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Sunday Mar 18, 2012 #
Event: DVOA Elk Neck State Park
Event: NYC Half Marathon
Running warm up/down 5:00 [2] 0.8 km (6:15 / km)
shoes: O-Icebug Sisu 10.5
While Angelica did the NYC 1/2 Mar., I had the kids at Elk Neck. Waking up real early so I could run hard on pavement at 1:30pm in Malvern on the way home didn't happen, so I thought maybe I could unofficially jog Brown.
And then Magnus & Jenni were there, Jenni just finishing Green, and Magnus about to start Green with a sore shoulder. So I was tempted, and so I taped the ankle well, it felt reasonably strong on some figure-8-in-grass warm ups, so I upgraded my plan to an official run of Green, thinking it might be a little below pace, but hopefully just on the downhills - and running Green vs. an also recovering Magnus, and an always fast Jenni was too tempting, so I was off!
And then Magnus & Jenni were there, Jenni just finishing Green, and Magnus about to start Green with a sore shoulder. So I was tempted, and so I taped the ankle well, it felt reasonably strong on some figure-8-in-grass warm ups, so I upgraded my plan to an official run of Green, thinking it might be a little below pace, but hopefully just on the downhills - and running Green vs. an also recovering Magnus, and an always fast Jenni was too tempting, so I was off!
Orienteering race 42:15 [4] 6.99 km (6:03 / km) +300m 4:59 / km
shoes: O-Icebug Sisu 10.5
Great to be able to race an orienteering course again, 3 weeks after the heaviest-swelling ankle injury I've ever had.
Technically, it was a great run. The really open woods were excellent for seeing the terrain forms far ahead - shapes of re-entrants were esp. helpful. Two biggest errors were a 10 sec. out and back (20 sec penalty) where I'd cut though the woods to a trail when I'd originally planned to go around, and I didn't compensate for how little I'd have to stay on that trail, and another leg actually perhaps 2 in a row) near the end where I hadn't realized how high up a re-entrant a control was, and I came in too low.
Physically, tape was good to provide stability and confidence, but I hadn't taped tight enough (or otherwise wasn't ready) to run downhills hard. Hard running on rooty trails was almost full speed, if nerve-wracking to watch so close, as were all uphills and most flats in the forest. Downhills in the forest were very tentative, with time lost to carefully small-stepping the way down, more slowly the steeper it was. And the more deadfall-strewn flats and side hills were also tentative, fearing a bad landing on the far side of something - though Spring conditons of good ground visibility helped. I'm clearly still away from the foolhardy confidence needed. We'll try stronger taping next weekend (plus another week of strengthening...)
Technically, it was a great run. The really open woods were excellent for seeing the terrain forms far ahead - shapes of re-entrants were esp. helpful. Two biggest errors were a 10 sec. out and back (20 sec penalty) where I'd cut though the woods to a trail when I'd originally planned to go around, and I didn't compensate for how little I'd have to stay on that trail, and another leg actually perhaps 2 in a row) near the end where I hadn't realized how high up a re-entrant a control was, and I came in too low.
Physically, tape was good to provide stability and confidence, but I hadn't taped tight enough (or otherwise wasn't ready) to run downhills hard. Hard running on rooty trails was almost full speed, if nerve-wracking to watch so close, as were all uphills and most flats in the forest. Downhills in the forest were very tentative, with time lost to carefully small-stepping the way down, more slowly the steeper it was. And the more deadfall-strewn flats and side hills were also tentative, fearing a bad landing on the far side of something - though Spring conditons of good ground visibility helped. I'm clearly still away from the foolhardy confidence needed. We'll try stronger taping next weekend (plus another week of strengthening...)
Running 27:17 2.5 km (10:55 / km)
shoes: R-NB 461 Black # 2
Following Oriana on White, where she moved along fairly well, but unfortunately skipped # 3. (37:xx for 1.9km, but so windy trails that AJ's win was 24 min.)