Saturday Nov 12 |
 | Running - Trail / Grass warm up/down 8:00 [2]1.03 mi (7:46 / mi) +5m 4:45 / km | |
| shoes: Salomon trail/AR shoes |
| Warm-up for the classic race at Fair Hill. |
 | Orienteering race (classic) 1:07:23 [2]*** 9.9 km (6:48 / km) +225m 6:07 / km | |
| spiked:15/21c shoes: VJ Twister (US size 10.5) - 1 |
| Ran the classic at Fair Hill. I took it easy to save my legs for the U.S. Long Course Champs on Sunday, and I focussed on trying to be as smooth as possible through all parts of the course and terrain. I had a fairly clean run, but certainly not a perfect run--both a confidence-builder and a warning for tomorrow's map-reading-concentration test. |
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| Blue 1 - Splits |
Friday Nov 11 |
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| Event: US Long Course Champs |
 | 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. |