Training Archive: kupackmanIn the 7 days ending 2008-05-18:
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Sunday May 18 | ||
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| Sages have been stomped. Ankle did really, really well in the sprint, but was just ok in the middle. It was also fine during the long... I forgot to wear thick socks or add an extra insert in my new shoes, so my right foot was sloppy in the shoe, and I wore a blister, which meant for walking a lot of uphills. I also lacked sufficient speed and strength for the middle and long runs.
50 controls over 3 races, and I had significant errors on 4 of them. The rest were decent (sometimes just plain slow) or pinballed a little bit. I lost 5-6 minutes on my bad one during the sprint. Almost 8 minutes on one in the middle, and I lost close to 20 minutes on two back-to-back controls in the long (doing so well for 75% of the course, and then BAM!). That said, it was a fantastic weekend all around. Great weather and awesome terrain. Biggest injury: getting speared in the sternum by a downed tree. Not good. | ||
| Orienteering race 2:58:02 [3]*** 13.2 km (13:29 / km) | |
| spiked:14/20c shoes: GoLite Spike Tail | ||
| Long at Sage Stomp
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/96793 Did fairly well for the first 90%, then I boomed two in a row rather horribly. Not enough speed/strength out there running, plus I was rubbing a blister with my new shoes, so that slowed down all of my uphills (boooo!). Did ok with #1 and #2, at least to keep Zbynek behind me. #3 was short, but a steep climb, so I scouted out the rest of the course as I plowed up the hill. Too bad I plowed up there and got confused. I lost 1-2 minutes up there. Pinballed my way into #4, got my way to #5 ok, hunted in the circle a bit for the right depression... Did #7 alright, super steep downhill, and the ankle was fine. Had some water + Clif Shot while chatting with Magnus here, who was taking photos. Did #8 ok, too. Got turned around on #9. I hit the fence, and then re-attacked fine. Zbynek was right behind me here. At least I held him off for 9 controls! He followed me a ways to #10, but then he disappeared. I went out to the open area and around. Very fun run. I thought I executed it well, but Zbynek arrived at #10 just a few seconds ahead of me, not exactly sure what he did here. My approach to #11 was good, but I got pulled over by something else. I thought Zbynek was looking in the wrong spot (he was right). He was gone for (seemingly) good. Thomas (the winner) passed me on the way to #12. I tried to keep up with his forest pace for a while. I wasn't as graceful swooshing through the woods, and I ran into a sapling. Whoops. #13 was a super long leg (2.5 km), and I walked the entire thing, as it was uphill the whole way. I wanted to run, but I was getting tired, and the blister on my right heel was screaming with all of that uphill. I tried to be like Sharon Crawford with a super fast walk, no stops, and a super efficient route. It worked, as I pulled ahead of Zbynek again with about 10% of the leg to go. And then I missed the flag, and overran by about 50m. Zbynek and I were even again. Zbynek, Nikolay, and I hit #14 alright, and those guys blew ahead of me to #15, but Nikolay boomed #15, and I didn't, so I pulled ahead of him again. Then I took a really dumb route choice to #16, which was slow, and I made a sizeable mistake, and by the time I found #16, I was so screwed up that I made a colossal mistake on a 175m leg, which took me 14 minutes. Then I made an inefficient route choice to #18. After that, I was fine, but embarrassed from my back-to-back mega mistakes. I was happy with everything else, considering... I think I nipped Benoit again by a couple of minutes. | ||
Saturday May 17 | ||
| Orienteering 27:39 [4]*** 2.5 km (11:04 / km) | |
| spiked:10/12c shoes: GoLite Spike Tail | ||
| Sprint at the Sage Stomp
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/96790 Finally awesome to get out orienteering again! And at a decent speed. My ankle did really well. I was really impressed! I nailed the first four. I nailed #5, too, but that was a long leg and I didn't have enough juice. #6 was sloppy, and I was too careful not to get too soggy (didn't want a wet, muddy ankle brace). #7 was fine. And then a 5-6 minute mistake on #8 killed me. I was cruising along too easily and lost focus. I first got confused what trail I was on, and then looked too far ahead to the next batch of boulders. And then I saw another flag on an even farther boulder. And then I realized what I had done, and backtracked. Got #9 and #10 easily. I was confused at #11, as there was a huge puddle in the ski trail (wide trail) that looked just like some of the mapped ponds. I lost a few seconds here trying to figure that out. Ryan Breseman and I were virtually even (I was probably a bit faster) on all controls except two: he was 5 minutes faster on #8, and I was one minute faster on #10. | ||
