of people showed up (should have printed more maps...)! Maxed out on all courses except Red, even did some map shuffling...
This was putting out today's last controls, the ones near trails. But not efficiently, because I was in a bit of a panic.
1) Put out water control via Teahen road, fine.
2) Eep! Realize Roddy is running orange, sprint out to go put a control in the middle of her course out, but probably too late.
3) Go put out the last two controls that are needed for both Orange and Green courses to be completed, phew, think I'm a-ok.
4) Put out lots of yellow controls, because lots of them are near trails. In doing so, realize that one of the green controls isn't out, because I'm carrying it. Panic! Don't have the map that shows where it needs to go, so sprint back and find that and head back out to the woods and finally have all controls sorted for everything except white by 12.06pm.
5) Go put out white controls while Mary held the registrating fort down.
Holy moly, should have arrived an hour earlier. But Barbara was a total rockstar holding the fort down on her own for long periods and Mary gets super-bonus points for helping out when we really needed an extra hand!
This was putting out today's last controls, the ones near trails. But not efficiently, because I was in a bit of a panic.
1) Put out water control via Teahen road, fine.
2) Eep! Realize Roddy is running orange, sprint out to go put a control in the middle of her course out, but probably too late.
3) Go put out the last two controls that are needed for both Orange and Green courses to be completed, phew, think I'm a-ok.
4) Put out lots of yellow controls, because lots of them are near trails. In doing so, realize that one of the green controls isn't out, because I'm carrying it. Panic! Don't have the map that shows where it needs to go, so sprint back and find that and head back out to the woods and finally have all controls sorted for everything except white by 12.06pm.
5) Go put out white controls while Mary held the registrating fort down.
Holy moly, should have arrived an hour earlier. But Barbara was a total rockstar holding the fort down on her own for long periods and Mary gets super-bonus points for helping out when we really needed an extra hand!
Orienteering 55:00
And control pick up (sans compass because really, I should be able to find all the controls with my eyes closed now). Forgot one at the end, had to go back out. Pretty toast! Thanks to Mark, Alex, Igor and Oleg who also collected. And again to Barbara for rocking logistics of packing up and sorting out while we did!
Very glad the meet went well, except at the very beginning. And next time, more maps for nice days in May!
Started to drive out of BL parking and then realized that the beach was *right* there. So took a dip. Scrumptious! Also first cantalope at home, mmmm summer...
Very glad the meet went well, except at the very beginning. And next time, more maps for nice days in May!
Started to drive out of BL parking and then realized that the beach was *right* there. So took a dip. Scrumptious! Also first cantalope at home, mmmm summer...
Saturday May 18, 2013 #
7 AM
Running 12:00 [1] 1.43 mi (8:24 / mi)
Arrived to the Toledo Zoo, and it was a zoo! Wowzer, I didn't know that this was a huge race. 976 finishers, according to the results. So warm-up consisted of lots of dodging folks while doing the normal car -> registration -> bathroom -> car -> start line shuffle.
Running race 17:40 [5] 5.0 km (3:32 / km) +24m 3:27 / km
Toledo Zoo's Dart Frog Dash 5k
Yeehaw! Not quite a PR, but I'm happy, just a few seconds off and my first solidly under 18 5k in awhile.
When I showed up, Jeff let me know that Rachel K. and Rachel M. were both there, and that K would certainly beat me and that probably I'd beat M. Rachel K. was some level of very serious runner and kicked my butt in the winter 10 miler, so I figured he was probably right.
Met M. at the start line and said hi to K., figured I'd not let myself start faster than her, because that would be too fast. So after the start line cleared out, I was side-by-side with her and my racing buddy Kevin. Perfect. Then Kevin took off, I figured I was at a good pace. About 2/3s of a mile in, I started pulling away from K. What? Am I going to fast? Doubt, but it feels ok.... First mile came in, 5.28, well, that's a bit speedy, but it was downhill. Hope I don't die!
Second mile just felt good, I caught Kevin, he said something about 'It's your day, take it!' Inched past him, and then was on my own. The course joined back with the way we came out, so some good cheers until the 2 mi mark which was 5.47. Not as fast, but not dying and had more uphill. At that point, I felt in control.
Last mile was 2/3 out in the open streets, although away from the heading-out crowd, so pretty silent, just a few police officers directing. And then, you head into the zoo and the race actually ends on it's swirly plastic boardwalky paths! Not the fastest, but great sprint-o training. =) At one point, you had to do nearly a 360 around a statue of an elephant, I nearly lost it there, trying to come out of the circle too early...
Happy to see the time as I crossed the line. Probably had a bit more juice to bring it to the PR, but I don't feel practice in 5ks yet, will have more confidence for the next one!
Yeehaw! Not quite a PR, but I'm happy, just a few seconds off and my first solidly under 18 5k in awhile.
When I showed up, Jeff let me know that Rachel K. and Rachel M. were both there, and that K would certainly beat me and that probably I'd beat M. Rachel K. was some level of very serious runner and kicked my butt in the winter 10 miler, so I figured he was probably right.
