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Wednesday Oct 20, 2010 #
Event: U.S. Corn Maze Championships
4 PM
Running warm up/down 9:43 1.23 mi (7:54 / mi) +1m 7:53 / mi
ahr:145 max:164
5 PM
Orienteering race 17:26 1.58 mi (11:02 / mi) +2m 10:59 / mi
ahr:142 max:181 22c
Woo! US Corm Maze Champs!!
Couldn't quite live up to my first-place seeding, totally destroyed by yak-hat wearing Greg....
Such such a blast though, and good training, had to stay totally with it all the time, very hard to keep up with your speed on such a small-scale map. My biggest mistake was when I said oh, I'll head that way until I hit stuff and then can head left into the spiral. Wrong, ended up in a long straight thing, going through the 'CONDENSED' and then back at the spiral from totally the other side. That was about a minute, whoops!
Compass was zero help. And it smells bad, its strap needs washing.
Umm, also, my max HR was higher at the sprint in from this than in either US Classic Champs races...
469/2000
Couldn't quite live up to my first-place seeding, totally destroyed by yak-hat wearing Greg....
Such such a blast though, and good training, had to stay totally with it all the time, very hard to keep up with your speed on such a small-scale map. My biggest mistake was when I said oh, I'll head that way until I hit stuff and then can head left into the spiral. Wrong, ended up in a long straight thing, going through the 'CONDENSED' and then back at the spiral from totally the other side. That was about a minute, whoops!
Compass was zero help. And it smells bad, its strap needs washing.
Umm, also, my max HR was higher at the sprint in from this than in either US Classic Champs races...
469/2000
Orienteering race 4:43
4c
US Corm Maze Sprint Champs
Too devious for me! Fine to 1, too close to the top of the maze to 2, which ended me up at 4, whoops! And then saw the quicker route out of the maze, but missed the channel I wanted to go down and just went out the top, which was slower...
473/2000
Too devious for me! Fine to 1, too close to the top of the maze to 2, which ended me up at 4, whoops! And then saw the quicker route out of the maze, but missed the channel I wanted to go down and just went out the top, which was slower...
473/2000
Running warm up/down 6:31 0.47 mi (13:52 / mi) +1m 13:47 / mi
ahr:128 max:154
Control collecting, went into the spiral again too, since that's what I messed up in the course...
Tuesday Oct 19, 2010 #
7 AM
XC skiing intervals 1:11:18 12.21 mi (5:50 / mi)
ahr:152 max:178
Morning rollerski, River Rd., sans the injured Alex, so a lonely training. And chilly- 36 degrees when I started! Went out and did 4 x double hill intervals- there's a two bump hill, so I did an interval up the first hill, down, then up the second- forwards and back, times 2. A good session for sure.
Felt last evenings ab workout already... So I focused on trying to get more power out of the legs, also did 10 min no poles and 10 min double pole on the way there and back.
A dog-walking lady commented that the downhills looked more fun than the ups. Well, kinda, but also more dangerous!
Felt last evenings ab workout already... So I focused on trying to get more power out of the legs, also did 10 min no poles and 10 min double pole on the way there and back.
A dog-walking lady commented that the downhills looked more fun than the ups. Well, kinda, but also more dangerous!
C • aww 1
Monday Oct 18, 2010 #
6 PM
Strength 22:00 [1]
I wasn't quite on top of dinner cooking when folks came by. But after saving the mint sauce, was time to do circuits with Caroline and Cristina- with timekeeper and videoman PG, spectator Gail and kale-cooking Alex.
One session of 12 min circuits, then 10 min abs. 3 people circuiting is about all my apartment can fit, and suggesting Caroline do ski jumps on the slippery bit of floor = not good idea, apologies!
One session of 12 min circuits, then 10 min abs. 3 people circuiting is about all my apartment can fit, and suggesting Caroline do ski jumps on the slippery bit of floor = not good idea, apologies!
