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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