Training Archive: kupackmanIn the 7 days ending 2007-12-01:
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Saturday Dec 1 | ||
| Event: Possum Trot Weekend | ||
| Orienteering race 38:43 [4]*** 4.7 km (8:14 / km) | |
| spiked:14/15c shoes: Vasque Lightspeed | ||
| Winter Series #3, Hamlin Park
Finally, a super-duper clean run for me, except for one 2-minute error, but it was a clerical error, so I don't feel bad about it (I still navigated spot-on). Start to #1.Roger started two minutes ahead of me, so I thought that he'd be a good motivator in my run. I watched him in the start triangle, to see how long it took him before he started off. He was standing there for a while, and then I got distracted, so then I looked up and he was gone. I probably only stood for about 3 seconds, and I was out. So, I'm guessing that I got about 10 seconds on him just in the triangle. This park has some complex topography (for a small city park), but I think a lot of that gets lost in all of the vegetation, rootstocks and web of trails everywhere. I wanted to focus on my contour reading for today's race, and it certainly helped on #1. 1 to 2. Too much hesitation on this one, maybe 20 seconds worth. I popped out to the road junction like I wanted, but instead of taking the trail straight from the road, I ran around the hill to the left, which didn't give me a good attackpoint to the rootstock. Why didn't I take the trail? I think I got it confused with Lynndale Park, and I had something tell me, "no, that trail doesn't go anywhere." Distance-wise, it was about the same, but my route required the extra hesitation. 2 to 3. The super-long leg, from way north to way south, over 1-km, and worth over 7" of red ink. It was so long that when I turned over the map, I didn't realize that the 2-3 and 4-5 lines crossed.... so I was dead-set on navigating to 4. So I navigated to 4 rather well, which was tricky because of the ballfield fences as tricky obstacles. And I got all the way to 4 and punched, still thinking everything was happy. So then I started off to 3, believing that to be 4 (and saw Roger here, thinking I had passed him already). The 4 to 3 route was easy, but imagine my surprise when the control codes didn't make sense! I briefly thought that Cascade had hung them wrong (me wrong? never!), but then I looked at what'd I'd done! D'oh! 3 to 4. No trouble here, obviously. 4 to 5. When I navigated to 4 the first time, I thought that I could have saved some time cutting through ballfields, so on the way to 5, I did so, crawling under and climbing over some fences. I thought it was a decent route choice, though I think cutting through the high school would have been slightly faster. 5 to 6. Exiting the control quickly was tricky, but the rest was easy. 6 to 7. Original plan was to go around south of the school, but I sucked north and then got worried about my effectiveness in the forest once I ran right across a flag-football game (sorry guys, but my sport trumps yours...). But, what was my focus? Contours! Bam, the woodsy stuff was easy! (and after looking at it now, I think it was better than going south of the school). 7 to 8. Took a fairly safe route and found it ok. A made a small hesitation in the open area just SE of the control because I wanted to double-check that I was taking the correct trail. I could have cut one of the corners a bit and maybe saved 30m of running. 8 to 9. I probably should have been more aggressive on this leg, since I was orienteering so well out there. "Surely the control can't be right here, can it? It hasn't been long enough." And there it was. I hesitated for a few seconds because I was expecting to screw up. 9 to 10. Left turn, left turn, right turn, LOOK! 10 to 11. Run super fast out to the road, and then figure it out after that. This one was frustrating, because I kept trying to look for ways to NOT go around and back into this one, but I had to resort to backing in. Had I decided this earlier, I could have pushed a bit harder here and saved perhaps 10-15 seconds. 11 to 12. First half was easy, and then I got a bit lucky, as I lost focus on a hillside strewn with downed logs, knolls, rootstocks, and trails. I lost focus and it would have been hard to relocate easily here. Lucky, I stumbled into this one with only minimal hesitations. 12 to 13. 30 second leg from one rootstock to another. I was a still a little shaky from the last control. 13 to 14. I kinda knew where to go on this one because I remembered a similar leg when I was directing Gina at cell phone o' last March. However, I hesitated/slowed too much right before the control because I didn't expect it so far up that hill. I thought I had passed it, but I kept going, and there it was. 14 to 15 to finish. 30 seconds down the hill and 18 seconds through the chute. Nice way to finish. I'm *really* interested to see the splits on this one, and I'm really paying close attention to the seconds lost and gained today, because I finished in 38:43, the *exact* same time as Roger and Brian. Also, Peteris, Glenn, and someone else (Matt? Alex?) all finished within 6 seconds of each other in the 35:45 timeframe. It's frustrating that even throwing out my 2-3 minutes of extra running on that one leg, I ran pretty much as well I could have, and I still can't beat them. Nikolay was in the 32 minute range, but I've never, ever beaten him, so, eh, I don't feel so bad. It'll be interesting to see how Jake, Tyler, Rick, and Enger all fared... I did navigate well, but I did make one costly error, and I'm in the worst shape of my life right now. Also, of note... My housemate Joe came and ran Course #3 in 36 minutes. He seemed to have a good time, despite the first-time frustrations, and he will likely come again, especially since the next one is just across the highway. I think he has pretty good potentional, and it'll be interesting to see how he progresses. I think both he and Scott can become pretty good. Nick was also there, running Course #7. I didn't see any posted times, but I'm really glad to see him orienteering again (he's done all 3 Winter Series events so far!). He injured his ankle this summer, and work has swamped him, too, lately. Mike was there, too, running Course #5 in 67 minutes. I'm trying to coach him a bit, but it's really hard, as he's not all that receptive. | ||
| Orienteering race 22:04 [4]*** 2.7 km (8:10 / km) | |
| spiked:7/8c shoes: Vasque Lightspeed | ||
| I also ran Course #3 as a sprint-distance practice. I also wanted to run and compare my times with Joe. He was rather shocked that I took 14 minutes off his time! Goes to show what a couple of years of experience can do!