Met M. at the start line and said hi to K., figured I'd not let myself start faster than her, because that would be too fast. So after the start line cleared out, I was side-by-side with her and my racing buddy Kevin. Perfect. Then Kevin took off, I figured I was at a good pace. About 2/3s of a mile in, I started pulling away from K. What? Am I going to fast? Doubt, but it feels ok.... First mile came in, 5.28, well, that's a bit speedy, but it was downhill. Hope I don't die!
Second mile just felt good, I caught Kevin, he said something about 'It's your day, take it!' Inched past him, and then was on my own. The course joined back with the way we came out, so some good cheers until the 2 mi mark which was 5.47. Not as fast, but not dying and had more uphill. At that point, I felt in control.
Last mile was 2/3 out in the open streets, although away from the heading-out crowd, so pretty silent, just a few police officers directing. And then, you head into the zoo and the race actually ends on it's swirly plastic boardwalky paths! Not the fastest, but great sprint-o training. =) At one point, you had to do nearly a 360 around a statue of an elephant, I nearly lost it there, trying to come out of the circle too early...
Happy to see the time as I crossed the line. Probably had a bit more juice to bring it to the PR, but I don't feel practice in 5ks yet, will have more confidence for the next one!
Running 12:13 [2] 1.51 mi (8:05 / mi) +3m 8:02 / mi
Cool down with Kevin, said hello to the Maumee River! Also, we agreed we should definitely do track workouts together, since we both do them at UT and usually alone. Woo training buddy!
1 PM
Orienteering 50:00 3.32 mi (15:04 / mi) +88m 13:55 / mi
And scampered up to Bishop Lake for setting controls out with Barbara! Perfect timing on arrival, we divvied up the controls and headed on out! Had some lovely times running in the woods and little NEOC duffel served me well for carrying controls. Love that we don't have to use stakes.
Running 4:20 [2] 0.56 mi (7:45 / mi) +16m 7:07 / mi
Friday May 17, 2013 #
6 AM
Running 25:33 [1] 2.25 mi (11:21 / mi) +23m 11:00 / mi
Morning joggeroo, easy day, lovely out!
Strength 12:01 [0] 0.01 mi (20:08:41 / mi)
12 min core, haven't done this in ages, gotta keep it up!
Thursday May 16, 2013 #
7 AM
Running 15:38 [1] 1.86 mi (8:24 / mi) +4m 8:21 / mi
During warmup/cooldown: Listened to TED talks on the Toltan people of British Colombia, whose lands will almost certainly be exploited, despite the speaker's plea, sad. Then Elon Musk on things Tesla, Solarcity and SpaceX. (Ok, again, it is *super* cool to re-land a rocket!) And then a biologist from the NIH about speeding up the drug discovery business. One idea is to simply tryout drugs that have been demo'ed safe in people and try to apply to other conditions. That's how we got AZT for AIDS/HIV, originally a cancer drug which didn't work so well. Also a drug against a rare condition for premature aging, similarly a failed cancer drug. Sounds like a good idea!
Drills 8:24 [1] 0.52 mi (16:09 / mi)
Normal running drills.
Running 55:49 7.58 mi (7:22 / mi) +68m 7:10 / mi
Saw Bambi! And 3 little ducklings too. Baby season. =)
Morning tempo workout 2 x 15 minutes at Wildwood. Felt good, but not super energetic. Nicer to workout in morning temps... Gotta get some Finnish maps printed to look at!
Morning tempo workout 2 x 15 minutes at Wildwood. Felt good, but not super energetic. Nicer to workout in morning temps... Gotta get some Finnish maps printed to look at!
Wednesday May 15, 2013 #
5 PM
Orienteering 1:16:27 5.37 mi (14:14 / mi) +138m 13:11 / mi
Some last testing of things at Bishop Lake! It is way thicker vegetation-wise than 2 weeks ago... controls will be a bit harder to spot from far away. Also, poison ivy positively identified. Blech.
Tuesday May 14, 2013 #
5 PM
Running 14:48 [2] 1.69 mi (8:45 / mi) +4m 8:42 / mi
I went on a rollercoaster today! Called 'The Raptor' at Cedar Point. It was pretty awesome, two loop-d-loops and lots of twisting and diving and turning. The hour long line beforehand was less cool (prolonged because some previous customer threw up, boo). People watching teenagers is only interesting for so long...
Anyways, I was there in general for Cedar Point's Math and Science week with some grad students from the dept and lots of cool physics demos. We had a van der Graaff generator, the spinny-angular momentum stool, an infrared camera, a solar telescope and a bike hooked up to a generator that could either power a light or a leaf blower. Fun times and at least some of the HS students who were field-tripping it there thought it was cool too. Not all, but hey, we had to compete against rollercoasters...
Anyways, I was there in general for Cedar Point's Math and Science week with some grad students from the dept and lots of cool physics demos. We had a van der Graaff generator, the spinny-angular momentum stool, an infrared camera, a solar telescope and a bike hooked up to a generator that could either power a light or a leaf blower. Fun times and at least some of the HS students who were field-tripping it there thought it was cool too. Not all, but hey, we had to compete against rollercoasters...
