Training Archive: disorienteerIn the 7 days ending 2006-05-07:
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Sunday May 7 | ||
| orienteering race 2:10:18 [4]5.9 km (22:05 / km) +200m 18:53 / km | |
| shoes: VJ Falcons | ||
| West Point A Meet, Day 2.
Today's race went much better for me than Day 1, although I still made some significant errors. Once again, the 1:15000 scale caused me a bit of difficulty, as did the the amount of unmapped rock. I was just a bit sloppy overall -- I benefitted from the fact that Lex Bundschuh and I ended up together and at the same pace after about Control 6. So, I can't say the weekend was great, but it wasn't terrible. It was my first experience with the West Point map, and now I know what to expect for next time. | ||
Green 2Y - Splits | ||
Saturday May 6 | ||
| Event: West Point A meet | ||
| orienteering 2:08:23 [4]4.95 km (25:56 / km) +200m 21:35 / km | |
| shoes: VJ Falcons | ||
| West Point Meet, Day 1
Don't you hate it when you mess up early? It's like the whole race is a moot point. I spent 30 minutes looking for Control 2 -- I just hadn't gone far enough. I don't run often on 1:15000, and even though I tried to remind myself to keep going, my inclination was to stop too soon. So I just kept reattacking and reattacking a point about, oh, 100m from the actual control. Ellen told me that she and Mairead had trouble with the same control, so that made me feel a little better. Once I got past that and internalized that little lesson, the rest of the course went much better. Lots of side sloping running, but I made good route choices. Just bobbled the second-to-last control by walking by the boulder on the wrong side. Three or four times. [Sigh] If only I had a timeturner, like in Harry Potter -- I would go back and fix some of those dumb mistakes. | ||
| orienteering race (Sprint) 41:00 [4]2.28 km (17:59 / km) | |
| shoes: Nike Air Zoom Kyotees | ||
| West Point A Meet: The Sprint
I wasn't planning on running this -- a brisk walk seemed like enough. But then Janet Tryson went trotting by me and that made me want to at least keep up! (Thanks, Janet!) The hills were a killer, though. Totally out of gas. On Hensley's advice, we went in to Beacon for dinner -- had great pizza at Brother's Trattoria. (Sometime we'll go to the DIA, too.) | ||
| C • Glad to help :-) 2 | ||
Green Y - Splits | ||
Friday May 5 | ||
| orienteering 1:15:00 [3] | |
| Surebridge Map, Harriman State Park
Did some map running/walking, finding some specific points, to get into the map a little more. Fun terrain, but so many hills. Plus, I seem to have developed a bit of rock phobia since my fall in March. We then met up with my friend and former colleague Hensley, who lives in a cozy little spot in Rosendale. Enjoyed relaxing on her deck, then went into New Paltz for dinner at La Statione (excellent Italian). | ||
| hiking 30:00 [4]2.0 mi (14:59 / mi) +300m 6:21 / km | |
| shoes: Nike Air Zoom Kyotees | ||
| Took an afternoon road trip up into Catskills Park. Started up the Overlook Mountain Trail, then decided 1,300 ft of climb over 1.5 miles was probably not a good idea. We then walked around Woodstock for a bit, went into stores redolent of incense. (I did, anyway. Tom waited outside.) | ||
Thursday May 4 | ||
| orienteering 1:00:00 [1] | |
| Surebridge Map -- Harriman State Park.
Tom and I did some map training -- examining features and how they were mapped to get a feel once again for this very different terrain (and mapping style) for us. We're not used to so much unmapped rock. | ||