Training Archive: kupackmanIn the 30 days ending 2006-11-30:
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Wednesday Nov 29 | ||
| Note | |
| Interesting stats:
Total hours orienteered in KC Metro: 19.02 Total hours orienteered in Seattle Metro: 19.99 Total events orienteered in KC Metro: 14 Total events orienteered in Seattle Metro: 28 I've only orienteered 5% more time (58 minutes) in Seattle meets, but it's taken twice as many events to do it. The average finishing time for me in Seattle is 43 minutes. In KC, it's 82 minutes. Yes, two of those KC events were long: Knob Noster mini-Rogaine and a Possum Trot, but 4 of the 14 KC events weren't even the longest courses of the day (two orange, two green). All of the Seattle events have been the longest offered. Furthermore, only two of the KC meets are faster than my Seattle average time (43 minutes). One of those was an Orange, the other the KU long sprint. (Note: KC events include both OK events I "beta-tested", since I treated those like actual races. The Seattle events do NOT include the five events out in the Cascades or the two Vampire-O's... those are totally different). Also: Total hours orienteered "out in the mountains": 25.37 (15 races) Total hours Street Scrambled: 24.75 (10 races) | ||
Monday Nov 27 | ||
| Basketball 32:00 [4] | |
| BEEBA Fall League Tournament First Round
Official result: win, 2-0 (forfeit) Unofficial result: loss, 58-44 Because of all of the crazy weather lately (snow that sticks in Seattle + below freezing temps), our tournament opponent didn't show up. Lucky for us, one of the teams involved in the other 5:10pm game didn't show up either, so we had a scrimmage buddy. I shot the ball well tonight, finishing with 20 points. Here's an interesting statistic (that you'll probably read as a little conceited on my part): when I sat on bench, we were outscored 20-3, and when I was in the game, we outscored them 41-38. We had six guys, so I started on the bench, when I came in 4 minutes later, it was 16-0! The other team's best player is a tall, lanky shooter type like me, so defensively, I'm really the only guy who can guard him effectively. When we're both in the game, we tend to cancel each other out. | ||
Sunday Nov 26 | ||
| Orienteering 40:00 [4]*** 4.4 km (9:05 / km) | |
| I went out to Shawnee Mission Park to do one of the permanent courses. I wasn't really focused and I didn't do all that well, really. I was actually out there 48 minutes, but I spent 8 minutes going up and down a streambed looking for a little plaque that wasn't there. | ||
| C • Missing plaques 2 | ||
Saturday Nov 25 | ||
| Running hills 12:46 [4]1.7 mi (7:30 / mi) +85m 4:02 / km | |
| I went running in the neighborhood. Lots of hills. Up 110', down 30', up 30', down 110', up 110', down 100', gradual down 40', up 30'. | ||
Tuesday Nov 21 | ||
| Orienteering 26:43 [4]*** 5 km (5:21 / km) | |
| I "beta-tested' the Kansas Champs course this afternoon. I don't know how long it was (maybe 5 km?). I ran it at a pretty good clip, I think. I only made one significant mistake, though I made a bobble once. Looking back at my route choices, I think I could have made several better decisions out there. However, with my campus knowledge, running a second or third-best choice would have been faster than had I run the best leg with zero campus knowledge, if that makes any sense.
I'd write more, but I don't want to give anyone any inside information. That being said, I seriously doubt anyone who's competing will even read this entry. | ||
| C • The straight line distance is ... 1 | ||
Sprint - Splits | ||
Sunday Nov 19 | ||
| Orienteering race 1:11:13 [4]*** 7.5 km (9:30 / km) | |
| spiked:11/13c | ||
| PTOC O-meet at Fleming Park, Red Course
Splits here: http://attackpoint.org/racesplits.jsp?raceid=2331 I ran a really solid race except for a 6-7 minute stretch. I got pulled over by two unmapped rootstocks at #9, losing 3 minutes. And when I did punch #9, I arrived from the north, instead of from the east, so I was 90 degrees off. Anyway, instead of exiting to the north like I was supposed to, I headed down the hill to the west, and well, I lost another 3 minutes or so. If I wouldn't have made the first mistake, I wouldn't have made the second. Another interesting note with this stretch of the race is that I passed Mary 3 times. Once leaving #8, again right before #9, as she caught up to me when I was looking for the correct rootstock, and then again on the way to #10, after I made my second mistake. Other legs of note: I nailed the first leg, something which I rarely do. I had a sub-6 min/km here! After hearing what everyone else did from #3 to #4, I took an interesting approach... I followed the powerline instead of the road. It was shorter but had more climb. I chose ths route because I figured that there'd be a trail or something under the powerline (there was) and because it set me up better to #4 through white forest instead of green forest. However, looking at the splits, my route was not the smartest one. I took a major spill on the tral between #11 and #12, I tripped over a rock or something. My right hand has a gash and is pretty sore, and my right knee, too. This was very reminiscent of the spill I took at Anza-Borrego, and I was pretty worried when I was laying on the ground. Luckily, after I dusted myself off, it wasn't as bad, and I could still run. Mike beat me by a whopping 17 minutes. I was hoping I could have come a little closer. I did beat Gene by 2 seconds, and some other guy by 17 seconds, so that was nice. My goals were to run sub-10 min/km and to finish 2nd. I finished 3rd (a team of guys finished 2nd) with a pace of 9.50 min/km, so I wasn't too far off. | ||