Drills 5:32 [2] 0.23 mi (24:04 / mi)
Ankle plyos
Running 51:25 6.7 mi (7:40 / mi) +86m 7:23 / mi
And intervals. Legs feeling a bit meh to start after the whole day on my feet, but warm up helped with that. Then 1-2-3-4-5-4-3-2-1 minute intervals, with half time rest between each. Felt pretty good, Wildwood was lovely, but a bit crowded. The boardwalk is maybe not the best place for intervals.
Monday May 13, 2013 #
9 AM
Running 10:30 [1]
Aerobics 48:00 [1]
Recovery Zumba! Johanna's first full class teaching by herself. Only 3 of us, which meant I got to see more of myself in the mirror. Not sure if that's a good thing, but maybe, eventually, I can polish what seems to be more flailing then is necessary for the moves. Then again, flailing might make it more of a workout. =)
Sunday May 12, 2013 #
9 AM
Running 12:04 [1] 1.05 mi (11:32 / mi) +79m 9:21 / mi
Orienteering 1:23:30 10.31 km (8:06 / km) +411m 6:45 / km
Adirondack Adventures/US Champs Long @ Camp Wakpominee
Turn map over, whoa there! Lots of detail, especially rock, very few bits that look like they might be at all easy... So mission 1 = control 1 and then just continued focus from there on out!!
I had a good race, AP splits say no errors, but there was a bit just outside of circle to #1, some hesitation to #6, a missed trail to #10, brief confusion with a trail to #11, and then I lost my left contact on my way to #13, which increased the difficultly of the last fairly easy loop in through the sprint terrain. But under 2 min lost in total, I'd guess. I'm sure I still need to be doing it all faster, but happy with it nonetheless!
QuickRoute
1 - Not an easy one to start, looked very breifly at the around on trail option, looked too far, so headed on up a way that didn't seem to have too many cliffs. Didn't both following in detail on way up, figured I'd place myself where it cleared and flattened. Kinda did, but made an error just on the edge of the circle, dodging left into an earlier and too low reentrant. 30s lost? Louise got me by about that much on the split.
2 - Easy. Reentrant to pond to ride, cross trail, huge cliff takes you in.
3 - How to get down a hillside covered in all sorts of black? Just get down it, in vaguely the right direction. Easy to place myself at the bottom, and while descending wrt the stream. Then by cliff, through double hills, on bearing, noting rootstocks on approach, actually.
4 - Quickly apparent med green was slow, detoured to left side where it was lighter green, sailed to stone wall.
5 - Route choice! But left looked far better. Dodging med green at the start, then stringing together lots of trails. Decided even to approach from trail, safest. Had to stay focused as folks walking to the start cheered!
6 - Uphill cliffy slog. Wasn't entirely placed where I was the whole way up, but was counting on marsh at the top to catch me, which it did very nicely. From reentrant out of marsh, plan was to keep flat to my reentrant. But I hesitated in each and every vaguely reentranty thing I passed, really could have gone quicker, obv cliffs behind the one I really needed! 2nd leg I didn't win, Louise 4s up.
7 - Smoked this one. Up reentrant, over to marsh, around it's edge, cross trail, in linear reentrant, to next marsh, to control in saddle.
8 - Scooted a bit on the trail to get a more gradual climb. Took a gu while walking up hill staying online. Nice drop down to mine/spur.
9 - On bearing, counting huge reentrants.
10 - Overtook Angelica and Izzy here. But first came to a full stop. Mega-long leg. Selected a plan, now time to whiz away from the other women. First to marsh, then full-speed tumble down hill side, ducking left at the bottom along stream out to trail. Booked it on trail, unforutnately oversimplifying a bit where I needed to go right on a little trail to a T junction where I just went straight. False. Caught, but cost some time. Crossed after the open water, up above cliffs, then cruised along.
11- Along marsh, then distracted by wrong-directioned trail for a smidge, saved by pond and looking at my compass! A little too far left when I came out, luckily it was open around control...
12 - Absolutely loved this leg. Simplified very effectively and just went for it. Won the leg by 1:06. Probably taking the gu was a very good thing. =)
13 - Keen to keep up the speed, just going for it, but then damn, a stick pokes out my left contact. A bit wonky vision, but I'd had a good sprint at Flying Pig when my right contact fell out at the 4th control, so no worries, just onward as best as possible!
14 - Not super (should have gone directly to right building gap!), but ok for getting used to vision wierdness.
15 - Boo! Distracted by the men's control at the rootstock that I saw first. Corrected before I got there at least.
16 - That swamp grew. A lot. Kind of made me scared. And my bearing wasn't great to start with.
17 - Tried to run fast over the rocks at least, maybe going out to the road was fastest? Hard to tell.
18 - I'd visited the finish before warming up, so knew exactly where the go control was, just scooted quickly on my bearing and then let myself be guided by the edge of the spectator zone.
Turn map over, whoa there! Lots of detail, especially rock, very few bits that look like they might be at all easy... So mission 1 = control 1 and then just continued focus from there on out!!
