Training Log Archive: Tundra/DesertIn the 7 days ending Oct 12, 2002:
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Saturday Oct 12, 2002 #
Warmup 3:00 [1] 0.0 km
Stretching. The tendon felt OK. I decided to not do any interval work because of it, in favor of a long run.
Easy running 2:57:46 [2] 31.6 km (5:38 / km) +640m 5:06 / km
Home –> Rancho 2VWU3MHJ7 –> Chamise –> Rhus Ridge –> Los Altos Hills: Moody –> Altamont –> Natoma –> Elena –> Purissima –> Viscaino –> LAH City Hall –> Fremont –> Los Altos: First –> Cuesta –> Mtn View: Cuesta –> Sleeper –> Sun Mor –> Los Altos: Fallen Leaf –> home. Put on enough sunscreen to survive a small nuclear explosion. Slow.
Friday Oct 11, 2002 #
Easy running 9:00 [2] 1.2 mi (7:30 / mi) +20m 7:08 / mi
Warmed up for a threshold session, on the same treadmill.
Warmup 2:00 [1] 0.0 km
Stretching.
Race pace running 55:59 [4] 8.41 mi (6:39 / mi) +85m 6:27 / mi
The threshold session: 1' @ 7.5; 4×(12' @ 9.5–9.7) with 2' rest in-between @ 5.5–5.9; 1' cooldown @ 4.5. Incline was 1% for the first two, 0.5% for the third one, and 0 for the last one, which was faster (see below). I have been setting the incline to 1% per my textbook (so as to account for the lack of air resistance), but I now feel that 0.5% is the more proper correction—9.5 at 1% feels like 9.9 at 0.5%, and I'm super-threshold at 9.9 on the road. Zero, OTOH, is for patsies—clearly easier than road for the same speed.
Felt really bad for the second one, better for the third one, and very easy for the last one—kept increasing the speed and finished at about 11.0.
Felt really bad for the second one, better for the third one, and very easy for the last one—kept increasing the speed and finished at about 11.0.
Note
As I walked the 3.1 km home from the #55 stop, I felt the tendon hurt fairly seriously. Stopped at a gas station but they had no ice. Maybe not going farther in search for ice was an mistake.
Thursday Oct 10, 2002 #
Easy running 9:07 [1] 1.5 km (6:05 / km)
To Baylands.
Warmup 1:00 [1] 0.0 km
Short intervals 50:57 [5] 8.0 km (6:22 / km) +190m 5:42 / km
16×(250 with 12 m climb as 4 knolls) at Baylands, 250 m jog back. A bathroom break after #6. Slight headwind until #12, changing to a slight tailwind. 51.8 50.8 50.5 51.0 50.2 51.5 51.2 49.4 50.7 50.5 51.2 51.7 49.1 52.7 49.5 49.3—1.9, or 3.7%, faster on average than last week. Good center-of-mass flow across the relief.
Easy running 8:54 [1] 1.2 km (7:25 / km)
Back.
Swimming 4:11 [2] 0.0 km
2×40 m in the apartment pool. I am a concrete brick.
Wednesday Oct 9, 2002 #
Easy running 30:14 [2] 5.4 km (5:36 / km)
ahr:136 max:153
Was going to run through Los Altos for well over an hour, past the dark. The plan fell apart rapidly as Cristo Rey turned out to be a private trap just a bit past Rancho. I wonder why they never show private traps on street maps.
Tuesday Oct 8, 2002 #
Easy running 1:48 [2] 0.3 km (6:00 / km)
To #51 bus stop from home.
Note
Feeling quite tired. No more running.
Monday Oct 7, 2002 #
Note
ST = 882 (R = 55).
Rogaining 36:48 [1] 4.3 km (8:33 / km)
A powerwalk home after missing the last #23 bus in Cupertino. Yes, I do feel guilty for putting walking into the Log... but I wasn't the one who started this... and it's relevant training for rogaining, all you orienteers, OK?...
Sunday Oct 6, 2002 #
Warmup 1:40 [2] 0.3 km (5:33 / km)
To the start of the second day of the SDO B meet.
Orienteering 1:13:06 [4] 9.8 km (7:28 / km) +310m 6:26 / km
ahr:162 max:171 spiked:6/10c
Blue. It was my impression that the mapper/course setter set on a task not quite up to his capabilities; last year's B meet, first day, was similar. There were all those nicely detailed, technical areas, and it was clear a lot of time went into the mapping, but they were invariably missing a boulder or many, and the mutual orientation of things was wrong. The first control was just like that, enough to screw the race up for me.
I still was no slower than Andy for most of the legs that I was clean.
I still was no slower than Andy for most of the legs that I was clean.
Orienteering 1:06:51 [2] 6.4 km (10:27 / km) +195m 9:04 / km
ahr:141 max:155 spiked:8/10c
Green, after Blue. I was really tired and so jogged it, except for a re-run of the first control (shared with Blue) to figure out exactly how much time I had lost. I did some stupid things, some of them intentionally; tried twice to penetrate the impenetrable manzanita (both times unsuccessfully). Also pretended that I was a real orienteer by actually reading the map—things I would never do in an actual race.
Oh, and a control was misplaced. I tried to pull an Eric Weyman on the course setter by trying to carefully figure out where the control might be. I'm no Eric—I actually got the right idea and almost found it, but was stopped by a wall of manzanita around which it was possible to go,
but I didn't.
First voided course in 55 races this year! I think this was the best (latest in the season) in my many years of orienteering.
Oh, and a control was misplaced. I tried to pull an Eric Weyman on the course setter by trying to carefully figure out where the control might be. I'm no Eric—I actually got the right idea and almost found it, but was stopped by a wall of manzanita around which it was possible to go,
but I didn't.
First voided course in 55 races this year! I think this was the best (latest in the season) in my many years of orienteering.
Note
W = 155 if I believe Annabel's scale.
Note
Hydration log: I won't even go there.