Sunday Oct 17, 2010 #
Note
And second challenge of the day- driving back to Amherst in Alex's car, which is standard. Woo learning to change gears, tough stuff when it's not at all natural.... But we made it (yay for EZpass and not needing to stop at toll booths!), after a stop to rescue Ed in Lee, MA. Have to admit that Alex did take over for Route 9 from Noho to Amherst, which has lots and lots of lights. I would have for sure stalled, and there's actually traffic there.
Burrito count: 2 (when we stopped in Lee to shuttle Ed to the auto parts store, also stopped for burritos!)
Burrito count: 2 (when we stopped in Lee to shuttle Ed to the auto parts store, also stopped for burritos!)
9 AM
Hiking warm up/down 18:07 0.79 mi (22:56 / mi) +235m 11:55 / mi
ahr:138 max:156
Warm up hike from bottom to stop. Jogged a few flattish bits, but almost all hiking, tired-ish legs. Hammie felt tight, so wore two pairs of lycra, to make sure it started and stayed warm!
10 AM
Orienteering race 1:08:59 6.9 km (10:00 / km) +250m 8:28 / km
ahr:160 max:177
US Classic Champs Day 2- Red Y
So after finishing, I thought my worst controls were the long legs, to 2 and 5, because my plans for those sort of went awry and had to be remade as I went because I has missed executing a bit well. But the splits show that while I lost the most time to Sam on those, it wasn't proportionally more, fairly constant slope of the time-back-to winner line, so just not as quick orienteering through this stuff in general!!
Maybe the roughest control for me was down off the Scandi-plateau, I was really nervous/hesitant to 9, could not place myself on the hillside at all, kept stopping to try to figure things out, but kept not being able, and decided the best thing to do was to keep following my compass. Should have had more faith in the flattening of the slope...
Then to 12, I lost a contact from a twig to the eye (glad it wasn't earlier!), whoops!
Also, I went through a ton of swamps today. I decided not to be scared of them, and they weren't that bad. Deepest I got was just over knee, and always really solid on the bottom, not goopy. So not fast like Scandi marshes, but not terribly slow.
447/2000
So after finishing, I thought my worst controls were the long legs, to 2 and 5, because my plans for those sort of went awry and had to be remade as I went because I has missed executing a bit well. But the splits show that while I lost the most time to Sam on those, it wasn't proportionally more, fairly constant slope of the time-back-to winner line, so just not as quick orienteering through this stuff in general!!
Maybe the roughest control for me was down off the Scandi-plateau, I was really nervous/hesitant to 9, could not place myself on the hillside at all, kept stopping to try to figure things out, but kept not being able, and decided the best thing to do was to keep following my compass. Should have had more faith in the flattening of the slope...
Then to 12, I lost a contact from a twig to the eye (glad it wasn't earlier!), whoops!
Also, I went through a ton of swamps today. I decided not to be scared of them, and they weren't that bad. Deepest I got was just over knee, and always really solid on the bottom, not goopy. So not fast like Scandi marshes, but not terribly slow.
447/2000
C • !!! 3
Saturday Oct 16, 2010 #
12 PM
Running warm up/down 5:13 0.42 mi (12:25 / mi) +20m 10:49 / mi
ahr:142 max:159
Running warm up right around the start.
Hiking 17:46 0.92 mi (19:16 / mi) +177m 12:04 / mi
ahr:121 max:144
From bus to start, chatting away with Alex!
1 PM
Orienteering race 1:04:52 6.8 km (9:32 / km) +240m 8:06 / km
ahr:160 max:174
Wow, that was something! Basically Scandinavian terrain, except marshes weren't runnable. Cool stuff. In general, I felt slow, but couldn't go much quicker in the terrain, more and more effective simplifying probably required for that... My major handrail today was the big marshes, only when I knew I had one of those to catch me did I feel really safe running quick.