I had a good race, AP splits say no errors, but there was a bit just outside of circle to #1, some hesitation to #6, a missed trail to #10, brief confusion with a trail to #11, and then I lost my left contact on my way to #13, which increased the difficultly of the last fairly easy loop in through the sprint terrain. But under 2 min lost in total, I'd guess. I'm sure I still need to be doing it all faster, but happy with it nonetheless!
QuickRoute
1 - Not an easy one to start, looked very breifly at the around on trail option, looked too far, so headed on up a way that didn't seem to have too many cliffs. Didn't both following in detail on way up, figured I'd place myself where it cleared and flattened. Kinda did, but made an error just on the edge of the circle, dodging left into an earlier and too low reentrant. 30s lost? Louise got me by about that much on the split.
2 - Easy. Reentrant to pond to ride, cross trail, huge cliff takes you in.
3 - How to get down a hillside covered in all sorts of black? Just get down it, in vaguely the right direction. Easy to place myself at the bottom, and while descending wrt the stream. Then by cliff, through double hills, on bearing, noting rootstocks on approach, actually.
4 - Quickly apparent med green was slow, detoured to left side where it was lighter green, sailed to stone wall.
5 - Route choice! But left looked far better. Dodging med green at the start, then stringing together lots of trails. Decided even to approach from trail, safest. Had to stay focused as folks walking to the start cheered!
6 - Uphill cliffy slog. Wasn't entirely placed where I was the whole way up, but was counting on marsh at the top to catch me, which it did very nicely. From reentrant out of marsh, plan was to keep flat to my reentrant. But I hesitated in each and every vaguely reentranty thing I passed, really could have gone quicker, obv cliffs behind the one I really needed! 2nd leg I didn't win, Louise 4s up.
7 - Smoked this one. Up reentrant, over to marsh, around it's edge, cross trail, in linear reentrant, to next marsh, to control in saddle.
8 - Scooted a bit on the trail to get a more gradual climb. Took a gu while walking up hill staying online. Nice drop down to mine/spur.
9 - On bearing, counting huge reentrants.
10 - Overtook Angelica and Izzy here. But first came to a full stop. Mega-long leg. Selected a plan, now time to whiz away from the other women. First to marsh, then full-speed tumble down hill side, ducking left at the bottom along stream out to trail. Booked it on trail, unforutnately oversimplifying a bit where I needed to go right on a little trail to a T junction where I just went straight. False. Caught, but cost some time. Crossed after the open water, up above cliffs, then cruised along.
11- Along marsh, then distracted by wrong-directioned trail for a smidge, saved by pond and looking at my compass! A little too far left when I came out, luckily it was open around control...
12 - Absolutely loved this leg. Simplified very effectively and just went for it. Won the leg by 1:06. Probably taking the gu was a very good thing. =)
13 - Keen to keep up the speed, just going for it, but then damn, a stick pokes out my left contact. A bit wonky vision, but I'd had a good sprint at Flying Pig when my right contact fell out at the 4th control, so no worries, just onward as best as possible!
14 - Not super (should have gone directly to right building gap!), but ok for getting used to vision wierdness.
15 - Boo! Distracted by the men's control at the rootstock that I saw first. Corrected before I got there at least.
16 - That swamp grew. A lot. Kind of made me scared. And my bearing wasn't great to start with.
17 - Tried to run fast over the rocks at least, maybe going out to the road was fastest? Hard to tell.
18 - I'd visited the finish before warming up, so knew exactly where the go control was, just scooted quickly on my bearing and then let myself be guided by the edge of the spectator zone.
Running 12:15 [1] 0.23 mi (53:17 / mi) +29m 38:17 / mi
Cooling down with Alex, Tereza, Giacomo, Anna.
Saturday May 11, 2013 #
9 AM
Hiking 15:00 [1]
Running 10:00 0.11 mi (1:30:55 / mi)
Orienteering race 39:21 4.2 km (9:22 / km) +190m 7:38 / km
US Middle Champs - Moreau Lake State Park
Gosh, I love orienteering at Moreau! It's just beautiful, detailed marshy-rocky-ridgy terrain with no-problem vegetation. EMPO rocks for 1) learning it existed, 2) mapping it, 3) holding awesome events on it.
My race was solid, but not as speedy as I'd like. I would really like to learn how to go just *faster* in such terrain. Chatting with Boris, it sounded like he really kept high speed picking out big or otherwise clear features to pick off along the way, slowing only on approach to circle.
An overview (QuickRoute):
1) Possibly my weakest split, but I was scared! Bent a bit off the line to not go up cliffs immediately, then felt not quite sure about where I was, but going right direction for awhile. Some marshes saved me and came right into it, almost totally sure in circle.
2) Trying to just go online, a bit nervous after crossing N-S marsh about if I'd gone too far. Read contours wrong, didn't realize it was on the back side of a hill, luckily distance estimation saved me, becuase I felt like it was the right place.
3) Straight, left of hill top, leftish of swamp, straight W. Good.