| Orienteering race 1:16:26 [3]*** 5.1 km (14:59 / km) | |
| shoes: GoLite Spike Tail | ||
| Middle at Sage Stomp
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/96791 Chase starts from the earlier sprint. I was in 2nd to last place, starting 45 seconds ahead of Benoit. I bounced into #1 ok, spiked #2, though access ended up being easier from the other side, so Benoit passed me soon after on the way to #3. And then I got really turned around by #4. Probably lost 7+ minutes on this one. Too many depressions in there. I tried relocating, but I had trouble with the large logged area... was it just off the map? New since the map was made? Eventually I figured it out... I figured Benoit was way ahead now. Bounced into #5 ok, missed to the west just a bit, though. Tried to cut through the woods to #6, then backed out to the trail, much faster. Found #7 reasonably well. I was convinced that I was screwing up #8... I really didn't know where I was going, plus there were a bunch of others on different courses flailing around out there. I actually hit this one spot on... but I was slow about it. Pace-counting would have made me more confident here. Same for #9 through #12. I didn't have any major issues (except for getting stabbed in the chest), but I was going a lot slower than I should have been. Also due to general fatigue and not being strong/fast enough. #13 was a good leg, I was confident because I had a nice backstop feature. #14 was the same as #6, so I plowed out to the trail as fast as I could. I missed too far to the right, but I was kinda aiming that way, anyway. #15 was back in the sprint-o terrain. On the way to #16, I realized that Benoit was actually behind me and catching up (he made a bigger mistake on #4 than I did). He passed me after #16, and he dragged me over to the wrong control on the way to #17. He was still in front of me leaving #17, and we both were on the trail looking at the maps. He actually stopped in front of me, and I ran into him, and then passed him. I ran around to #18, using the trail and open land. He tried to cut shorter going through rough open. By the time I got to 18, I was about 10 seconds ahead, so I knew that I could handle him in the chute. That was a fun finish! | ||
Tuesday May 13 | ||
| Volleyball 2:00:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Pearl Izumi SyncroFloat | ||
| Volleyball...
0-6, but we only had 4 people. Our first game was the best, losing to one of the top teams only 25-19. I got lots of reps at serve and hitting, and I could tell that my accuracy/focus was off in the last few games (I was also really hungry, so that didn't help, either). Man, when my jump serves are on, they are on. It's definitely the strongest part of my game. My hitting was ok, but again, late in the day, I was missing them long or into the net (not enough focus). My passing and setting was decent. Oh, and I had one really good block and several digs. | ||
Monday May 12 | ||
| Softball 1:15:00 [1] | |
| Softball...
We won 11-8, and I recorded the whole game on my GPS. Which was lame, because I only hit 1-for-4, and on that hit, I was thrown out at 2nd on the next play. Not only was a 1-for-4, but I also choked. First, I left a runner stranded at 3rd base with two outs. And then I left the bases loaded with two outs! Except for one at-bat, I was aiming them where I wanted, but I wasn't getting enough lift. I hit a line drive that the pitcher caught, and another well-hit ground ball that the pitcher knocked down and eventually threw me out. They were giving me a huge hole in center field... I pitched 3 innings, fairly decently. They scored 4 runs in one inning, but 3 of those were from a 2-out error... I threw out two grounders, and while I was at catcher, I caught a pop-up and tagged a runner out at the plate (kudos to Matt for the heads-up throw). The team had two web gems in the 7th to seal the win. Thomas and Joe had back-to-back diving catches. Whew! Alex had 4 more RBI and we're now tied for 1st place, at 2-1. | ||