Training Archive: the kempsterIn the 7 days ending 2008-05-10:
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Friday May 9 | ||
| cycling 30:00 [1] | |
| biking to and from woodroffe for the ultimate tourni | ||
| ultimate 1:40:00 [2] | |
| Not exactly sure of the time but we played 5 games of 30min, and the girls go to play a lot since there were only 5 of us and 3 had to be on at once. Never actually won a game, but it we had tons of fun!!! the other teams were pretty intense... maybe even a little too intense...
we had one play that really messed them up called Delta Squadron! it was sick!!! the handler would yell it out and then everybody would just run around in circles pretending to be fighter spaceship thingymadooers. somebody was also supposed to run deep... but that didn't quite work when we tried it. great day!! oh and i got a cool flashflight frisbee for getting the most points!!!! | ||
| C • Delta Squadron 2 | ||
Thursday May 8 | ||
| orienteering 59:00 [4] | |
| Welcome score-o meet at the sportsplex. had a really fantastic race and got all of the controls with 1min to spare. had a guy following me pretty much the whole entire time which was annoying, but it also made me run faster. bobbled a few controls, but nothing major. | ||
| running warm up/down 10:00 [1] | |
| easy run around to warmup for both of the races... had a non-existant cooldown... woops | ||
| running race 5:50 [5] 1.5 km (3:53 / km) vdot: 45.8 | |
| Wow... what an epic steeplechase failure... started out alright, until i got to the 2nd lap and i lead with the wrong foot for one of the barriers. i usualy lead with my right foot, but i ran out of space and ended up jumping with my left one... that left my right leg kinda confused and i ended up smashing my knee against the barrier, but thankfully only stumbling, and not falling over it. that was the barrier right before the water pit... i don't even know what happened there, but i ended up going for a very chilly swim. it was not so nice. of course, everybody stands right by the water pit cause it's the most exciting part of the whole track meet, and when i came up gasping and spluttering everybody was just like "oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh!!!!!!"
well i'm glad i could entertain all of you!!!! geepers!!! took the lead for part of the race cause the girl ahead died right after the 3rd lap. couldn't hold it tho cause i was totally numb and i was bleeding all over the place and completely exhausted. dropped to second, and then 2m from the finish line, a girl sprinted past me which sucked, but i'm just glad that i completed the race!!! | ||
| C • OH NO!!!! well i hope your ... 2 | ||
| running race 5:20 [5] 1.5 km (3:33 / km) vdot: 50.7 | |
| Drafted for a lot of this race behind the girl who was in 2nd, and then passed her 200m from the end. felt kinda bad about it, but it was still a fun race. | ||
| cycling 30:00 [2] | |
| biking home from the meet. really strong wind the whole way which sucked. | ||
Wednesday May 7 | ||
| ultimate 25:00 [1] | |
| had fun trying to cover a guy who was a good foot taller then me... | ||
| orienteering 1:15:00 [1] | |
| up at pink lake on the 1:15 000 map... definitely very tricky!!! was hard to tell exactly where some of the controls were but still great training. | ||
Tuesday May 6 | ||
| cycling 45:00 [1] | |
| Took it easy there and back and the bike i was using was really uncomfortable. decided to not risk my life and went down maitland to the bike path instead... and i think it was faster!! yay!! | ||
| running 40:00 [2] | |
| warmup run and cooldown
2min rest between each interval | ||
| running intervals 20:00 [4] | |
| 5 x 4min hard
had another guy behind me the whole time we couldn't quite catch me, but kept pushing me the whole way. pretty tough, but fun!! | ||
Monday May 5 | ||
| cycling (mountain) 1:15:00 [2] | |
| Started out at P3 and biked all the way out to some road along the bottom of Pink Lake Hill... then back to the sand pit for some intense biking!!! took a bit of a tumble going down this rather steep and gravely hill which wasn't so great... but with my amour... i am invincible!!! hooray!!!! at least... i like to think so... got a bit of trail rash, but it was worth it. got some air going off a few drops... great first ride of the year for sure!!! | ||
Sunday May 4 | ||
| Note | |
| High School Adventure Challenge | ||
| C • Race story? 8 | ||
| canoeing 59:00 [4] | |
| Almost a whole hour of leg numbing, knee grinding, arm exhuasting, hand freezing paddling... but we almost won that leg!!! the race started out with a spring down to the beach to grab a canoe and get out onto the water without tipping. with super-paddling-guy-paul in the stern we were out with the leader in no time. we had to go through a canal before coming out into a much larger bay with foot high breaker waves. it was exciting, excpet that i had to sit in a very very cold puddle in the middle/bottom of the canoe... not so much fun at all. cruised right on back to the beach with the current... surfing the waves... and we were leading until we got to the beach... that was just a disaster. stefan, who was in the front, jumped out, or at least tired to, but his legs were numb and he couldn't really stand up straight. so then i stumbling out of the boat and i couldn't feel my legs at all, and i looked down at my feet, and my ankles were totally rolled outwards and i couldn't get my feet to land flat on the ground and i was so scared and it looked like i had broken my ankles and my goodness i never wanna hafta see my feet do that again!!!!
so yeah... we had to run back up to the transition area on very wobbly legs and 2 teams passed us.... shucks!!! | ||
| C • Welcome Meet 3 | ||
| cycling (mountain) 1:07:00 [4] | |
| Hopped onto our bikes and headed off into the woods for the second leg of the race. the trails were super duper muddy, but that just made things more fun and grueling!! for one control point, we had to drop our bikes and run through this swamp that was up past my waist... that was a bit chilly for sure!! powered up the hills as best i could with all the slipping and sliding, and thankfully, no huge wipeouts on the downhills either!! | ||
| orienteering 2:26:00 [3] | |
| the map... my goodness... it was more of a drawing, or one of those brochures you might pick off of the front desk intending to go for a little hike on the trails but then never get around to it... spent a whole 2 1/2 hrs out in the friggin woods with a friggin drawing trying to find controls that weren't even in the right spot!!!
can you tell that i hated it?? started out alright, getting the first 3 controls bang on, but then trying to find the sugar shack, we kinda ending up wayyyy wayyyyyyy wayyyyyyyyyy out by the highway and had to backtrack, and yeh, it was just a mess. then we came to the advanced controls where we had to find a point on the trail, follow a specific bearing for a specific amount of meters and then the control should be there!! well... the control always seemed to be a lot farther than what they said it should be... and not quite on the same bearing so we spend quite a lot of time trying to find all 4 of the advanced ones, and only ended up getting 3. it was just horrific. there were trails that weren't on the 'map' and it wasn't to scale at all, so trying to attack from a different spot didn't work one little bit and oh my goodness... for once, i was ready and very willing to just give up!!! felt like a let my team down a little bit cause i was supposed to be the great orienteerer, and then we went and wandered around for a really long time... it sucked... but finishing the whole entire thing did feel great at the end!!! | ||
| C • Orienteering 2 | ||