4) Not totally in contact, heading W, getting to big swamps at first. Crossed first big one, realized I was in arc of swamp on it's W side, picked off things, using swamps mostly into the control.
5) Tumble on bearing, note where I was wrt big marsh, continue on bearing, spike.
6) Marsh, reentrant to reentrant, spike.
7) Left of line, then right of line a bit, really liked being in the reentrant with boulder 200m north of the control, just fired confidently in from there.
8) Fully stopped at 7 to put the picture together, then just a quick hop over the hill to the nose.
9) E to trail, snuck on it until a clear bend, then marsh up reentrant, over 2 hill tops and decend on in on compass bearing.
10) Scolded my brain to not notice Alex and slowed down to focus on listening to my compass, which took me the right way in a detailed little area.
11) Marsh, marsh, marsh, tumble down hill, over some nobbles, 2nd decent has my reentrant.
12) Boo, was firing it quickly along, then problems in circle because the hill I saw didn't seem to have an encircling cliff. Acutally, it was a boulder on an index contour for part of that, now makes more sense...
13) Wow, 25s or so down to Hannah on this one, just should have been more confident on my bearing and read my control description earlier, was thinking I was looking for a mini swamp....
14) Meh, about 20s lost here too, was too eager for the end, lost my head a little bit thinking the first low was the 2nd and then contemplating looking for the control too early. Didn't really, but slow.
15) Fire it away! But someone got me by 7s, c'mon, should be fast when it's a control on a darn trail!!
Ok, reading through this I did simplify more than I thought. But still need to increase the pace somehow!
Gosh, I love orienteering at Moreau! It's just beautiful, detailed marshy-rocky-ridgy terrain with no-problem vegetation. EMPO rocks for 1) learning it existed, 2) mapping it, 3) holding awesome events on it.
My race was solid, but not as speedy as I'd like. I would really like to learn how to go just *faster* in such terrain. Chatting with Boris, it sounded like he really kept high speed picking out big or otherwise clear features to pick off along the way, slowing only on approach to circle.
An overview (QuickRoute):
1) Possibly my weakest split, but I was scared! Bent a bit off the line to not go up cliffs immediately, then felt not quite sure about where I was, but going right direction for awhile. Some marshes saved me and came right into it, almost totally sure in circle.
2) Trying to just go online, a bit nervous after crossing N-S marsh about if I'd gone too far. Read contours wrong, didn't realize it was on the back side of a hill, luckily distance estimation saved me, becuase I felt like it was the right place.
3) Straight, left of hill top, leftish of swamp, straight W. Good.
4) Not totally in contact, heading W, getting to big swamps at first. Crossed first big one, realized I was in arc of swamp on it's W side, picked off things, using swamps mostly into the control.
5) Tumble on bearing, note where I was wrt big marsh, continue on bearing, spike.
6) Marsh, reentrant to reentrant, spike.
7) Left of line, then right of line a bit, really liked being in the reentrant with boulder 200m north of the control, just fired confidently in from there.
8) Fully stopped at 7 to put the picture together, then just a quick hop over the hill to the nose.
9) E to trail, snuck on it until a clear bend, then marsh up reentrant, over 2 hill tops and decend on in on compass bearing.
10) Scolded my brain to not notice Alex and slowed down to focus on listening to my compass, which took me the right way in a detailed little area.
11) Marsh, marsh, marsh, tumble down hill, over some nobbles, 2nd decent has my reentrant.
12) Boo, was firing it quickly along, then problems in circle because the hill I saw didn't seem to have an encircling cliff. Acutally, it was a boulder on an index contour for part of that, now makes more sense...
13) Wow, 25s or so down to Hannah on this one, just should have been more confident on my bearing and read my control description earlier, was thinking I was looking for a mini swamp....
14) Meh, about 20s lost here too, was too eager for the end, lost my head a little bit thinking the first low was the 2nd and then contemplating looking for the control too early. Didn't really, but slow.
15) Fire it away! But someone got me by 7s, c'mon, should be fast when it's a control on a darn trail!!
Ok, reading through this I did simplify more than I thought. But still need to increase the pace somehow!
Running 10:00 4.44 mi (2:15 / mi) +71m 2:09 / mi
C • woc 3
2 PM
Hiking 13:00 [1]
Hiking up again with Hannah, Alex and Tereza. Yeah team girls! =)
Orienteering 30:00
Control pickup, great to be just processing more of the contours up there, and funtimes until I was super-laden down with all the stands + water station debris... Tereza saved me with a helping hand about halfway back, woo!
Friday May 10, 2013 #
2 PM
Running 12:03 [0] 1.2 mi (10:04 / mi) +73m 8:28 / mi
Drills 4:55 [0] 0.26 mi (18:56 / mi) +1m 18:42 / mi
Running 5:10 [0] 0.51 mi (10:04 / mi) +6m 9:43 / mi
Orienteering 15:41 [4] 1.79 mi (8:46 / mi) +143m 7:01 / mi
16c
US Champs Sprint @ Camp Wakpominee
Not terrible, but not great. Mistake on super-short control #6 of 25s hurts.... least please by that. Also didn't select the best route choice to #2, although mine wasn't that bad, in the end. Could have also done better taking trails to #4, longer on trails to #15 and better direction to #11.
