Wednesday May 31 |
 | Cross Training (Elliptical) 40:00 [2] | |
| shoes: bruce |
| 3/2 reverse session; 14/12, around 8.5. Red Sox - Blue Jays again. |
Tuesday May 30 |
| Running 1:05:00 [2] 8.18 mi (7:56 / mi) | |
| shoes: henri dutilleux |
| Museum - Anderson loop. Very sluggish; at the beginning was suffering from sore quads, sore knees, asthma, indolence, and leprosy. By the end, merely the sore quads remained. (Yes, the leprosy was that bad.)
The secret to enjoying a run along the Charles is: 1) have it be borderline foggy and getting dark so you can't see too far; 2) intend to turn back at every bridge so it's never too far (initial plan was to go around the Museum bridge and then back via Longfellow, which must be at least 2.2 miles total); and 3) be about to leave Cambridge so you start enjoying it for its own sake again. low 60s F, dewpoint in the low 50s. |
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| C • I've got to try this... 4 |
Monday May 29 |
| Cross Training (Elliptical) 35:00 [2] | |
| shoes: bruce |
| Easy at 9:10pm. Red Sox - Blue Jays. Boring game. After barely being able to walk due to sore knees (both of them) for most of the day after yesterday, it was nice to get a bit of motion in. Tentative diagnosis: tight quads. |
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| C • quad stretches 5 |
Sunday May 28 |
| Running 1:47:57 [3] 13.9 mi (7:46 / mi) | |
| shoes: henri dutilleux |
| Davis - Pine Hill, Skyline loop, and return. Should have brought water, but underestimated the effect of even the relatively mild conditions (guess: 73F dropping to 69F, dewpoint 53F; probably a little more humid under the trees) and got reasonably dehydrated. 58:56 for the Skyline: slow, and the light was sketchy at the end (8:40pm at the end of the Skyline loop), so that I was probably backing off a little. Knees not hurting from previous problem, just from the pounding that the Skyline loop gives them every time... sometimes I wonder why I enjoy this.
Edited to add: maybe this wasn't so slow after all. My PB for the Skyline is 56:54; adjusted best in 55:49 (allowing for the detour when the reservoir was being repaired), both in 2001-02. This is the best time for a while, although I've run the loop much less frequently recently. |
Friday May 26 |
| Cross Training (Elliptical) 35:00 [4] | |
| shoes: bruce |
| 10.5ish/16. 773 in 30 + 5 warmdown. Knees good when warmed up, but feel pulled out of place when cooled. Uncomfortable when sitting. |
Wednesday May 24 |
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| Event: CSU Pine Hill
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| Running 18:00 [3] 2.5 mi (7:11 / mi) | |
| shoes: henri dutilleux |
| Davis - Pine Hill; usual route (now more accurately measured with Gmaps Pedometer). 56F, sunny, still. Knees not too bad; definitely better than two days ago. |
| Orienteering 22:30 [4] *** 3.25 km (6:55 / km) | |
| spiked:9/10c shoes: sarva |
| CSU Pine Hill. Thick enough vegetation by this time of year that the main aim was maximizing trail running. That I did. First (partly due to local knowledge) by about 2:30 over John. |
| Running 12:00 [1] * 1.2 mi (10:00 / mi) | |
| shoes: sarva |
| Warmdown; partly through the forest but mostly on trails. |
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Sprint - Splits |
Tuesday May 23 |
| Cross Training (elliptical) 55:00 [3] | |
| shoes: bruce |
| Knees still sore, so more non weight-bearing guaranteed stable exercise for me. Red Sox - Yankees; a bit of a disappointing game. 50 min at 3min forward / 2 min backwards on levels 14 / 12 at around 10-11mph. |
Monday May 22 |
| Running 28:00 [2] 3.77 mi (7:25 / mi) | |
| shoes: henri dutilleux |
| Museum - Mass Ave loop. Knees not feeling good; cut short a longer loop. Sunset, cool (breezy, low 50s). |
| Cross Training (Elliptical) 30:00 [2] | |
| shoes: henri dutilleux |
| With some backwards sections. My theory that the knee pain is due to muscular imbalances (strong quads relative to other muscles) due to too much uphill running and cycling, along with stair climbing) received support from the fact that the knees felt distinctly better during the backwards sections, and feel better afterwards than they have for a little while. |
Sunday May 21 |
| Running 50:00 [1] 7.2 mi (6:56 / mi) | |
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| Starr King and Waumbek. Started in the fog; cleared later in the day (and then the blackflies started to come out). Beat the rain at the end. Really around 3:45.
