Training Archive: kupackmanIn the 7 days ending 2006-11-05:
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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. | ||
Tuesday Oct 31 | ||
| Volleyball 1:30:00 [2] | |
| BENVA Fall League, Week 8
2 wins, 1 tie, 3 losses Because of Halloween, we only played 2 scheduled games because other teams weren't in attendance. However, we were able to scrimmage 2 other teams for 4 games. We hung around with the best team in the league, earning a tie in the second game. Next, we scrimmaged against the best team in the B league, and we killed them... and we had the luxury of having a referree! (in the A league, we call ourselves). Finally, we played 2 games against the 2nd best team, and we lost them both. However, the 2nd game was entertaining in that I rattled off 7 consecutive points on my serve, including 2 aces, which prompted "Smiley" to call a timeout and yell at his team. This was, unquestionably, the best volleyball I've ever played. My serves were on, my kills were on, I had some big blocks. I can only remember two unforced errors, plus, I had a few digs. Volleyball is fun. | ||
Monday Oct 30 | ||
| Basketball 30:00 [4] | |
| BEEBA Fall League, Week 7
Loss 54-37. Ugh. Worst. Loss. Ever. Horrible. Horrible. Horrible. | ||