QuickRoute
Not terrible, but not great. Mistake on super-short control #6 of 25s hurts.... least please by that. Also didn't select the best route choice to #2, although mine wasn't that bad, in the end. Could have also done better taking trails to #4, longer on trails to #15 and better direction to #11.
QuickRoute
Orienteering 10:00 [1] 0.56 mi (17:52 / mi) +49m 14:03 / mi
Thursday May 9, 2013 #
Note
Feel like being all congested from allergies has perhaps caused a sinus infection. Not cool! But maybe it'll disperse super-quickly because it's not illness season? Hope so. Drinking lots of water and tea and blowing my nose to rid it of blech.
Wednesday May 8, 2013 #
Running 54:34
Woke up at 5am in Hamilton, at work in Toledo by 10.15am, not bad! No-wait border crossing at Sarnia, but a bit of traffic near Detroit, even though I tried to give it a wide berth.
Blah! Poison ivy rash is just getting worse, so swung by Rite-Aid and picked up some Tecnu (does it or doesn't it work if you already have the rash?). Then continued on to Wildwood for a little run with some cruise-y tempos (2 x 10 min) mixed in. Lots of folks about and the floodplain is back un-flooded. Read a Moreau map from Classic champs as I went around.
Blah! Poison ivy rash is just getting worse, so swung by Rite-Aid and picked up some Tecnu (does it or doesn't it work if you already have the rash?). Then continued on to Wildwood for a little run with some cruise-y tempos (2 x 10 min) mixed in. Lots of folks about and the floodplain is back un-flooded. Read a Moreau map from Classic champs as I went around.
Drills 5:00 [2]
Ankle plyos. I had good momentum on the twisty jumps today. But maybe I was cheating by having my feet too far apart...
Tuesday May 7, 2013 #
Orienteering 45:00
Woo! Morning o-training with Hammer. Awesome to be out, and some good line-o and then control-picky times. Tripped off the line of the line-o once or twice and had problems with one control-pick control, was just a bit low and didn't look up... Great to be weekday-orienteering!
Running 36:58
Tuesday Night Training - warm up loop around the fields with the crew, then partnertervals! Partner one takes off, does a loop, then partner two joins in for a second loop, and partner one drops off, leaving partner two on her/his lonesome. And then keep going, a really nice way to do it! I teamed up with turbo, perfectly good pace for them and great to have the chance to do intervals with people!
Afterwards did a little talk about how I ended up where I am as an athlete and an astronomer to a group of 10 or so of the most dedicated ARK kids, hopefully was good! Also learned that really I should be opting for lactose-free milk over soymilk thanks to Mark T.
Afterwards did a little talk about how I ended up where I am as an athlete and an astronomer to a group of 10 or so of the most dedicated ARK kids, hopefully was good! Also learned that really I should be opting for lactose-free milk over soymilk thanks to Mark T.
Monday May 6, 2013 #
Running 27:00
Morning pre-conference joggeroo. Beautiful morning, and beautiful little run out Sassafras Point. And talk went a-ok later on too!
Sunday May 5, 2013 #
10 AM
Running warm up/down 5:00 [1]
Warm up, Garmin seems to not be a happy camper... hm, will let it try to dry out...
Orienteering 1:27:00 6.3 km (13:49 / km)
Red course at Halfmoon Lake
We could just call this one a battle. Out of 13 controls, I'd say the score was 7-6 for me versus the course. But it wins in reality because I never found the darn 13th control, despite feeling pretty sure I'd checked all the veg boundary that could be reasonably considered to be in the circle. But the veg boundary on a clearing that's mostly grown in is maybe not so clear...
Anyways, regardless of the just lots of thick, I got totally lost for the first time this spring, which I think was all my own doing. I crossed a marsh from 3-4 going north-east instead of just straight north and so ended up on a different bit of land than I thought and for a good long time, nothing made sense... Embarrassed by how long it took me to relocate!!
Other controls the course won:
1 - Well, the control wasn't there. So I moved on.
2 - The woods didn't look so green, so cruised through them, just hesitated in the circle because a sweep up and down in the reentrant didn't reveal the control. Ah, hidden at a tree.
4- My totally and utterly lost one. Was just too eager to get across the linear marsh and didn't pay attn to direction!! Bah!
6 - I got across the marsh, but then failed to note that the control was on hill top and not reentrant in the circle, so bushwacked in some gross green in the reentrant for awhile.
10- Slightly off to the north for starters, then the marsh helped me, but took awhile to find the control in the thick.
13 - Um, yeah, didn't find it. Lew promised it was on the north side of some big pine tree. I'm pretty sure I searched all that veg boundary in the circle (some guidance on which of the two boundaries, or maybe if it was on any particular corner/edge would have been welcome...)
We could just call this one a battle. Out of 13 controls, I'd say the score was 7-6 for me versus the course. But it wins in reality because I never found the darn 13th control, despite feeling pretty sure I'd checked all the veg boundary that could be reasonably considered to be in the circle. But the veg boundary on a clearing that's mostly grown in is maybe not so clear...
