Training Archive: kupackmanIn the 7 days ending 2007-09-02:
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Sunday Sep 2 | ||
| Orienteering race 13:25 [4]*** 1.7 km (7:54 / km) | |
| shoes: Vasque Lightspeed | ||
| Barebones Sprint at Canmore Nordic Center, site of the '88 Olympics!
There was a spaghetti maze of trails here! #1 was easy enough. #2 had some climb so I was slow. #3 was in a marsh. I lost about 30 seconds confused about where in the marsh it was. #4 Easy, but Magnus passed me and I tried to imitate his descent down a rocky slope at the contol. He stayed upright... I did not, and I shattered my new comapss on a rock. #5 I was distracted with my broken compass and the oil all over my hands and map. Somehow made it there. #6 Should have aimed off more and avoided some climb and added trail, but this didn't cost me too much time. #7 Easy leg. #8 Missed a corner-cutting route, a couple of seconds lost. Finish: only the top two runners had a faster run in. | ||
| Orienteering race 37:54 [4]*** 3.1 km (12:14 / km) | |
| shoes: Vasque Lightspeed | ||
| The Middle Distance at the Canmore Nordic Center, using a chase start system from the sprint earlier in the day. I was running without a compass, because mine broke. I started 1 second after Nikki.
#1 It was the same first control that I had in the sprint, so I was confused because I thought that it couldn't be the same control, but it was. #2 I should have cut up the before the bridge like the girl I had caught up to. I probably lost 10-15 seconds on that choice. #3 I saw the flag, and then on my descent into the reentrant, I lost it... and then it was behind me. I probably lost 20 seconds on that one. #4 Lots of climbing up to this one. #5 A four-minute route choice mistake. Psychologically, I didn't want to go down what I just climbed up and "waste" the climb. Instead, I went up the hill diagonally and up and then back down. I didn't realize how slow it would be... I lost 4 minutes here. Yuck. #6 After some inital hesitation about how to do this one, I'm really happy how it turned out. #7 I took a route similar to Eric's here, where he pretty much blew away his competition, so I was very happy with this route choice. #8 Plowed through some green (earlier blazed by Eric) and flew down the hill. #9 Finally caught up to Nikki again after my 4 minute error earlier. #10 I didn't want to follow Nikki as she headed left, so I headed right. I thought I needed to cut over one more trail than I needed, and somehow I convinced myself that I should run down this hill and around to the wrong trail. Pretty dumb. I lost over a minute here. #11 Super short leg. I didn't want to fall again, so I took it slow down the hill. #12 I managed not to get sucked down the wrong trail. Fast. #13 A dicey descent near the finish. I managed ok. Photo at the punch! Finish. Another fast sprint in. | ||
Saturday Sep 1 | ||
| Orienteering race 1:59:11 [4]**** 7 km (17:02 / km) | |
| shoes: Vasque Lightspeed | ||
| One of the longer races that was within walking distance of the YMCA. This was easily the hardest terrain I've seen. I felt like an idiot out there. At least I made it back just ahead of the stiff overtime limit of 2 hours. Seriously, the stupid overtime rule was causing me to panic out there, to the point where I flipped my watch to something else.
