Friday Nov 11 |
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| Event: US Long Course Champs
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 | Running - Trail / Grass warm up/down 12:00 [2]1.71 mi (7:01 / mi) +20m 4:12 / km | |
| shoes: Salomon trail/AR shoes |
| Warm-up run for the Fair Hill Chapel Sprint. My legs felt fairly good, but not great. |
| Orienteering race (sprint) 13:08 [4]*** 2.65 mi (4:57 / mi) +80m 2:49 / km | |
| spiked:13/13c shoes: VJ Twister (US size 10.5) - 1 |
| A good run for me in the Chapel Sprint at Fair Hill. My legs felt pretty good--not really strong, but not heavy either--and I was pretty clean. The course and terrain were fun. |
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Chapel Sprint - Splits |
Thursday Nov 10 |
| Orienteering (control hanging/pick-up) 20:00 [2]*** 2.67 km (7:29 / km) +40m 6:58 / km | |
| shoes: Brooks Cascadia - 1 |
| Set and picked up controls for Shoreline HEE orienteering class at Aldercrest and Brugger's Bog. |
Wednesday Nov 9 |
| Running - Trail / Grass (trail) 1:30:00 [2]8.9 mi (10:06 / mi) +400m 5:31 / km | |
| shoes: Brooks Cascadia - 1 |
| Ran with Roger and Aaron V. at Cougar Mtn. from Red Town. Roger led us on a route that had pretty modest climb, but the climb and pace of the run are a guess. I felt fine for nearly an hour, after which my left calf hurt some. It didn't feel injured, but generally crampy and stiff, as often happens after a long race. It didn't get significantly worse during the last half hour, so I was able to finish the run just fine. |
Tuesday Nov 8 |
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| The soreness has subsided so much that I feel almost normal today. |
Monday Nov 7 |
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| To my surprise, I feel substantially less sore today than yesterday....but I have a horrible poison sumac rash on my right wrist. |
Sunday Nov 6 |
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| I feel quite sore today, but not so much that it's hard to walk or go up and down stairs. Since this was a longer race distance than I'm trained for, I paced myself pretty conservatively, and I had a fair amount in my legs at the end. |
Saturday Nov 5 |
| Orienteering race (aerial photo course) 45:00 [2]*** 3 km (15:00 / km) +15m 14:38 / km | |
| shoes: Brooks Trance 4 - 1 |
| USARA Champs; navigation time trial. I took my time plotting the course, which involved drawing lines and measuring distances at various bearings. The course allowed a fair amount of running on roads and faint trails, but there was enough cross-country travel that my legs still got even more chewed up by the palmetto. I took my time but still made one significant (5-10 minute) mistake. Fortunately, I was able to relocate in-situ. I ended up with the second fastest time for the course. |
| Cycling race (mtb trail / dirt/paved ro) 4:15:00 [2]** 20.0 mi (12:44 / mi) +300m 7:34 / km | |
| shoes: Nike ACG cycling shoes |
| USARA Champs; second bike. We had one big (about 30-minute) time loss, but otherwise we did fine. |
| Paddling / Rowing race (canoe-aking) 2:00:00 [2]* 10.0 mi (11:59 / mi) +0m 7:27 / km | |
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| USARA Champs; second paddle. The river was onobstructed, so we made quicker progress through this section. Also, our boat had a broken thwart, so the organizers let us take a faster boat. |
| Orienteering race 20:00 [2]** 2 km (10:00 / km) +5m 9:53 / km | |
| shoes: Brooks Trance 4 - 1 |
| USARA Champs; score-O at Lettuce Lake Park, using a simplified and stylized map that I had a lot of trouble getting into, because some features were smoothed whereas others had added bends that didn't exist. After taking an unmapped trail and blowing by one control, I relocated and went back for it, after which everything went smoothly. |
| Paddling / Rowing race (canoe-aking) 45:00 [2]* 3.6 mi (12:29 / mi) | |
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| USARA Champs; second part of second paddle, from Lettuce Lake Park back upstream to the finish. My arms felt profoundly tired at this point, probably in large part because I used my SRS wing paddle for this race, and I almost never train with it. |