Training Log Archive: Ari-o

Skiing! Sort of. No drive way north today, but we found some slushy fast grass out at Weston to play around on. Pictures from Jackson and Craftsbury look amazing, making plans.

C • Craftsbury 1

Good decision this morning not to run hills in slush. So I didn't get sick. Had errands in the afternoon.

Added in some vert for running back up Prospect Hill a couple of times that the Garmin did not detect. Counting contours! Silly garmin.

6900m of climb so far in November. That's more than the entirety of January, March, April, May or June. (FWIW, highest month, working at Lakes September of 2013, was 17367m.)

On pace for just shy of 15k. And it's not completely far-fetched! If there's enough snow for some skin mornings at Wawa or triple Tripolis, that could add up! And I'm down to needing just 390m/day for the rest of the year to hit 100.

The other thing is that I am probably on pace to hit 400 hours this year. That's nice, too. #noinjuries

Vertical mile again. Cold—30—and breezy so a good day for it. Ran pretty even splits, including the fastest on the last leg (15:00 even), for my fastest time (1:34:03, 1:35:08, 1:33:52), but pretty even since this is less a race and more a long workout. Felt good before, during, after, but we'll see how tomorrow shapes up. Nice to knock out four days of vert in an hour and a half.

It turns out other people were doing 100, and heard that 114 was a VM, so they did 114. I'm a good influence!

Legs pretty destroyed from the weekend, and a beautiful day for a bike ride (and maybe the last for a while). Not too much time, so out up Eastern, then out to Lexington and back on Trapelo. Lots of lights on Trapelo, and a wire problem on Mount Auburn, but I made it!

Event: NEOC: Mt. Wachusett
 

Adventure day! Warming up for the O, then running a hill aftertimes.

About a week ago I asked Alex if she wanted to go to the Wachusett O. Apparently she was still coming off the marathon because the answer was something like "well, probably, if I'm up for it."

I took that as a yes. Headed out to Wawa and signed up for the Blue. Since the spring I've orienteered one course at Pawtuckaway, so there might be a little rust. But what a day! 40 and sunny and beautiful.

Started a minute behind Alex up a big hill. Ran the road to a wall, and caught Alex who had gone diagonally, and we bumbled to the control. 2 should have been easy, but I overran it on the trail and looped around looking for it, lost a couple minutes. But 3 was a long trail and road run and I made the best of it, attacking well but hesitating towards the control. 4 I lost another couple of minutes, taking a good route but then flubbing the distance, until I finally found the right rock and the control.

5 was good, mostly on trails, although my attack was again not great. 6 went well, down the trail around the cliffs, good attack on a bench, right to the control. Short leg to 7 that I totally flubbed. Didn't help there was another guy looking around for it; I went back to 6 and found Alex, who then helped me find the control, which was a bit further than I'd run (I think, per Strava).

I was tired of using Alex as a crutch, so she went to run through green, I went on my own magical mystery tour down the hill to a road. The large navigation to the next control looked hard; not much to nav by or get caught by. And the road was great. Nice run down except for some skin left on a rock, then a good run on the road, and then a good attack up a cliff (map in mouth) right to the control. Per Strava flyby, it was about 1m faster than Alex's run (and that's including my slow-but-deliberate attack, by this point I was actually doing some orienteering).

Ran to a road, trail, stream, 9, followed the stream to a bend and looked right at 10, Powerline to wall to 11, three streams to 12, flubbed 13 a bit not reading the contours well (shallow saddle looked like a hill with the edge of the map nearby and open contours) and off to 14 and the finish. Won the course (unless someone faster started later) and had a lot of fun. Excellent terrain (with the leaves down), lots of climb, would make a terrific Billygoat (last time: 1996).

Warmup-Cooldown

Double pole test at Annursnac.

Or, will my noodle arms work after 3h of classic yesterday?

Answer: kind of.

First trip up the hill (after the warm up) was struggly, with my right shoulder definitely feeling yesterday. Second was faster. Third, catching Greg, was faster still, which meant I had to do a 4th. But I was cooked after the third! 4th was slow. 3:27, 3:23, 3:16, 3:33. Would be interesting to see what I could do with sharp pole tips not coming off of 5h of training in two days.

But a nice day nonetheless.

Interstitials, which had a bit of climb.

Blue - Splits