Training Log Archive: ebone

My fall break from training starts today. I'll take a few weeks mostly off, then I'll start building up for next year.

Warm-up for U.S. Long Course Champs. My legs felt pretty good and apparently not significantly tired from the last two days of orienteering. I guess taking it easy on Saturday worked.

I had a good run at the U.S. Long Course Champs, setting a strong but controlled pace early, concentrating pretty well on the map reading, and managing to mostly avoid getting caught in brairs or other time-loss mistakes. My strategy was not to "go quickly" but to "avoid going slowly". The times I got caught in the briars and thereby went slowly--on legs 7, 13 (especially), and 18--corresponded to my poorest leg times. On control 21, however, where my biggest miss occured when I overran and came back to the control, my split time is still not so bad. I had the feeling for most of the race that I ought to be running 15-30 seconds per km faster, but I knew that it was based on memories of being more fit in previous years, and I resisted the temptation to push the envelope. I waited until about the last 4 km to start pushing, and when I discovered on the final couple legs that I had no kick, I knew I had run a well-paced race. I took first place by a couple of minutes.

Blue Long - Splits

Warm-up for the classic race at Fair Hill.

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.

Blue 1 - Splits

Event: US Long Course Champs
 

Warm-up run for the Fair Hill Chapel Sprint. My legs felt fairly good, but not great.

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.

Chapel Sprint - Splits

Set and picked up controls for Shoreline HEE orienteering class at Aldercrest and Brugger's Bog.

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.

The soreness has subsided so much that I feel almost normal today.