Sunday Apr 28 |
 | Running 1:24:05 [3]11.73 mi (7:09 / mi) | |
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| Running with William and Kenny by the river. Started out feeling pretty crappy, but was running quite well by the end. Cold and rainy. Again, where is spring?? |
Saturday Apr 27 |
| Running 20:00 [2]2.22 mi (9:00 / mi) | |
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| Warming up and cooling down. |
| Orienteering 54:20 [4]6.6 km (8:14 / km) | |
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| Beech Hill local meet, Blue course. |
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Friday Apr 26 |
| Soccer 1:40:00 [2] | |
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| A lackluster pick-up soccer game in the mud. Cold and windy today. Where is spring??? |
Thursday Apr 25 |
| Soccer 1:00:00 [3] | |
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| An hour of indoor soccer after a failed effort to go to an O-map with Kenny and William. Stuck in traffic... |
Wednesday Apr 24 |
| Running 20:00 [2]2.67 mi (7:29 / mi) | |
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| Warm-up and cool-down for threshold run. |
| Running 19:37 [5]3.1 mi (6:19 / mi) | |
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| Threshold run by the river to make up for missing the Park-O yesterday.
9:41 out, 9:56 back. |
Tuesday Apr 23 |
| Running 47:24 [3]6.5 mi (7:17 / mi) | |
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| River to Fresh Pond, around Fresh Pond and back. Had to skip the Park-O because of classes. Grrrr.... |
Sunday Apr 21 |
| Running 36:04 [2]4.8 mi (7:30 / mi) | |
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| To Harvard Bridge and back along the river. Very sore after the Billygoat. Ran with the Goat map, looking for the best skips. Decided that 6 may have been the best. I wonder if there is a good way to test it. Still, skipping 1 was really fun. |
Saturday Apr 20 |
| Orienteering 1:30:11 [3]11.3 km (7:59 / km) | |
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| The Billygoat. Started off by skipping 1 with the rest of the gang, then quickly found that they were running too fast for me. Kenny and William disappeared after #3, and i stayed with Matthias after that. We were caught by Graeme, Sergey Zhuk, and some really fast Quantico guy (Jon Torrance?) and ran together, trading places for a while. I was at the tail end of the pack most of the time, just trying to hang on. Going to 14, decided that i had to stay with them there or lose the possibility of a 1-2-3-4 CSU finish we'd been hoping for. I pushed up the hill on the trail and caught Graeme and Jon leaving 14. Matthias was behind, and Sergey AWOL. Graeme and i took a different route choice from Jon (?) going into 15, and punched ahead of him. With Graeme to 16 and 17. After hitting the trail on the way to 18, i realize that Graeme hadn't punched 17 yet, and i had a chance to finish ahead of him. I almost blew my chance by standing a few yards from the finish dumbfounded, not seeing the last control...2nd place, 5 minutes behind Kenny.
We had to leave early because of specific commitments in Boston, and not as a snub to organizers. I thought it was a great Billygoat, and really enjoyed the course. |
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Friday Apr 19 |
| Soccer 2:00:00 [3] | |
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| Hadn't played soccer in far too long before today, and ended up playing much longer than i intended. Very sore afterwards, perfect right before the Billygoat. |
Thursday Apr 18 |
| Running 1:03:36 [3]8.87 mi (7:09 / mi) | |
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| Evening run: down Brattle street to Fresh Pond, 2 loops around Fresh Pond, back along the river to the footbridge. |
Wednesday Apr 17 |
| Rollerblading 1:00:00 [2] | |
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| Setting and collecting controls for the Park-O in the 90-or-so degree weather. The park-O was a success, I thought. Mad props to Misha for the course design, especially the spectator control. |
Tuesday Apr 16 |
| Running 45:45 [3]6.3 mi (7:16 / mi) | |
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| Running on the river (Footbridge - N.Beacon street bridge and back) on a beautiful, sunny day while reading a National Geographic magazine. |
Sunday Apr 14 |
| Orienteering 1:33:27 [3]9.72 km (9:37 / km) | |
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| Flying Pig Farsta. A pretty good race for me, with no major errors. Felt very tired for most of the race and a bit ridiculous climbing and sliding up and down the steep reentrants on all fours. |
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Saturday Apr 13 |
| Orienteering 1:31:52 [3]8.72 km (10:32 / km) | |
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| World Ranking Event and Classic race at Flying Pig. A pair of 5-minute mistakes early in the race... I just can't seem to manage a good, clean race so far this season. Lack of winter orienteering shows, as i am in pretty good (though not great) running shape, but keep making mistakes i wasn't making last fall. |
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Friday Apr 12 |
| Orienteering 53:38 [4]5.2 km (10:19 / km) | |
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| Flying Pig Sprint at Camp Whip-Poor-Will. Started ok, but made several mistakes totaling about 6 minutes....Very steep! |
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Blue Sprint - Splits |
Wednesday Apr 10 |
| Running 57:32 [3]8.0 mi (7:11 / mi) | |
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| Running along the Charles, the Longfellow Bridge loop, with a map of last year's Long course champs in Ohio. Hopefully, i'll improve on my performance at West Point this week-end. |
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| Spent about 2 hours rollerblading around the Harvard campus, doing some field-checking and fixing minor things on the map for the Park-O. A beautiful day for this! |
Tuesday Apr 9 |
| Orienteering 20:35 [4]3.37 km (6:06 / km) | |
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| Boston Park-O Race 1 at Pine Banks park. A good, fun race. 2nd place behind Will Hawkins. |
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Pine Banks - Splits |
Sunday Apr 7 |
| Orienteering 1:44:19 [3]11.22 km (9:18 / km) | |
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| West Point, Day 2. A better race than Day 1, but still a couple of significant errors. I did have enough good legs, however, to regain some faith in my orienteering and to have something to build on going into the Flying Pig week-end and, more importantly, into the Boston Park-O series. |
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Blue 2 - Splits |
Saturday Apr 6 |
| Orienteering 2:00:01 [3]9.53 km (12:36 / km) | |
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| West Point A-Meet, Day 1. A horrid run, with several mistakes larger than any i've made in a couple of years. I just couldn't get concentrated and didn't do the basic things i know how to do in an O-race. This race shook my confidence quite a bit and left me more in disbelief than anything else... The bright side is that it does count as 2 hours of O-training on attackpoint. :) |
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Blue 1 - Splits |