Thursday Aug 29 |
 | Running 50:55 [3]7.3 mi (6:58 / mi) | |
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| To Prospect Park - 13:38
One loop - 23:49
Back home - 13:28
Had to take a a bathroom stop in the park, felt much, much better afterwards. Still looking to buy new running shoes, but will wait till my first paycheck, I think. |
Wednesday Aug 28 |
| Other (Racquetball) 1:10:00 [2] | |
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| A few games of racquetball on an off-day from running around. |
Tuesday Aug 27 |
| Biking 20:00 [2] | |
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| Biking to and from Prospect Park |
| Running 26:13 [3]3.5 mi (7:29 / mi) | |
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| One loop around Prospect Park with a couple of detours, with Sergei. |
| Running 27:07 [4]3.97 mi (6:50 / mi) | |
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| Hill running with (and without Sergei). I took it fairly easy, since i was pretty tired after the soccer game yesterday. Still ended up doing several loops and hill sprints at pretty good speed. |
Monday Aug 26 |
| Soccer 1:20:00 [4] | |
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| A very intense soccer match, our (and mine, too) best of the summer. Still a 2-2 tie, but we played a man down the whole way and battled for every ball. Lots of fun too! |
Sunday Aug 25 |
| Orienteering 1:33:39 [4]8.3 km (11:17 / km) +265m 9:44 / km | |
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| DVOA Local meet at Mt.Penn - Antietam. My first actual orienteering race in a while, and it showed. Plently of mistakes and obvious evidence of lack of endurance towards the end. A disappointing race. I hope to call this the low point, and to start working upwards from here, focusing on endurance, maintaining concentration, and map reading on the run. |
| Orienteering 20:00 [2]2.5 km (8:00 / km) | |
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| Setting a sprint course and following people around it jogging during the Junior training session that Sergei and i put on after the meet. |
| Orienteering 3:21 [5]0.75 km (4:28 / km) | |
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| Racing the sprint course head-to-head against John F. |
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Blue - Splits |
Saturday Aug 24 |
| Biking 50:00 [2] | |
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| To my aunt's house and back, mostly in the rain. |
Thursday Aug 22 |
| Soccer 45:00 [4] | |
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| First half of soccer game in Brooklyn. Felt great, played well, ran hard. |
| Soccer 25:00 [3] | |
| (injured) |
| Part of the second half of the game - twisted my ankle right at the start of the half and could not play full-speed the rest of the game. It doesn't appear to be sprained, though, which is nice. |
Tuesday Aug 20 |
| Soccer 1:30:00 [3] | |
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| A pick-up in Jersey City. Finally, a nice, cool evening. I felt great and played well. |
Sunday Aug 18 |
| Running 1:41:42 [4]11.7 mi (8:41 / mi) +600m 4:40 / km | |
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| A noble, but pathetic attempt at running the Mt.Penn Half-Marathon in PA. Started off fast (6:15 - first mile), then slowed down for a while and started feeling very good and picking up speed after 3 miles, when i ran off in the wrong direction (opposite the direction of the course) with a group of seven others, including Mihai. We ended up doing a huge loop basically going against the other runners, but i managed to get off course again and ended up cutting off some distance by accident. I did push pretty hard the whole time since I had Mihai to run with. Wish i could run the right way, though... Congrats to Graeme (1st) and Sergei (3rd) on their great runs! |
Thursday Aug 15 |
| Biking 50:00 [2] | |
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| An adventurous ride through the streets of Brooklyn to my aunt's house and back. Had to swerve to avoid potholes, cars, Hassidic Jews marching their 11-child families painfully slowly across the street, and other natural obstacles. |
Tuesday Aug 13 |
| Soccer 1:20:00 [3] | |
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| Soccer practice-game in heat and humidity. Still not feeling totally recovered from the Rogaine, but definitely a lot better than Monday. Will probably take the next couple of days off before the Half-Marathon in Pennsylvania that Sergei convinced me to run this Sunday. |
Monday Aug 12 |
| Soccer 50:00 [3] | |
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| Playing a league soccer game two days after the rogaine was not a good idea. My body definitely has not recovered, and my heart rate would stay high for quite some time every time i made a sprint to the ball. Oh yeah, and we lost, too. |
Saturday Aug 10 |
| Orienteering 7:10:04 [3]28.9 km (14:53 / km) | |
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| DVOA 8-hour Rogaine at Hickory Run. Ran it with Sergey. We got 58 out of 66 controls and 3131 points out of a maximum 3526. Very happy with our performance - maybe 15 min of mistakes the whole way, probably less. Very tough physically, though, including a (i am not kidding) 250m stretch of literally crawling on the ground through thick, thick green. A great experience, though, and nice to feel that i can orienteer again. It's been a while since a real race. Thanks to Sergey for being an awesome partner. |
Thursday Aug 8 |
| Running 49:47 [3]7.08 mi (7:01 / mi) | |
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| Running in Brooklyn: 13:19 to Prospect Park;
22:52 - a loop in the park; 13:36 running back home.
My feet have been hurting quite a bit when i run in my current running shoes. I think they are too narrow for my foot... Might have to invest in a new pair soon. |
Tuesday Aug 6 |
| Soccer 1:10:00 [3] | |
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Monday Aug 5 |
| Tennis 1:00:00 [2] | |
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| Tennis with my brother in Sausalito: i may not have any skills, but at least i can run around the court all day... :) |
Sunday Aug 4 |
| Orienteering 56:14 [4]8.43 km (6:40 / km) | |
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| BAOC local meet at the UC Berkeley campus. A 3-loop motala. |
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Motala - Splits |
Saturday Aug 3 |
| Running 10:13 [3]1.43 mi (7:08 / mi) | |
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| Running from Sausalito to the bottom of the big hill that goes into the Marin Highlands. |
| Running 6:03 [5]0.87 mi (6:56 / mi) | |
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| Hill repeats on the steep hill going up to Marin Highlands.
2:02
1:59
2:02 |
| Running 18:30 [2]2.31 mi (8:01 / mi) | |
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| Jogging between the hill repeats and running back home afterwards. |
| Note | |
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| Ok, i will return to regularly posting training on attackpoint. I've been slacking the last few weeks because of a really chaotic period in my existence, which included a decision to stay in New York this coming year and not move to California as was originally planned. I will now resume more-or-less real training, with the US Relay Champs and US Individual Champs as events to peak for and the Half-Wit Half-Marathon that SerZhyk is making me run at Mt.Penn on August 18 as a good intermediate test of my physical shape. |
Thursday Aug 1 |
| Running 52:35 [3]7.25 mi (7:14 / mi) | |
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| A run through the Marin Highlands above Sausalito - very hilly, my legs feel quite weak after the first few hills. |