Red - Splits | ||
Wednesday Nov 15 | ||
| Running 4:00 [2]0.5 mi (7:59 / mi) | |
| Lamest AP entry possible: I jogged out to my car after work last night. It's a long walk out there (2/3 mile) because we've got so many people working here. Anyway, I was listening to a rockin' tune on the iPod, and it was really raining out there and I didn't have a raincoat, so I jogged the last half mile of the daily walk. | ||
Tuesday Nov 14 | ||
| Volleyball 40:00 [2] | |
| BENVA Fall League Tournament
2 losses, eliminated. Man, that went way too quick. Everyone brings their A game to the tournament, and we played two very competitive games against two of the middle-of-the-pack teams. We were without Elan, who seriously injured her ankle last week, and we replaced her with Gina's little sister, who plays high school volleyball. Having a new player really wasn't an issue, but it was awkward for a few points. I played my best all-around volleyball of the year. After 90 points of volleyball, I only had 3 mistakes: a spike into the net, and, unfortunately, my two worst serves of the entire year (both hit Matt in the back of the head). Now... I have to wait for two months to play my second favorite sport again. | ||
Monday Nov 13 | ||
| Basketball 30:00 [4] | |
| BEEBA Fall League, Game #9
Loss 41-37. We should have won this game, I don't know what happened. We played well, but just missed lots of short shots (I missed 3 point blank shots in the first half). We had a lead of 8 points in the first quarter. One of their bigs shoved me in the back... so I tackled him. Whoops. In a weird note... I scored the first 3 points of the game, and the last 3 points. | ||
Saturday Nov 11 | ||
| Orienteering race 45:58 [4]* 5.3 mi (8:39 / mi) | |
| spiked:24/24c | ||
| I ran in the "Turkey Trot Urban Legend" a Street Scramble knock-off that was a fundraiser for a school district in Carnation, WA (not too far east of Seattle).
Physically, I'm not sure how I pulled this one off. I covered 5.3 miles in 46 minutes... while navigating, finding answers to 24 questions, and fumbling around with all of the stuff (map, pencil, question and answer sheets). It's easily the fastest I've ever done any orienteering event, urban or not. The only comparable result is from the Fremont Street Scramble, where I covered 6 miles in the first hour (before getting bogged down by traffic congestion at the end). But even that's only a 10-minute mile pace... with only 16 controls to find and a much less cumbersome set of maps and sheets. So, why was the Carnation event so much faster? For one, there were no stoplights to wait for (there were a handful in Fremont). Secondly, Carnation is perfectly flat. The trail around Green Lake is also perfectly flat, where I've clocked 2.8 miles in 20:37. Extrapolating that out to 5.3 miles, we're looking at 38:58, which is just 7 minutes under my actual time. With 24 checkpoints, that extra 7 minutes is just 17 seconds per checkpoint. Furthermore, some of these checkpoints required more time than what I'm used to. Several of them were "from this spot, what do you see at 141deg?" and stuff like that, so I'd have to pull out the compass (or try to work it out in my head). It seemed slower than usual. (And that's not taking account that I can't keep a 7:21 mile pace for 5 miles). So, yea, I still don't know how I pulled this one off. There weren't all that many teams/individuals participating in this one. I think the total was 22. The fundraiser also featured a 1-mile and 4-mile run, so most of the folks ran in those events and not the Turkey Hunt. Because of the scope of the event, there were a lot of perks. My entry fee included a t-shirt, a water bottle, a power bar, and some snack foods. After the race, there were bagels and juice for the racers. And, for the Turkey Hunters, there were compasses as prizes, and I went home with a $60 Suunto Global Compass. So, for only paying $17, I made out pretty well. I have mixed emotions about the actual Turkey Hunt. They used a walking map (to scale) of the town, which was actually a lot better than it sounds, but the control locations were small black dots instead of big red circles. It was a lot harder to see where the controls were. Also, instead of getting the descriptions, questions, and answer choices all on one 11x17" paper like I do for the Street Scrambles... I was given a skinny strip for an answer sheet (with A, B, C marked 40 times), and a small 10-page 2x3" booklet with all of the questions in it. It was really hard to flip through the booklet on the move. And, there weren't any descriptions listed either, which made things a little more difficult. Also, in a twist, we didn't have any planning time before the race. It was a pick-up-the-map-and-go event, which I think worked to my advantage. Also, they didn't really enforce the penalties for being late. I was 58 seconds late, and I was credited with an on-time finish (along with about half of the field). It wasn't too big of an issue, as I would have won that compass either way. So, the actual event wasn't as polished as a Street Scramble, but hey, it was their first time planning one, and it was for a good cause, and I had fun doing it, so that's the main thing. | ||
