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Saturday Aug 12, 2017 #
Running 15:00 [2]
When we arrived at the QOC Summer Short Series event at Oregon Ridge, Francis asked me to lead a warmup, so we did a 10-minute jog, followed by some running drills. A leashless Barney followed along and was nearly trampled.
Orienteering 14:00 [4] *** 1.6 km (8:45 / km)
4c
Francis designed a two-person, four-leg relay, and so I teamed up with Alli. I figured our toughest competition would come from Peggy and Nadim and from Turner and Francis. Alli ran the first leg while I took care of Inara, and then we traded off. Alli ran a solid first leg, and came back about 2 minutes down on Peggy and maybe a minute down on Francis. I caught Francis at 2 but was immediately stung by a wasp on the shin. A lot of cursing ensued. I ran off towards two, but didn't have my head screwed on right. I lost a minute on a parallel error on 2 and another one on 3 - each time Francis was approaching the control by the time I got to it. The end was ok, and I handed off to Alli maybe 10 seconds after Peggy went out.
Orienteering 10:48 [4] *** 1.7 km (6:21 / km)
4c
For the final leg, I went out 3:30 behind Francis (on the same course) and about 2:00 behind Nadim (on a different course). This time I ran cleanly and passed Francis on the way to 2. I could not reel in Nadim, however, and we had to settle for second place. This was a really fun exercise and a great concept. Thanks Francis!
Orienteering 34:00 [2] *** 3.5 km (9:43 / km)
8c
After the relay, Turner, Michael Wood, and I joined up to run around the Brown course that Francis had designed. We took turns leading and talking through our routes. Good training, and no additional wasp bites.
Friday Aug 11, 2017 #
Cross-Training 50:00
Elliptical intervals at work during lunch, 4x4 minutes with 2 minutes rest. Listened to a Beat My Guest episode. I am finding that trivia podcasts make the time on the elliptical go by quicker.
Should I add one of those "Relive" videos of my workout that everyone is adding? I guess it would show the roof of my building...
Should I add one of those "Relive" videos of my workout that everyone is adding? I guess it would show the roof of my building...
Thursday Aug 10, 2017 #
Cross-Training 30:00 [1]
Elliptical at work.
PT 25:00 [1]
Strength routine.
Wednesday Aug 9, 2017 #
Cross-Training 50:00 [1]
A "recovery run" on the elliptical at work. We moved to Silver Spring today!
Monday Aug 7, 2017 #
Running 5:00 [2]
Some jogging around before my relay run.
Orienteering race 17:17 [5] *** 2.5 km (6:55 / km)
10c
COC HPP Fundraiser Relay - Team QOC, Leg 3
Relays are great! I was excited that there was one at the COC's and was happy that we found a way to stick around for it.
Alli and I joined Jon Torrance for an all-QOC Team, with Jon running 1st with all the hotshots, Alli second, and me anchoring. I figured we had a pretty good team and could be in the mix if things went well. I was feeling a bit better this morning after sleeping for close to 13 hours the night before - still not much appetite, but only the occasional stomach cramps now.
Jon went out in the mass start and came back in (I think) 12th place, about 6 minutes down on Damian and Andreas, plus another 5 behind Emily, who had accidentally been given a leg 3 map.
Alli had a solid run on the second leg, and sent me out in 9th, about 9 minutes behind the leading teams.
As is often the case in relays, I was full of adrenaline and took off at Emily-speed from the start, spiking 1 and 2 and immediately passing a couple of teams. I ran into some trouble at 3, where the map showed a full-contour hill that was indistinguishable in terrain from the ground around it. This cost me about 1:20, but I caught another team there. I ran well to 4 and 5 and saw another pack of 3 teams heading to 6. I reeled them in, but then one got ahead again as I took a bad direction out of 6, losing about 30 seconds. I got in front again on the way to 8 and stayed ahead on the trail legs to 9, 10, and the finish.
As I was finishing, to my surprise people were saying that we were first and that there was a team gaining rapidly behind me that we just held off. We ended up winning by about 5 seconds, and Alli is off to a perfect start to her orienteering relay career!
RG: http://orienteering.ca/cgi-bin/reitti.pl?act=map&i...
Results: ottawaoc.ca/Results/20170807_results.html
The whole COC weekend was a really fun experience for me. From the orienteering, to the sightseeing in Ottawa, to the atmosphere, to seeing old and new friends - just excellent! I think we badly need an annual festival like this in the U.S. The Colorado 1000-day used to be like this, but nothing has really come up to take its place.
Thanks to all involved in the organization! We will gladly come back to orienteer here again.
Relays are great! I was excited that there was one at the COC's and was happy that we found a way to stick around for it.
Alli and I joined Jon Torrance for an all-QOC Team, with Jon running 1st with all the hotshots, Alli second, and me anchoring. I figured we had a pretty good team and could be in the mix if things went well. I was feeling a bit better this morning after sleeping for close to 13 hours the night before - still not much appetite, but only the occasional stomach cramps now.
Jon went out in the mass start and came back in (I think) 12th place, about 6 minutes down on Damian and Andreas, plus another 5 behind Emily, who had accidentally been given a leg 3 map.
Alli had a solid run on the second leg, and sent me out in 9th, about 9 minutes behind the leading teams.
As is often the case in relays, I was full of adrenaline and took off at Emily-speed from the start, spiking 1 and 2 and immediately passing a couple of teams. I ran into some trouble at 3, where the map showed a full-contour hill that was indistinguishable in terrain from the ground around it. This cost me about 1:20, but I caught another team there. I ran well to 4 and 5 and saw another pack of 3 teams heading to 6. I reeled them in, but then one got ahead again as I took a bad direction out of 6, losing about 30 seconds. I got in front again on the way to 8 and stayed ahead on the trail legs to 9, 10, and the finish.
As I was finishing, to my surprise people were saying that we were first and that there was a team gaining rapidly behind me that we just held off. We ended up winning by about 5 seconds, and Alli is off to a perfect start to her orienteering relay career!
RG: http://orienteering.ca/cgi-bin/reitti.pl?act=map&i...
Results: ottawaoc.ca/Results/20170807_results.html
The whole COC weekend was a really fun experience for me. From the orienteering, to the sightseeing in Ottawa, to the atmosphere, to seeing old and new friends - just excellent! I think we badly need an annual festival like this in the U.S. The Colorado 1000-day used to be like this, but nothing has really come up to take its place.
Thanks to all involved in the organization! We will gladly come back to orienteer here again.