Training Archive: Tundra/Desert

Event: NEOC Spring Rock Festival and Intercollegiates
 

Orienteering race 58:20 [3] **** 7.26 km (8:02 / km) +200m 7:04 / km
ahr:164 max:172 spiked:21/24c shoes: Falcons

The first, "short" day of the NEOC Spring Rock Festival. I ran the whole course with no company. Felt fine. Navigated OK.

The map was somewhat of a challenge; one of those not-so-great pieces that nevertheless have a structure to them, so that after a while, one can adapt to the style with some success. The contours were, in a word, weak, and as PG noted, the vegetation mapping indicated more the color of the foliage than the runnability. I identified very few point features—they were mapped remarkably well, but it was time-consuming and unnecessary to work with them; my best friends were stone walls. There were noticeable distortions, so that, for example, my straight route from #12 to #13, when drawn, came out curvy.

The course was sort of OK. It was planned to be slow and to demand constant concentration. I guess it is a fair challenge, just not a commonly desired one. Control placement was obvious, thank *. If it wasn't, this could have been another FLL-type experience for all.

Climb is straight from the Polar, no adjustments; length from an OCAD trace.

Blue 1 - Splits

Easy running 1:04:48 [2] 10.56 km (6:08 / km) +170m 5:41 / km
ahr:134 max:151 shoes: Falcons

Passed up on a planned morning run from work to SJC, with pack—the pack was too heavy. Flew to BDL, where I met Mark Pittman with whom I shared a rental car. We drove to Camp Woodstock, accommodations for the A event of the weekend.

I finally got out for a run around 10 pm, on the roads we drove to the camp. Some stragglers were still coming to check in... "ghost of a lost orienteer" is how Bernie described the sighting of me. I beat his car into the camp on my return run... route choice.

Climb is USGS; Polar said 165 m.

Note

Got to work very late today, and stayed overnight. The reason I was late was that someone chose Caltrain over the bridge. As I got off in Mountain View, the biohazard squad was still scrubbing off the guy's parts from nooks in the platform spread over an area well over 100 m away from the initial impact.

Easy running warm up/down 10:27 [2] 2.01 km (5:12 / km)
ahr:131 max:140 shoes: New Nikes

Warmed up at De Anza, with Mikkel. Mark Prior and later, Tapio, also showed up. The fast dude from last week was there as well, but did not join us.

I forgot all clothes, so Mikkel loaned me his warm-up pants.

Long intervals intervals (VO_2max) 24:32 [4] 4.83 km (5:05 / km)
ahr:146 max:176 shoes: New Nikes

Mark and I did 3×(1207 m at I + 202 m rest). Mikkel and Tapio did 4×. Mark and I were about the same speed: 4:21 4:16 4:15. Mikkel averaged 4:27, and Tapio, 4:52.

Easy running warm up/down 24:15 [1] 3.97 km (6:06 / km) +66m 5:38 / km
ahr:129 max:146 shoes: New Nikes

From home to Kezar Stadium, warming up for an interval session. On Fell, through the Panhandle, then on Stanyan. It stopped raining for the evening.

Short intervals intervals (Repeats) 24:17 [5] 4 km (6:04 / km)
ahr:139 max:165 shoes: New Nikes

With Mark Prior, did 10×(200 m at R + 200 m rest). Mark moved at 32"–34"; I did
36.6 34.3 34.9 35.0 36.1
36.5 35.4 37.0 36.6 36.4.

There were not too many people at Kezar, and most were young and female. Mark seemed happy.

Medium pace running tempo 3:51 [3] 1 km (3:51 / km)
ahr:152 max:167 shoes: New Nikes

A finishing Luchik T, with Mark.

Easy running warm up/down 23:39 [1] 3.97 km (5:57 / km)
ahr:130 max:144 shoes: New Nikes

A cooldown jog home, this time mostly on Page St.

Clasic-Blue - Splits