I spiked 1, 2, and 3. #4 was another really long leg, and I navigated fine, but I chose not to run through the high school, which was pretty dumb. Had I read the Course #7 map correctly, I might have run through the school, but I didn't. And here on Course #3, I didn't. I wonder why I stayed out to the fields? #5 was easy because it was a common control (2 of the 8 were). I thought #6 was the hardest leg I had all day, from either course. I ran too unfocused... I knew that I had to go up and over the ridge, but I got stuck in the white woods of confusing features, and I got sucked too far south. To make matters worse, once I hit the valley I wanted, my gut said that I was too far south, but I decided to keep going south. Soon after, I saw the road, and realized, whoops, too far. 2 minutes gone. Blah. #7 was quick and easy. I ran aggressively because I had tons of collecting and catching features. Then to the GO control (the other common one) and a short sprint in. | ||
Course 7 - Splits | ||
Friday Nov 30 | ||
| Note | |
| The OK jersey design is coming along well. I made a hand-drawn sketch, with color, on the Atak template, and I think it looks sharp. I showed it to Gina, and she agrees.
I still need to figure out what to put on the sleeves, and exactly how to do the "Orienteer Kansas" on the back, but the overall color blocking and logo placement looks pretty good. | ||
| C • shirt 4 | ||
| Running 17 [5] | |
| shoes: Pearl Izumi SyncroSeek | ||
| 17 seconds of sprinting up three large flights of stairs after lunch.
After which I realized it wasn't a good idea because it was a) right after lunch, and b) I'm wearing long-johns today so I was really hot when I got to the top. | ||
Wednesday Nov 28 | ||
| Note | |
| 1) Volleyball tonight. Yes!
2) Looks like I'm designing the next Orienteer Kansas jersey, which will be a lot of fun. I have three design choices in mind for right now. It'll be interesting to see how they turn out, considering I've never attempted a full-jersey custom sublimation design before. I don't have a lot of vector graphics experience, but it seems a lot like solid-modeling in many respects, so I should be able to pick it up fairly easily. Speaking of shirt designs, if I get REACH involved in another year of Street Scrambles, I should get to work on another shirt design for that, since the first one in '08 is a month earlier this year. 3) Speaking of Street Scrambles, I should hit a fairly sizable milestone for Street Scrambles at the next one. 4) Walking around theme parks (Disney World, Epcot, MGM, etc.) with a map, I think it just screams out "sprint orienteering!". Especially when you wait in line for things. I'd rather be moving. 5) I really need to organize my digital photos from this year. I have Whidbey photos I need to give to Simon and Canada pictures to Eric, and I still haven't touched the huge collection of movies/photos from Big Muddy. | ||
| Note | |
| My roommate coming orienteering at Hamlin Park this weekend! This will be his first o-meet. (Coincidentally, my other roommate's first o-meet was at Hamlin Park, too. Though, he never came back after Big Muddy '06.) | ||
| Volleyball 1:30:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Pearl Izumi SyncroFloat | ||
| Co-ed B volleyball.
Ugh. Another 0-5 evening. Just three more weeks, and then our captain leaves (for good) for California. I absolutely cannot stand her on the volleyball court, and neither does anyone else. She just stands there and doesn't move (and last night, she kept gnawing at her fingernails), yet whenever she isn't happy, she yells at you. Oh, and did I mention that when the other team spikes the ball, she turns away and covers her head? In one of the games last night, she got "hurt" halfway through and sat out. We played so much better as a unit of 4 than we did 5. I'm really looking forward to the team this spring, because we'll have three above average players, and two average players with great serves. | ||
Monday Nov 26 | ||
| Note | |
| Back from 9 days of vacation. Which consisted of about 2 hours of training and lots of eating. | ||
| C • So at least log the freakin... 3 | ||
| Note | |
| Wow! I'm already way behind the curve in the Cascade Winter League... I'm already 0 for 2. I'll also miss another one when I'll be at Anza-Borrego. There's no margin for error!
Nick, by the way, is sitting up in 8th place! Hamlin Park is up this weekend, and then UW two weeks later. I wonder how much I'll know at UW from spending *waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay* too much time course setting over there last year. | ||
Sunday Nov 25 | ||
| Soccer 1:20:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Vasque Lightspeed | ||
| Field Crumpets (not Soccer)
I thought I might go another year without playing, but Madelaine gave me the heads up that there was a game on Sunday afternoon at JCCC, so Gina and I played. There were eight of us total (Robbie, Mel, Madelaine, Dan, Gina, and me, and two people I didn't know beforehand). We played two games, and my team lost the first 10-6 and won the second 10-5 or so. I hadn't played in two years, so I was really rusty. My brain knew exactly what to do, but my body couldn't execute. My strength has always been scoring/offense, and although I got my share of goals (7 over two games), I missed tons of shots, made poor passes, received passes only to have them stolen, etc. etc. My defense, especially in stick-throwing, was actually very good. This was the first time I can ever remember where my offense was a liability, and not the other way around. Still, it was fun to go out there and swing a stick, and for Gina to get her first crumpets experience. And if you have no idea what I'm talking about... www.fieldcrumpets.com | ||
| C • You're a big shot 3 | ||