#1. Completely overshot to the right. #2. Found this one ok. #3. I had a good plan, but poor execution. I stayed right high with the vague ridgetops, but I wandered back over the line left until it got really steep and I was in front of a small hill. I recovered quickly, though, as many people didn't on this leg. #4. I hit the trail farther left than I thought, so I was quite a bit left again. Found myself in front of a small depression and relocated fairly quickly. #5. Short, no problems here. #6. Short, no problems here, again. #7. Short, but I lost some concentration here because I nav'ed the previous two pretty well. I ended up spotting orange and got pulled over to #4 again. Blah. #8. This one wasn't easy, but I managed to hit the long, skinny depression, which was good, and I found it from there. #9. I did alright on this one. Eric passed me here. There were two depressions at the top of the hill, and I hit the wrong one first. No biggie though, I lost only 5 seconds. #10. Short, no problems here. #11. Short, no problems here. #12. Lost quite a bit of time here. My plan was ok until I hit a huge puddle in the trail and figured that it was a good time to start going off trail... when this was about 75 meters ahead of where I thought I was. Therefore, I got pulled waaay off again. Luckily, there was a backstop feature (a trail) which I was surprised to find. And furthermore, I found the trail at a 4-way junction, which made it easy to relocate. #13. Another tricky one, and no major problems on it. #14. The horrible, horrible, leg. My plan was to aim slightly off to the right so that I would find the HUGE reentrant out there. But instead, as my habit, I wandered too far right. So much so that I found #3 again. However, it didn't register to me that this was #3, so I kept going without realizing where I was. I still kept going, until I hit a trail, and that baffled me. And I just stood there wondering where the hell I was, and starting to panic that I would come back over time. I figured out where I was when I realized that I was recently at #3, but that meant that I was on the other side of that fat, steep, reentrant, so I went around. Finally got there. #15. Ah, a short easy one! #16. Another easy one, but I'm rushing things, I'm panicking. I'm expecting to see orange too early. I find it, but not until after I flip my watch to something else. #17. I was running with Kean on this one. I had a decent bearing, but I was on the wrong side of the ridge. I found it though. #18. I looked at my watch briefly, and I figured that if I could find #18 within 10 minutes, that I would be ok. Again, I started losing focus because of the time constraint, and it didn't help that this was the only misplaced control of the entire weekend. It was very nearby, but just up 2 contour lines (which I guess makes sense, as I was too far down the hillside). #19. I had 10 minutes left to find 4 controls, all pretty close to one another. The first two were in a tricky set of huge boulders and rock clusters, and I actually stumbled across #20 first. I backtracked 40 second to #19. #20. Super fast, because I already knew where it was. #21. Run out to the field! Visibility at last! I almost didn't turn far enough when I hit the field. When I punched here, I knew I'd be under 2 hours. #22. Easiest leg of the damn course. Finish. Maybe I can get under 1:59.... um, no. Ugh. I have no idea what I'm doing. | ||
| Orienteering race 2:52 [3]0.3 km (9:33 / km) | |
| shoes: Vasque Lightspeed | ||
| The 3-legged orienteering race, which is exactly what it sounds like.
Random tidbits: 1) Eric, the fastest orienteer there, asked me to be his teammate. 2) I had never done a three-legged race, orienteering or otherwise, before. 3) Other teams were practicing running in stride before the race. We didn't even attempt anything before the race. 4) Eric saw other teams wrapping their arms around one another's backs, and wondered if we had to do the same, citing that it was "too fruity". 5) It was a Score-O with a 15 minute time limit. 6) There were only 5 controls, and they were all within 100m of the start/finish area. 7) Eric had the map and compass. I just had the finger stick. 8) I saw where one of the contols was on the way in, so I suggested that we go there first. 9) We won the race in just 2:52, 10 seconds ahead of the next team. 10) The only race that I won... I did only because I didn't have a map and I was just unclumsy enough not to slow Eric down enough. | ||
| Orienteering race 4:04 [5]*** 0.8 km (5:05 / km) | |
| shoes: Vasque Lightspeed | ||
| The Super Sprint! Just 0.4 km!
I ran it twice, as they said that we could run it as many times as we wanted throughout the weekend. My first go was in 2:09, and that was fairly fast as 4 of the 6 controls were part of the 3-legged race, so I knew where they were. #2 was one of the new controls, and I hesitated a few second trying to figure out where it was. Another few seconds were lost on #3. Which tepee?? And again finding the best way out of #4. The fastest time on anyone's first try on the Super Sprint was 1:57, so I was only 12 seconds back... but that's 10% right there! My second go was about 15 minutes later. I did it in 1:55, which was the fastest time of the weekend by anyone (but the 1:57 guy only did it once). I figure that I could get down to 1:52 with some ultra micro route choice differences and some less sloppy e-punches. | ||
| Orienteering race 30:51 [4]3 km (10:17 / km) | |
| shoes: Vasque Lightspeed | ||
| Night-O.
