Training Log Archive: BorisGr

Running with the track guys around South Ferry to Manhattan Bridge and back.Great day, fun run.

A "Follow-Sergei" exercise at Ansonia Woods in CT in deep snow. Lots of fun!

Running around with Sergei: to Sports Authority, back to Forest Park, then home.

Pick-up football with Sergei and a nunch of random guys in Forest Park. Lots of fun, but perhaps no more football for a while - too sore afterwards.

Running in Forest Park during a snowstorm - about 3 inches fell while we were running. Pretty cool. Face was frozen, but fun otherwise.
Lap 1 (with Greg and Sergei) - 28:40
Lap 2 (with Greg) - 29:30
Lap 3 (by myself) - 26:26.
Maybe skiing tomorrow?

Snow football in the city with friends, including Sergei playing football for the first time. Lots of fun, until my friend Dan slid head first into a metal post...We had to take him to the hospital. He ended up having 14 stitches put into his head....

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Another cold run with the track guys downtown.

Warm-up, cool-down.

Running a 5km test run on the indoor track at the Armory by myself. I have to confess that I attempted one of these two weeks ago outdoors with Sergei and Greg and felt really crappy and DNFed with about 1km left. I was quite angry with myself and did not log it here. So this was another attempt, and i was quite determine to actually finish, which i did. Doing 25 laps on a 200m track gets quite boring, i've got to say....

Running with Dan and Laura on a very cold and windy day in Manhattan. Legs felt tired from the weekend, but not too bad.

VOC/US Team A-Meet, Day 3 - sprint.

Started fast on the very cold day, ended up making a couple of 10- or 15- second mistakes, but otherwise pretty happy with the run and with the way the whole week-end turned out.
Thank you to everyone who came and to Vlad, Joey, Eric, and the rest of the organizers and volunteers!!!

I hope that people had an enjoyable time at the meet, and that other clubs will be interested in making such deals with the US Team in the future.

Warm-up / cool-down

VOC/US Team A-Meet, Day 2.
Things were a little calmer today, but I still felt tired and a bit stressed - doing random crap for the meet right up to the start.
Made a huge error on number 4: the third control was too high, and i never adjusted for it. Stayed way too high on the hillside, ran far past 4, and eventually came back, losing 10 minutes. More or less ok the rest of the way, but quite demoralized.

Cool-down

Event: US Team Fundraiser 3-day
 

VOC/Team A-Meet Day 1 - WRE.
Not too good to run after staying up and stressing out all night, as our flight got cancelled late Friday night. Grr. Messed up the first control by about 2 min, then ran with Alexei and made a few other mistakes, small ones, mostly.

Warm-up, cool-down

Easy run in Forest Park with Zan

Sprints after running

Crunches, push-ups

Warm-up, cool-down, jogging between intervals.

Fast intervals with the guys at the Armory track. 15x200m, 30 sec rest, 5 min rest after every five. Felt pretty strong.
34.8
34.2
33.6
34.2
33.5

33.7
33.5
33.4
33.8
34.2

33.8
33.5
33.7
31.8
30.6

Intervals at the Armory - 4x1200m, with 4 minutes rest. Hard, 4:03, 4:03, 4:04, 4:03.

Jogging between intervals, warm-up, cool-down.

Running by the river with the track guys

Running on a full stomach and sore legs - one Forest Park loop with Sergei (26:24), then a road loop to Woodhaven Blvd. and back.

So, as everyone is summarizing their 2004 seasons, I will join the club. I raced 51 times this year (just about once a week!), all in North America (10 in Canada.)
This season, like others before it, featured bad moments (running off the map on day 2 at West Point), good moments (winning the relay Champs again), and tragic ones (Gari Williams' passing.)
Here are the high- and low-lights:

Boris' Best 5 races:
1) US Relay Champs leg 3 - definitely the highlight of the orienteering year for me - helping team CSU win the Champs for the 2nd time.
2) WCOC A-Meet Day 1 - my first-ever win of an A-Meet day, albeit by single seconds over John F., Alexei, and Kenny.
3) DVOA A-Meet Day 2 - felt fast and accurate the whole way on a classic-length course at Rockhouse, the site of my almost-disastrous Team Trials race of 2003.
4) US Champs Day 1 - a solid race in the snow of Telemark. Did not freak out after losing a minute or so searching for a dropeed SportIdent.
5) Canadian Champs Day 1 - Wil Smith wagered a beer that he'd beat me. My one solid race that whole week, but it was still fun.

My worst 5 races:
1) Billygoat - Kenny and I boldly skipped an early control, losing the lead pack and trusting each other to navigate. Bad idea.
2) Team Trials Day 2 - One of my O-shoes fell apart the day before, so I "ran" the 15 km in a brand new pair, getting bad blisters halfway through. Add to that being slow and stupid, and you have a pretty bad race.
3) Highlander - Injured ankle, DNF.
4) West Point Day 2 - ran off the map in the middle of a solid race. Oops.
5) Canadian Champs Day 2 - Injured back, DNF. First year of multiple DNFs. Hopefully last.

My list of this year's most fun events is already up on the discussion page, but I would like to add the Beer Chase/Culvert Crawl at the 1000-day to that list.

There have been no events that I can think of that would make the "least fun event" list, which is a fantastic sign!

Here's to a great O-year 2005!

Jogging to and from the parking lot by Lake Skannatatti (sp?).

Setting controls

Running the course - very slowly and lethargically, could not get a good rhythm going the whole time.