Training Archive: kupackmanIn the 7 days ending 2006-11-12:
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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! | ||