Training Archive: kupackmanIn the 7 days ending 2007-12-15:
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Saturday Dec 15 | ||
| Note | |
| I am embarrassingly, pathetically slow.
I spiked everything out there. I ran the entire time. I never stopped moving. I made the most efficient macro route choices out there, and lost perhaps 30 seconds over the total course on micro route choices. It was the best race I've run in a long time. But Roger, Glenn, and Peteris beat me by over 3 minutes. And when I get back and they hear my time... [paraphrasing] "Oh, where were your mistakes?" "Um, I don't think I made any." "I thought you'd be faster than that." Sigh. I need to stop working 65 hour weeks and get out and run. | ||
| C • Pathetic? 3 | ||
| Orienteering 31:02 [5]*** 5.2 km (5:58 / km) | |
| spiked:14/14c shoes: Vasque Lightspeed | ||
| Winter O' Series #4: UW Campus
I pretty much nailed everything, with zero stops and only one hesitation (when a girl asked where we were, and I lost concentration approaching a control). Looking at macro route choices, I think I made the correct decisions on everything (except 11-12-- too conservative), but I really want to look at all of the micro-route choices where I think I could have saved some time. Yeah, so after I wrote that mopey note, I went and looked at my spreadsheet, and today's race was the fastest orienteering I've ever done (except for a few sub-2km sprints). Heck, I ran today's 5.2 km UW course faster than I ran last year's 4.8 km UW course... and I set that one! My pace today was also faster than every Street Scramble I've done, too (except for the fake one in Carnation in '06). I thought today's course was fun, but being admittedly biased, I thought the Course 7 last year was more interesting. There were too many legs out there today with minimal route choice. I ran Course 3 today, also, and I thought that, even though the controls were at easier locations, the legs required a lot more thought. I lost significantly more time on Course 3 than I did on Course 7 today. | ||
| Orienteering race 25:37 [3]*** 3.5 km (7:19 / km) | |
| spiked:9/12c shoes: Vasque Lightspeed | ||
| I ran Course 3 after Course 7, and my brain wasn't as sharp. I thought Course 3 had harder controls. I lost a few seconds on 1, a few seconds on 2, I actually stopped short of 11 for a while and was convinced that the control had been yanked. (I ran to the exact center of the circle, but it was off. The description sheet was accurate, though.).
I also got stuck in a fenced in area by the maintenance buildings. I had to run back out and around. I didn't have a lot of fun on this one. | ||
UW - Splits | ||
Friday Dec 14 | ||
| Note | |
| Big race tomorrow. I could use some big points in the Winter Series, and UW may be my best shot at it. Despite it being a really fast map, I was the course setter last year, so that should help me out a little bit.
Also: Nick, Scott, Mike, and Gina are all coming tomorrow, and all of them are running course #7, so it should be exciting. Predicted order of finish: me, nick, scott, gina, mike | ||
| C • finish order 1 | ||
Thursday Dec 13 | ||
| Note | |
| Shoes and Socks Notes
I wore my hi-vis yellow socks to volleyball last night, and during one of my many dives, I managed to rip holes in both of them simultaneously. A small hole on one ankle, a large on on the other. Good thing the Street Scrambles are off for 4 months so I can either find new ones or darn the old ones. I really love both of my Pearl Izumi shoes, and I have one pet peeve, and it's a weird one. The top outside eyelet of my right shoe slices through laces like I've never seen before. And here's the kicker: on BOTH pairs. How does that happen? I put in new laces before volleyball last night (note to PI marketing reps: is volleyball an approved activity? or just running?). When I got hope to untie my shoes, the lace was already 95% severed. Ruined in one usage. Pathetic. Speaking of shoelaces, I saw some hi-vis yellow ones at wal-mart the other day. Those would be sweet for street scrambles. I'm not sure if REACH is going to back me in organizing Street Scramble teams for next year, but if they are, I think there's some interest in shirts again, and I think I have a design in my head. But, first things first, I gotta finish up the OK designs. | ||
Wednesday Dec 12 | ||
| Volleyball 1:30:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Pearl Izumi SyncroFloat | ||
| Coed B League, Seattle
Well, we won 1, tied 1, and lost 3, which is by far our best performance of the year. We actually almost won our last game, which would have been really special. And, we actually did all of this with our team captain there and only a team of four. Kate and Simon were pretty solid all night. Simon came through big-time with 3 digs on the same point (it was game point against us) and we came through. I only missed one serve, and my spikes were pretty good. (Although, I felt bad on one of them... I knocked over an older lady.) After a really good game of setting last week, my sets were pretty bad again. I wasn't able to give Kate many clean spikes last night. During the game that we tied, the clock was winding down and we were down a couple of points, so I would flat-out sprint to go retrieve the ball so that we could get more points in before the horn sounded. That was exhausting, but we came back enough to secure the tie. And I have one story about our team captain. She's in the setter's position. The other team goes bump-set-spike to their best guy. He spikes it. HARD. She ducks and covers her head with her arms, cowering by the net. The guy spikes it right at me, so I'm able to dig it. And it floats to the setter. But she's still crouched by the net. Sigh. | ||
Tuesday Dec 11 | ||
| Note | |
| I've created some digital templates for OK suit designs. (These templates look nothing like the actual templates, but they give a much better feel of what the suits will look like.)
Look for Design #1 to be posted here by the end of the week. Maybe even two designs. One with a royal/pink/black/white checkboard scheme, and the other with a powder/pink/white "Jim Ryun throwback" scheme. | ||
Sunday Dec 9 | ||
| Note | |
| I worked 66.5 hours this week, and on my day off (today), Gina and I aced the Street Scramble course (clearing all but one).
If I had the Street Scramble results, I'd probably format and post them tonight, but I don't, and I'm tired, and I'm going to bed, despite it only being 5:15pm. | ||
| Street Scramble race 1:49:11 [3]** 13.3 km (8:13 / km) | |
| shoes: Pearl Izumi SyncroSeek | ||
| http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=1494246
Street Scramble at the Market Team with Gina 950 points, 1st place corporate, 11th place overall (of 103) Write-up to follow, but the big milestone: I earned my 10,000th Street Scramble checkpoint here (more specifically, at the Walgreen's at 3rd and Pike). | ||