Anyways, regardless of the just lots of thick, I got totally lost for the first time this spring, which I think was all my own doing. I crossed a marsh from 3-4 going north-east instead of just straight north and so ended up on a different bit of land than I thought and for a good long time, nothing made sense... Embarrassed by how long it took me to relocate!!
Other controls the course won:
1 - Well, the control wasn't there. So I moved on.
2 - The woods didn't look so green, so cruised through them, just hesitated in the circle because a sweep up and down in the reentrant didn't reveal the control. Ah, hidden at a tree.
4- My totally and utterly lost one. Was just too eager to get across the linear marsh and didn't pay attn to direction!! Bah!
6 - I got across the marsh, but then failed to note that the control was on hill top and not reentrant in the circle, so bushwacked in some gross green in the reentrant for awhile.
10- Slightly off to the north for starters, then the marsh helped me, but took awhile to find the control in the thick.
13 - Um, yeah, didn't find it. Lew promised it was on the north side of some big pine tree. I'm pretty sure I searched all that veg boundary in the circle (some guidance on which of the two boundaries, or maybe if it was on any particular corner/edge would have been welcome...)
Running 5:00 [2]
Putting the first control where it should be, after confirming with Lew that it wasn't in the right place.
5 PM
Running 5:00 [1]
After some 4h of driving and a border crossing, arrived at the next training, just a bit late. Said hi to Hammer and jogged out with him to the start of a first training, something Sergei L had set before jetting off to Europe!
Orienteering 51:30
Whoa, different and fun terrain! Rocky Ridge map, home of the 2006 NAOC Middle. But first, this other course. Getting used to the flatness and the rock features. I did ok, but was a bit wimpy with the swamp crossings, because they were super-full.
Detoured the wrong way from 11, similar to this morning's error. More looking at direction, I guess? Or when a feature forks, really make sure you're going to the right one.
Detoured the wrong way from 11, similar to this morning's error. More looking at direction, I guess? Or when a feature forks, really make sure you're going to the right one.
Orienteering 15:00
A blast! Hammer had hung out new streamers for the NAOC 2006 Middle. I knew I was tired, so I opted to just run the first 7, but to run them as well as I could. The course was really fun and having Mike shadow me really made me focus, even at the end of a pretty long training weekend.
Spiked most, hesitated at 2, because I thought it was on the cliff not the boulder. Maybe a bit hesitant to 5 on the approach and also 6, which I was almost trying to leave the area of before seeing the streamer! I also felt slightly not sure of everything coming into 7, and thus a bit worried indeed when I didn't see a streamer where I expected. I made my way to the rocky hill top just NW of the control and was trying to relocate, but everything located me to exactly where I thought I was. Turns out the streamer was just very slightly off in a nearby reentrant, phew!
Many thanks to Hammer for an awesome afternoon training!!
Spiked most, hesitated at 2, because I thought it was on the cliff not the boulder. Maybe a bit hesitant to 5 on the approach and also 6, which I was almost trying to leave the area of before seeing the streamer! I also felt slightly not sure of everything coming into 7, and thus a bit worried indeed when I didn't see a streamer where I expected. I made my way to the rocky hill top just NW of the control and was trying to relocate, but everything located me to exactly where I thought I was. Turns out the streamer was just very slightly off in a nearby reentrant, phew!
Many thanks to Hammer for an awesome afternoon training!!
Running 5:00
Saturday May 4, 2013 #
9 AM
Orienteering 1:09:00 14.03 mi (4:55 / mi) +203m 4:42 / mi
ahr:128 max:171
Yeehaw! First Adventure Race! With Barbara at the Get Your Bearings race at Bishop Lake. (Yes, where I'm planning o-courses for in 2 weeks, but no, that doesn't seem to DQ one for AR...) We came in 2nd overall by 5min and first double-female team!
But hmph because Garmin died some portion of the way into it, I guess while orienteering. Probably my fault for not fully charging plus having on 1sec recording! It also got quite wet in paddling section due to some swimming through marsh and now looks all funky. Probably should have plastic baggied it and put in bag, at least for the potentially wet sections....
So this really was a blast. We opted to 'trek' first, doing 3-2-1 along with a good troop of others (you could chose to paddle or trek first, and what order you did the controls.) Opted for the more direct marshy route, 'cause we're tough. Then paddle times. Barbara did a great job keeping straight lines and effectively dodging other boats in the narrow passage. I jumped overboard to nab a control that canoes were lined up for, which was probably a smidge quicker, but not terribly so, because I ended up blocked in by a canoe and wasn't enough dedicated to submerge myself in the totally blech gross marshy water.... In total, we were 3rd or 4th for this split (1h02, only timed to the minute).
Next biking, which we sailed through, even if a few teams were faster. The control in the pine plantation was totally my fav. Getting to bike truly off-road and off-path, woo! We cut one switch back of the bike trails, but generally that didn't seem that worth it, better to go with the flow of the one-direction singletrack. 4th fastest bike split in 0h52.
