Training Log Archive: Danny Riley

All up to speed now. Short breaks are necessary sometimes. With that in mind, Monday (today) through Wednesday are dedicated for rest; my body is telling me I need it. Weekend plans are leaning towards DVOA, but I'm not 100% sold on it just yet.

Could possibly be getting a vaccination through Cornell sometime soon. Being a TA has its perks.

Event: DVOA Tyler State Park
 

Didn't go to Tyler. Pi day relay was a virtual event that consisted of 4 teams of 4 racing to see which group can run the most digits (that many miles per digit) of pi in a 5 hour window. Every four digits (i.e. 1st-4th, 5th-8th, 9th+ digits of pi) have to be run by all four members of the group. I assume most ran on the streets, some people probably ran on a track. Our team coordinated, and as the only guy I ran a 1, 9, then 5 in that order, totaling to 15 miles over roughly 4 hours. We tied with another team for the most digits completely ran (3.141592653 -- 10 digits). The tiebreaker was how far the last uncompleted digit was ran at the 2:00PM cutoff; both my team and the other team ran the same distance to the nearest hundredth of mile (read: within the same control circle), and the race coordinators decided that both teams each got their pies. My pie? Lemon meringue. Contested only maybe by pumpkin.

3....1 mile run: fourth digit of pi in the pi-day relay.

3.1415...9 mile run: 6th digit of pi in pi day relay. Got about 45 minutes of rest beforehand. Maybe not the best route to do a timed race on when others were probably more strategic with their elevation gain.

3.1415926...5 mile run: 9th digit of pi in pi day relay. Got about an hour and a half of rest beforehand. Overdid it by 0.1 miles, that was valuable time lost. Our team was in second, so I ran a pretty cheap route to stay competitive with the team in first.

Thanks again to Greg for letting me come on out and train with him. Though I didn't do as well as I was hoping, it was extremely valuable to be able to go orienteering 1) at all, 2) with no snow on the ground, 3) close to Ithaca, 4) with one of the best orienteers in the US, 5) on such an incredible map.

That being said, why didn't it go as well as I hoped, I hear you ask? A picture's worth a thousand words:



Mistakes:
1: Could've been smoother
4: Had to confirm that what looked like a waterway was the trail being mapped, maybe 30 seconds
6: A little off with the bearing and the terrain was low enough that I thought I was on the NE side of the hilltop
8: Bad bearing on the slope, quick cleanup, around 30-45 seconds lost
9: Went a little too low then really too low, turned a minor mistake into an awful one. 1:40 lost. Ate a lot of unnecessary contours as a result, can't make errors like that on the slope.
12: Banged my knee on the rocks, all is well now. Ran along a trail and thought I was on the trail south of 12 temporarily, when there was no reason to. 1:50 lost.
17: Thought the cliffs south of 17 were on a narrow hilltop, again, no reason to. 6:30 lost.
21: 20 seconds while confirming the feature

Scale of mistakes: 6:30 lost on 17 alone. 5:00 lost on all others combined. Not. Good.

Biggest takeaway: Most of the mistakes were caused by bad map reading, specifically by thinking I could've overshot the control. Coordinating the memory of the map and the terrain I experienced is a skill I must work on.

Again, many thanks to Greg. Sounds like more trainings like this are in store for the very near future, I can't wait!

C • ugh 3

4 mile warm-up, 8x73s at 5k effort up 7% incline w/ slow jog down recovery, 2 mile cool-down.

Walked the Robinson frisbee golf course, had some fun with friends. Crazy nice weather out. Also very windy and muddy.

...shorts...and....short sleeves....?

Snowy and dark

3.5 mile warmup, 10x15s at mile pace w/ 1:00 jogging recovery, 3 mile cooldown.

Never felt stronger.