Tuesday Nov 7 | ||
| Volleyball 1:30:00 [2] | |
| BENVA Fall League, Week 9
Won 2, Lost 4 We lost two games to the "caveman" team, the team we're playing first in the tournament next week (they're #4, we're #5). For some reason, we can' t seem to beat these guys, and it's frustrating. We won two games against the #8 team, but they were closer than they should have been. They have 1 super awesome player and 5 not-so-good players. Basically, when he's at the net, they outplay us. When he's in the back row, we outplay them. We lost two games against the #1 team, and we built in early lead in the first game, and then we fell apart and our attitude went down the drain. We got killed in the second game. My hits weren't very good this week, but I did play scrappy. Carlos had a great week, though. | ||
Monday Nov 6 | ||
| Basketball 30:00 [4] | |
| BEEBA Fall League, Week #8
Win, 55-50. We won a game! Granted, the team we beat only had 5 guys, so they were dead tired. But, the one guy who never got tired could shoot. Fadeaway jumpers with your hand in his face. It was nuts. He must have had 35 of his team's points. It was tied at half, but in the 3rd quarter, I guarded him and he only had 3 points. I also blocked one of his 3-pointers. Defensively, I had a great game. Offensively, I was pretty much a non-factor. I made two lay-ups and that was it. But John and Carlos his big time shots for us and we built a sizeable lead. With 4 minutes to go, Carlos and I sat out with a 12-point lead. We should have stayed in there, because they other team cut it to 1-point with 20 seconds to go because of missed free throws. But, hey, we won, so I don't care! | ||
Saturday Nov 4 | ||
| Orienteering race 28:05 [4]*** 3.21 km (8:45 / km) | |
| spiked:9/13c | ||
| COC Winter O' Series #1: Lincoln Park
Not a good race. This is a fast park, and I made some killer mistakes, so my ranking isn't so hot on this one... several of my rivals beat me. I lost 30 seconds on the first one because the map is 1:5000, and I took off right after the start and ran by the first turnoff. I was good and confused for, well, about 30 seconds, and then continued on my way. I lost 4 minutes (gasp!) on an 85-meter leg in a dense forest with a crazy network of trails. The sad thing is that I thought I had great map contact, because everything was matching up... but I think what happened is that in my rush to leave the previous control, I missed the first trail junction. 4 minutes! GAAARRRRRRGGGH! I was in a rush to get out of the woods, and I kinda half-orienteered with lots of super fast decisions and lots of speed. It worked out. Good leg. #4 was a stupid 20-second mistake. I saw a control at a trail junction about 50 yards from where mine was... and I knew that it wasn't my control, but the beginner in me wanted to go over and check it out just in case. 20 seconds, gone in a flash. #5 and #6 were laser beam legs. Well, not perfectly straight, but really fast. I completely spiked these two. #7 was long, and I still felt rushed to make up from that previous mistake. I hit this one about as well as I could have. I got a little lucky, as a runner was exiting the trail I was looking for, in a tricky spot on the map. This was a good leg. #8 I'd previously found this one on my roundabout route to #2, so this one was easy. #9... my other mistake, clocking in at about 2 minutes. I have no idea what I was doing on this one. For some reason I wanted to turn right at the first trail intersection (I wanted to turn right at the third one). I lost maybe 15 seconds there. And then I wanted to turn right again at the second intersection. And when I got to the third intersection, I thought I was waaaay too close to the start triangle (map scale, I think), so I overcorrected and turned too far right and ended up in a network of trails wandering around some green as opposed to running through a section of white. This was my worst leg in a long time, as I made three separate mistakes here. #10 was a mindless leg. Worthless. I got it. #11 was also pretty mindless. How fast can you run down wooden stairs in the rain? I nailed this one, too. #12 was a super long leg right along the beach along Puget Sound. It's like the course setter wanted us all to enjoy running along water in the rain. There was no navigation required. (Compared to last year's course here... I ran along the same set of beach, but at least there were two viable route choices available.) #13 and Finish. Eh, it burned a little bit, but I got them. Overall, very frusrating. A lot of the big guns were gone for this meet, so this was my chance to earn big points, and I flopped. 25% of my time out there was making a mistake, which is way too much. I lost 6:50 out there, and 5:00 back would have put me close to first place. | ||
Thursday Nov 2 | ||
| Soccer 45:00 [2] | |
| SCASA Co-ed Fall League
Win 5-0. I only played the second halves of each half, and Chris was in goal again because of his foot. I played a lot of time at forward, and I scored my first goal in a real-deal soccer game since 1987! I also had a steal and a gimme shot-on-goal (and likely goal), but I whiffed. Oh well. | ||