Training Archive: kupackmanIn the 7 days ending 2007-09-30:
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Sunday Sep 30 | ||
| Orienteering race 1:10:16 [4]*** 7 km (10:02 / km) | |
| spiked:10/13c shoes: Vasque Lightspeed | ||
| Sammamish's annual Salmon Days event. It was raining steadily, and it was a long course, so that was an interesting challenge.
Fred set the courses, and although I'm not typically a fan of Fred's courses (the legs are too monotonous), this one was pretty interesting. Because the course is super flat, I was able to run the entire time, except for my "where is it?!?!?" wandering at #9. I've been playing a lot of Hearts on the computer recently, and this O meet felt like playing Hearts. There were 13 "hands" on the course, and I had pretty good cards on most of them. And with those good cards, I took few or zero points on those hands. However, on one those hands with tough cards (# 5), I took the queen of spades. And on another one of those hands with tough cards (# 9), I took the queen of spades and about 10 more points. That's how it felt. Start to #1: Nice, through the wide open park area. #1 to #2: I ran to the wrong tree in the rough open area, but corrected ok. I probably lost 30-40 seconds here. #2 to #3: backtracked a bit, then open park run. Easy. #3 to #4: Super long leg, and I purposely decided to go trail running instead of running through parking lots. This decision cost me a minute or so of route choice, but it was something that I wanted to do. Plus, I could scope out #12 along the way. #4 to #5. I took the paved path for this one. Since I was already wet anyway, I should have slogged through the marsh, but I didn't know how think the veggie was, so I ran around the long way. I also got pinned in by a fence on my exit. I lost about 5 minutes entering and exiting this control (running around the fenced in area more than I needed to). #5 to #6: Through a complex of Siemens buidlings, easy. #6 to #7: I almost made the mistake I made last year (taking the shortcut trail, only to find no access to the road because of the bridge). I took a shortcut later in the leg, that seemed scary at times because it didn't feel like the overgrown trail was taking me in the right direction, but it did. Also, I hit the flag spot on (no searching), in an area where I could have lost a few minutes guessing. #7 to #8: Ugly run through rough open. Not ankle friendly. Map was a bit off here, but I was able to see the flag through the thicket. #8 to #9: Disaster leg. I lost 10-12 minutes here. First, I missed the bend in the overgrown trail, and hit the swawp to the E first. Backtracked around to the thick green areas. The flag was just north of a thick green area, and the terrain had a huge swatch of dark green, and then a small set of low thickets. The control was on one of the low thickets... which didn't look that dark green on the map. Very confusing. #9 to #10: I ran out to the soccer field and around, which seemed to be the best choice, according to Peter. #11 to #12 to #13 to finish: Spiked them all. | ||
| C • Hearts / #9 7 | ||
Course 4 (7.0km) - Splits | ||
Saturday Sep 29 | ||
| Orienteering race 27:00 [3]2.3 km (11:44 / km) | |
| shoes: Vasque Lightspeed | ||
| 1st half of cell phone-o with Gina. She had the map and I ran. This event was a struggle, mostly due to our crappy phones, which have bad connection to the network. It was really hard to hear each other a lot. Really hard.
#1 was tricky because of jackhammers. It was hard to hear, and I had to run right by them. #5 was a disaster. I had to run back to #4 three times and try it again. I overran two others out there, but I was directed back with no huge issues. | ||
| Orienteering race 28:30 [0]*** | |
| North Seattle CC
2nd half of cell phone-o. Gina ran, I directed. This went smoother, but was still frustrating with the connection thing. I only recall only a few bobbles, one about halfway through, another near the end. Both were about 30 second mistakes. | ||
| Orienteering race 21:21 [4]*** 3 km (7:07 / km) | |
| spiked:16/16c shoes: Vasque Lightspeed | ||
| Memory-O at North Seattle CC.
Wow, this was fun! (I've never done Memory-O before). 16 controls, and I ran without a map. I got to see a snippet of the map at the start to get me to #1, and at #1, I got to see a snippet of map that got me to #2, and so on. Some of the pieces of map were really small, where the best route actually took you off the "map". I spent about 5 seconds at each control studying the map. Because I had spent an hour with the cell phone course stuff, I knew the area pretty well, so I spiked every control. I'd like to do this again sometime. | ||
Wednesday Sep 26 | ||
| Volleyball 2:40:00 [2] | |
| Volleyball with the B Leaguers in Seattle.
I got to the gym an hour early to work on my serves. During play, we won one, tied one, and lost three, so we're definitely improving. I played solidly, as I had warmed up a lot and was sharp from A league the night before. What's fun about the B league is that I spike A LOT. I'm not the 3rd option. I'm the first option. Heck, I even get set up for back row sets! The team certainly has potentional. I'm just worried about how the captain does... as she still needs a lot of work. | ||
Tuesday Sep 25 | ||
| Volleyball 2:00:00 [3] | |
| I'm rating this as a 3 intensity because we were shorthanded (3-4 people), and I was all over the place. We won 2 and lost 2. (Bye during the other 2). | ||