Training Archive: kupackmanIn the 7 days ending 2007-06-03:
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Saturday Jun 2 | ||
| Other 1:30:00 [2] | |
| Frisbee and kickball at Vlad's party. | ||
Thursday May 31 | ||
| Softball 1:15:00 [2] | |
| Coed league in SeaTac. We lost. I was pitching when the wheels fell off. Shannon mixed up the fielding lineup and it was a disaster. Then the ump blew a call at the plate (I blatantly tagged her on her way home from 3rd. He didn't see it, and called her safe. I went nuts. There were three ground balls that I *should* have had. It's hard to tell. As pitcher, I have so little reaction time to get to some of those.
Hitting wise, I was 3-3, driving in 2. However, I made a stupid, stupid baserunning error. I thought they were going to throw home, but the cut-off man nabbed it and got me before I could head back to 2nd. | ||
Wednesday May 30 | ||
| Orienteering race 23:19 [4]*** 3.5 km (6:40 / km) | |
| spiked:17/23c shoes: Vasque Lightspeed | ||
| First Wednesday O' Meet of the summer, hosted by Sammamish at Robinswood Park. Mike came along, as did Meredith, a newbie from Boeing who attended a Street Scramble last month.
The crowd was small, but it featured a ton of regulars (Bresemans, Engers, Tennisbergs, Roger & Yumay, Eric, Kean, Peter, Jake, Tyler). Three courses, two intermediate and one beginner. I think most of the regulars did the two intermediates back to back, which was a 3.5km, 23 control course. Since I knew this park was going to be easy and fast, I wanted to focus on moving at all times. Run, punch, and keep running. I never wanted to stop, even for a second. I found the course to be too easy, navigationally. Too many obvious route choices. One of which I actually groaned when I saw it, because the set-up had potentional. I spiked the entire course, except for 6 tiny bobbles. I estimate these mistakes cost me a combined 50 seconds. 2 to 3: The longest leg of the entire event came early, and the big route choice started right at the flag. Lots of choices. I didn't want to stop and consider, so I took off on a safe, obvious choice. However, my choice climbed an extra 15m. Afterwards, there were three other viable choices. One of which had the same climb, negligibly shorter distance, but a lot more trail intersections and turns. The other two were flatter, one of which is shorter, but again, more complicated to run (more confusing intersections). If I were to run all 4, the one I chose was probably 3rd fastest. 10 seconds lost. 7 to 8: Navigated to the circle ok, but I did wrap enough around the hedge to see the flag. I stopped to look at the map to make sure that I was in the right spot. Then I kept going and found it. 5 seconds lost. 8 to 9: There was a thinner trail through the woods that would have saved me about 10 seconds. I didn't see that trail veer off, and I didn't want to waste time lookign for it, so I took the larger, more conservative route choice. 10 seconds lost. 17 to 18: The funny thing is, I ran right by this flag during my first loop. I knew where it was, but when approaching from the other direction, it was a little hidden. I looked in there, and stupidly kept going up the hill looking for another trail. Then I realized that it had to be in there, so I went back. Sure enough, there it was. 10 seconds lost. 20 to 21: I got the outside edge of the circle ok, but this boulder was really hidden in there. I was expecting the boulder to be visible, right on the vegetation boundary. I stutter-stepped a couple of times, back-and-forth, back-and-forth, and then I caught a glimpse of rock farther in there. Flag! 5 seconds lost. 23 to finish: My momentum kept me headed north, so I flipped around the north side of the building instead of the shorter route to the south. Of course, this being the last leg and everything, everyone saw me come in from the "wrong" direction. But then Peter did it. And Jake, and Mike, and Yumay, and Roger. Tons of people. Probably not Eric. 10 seconds lost. In just six tiny, tiny, mistakes, I lost 3.5% of my total time. Wow. I must be getting better, though. I'm able to notice mistakes in the 5-second range now. | ||