Training Log Archive: furlong47

Ran 1.25 @ 5.5 mph
Walked 0.25 @ 4 mph
Ran 1.0 @ 5 mph
Walked 0.25 @ 4 mph
Ran 0.35 @ 5-5.5 mph
5K in 37:00
Then cool down

Event: SVO Rocky Ridge
 

SVO Rocky Ridge - Green

Not my greatest effort ever, and the snow was slowing me down a bit especially toward the end. My big mistake was on 4-5, a leg which was going to the famous cliff by the stream, probably the most used control site of all time at this park. However, early in the leg I somehow did a 180/parallel error and ended up going along the stream in the wrong direction. I discovered this when I passed the weird little building again (which seems to have disappeared from the map) and saw someone coming down the trail where one shouldn't have been. Probably lost 5-10 minutes on that.

Also just a tiny bit of error on 7 when I wanted to get away from a herd of (non-orienteering) people on the trail and plunged into the woods kind of early. I could tell I was crossing the wide re-entrant, but got drawn first to a control 2 contours up from mine. (Some people on other courses actually mispunched here, so at least I didn't do that.)

I have also now reached the most time I have logged for any year on AP, with over a month still to go in the year. (And surpassed my record for miles quite a while ago.)

Green - Splits

Got out around the neighborhood and not time for much else today

I had both barn gear and gym gear with me at work, but the roads were so terrible around here all day that I just went home. The barn 30 minutes away was out of the question. It probably wouldn't have been too hard to get to the gym but I didn't know if it would be open.

A random program on level 2. Some forward, some backward.

First time back at the gym (I think I haven't been a member here for about 8 years). I intended to do 30 minutes but first the treadmill gave me some 5 minute warm-up program which I thought would be part of that. But then it stopped afterward. So I did another 20 minutes of interval type stuff - 4 mph for 1 minute, then 4.5 for 1 minute, continue that pattern up to 6 mph, then the same thing going back down, then back up, etc. Then 10 minutes of the same but lowered everything by 0.5 mph. Well, after that it kicked me into a 5 minute cooldown routine that I didn't ask for, and cancelled after 3.5 minutes because it was really ridiculous (kept lowering until it was like 1 mph and I can't even really walk that slowly).

After that, 15 minutes on the massage chair because I can use them as much as I want for no additional cost.