Comment: cost for weekend: $50 car hire plus $30 gas (plus food). Cost to go to STL would have been (for two) $680 air fare plus probably at least the same in car hire and a little less in gas. Orienteering (non-locally) is expensive... |
Saturday May 20 |
| Running 1:05:00 [1] 9.5 mi (6:50 / mi) | |
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| Moosilauke; really fairly relaxed (just under 6 hours); entered at roughly the running equivalent. Knees not too bad. Summit in the fog; clouds around 4500' and some light rain. Trails inordinately wet. |
Friday May 19 |
| Running 30:00 [1] 2.5 mi (11:59 / mi) | |
| shoes: kaija rautavaara |
| Fells; with Claire. Trying out new(ish) shoes; up Pine Hill and down to the south reservoir and back. |
Thursday May 18 |
| Note | |
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| Knees still sore 48 hours later; taking it easy just to be sure. I suspect the new orthotics plus too much exercise in the Sunday - Tuesday period, plus 11 miles on hard surfaces after a quite tough O sprint. May as well take the time off just to be sure. |
Wednesday May 17 |
| Note | |
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| Two little things to watch: knees seem increasingly sore after running (particularly the left one); it can be slightly painful to keep them bent in the four or five hours after running. Also, about 50 minues into the run home yesterday, my right arch was very sore; that seemed to fade after a little stretching, and I suspect it of being a brief mild cramp combined with some bruising, but it would be good to watch that too.
Added at 2pm: knees are still sore 18 hours later, to the point where walking down stairs is a little tricky. Not good. The hypochondriac in me began googling 'arthritis'. |
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| C • didn't you just get your ortho... 5 |
Tuesday May 16 |
| Orienteering 18:10 [3] *** 2.95 km (6:09 / km) | |
| spiked:12/15c shoes: sarva |
| CSU Cat Rock sprint. Great course; really wet and nasty; lots of little trails going everywhere, and the rain finally over. Got Ross by a second for the win. |
| Orienteering 16:36 [3] *** 2.95 km (5:38 / km) | |
| spiked:14/15c shoes: sarva |
| Rerun. Probably should have been about 16:10 but made a novel mistake running to 15, trying to avoid the trail that was under 18 inches of water the first time around. |
| Running 1:28:00 [3] 11.52 mi (7:38 / mi) | |
| shoes: henri dutilleux |
| Back through Waltham and along the Charles as far as the footbridge, then down Green St to Central Square. Nice evening; paths still wet after the four days of rain. Time is, as always, a complete guess. Route. |
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Sprint - Splits |
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Sprint - Splits |
Sunday May 14 |
| Orienteering 2:03:00 [2] ** 8.0 mi (15:22 / mi) | |
| spiked:15/15c shoes: sarva |
| Genesis AR 12 hour series race 1. With Jen and John. Orienteering: 1 individual control, then 11 easy-ish (orangeish) controls on the NW section of Shepherd Lake. (67 minutes for this section). We had a good routing going, and spiked everything. 10 minutes clear of the field already at the end of the O map section 50 minutes in. Then 3 CPs on the topo at the tops of various hills. Finish at the NE end of Monksville Reservoir. |
| Paddling 1:39:00 [3] | |
| spiked:4/4c |
| Down the reservoir, up the reservoir. A 500 yard gratuitous portage was irritating but entertaining. 15 minutes clear during this section. |
| Bike 2:12:00 [3] ** | |
| spiked:6/6c shoes: shimano m-180b |
| Across to Ringwood (town), then up the hill above it, back onto the bike-o map, up a couple of hills, down the pipeline trail (wet as usual), a little searching for the last CP, then back in to finish. No gear check, fortunately... :)
Pace clearly was more relaxed than last week. We had a 15 minute break for much of the race, and were clear of the field from the first five minutes. I therefore feel much less sore than last weekend despite the additional distance. In addition, most of the extra time (for me) was not on foot (since I ran the first and last sections last week, adding up to more than 1:40 anyway). Should be able to run tomorrow if the weather in Boston cooperates. Weather at Ringwood was fine, and even a few shafts of sunshine; weather in Boston has been continual rain and drizzle for 72 hours. |
Saturday May 13 |
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| Event: Pre-Billygoat Sprints
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| Orienteering 11:33 [3] *** 1.8 km (6:25 / km) +50m 5:38 / km | |
| spiked:4/6c slept:3.0 shoes: sarva |
| BG Sprint 1, Macedonia Brook SP, Kent, CT. Third behind Ross and Boris (nice to see you, my friend, if only briefly). Avoided the green a little too much because it was printed too darkly; then sloppy for a little while and too low, into the steep rocky slope, running from 5 to 6. |
| Orienteering 11:14 [4] *** 1.9 mi (5:54 / mi) +85m 3:14 / km | |
| spiked:5/5c shoes: sarva |