After two sloppy runs in the long distances, I took this race VERY conservatively. I didn't lose more than 30 seconds searching for any control, so that was good. However, since it's dark out, I don't like looking at the map much because of the glare and how it affects my night vision.... so I completely ran past the GO control into the finish and downloaded.... and then I realized that I forgot one, so I ran back to get it. I lost 90+ seconds on that one, and my sub 10 min/km time was gone... boo. | ||
Friday Aug 31 | ||
| Event: Barebones | ||
| Orienteering race 1:16:08 [4]5.7 km (13:21 / km) | |
| shoes: Vasque Lightspeed | ||
| The first race of Barebones!
#1. I stumbled a bit out of the gate on this one, but I recovered nicely. #2. Aced it. One of my best legs of the weekend. #3. Aced it. Things are looking good. #4. A harder one, but I'm still nailing them. #5. Lost a little bit on this one, as did the mini-herd of people here. #6. I broke from the herd here and went right, as they went left. I punched about the same time. #7. Whoops. Wandered too far right. I had to slog through some slash to get there. #8. Damn it, I was doing so well, and the super long leg screwed me up. I slogged through the marsh ok, but I went way too far up the resulting hillside (perhaps even barely off the map). I couldn't even see the big lake that I was looking for, so I decided to go down the hill and find it, if it meant that I wasted some climb. Once I spotted the lake (and recognized it distinctly from a large marshy area), I relocated fine and figured it out... but the finding and relocating took flipping forever! #9. Got my confidence back. Found it ok. #10. Good plan, good execution, on a tricky leg. I loved it. #11. A really tricky, sloggy, leg. I moved too slowly, but eh, I found it. However, I tripped and faceplanted right at the control. I actually reaced up and stretched and punched from laying face down, as if I was stretching for a touchdown or something. Hahaha. #12. I was bleeding in three places from the fall (right knee, left elbow, right thumb), so I was a bit achy to #12. I slogged through some light green here. #13. Pretty fast run to the GO control. Finish. A mediocre run in. Examined the damage afterward... | ||
| Hiking 30:00 [1]1.0 mi (30:00 / mi) | |
| shoes: Pearl Izumi SyncroSeek | ||
| A short hike up to the Paint Pots in Kootenay National Park. | ||
Thursday Aug 30 | ||
| Mapping/Designing/Setting 40:00 [2]** 3 km (13:20 / km) | |
| shoes: Vasque Lightspeed | ||
| Eric and I did some training at the Potholes area near Moses Lake on the way out to Barebones. He's looking to map this for orienteering. Lots of fun sand dunes and small lakes/marshes.
The plan was for me to hang 5 controls for eric and vice versa. However, the terrain didn't seem to match the 1956 USGS basemap in places, so I got really, really confused. I only hung two. Luckily for me (and Eric), at least I managed to hang them in the right spot. | ||
| Orienteering 1:00:00 [3]** 4 km (15:00 / km) | |
| shoes: Vasque Lightspeed | ||
| I ran the course that Eric set, that had four controls. I found two of them decently enough, one of them moderately ok, and I had serious trouble with the other.
The sandy terrain didn't help my speed. I had to walk most of the last legs because my shoes were chocked full of sand and it was abrasive to run. I dumped at least a FULL CUP of sand from EACH shoe when I was done. Meshy shoes: good for water, bad for sand. | ||
Monday Aug 27 | ||
| Softball 1:15:00 [1] | |
| I completely mismanaged this game, and we lost 18-14. We beat this team three weeks ago 23-3! We were really short on experienced outfielders, and the other team took advantage during a massive inning, scoring 14 runs. Errors, errors, errors, killed us. I was guilty of one as pitcher, too.
I should have put Joe in left field and Matt in center. Argh. I was 2-4 batting, but none of hte balls left the infield. 2 infield singles, all plays were super close at first. Collectively, had I been a second slower, I'm 0-4. If I'm a second faster, I'm 4-4. I was really upset last night. I completely screwed it up. | ||