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Monday Mar 8, 2010 #
11 AM
running 10:00 [3] 1.1 mi (9:06 / mi)
Had to cut it short and walk back, because there was a sharp pain on the outside of my knee. It doesn't hurt when I walk, I just wanted to be safe. Hopefully it was just tight or something.
Saturday Mar 6, 2010 #
10 AM
running warm up/down 20:00 [2] 2.1 mi (9:31 / mi)
before and after middle.
11 AM
orienteering race 40:00 [3] *** 3.83 km (10:27 / km) +105m 9:11 / km
Disappointing that I skipped a control, but it's hard to feel too disappointed given that I had very low expectations. I did a lot of things right, and on most of it I felt calm and in control (always had a plan ahead of time, never changed my plan, never noticed that I wasn't where I thought I was...). So I guess my lack of frustration is just because I felt like it could've gone a lot worse. I just feel like skipping a control is something that SHOULD NOT HAPPEN and I should feel worse about it.
Analysis of skipped control:
Unfortunately, this is not as easy to fix as punching the wrong control. So I did a big long list of reasons I did it, but here I'm only listing the ones I can change:
1) I'd planned 5 (compass) legs ahead, so I could plan the long leg while I was on the trail to 7. Because I liked getting to the long leg after the control-picking and knowing exactly what to do, I don't want to change the number of controls I look ahead.
2) Instead, I could have been better at making sure I always knew exactly where I was on the map, and where I was going on the next leg; just because I've planned the next leg doesn't mean I've memorized it. So the primary problem, as I see it, is that I wasn't in close enough contact with the map.
3) The second-most-disturbing thing was that when I finished, I remembered 2 warning signs I'd noticed and ignored while I was making the mistake: it took me longer than it should have to get to the creek (I saw later it was 100m), and I was way farther to the left than I should have been after such a careful bearing (about 25-50m).
At the time, I ignored them because I could see the hill I was about to run up to 11; I felt secure, because I knew where I was going. In the future, I can only hope that having made such a big mistake when I was where I was about to go will keep me from having this false sense of security.
General observation:
I could notice that even after training for about 3 months solely with non-forest exercises, I felt like I could do the route choice, leg simplification, and reading ahead with a lot less conscious effort than before I got injured. This made me really happy, and I think it'll be enough motivation to make me carry maps with me between classes again. (because now I'm thinking maybe I do have a very slight chance of getting the kittens after all. Especially since I'm living at home next year.)
Analysis of skipped control:
Unfortunately, this is not as easy to fix as punching the wrong control. So I did a big long list of reasons I did it, but here I'm only listing the ones I can change:
1) I'd planned 5 (compass) legs ahead, so I could plan the long leg while I was on the trail to 7. Because I liked getting to the long leg after the control-picking and knowing exactly what to do, I don't want to change the number of controls I look ahead.
2) Instead, I could have been better at making sure I always knew exactly where I was on the map, and where I was going on the next leg; just because I've planned the next leg doesn't mean I've memorized it. So the primary problem, as I see it, is that I wasn't in close enough contact with the map.
3) The second-most-disturbing thing was that when I finished, I remembered 2 warning signs I'd noticed and ignored while I was making the mistake: it took me longer than it should have to get to the creek (I saw later it was 100m), and I was way farther to the left than I should have been after such a careful bearing (about 25-50m).
At the time, I ignored them because I could see the hill I was about to run up to 11; I felt secure, because I knew where I was going. In the future, I can only hope that having made such a big mistake when I was where I was about to go will keep me from having this false sense of security.
General observation:
I could notice that even after training for about 3 months solely with non-forest exercises, I felt like I could do the route choice, leg simplification, and reading ahead with a lot less conscious effort than before I got injured. This made me really happy, and I think it'll be enough motivation to make me carry maps with me between classes again. (because now I'm thinking maybe I do have a very slight chance of getting the kittens after all. Especially since I'm living at home next year.)
3 PM
running warm up/down 15:00 [3] 1.6 mi (9:22 / mi)
felt better than the warmup this morning, which is one of the reasons I decided to run the sprint. Ran up to the start, and then around in the woods.
orienteering 15:15 [4]
This was really fun, but I felt like my legs were made of lead. I don't know what possessed me to do a second course, but at least my leg felt good! I sped up at the end when some kids from Kansas City started racing me to the finish. I guess I could've sped up a little earlier. So maybe a lot of my tiredness was mental.
Friday Mar 5, 2010 #
6 AM
strength 5:00 [1]
7 AM
aqua-jogging 30:00 [2]
went easy
2 PM
running warm up/down 17:00 [3] 1.89 mi (9:00 / mi)
3 PM
orienteering 20:01 [4] 2.55 km (7:51 / km)
Goal: don't completely blow up on the course. That part was a success, and I was very satisfied with how I reacted when things weren't making sense.
Not so good: physical fitness; I started out at what I thought was an easy pace and then had to slow down... woops!
Also I recognized on the first easy legs that there would probably be short, fast direction changes later, but I didn't look enough forward on the course to see where and plan. So while I was sucking wind up the hill to 4 I could've been planning for 8 and 9 so I didn't then have to stop for several seconds to do it.
Not looking enough at contours.
Didn't trust sense of distance.
Not so good: physical fitness; I started out at what I thought was an easy pace and then had to slow down... woops!
Also I recognized on the first easy legs that there would probably be short, fast direction changes later, but I didn't look enough forward on the course to see where and plan. So while I was sucking wind up the hill to 4 I could've been planning for 8 and 9 so I didn't then have to stop for several seconds to do it.
Not looking enough at contours.
Didn't trust sense of distance.
Thursday Mar 4, 2010 #
7 AM
aqua-jogging 1:00:00 [2]
strength 5:00 [2]
knee exercises, did some pushups and v-ups too.
Wednesday Mar 3, 2010 #
running 21:00 [3] 2.33 mi (9:00 / mi)
Planned and visualized routes on map from Lithuania long. I think I got to 15. After 10 it was hard to find good places to read ahead and then actually "do" it.
6 AM
strength 5:00 [1]
no weights
7 AM
aqua-jogging 1:01:00 [2]
very little swimming
Tuesday Mar 2, 2010 #
Note
Plan for this week is hard swimming 30 min. tomorrow during pool-run, then 25 min. easy run w/ map.
Thursday: total of 60-80 minutes of pool-running and elliptical-ing combined
Friday morning: 30-60 min. pool run to loosen up. maybe some non-exhausting swimming
afternoon: Sprint
Sat morning: Hawn, cross-train?
Sunday: cross-train?
Thursday: total of 60-80 minutes of pool-running and elliptical-ing combined
Friday morning: 30-60 min. pool run to loosen up. maybe some non-exhausting swimming
afternoon: Sprint
Sat morning: Hawn, cross-train?
Sunday: cross-train?
6 AM
strength 5:00 [1]
no weights
7 AM
aqua-jogging 1:11:00 [2]
Felt kind of bad at beginning, but it got better as I went.
7 PM
core/legs 21:00 [4]
felt a lot better this evening. I've been tired lately, and the circuit woke me up to study some more.