| Sprint 2. Very clean run, with the possible exception of cutting a little far right 2-3 trying to keep feet dry (it was probably not necessary). First time I've won a sprint against these kinds of clowns (Boris, John, Ross, Irish Billygoat wannabes, and so on) for a long time. Although I suppose my best race at WUOC in 2004 was also at the sprint. Maybe it's time to rethink the whole 'I can't sprint' thing. |
| Running 13:00 [1] * 1.3 km (10:00 / km) | |
| shoes: sarva |
| Warmup / mostly warmdown. |
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Sprint #1 (Yellow) - Splits |
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Sprint #2 (Green) - Splits |
Thursday May 11 |
| Running 1:04:00 [3] 8.5 mi (7:32 / mi) | |
| shoes: henri dutilleux |
| Alewife - Menotomy Rocks via Belmont trail (2.55 miles via a slight map memory error) and Menotomy - Central via Minuteman, Alewife, Fresh Pond, river to the footbridge, then past my old apartment and along Green St. Drizzle, getting heavier on the way back; 48F, almost still. http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=177935 |
| Orienteering 11:50 [4] *** 2.3 km (5:09 / km) | |
| spiked:12/14c shoes: henri dutilleux |
| CSU Menotomy sprint. John won in 11:14; Ross third in 12:34. Menotomy is a wonderful little area, particularly with good course-setting, and this was good - thanks Ian. Would have been a little faster with sloppier punching and also with o-shoes: a little damp on the hillsides for running shoes. Fairly clean. Incidentally, either the distance or the time must be wrong because I certainly wasn't quite doing 5:08/km. |
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| C • menotomy scale 1 |
Tuesday May 9 |
| Bike 1:05:00 [2] | |
| shoes: shimano m-180b |
| With Jen in the morning at the area cut off by Route 3 in Lexington. (here). A little shorter than planned; the loop there is sweet, though. Beat the rain easily. |
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| C • hmmm 5 |
Monday May 8 |
| Running 29:00 [2] 3.77 mi (7:41 / mi) | |
| shoes: henri dutilleux |
| Museum / Mass Ave loop. Took it gently, concentrating on form. I'm sure my shoulders aren't even when I run. Nice running weather: 51F, close to still, sunset. |
Sunday May 7 |
| Orienteering 1:28:08 [3] *** 9.58 km (9:12 / km) +440m 7:29 / km | |
| spiked:15/22c shoes: sarva |
| West Point A meet day 2, Blue. After a 2 1/2 minute 'error' in the twilight zone of random mapping at control 1 (Swampfox, if he has anything to do with the area, even in 1979, should consider suing somebody or something for whatever substance made him miss a wall or two...), most of the rest was fairly clean. I was pleased to spike two of the three side-hill controls and to stop a little below one of them but exactly in line. Things got a little sloppy towards the end, although again some of the mapping wasn't at 2006 standards in places.
I did walk about four or five hills, but had more energy than expected, something that suddenly started five minutes before my start and kept going. Obviously chocolate chip peanut butter granola bars have more power than it would appear. Pleased with the run, yesterday considered. Beat Msgr. Frederickson by a couple of minutes. |
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Blue 2 - Splits |
Saturday May 6 |
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| Event: West Point A meet
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| Running 54:00 [3] | |
| shoes: sarva |
| Genesis Sprint AR 1, Harriman. Ride and tie section; John Hartley on the bike pulling me most of the way. Some dumb errors due to running too fast probably cost us 6 or 7 minutes; 4 minutes behind after the section. High 50s, threatening clouds clearing after 5 minutes of rain. |
| Running 20:00 [2] | |
| shoes: sarva |
| Two hike-a-bike sections to Seven Lakes Dr. |
| Bike 28:00 [3] | |
| shoes: sarva |
| MTB on Seven Lakes Dr to and from the paddle TA just past Tiorati Circle. |
| Paddling 52:00 [3] | |
| shoes: sarva |
| On Lake Tiorati, up and down the length of the lake. |
| Orienteering 50:00 [2] ** 4 km (12:30 / km) +300m 9:05 / km | |
| spiked:3/3c shoes: sarva |
| Trek on the Anthony Wayne side of the Palisades. Up the hill and down again. Took a circuitous route down the hill, just to be sure of not getting stuck in the green; since the team behind us did so also, we were fine. Won by 3 minutes over second (ARFE) and 9 minutes over third (EMS 2). |
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| C • Congrats 2 |
| Orienteering 20:42 [3] *** 2.8 km (7:24 / km) +110m 6:11 / km | |
| spiked:13/18c shoes: michael |
| Fundraiser sprint at Camp Buckner at West Point. Took a fall on loose leaves four controls in due to wearing non-spiked shoes, resulting in a nice bruise on a log. Legs not full of energy; stomach still full of not-yet processed energy in sandwich form. Plus switching to 1:5000 from 1:25000 isn't immediate. |
Thursday May 4 |
| Running 42:00 [3] 5.73 mi (7:19 / mi) | |
| shoes: henri dutilleux |
| BU Bridge loop. Warm afternoon; heart not in it. |