I think my biggest mistake was to #1, where I went far too high, in a vague reentrant instead of the right one. Figured it out when I realized there were really no cliffs around in my reentrant. Other than that, least happy with 7 and 11. To 7, things started off rough when I wasn't sure if I had punched 6 or not, so went back and punched again and then got off my bearing and was a wee bit confused by a marsh, but was able to place myself. Then to 11, was quite close, but was lower than I thought, placing the stream on the map in what's just a reentrant on the map, then had to come back up for it...
Finished 2nd, 2.5 min down to Sam, 1 min in front of Pavi.
434/2000
I think my biggest mistake was to #1, where I went far too high, in a vague reentrant instead of the right one. Figured it out when I realized there were really no cliffs around in my reentrant. Other than that, least happy with 7 and 11. To 7, things started off rough when I wasn't sure if I had punched 6 or not, so went back and punched again and then got off my bearing and was a wee bit confused by a marsh, but was able to place myself. Then to 11, was quite close, but was lower than I thought, placing the stream on the map in what's just a reentrant on the map, then had to come back up for it...
Finished 2nd, 2.5 min down to Sam, 1 min in front of Pavi.
434/2000
Friday Oct 15, 2010 #
Running 6:00 [1]
Warm up, it was cold and rainy, so warm up necessary, pranced around in the rain a bit, two laps around parking lot, at least.
Orienteering race 15:41 [4] *** 2.6 km (6:02 / km)
12c
Sprint Series Finals Sprint 1
So this went well, pretty fast, not many probs. Some hesitation to 5, worrying about reading the veg ok, and also to 6, because bright yellow didn't seem to match the chest-high marsh reeds that were there. 7 I think I missed the route choice slightly by taking the upper path, lower along the river seems like it was quicker. Also to 8, probably should have just done path instead of woods, woods were a bit icky. But all in all good!
418/2000
So this went well, pretty fast, not many probs. Some hesitation to 5, worrying about reading the veg ok, and also to 6, because bright yellow didn't seem to match the chest-high marsh reeds that were there. 7 I think I missed the route choice slightly by taking the upper path, lower along the river seems like it was quicker. Also to 8, probably should have just done path instead of woods, woods were a bit icky. But all in all good!
418/2000
Orienteering race 14:53 [4] ***
11c
Sprint Series Final Sprint 2
So the catch here, is, I *should* have gotten 12 controls. Because there were 12 on the course. But I was reading ahead to 7 after crossing the bridge and totally spaced on punching 6, which I must of went straight by. I was slightly confused by the line people were taking to 7, but not enough to actually evaluate and figure out I missed 6. Grrrr...
Still was fun to run against the guys, just have to not space out next time...
Think Jordan's way of right to #1 was faster, and also the straight up for 1 to 2, instead of the flat first, Clem and I took that way, but lost a smidgen, not much. 8, I went around the building, because I didn't know if you were allowed through buildings marked as such on the map.
429/2000
So the catch here, is, I *should* have gotten 12 controls. Because there were 12 on the course. But I was reading ahead to 7 after crossing the bridge and totally spaced on punching 6, which I must of went straight by. I was slightly confused by the line people were taking to 7, but not enough to actually evaluate and figure out I missed 6. Grrrr...
Still was fun to run against the guys, just have to not space out next time...
Think Jordan's way of right to #1 was faster, and also the straight up for 1 to 2, instead of the flat first, Clem and I took that way, but lost a smidgen, not much. 8, I went around the building, because I didn't know if you were allowed through buildings marked as such on the map.
429/2000
Orienteering 10:00 [3]
Control pickup, got 6, but they were very easy as sprint controls and having just been to all, so they aren't being counted. Still good as a warm down thought at least
Thursday Oct 14, 2010 #
Running 35:30 [2]
Very mellow noon run with Sanjay and Barry. Sanjay is peaking for a marathon Sunday (Lowell) hence the mellowness. Sill a bit of a niggle-y hamstring, maybe haven't been quite as good about the stretching since it's been feeling lots better in general. Had a good stretcharoo afterwards though, hopefully keep things a-ok!!