And then time to play o! Erm, treking I mean. =) I'd planned the route before hand, since you have oodles of time to do that, and Barbara and I pretty much did just as planned, cruising around. Kinda wished I had long pants on though! A 2nd fastest split on this moved us into 2nd overall, fun to come in and ring the cowbell. Love that as a finish mechanism!!
But hmph because Garmin died some portion of the way into it, I guess while orienteering. Probably my fault for not fully charging plus having on 1sec recording! It also got quite wet in paddling section due to some swimming through marsh and now looks all funky. Probably should have plastic baggied it and put in bag, at least for the potentially wet sections....
So this really was a blast. We opted to 'trek' first, doing 3-2-1 along with a good troop of others (you could chose to paddle or trek first, and what order you did the controls.) Opted for the more direct marshy route, 'cause we're tough. Then paddle times. Barbara did a great job keeping straight lines and effectively dodging other boats in the narrow passage. I jumped overboard to nab a control that canoes were lined up for, which was probably a smidge quicker, but not terribly so, because I ended up blocked in by a canoe and wasn't enough dedicated to submerge myself in the totally blech gross marshy water.... In total, we were 3rd or 4th for this split (1h02, only timed to the minute).
Next biking, which we sailed through, even if a few teams were faster. The control in the pine plantation was totally my fav. Getting to bike truly off-road and off-path, woo! We cut one switch back of the bike trails, but generally that didn't seem that worth it, better to go with the flow of the one-direction singletrack. 4th fastest bike split in 0h52.
And then time to play o! Erm, treking I mean. =) I'd planned the route before hand, since you have oodles of time to do that, and Barbara and I pretty much did just as planned, cruising around. Kinda wished I had long pants on though! A 2nd fastest split on this moved us into 2nd overall, fun to come in and ring the cowbell. Love that as a finish mechanism!!
Rowing 45:00 [1]
Cycling 52:00
Thursday May 2, 2013 #
6 AM
Running 55:02 6.75 mi (8:09 / mi) +3m 8:08 / mi
ahr:135 max:169
Morning-ter-vals! Nice cool morning, the sun did it's thing and rose... On the bike path to Wildwood and around the purple + green loops. 10 x 1 min with 1.5 min rest.
Right ankle has been flaky recently, lightly popping every few strides. On the intervals, not the easy jog. And happened yesterday after about 6k and on Tuesday after about 3k. Hope it stops, it doesn't hurt, but it's annoying. Also left knee had some sharp pain returning home on the bike path today, not sure what that's about either. Recording in case either turn into more long-term problems, don't think they are yet.
Right ankle has been flaky recently, lightly popping every few strides. On the intervals, not the easy jog. And happened yesterday after about 6k and on Tuesday after about 3k. Hope it stops, it doesn't hurt, but it's annoying. Also left knee had some sharp pain returning home on the bike path today, not sure what that's about either. Recording in case either turn into more long-term problems, don't think they are yet.
6 PM
Cycling 1:17:33 9.96 mi (7:47 / mi) +104m 7:32 / mi
ahr:116 max:149
Yeehaw! Playing mountain bikes with Barbara and Michelle at Bishop Lake. Awesome times, it really is just loads of fun, I love the swoopiness. I'm not sure I would like it as much with loads of rocks a la East Coast. The roots are plenty enough to keep me occupied for the moment!
Running 13:53 1.6 mi (8:41 / mi) +36m 8:07 / mi
ahr:134 max:153
Meant to bring along my maps for courses at Bishop but forgot them in my doorway, boo. So just went and ran the inner hiking trail loop and headed on off!
Wednesday May 1, 2013 #
6 PM
Running 48:33 6.25 mi (7:46 / mi) +2m 7:46 / mi
ahr:136 max:149
Yeehaw, finally back biking into work. It's lovely. Way better than the bumpy drive in. It's really true that the bike path is in better shape than the road....
Anyways, after work puttered down to Dave's to replace my abandoned-in-Ian's-car shoes (not a bad time to get some new shoes anyways) and pick up my team uniform. Black and pink. So stealth, y'all should watch on out. =)
Unfortunately, getting shoes took too long, so missed the group run at Fallen Timbers. I still am kinda mystified by why exactly the running club meets at a mall. Went for a run on my own and tripped upon the commemoration stuff of the actual Fallen Timbers battle. USA (4,600) versus Native Americans (1,500). USA wins, takes over all Native American occupied lands in the general Ohio area, in very much a jerk move.
Anyways, after work puttered down to Dave's to replace my abandoned-in-Ian's-car shoes (not a bad time to get some new shoes anyways) and pick up my team uniform. Black and pink. So stealth, y'all should watch on out. =)
Unfortunately, getting shoes took too long, so missed the group run at Fallen Timbers. I still am kinda mystified by why exactly the running club meets at a mall. Went for a run on my own and tripped upon the commemoration stuff of the actual Fallen Timbers battle. USA (4,600) versus Native Americans (1,500). USA wins, takes over all Native American occupied lands in the general Ohio area, in very much a jerk move.