Wednesday Apr 30 |
 | Road Run 33:57 [2] 4.1 mi (8:17 / mi) | |
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| Slow jog was all I could do after a long day. |
Tuesday Apr 29 |
| Trail Run 1:01:49 [3] 6.5 mi (9:31 / mi) | |
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| With Peter, straight to the top of Mt Toby in 30:56, then circuitous route back to the power line and down. At least the downhills felt OK. |
Monday Apr 28 |
| cycling 50:36 [3] | |
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| Leeds loop, 14.2 miles. Felt pretty good once my legs loosened up. Split 28:12. |
Sunday Apr 27 |
| Trail Run 8:00 [2] 1.0 mi (7:59 / mi) | |
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| warm-up |
| Orienteering 59:35 [4] 5.3 km (11:15 / km) | |
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| Wolf Den Green. Tried moving a bit faster (which means less mapreading). Compass bearings were a bit rough (still not very accurate with the thumb compass); and 6 minute error due to poor mapreading near the control. |
| Orienteering 52:11 [3] 4 km (13:03 / km) | |
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| Did the Orange course, slower, and less accurately. Also, when copying I circled the wrong feature on my map, then corrected; but I went to the wrong one first, and hunted around before realizing what I had done: lost at least 5 minutes. |
Friday Apr 25 |
| Road Run 34:17 [2] 4.1 mi (8:22 / mi) | |
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| Recovery jog. |
Thursday Apr 24 |
| Trail Run 41:49 [3] 5.0 mi (8:22 / mi) | |
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| Frost to Flat Hills and back. Felt OK, but still no hill climbing gear. 8:08; 22:10; 34:23; 41:48. |
Wednesday Apr 23 |
| Road Run 35:32 [4] 4.9 mi (7:14 / mi) | |
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| UMass loop, pushed pretty hard. Cool weather helped.
6:38, 12:05, 24:04, 28:30, 35:32. |
Tuesday Apr 22 |
| machines 25:00 [3] | |
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| Two problems: intestinal distress since yeserday, and strained right hamstring from weekend gardening. |
Monday Apr 21 |
| Orienteering 1:18:50 [3] 6.9 km (11:26 / km) | |
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| Took Patriot's Day off and went down to Hurd St. Park. Did the fifteen permanent markers and six points from an old green course. Woods fast and wide open. |
Sunday Apr 20 |
| cycling 51:59 [2] | |
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| Leeds loop, 14.2 m. Legs felt pretty good. 27:27. |
Saturday Apr 19 |
| Trail Run 3:13:26 [3] 16.0 mi (12:05 / mi) | |
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| N. Nipmuck trail race. 3400 ft. of climb (by their count). Went out at a modest pace but by an hour it was clear I wasn't going to keep it up; so, rather than suffer, I switched to a walk-jog for the rest. Walked anything I couldn't see over. Nice day (60 deg.), dry course. Splits: 38:11; 48:28; 54:20; 52:28. 21 minutes slower than two years ago! |
Friday Apr 18 |
| Note | |
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| Just noticed the cadets added 24 minutes to my day 2 time. Go Army! (Too bad I'm not the guy they say did it in 6 minutes.) |
Thursday Apr 17 |
| Trail Run 45:45 [3] 5.5 mi (8:18 / mi) | |
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| Frost, then trails to the West, and along golf course edge. Legs finally recovered from last weekend. |
Wednesday Apr 16 |
| Road Run 21:17 [4] 2.9 mi (7:20 / mi) | |
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| Squeezed a quick run in before teaching. Warm. 6:39; 12:13. |
Tuesday Apr 15 |
| Trail Run 56:33 [2] 6.0 mi (9:24 / mi) | |
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| Frost, very leisurely: 3 hours sleep, tired from weekend, and temp in the 80's. Lots of mud on the trail and the detritus of logging. |
Monday Apr 14 |
| machines 20:00 [3] | |
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| stepper |
Sunday Apr 13 |
| Road Run 6:00 [2] 0.75 mi (7:59 / mi) | |
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| warm-up. |
| Orienteering 1:20:50 [4] 6.1 km (13:15 / km) +270m 10:51 / km | |
| spiked:6/6c |
| Day2, on Lake Popolopen map. Spiked all six controls, but poor route choices probably cost 5-6 minutes. Overall: encouraging to get through a two-day A-meet with no major bungles. If only I had more stamina in the legs (and courage on the downhills). |
Saturday Apr 12 |
| Orienteering 1:27:40 [4] 7.75 km (11:19 / km) +260m 9:41 / km | |
| spiked:10/14c |
| West Point A-meet, Red. Day1 on Bull Pond map. Made about four minutes of mistakes spread over four controls. Very slow and careful on the downhills. Second half was fast: an orange/yellow course. |
| Road Run 6:00 [2] 0.75 mi (7:59 / mi) | |
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| warm-up. |
Thursday Apr 10 |
| Road Run 33:30 [2] 4.1 mi (8:10 / mi) | |
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| Easy jog around UMass loop. |
Wednesday Apr 9 |
| Road Run 37:18 [3] 4.9 mi (7:37 / mi) | |
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| UMass. Tired, but finished strong. Encouraging. 7:15; 25:44; 30:13 |
Tuesday Apr 8 |
| Track 12:46 [5] 2.0 mi (6:23 / mi) | |
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| 2 x 1600 with 800 rest. 6:22; 6:24. Right on target. |
| Track 19:00 [2] 2.25 mi (8:26 / mi) | |
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| Before, ... |
Monday Apr 7 |
| Road Run 31:18 [3] 4.1 mi (7:38 / mi) | |
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| UMass loop. Legs felt pretty good (except going up the Amity Hill). Hip almost better, at least at this modest pace. |
Sunday Apr 6 |
| Orienteering 2:03:59 [3] 7.1 km (17:28 / km) | |
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| Macedonia "blue" using permanent markers on trees. First time on this map. I totally botched the third control: I missed the trail and ended up traversing the steep, rocky, icy hillside the entire 700 meters; then I started hunting around over 100 meters too soon; lost 15-18 minutes. Also lost 4-5 minutes because I couldn't find the marker for the last control, even though I had spiked it! (Sometimes, you could be on top of a marker, but on the wrong side of the tree.) Oh well, otherwise pretty clean, though still slow. Low 30's and windy. |
Saturday Apr 5 |
| Track (mapreading) 37:00 [2] 4.0 mi (9:15 / mi) | |
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| Indoors. Avoiding the crappy weather. |
Friday Apr 4 |
| machines 30:00 [3] | |
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| crosstrainer, h11 |
Thursday Apr 3 |
| Trail Run 1:06:58 [3] 5.0 mi (13:23 / mi) | |
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| Seven sisters from Notch to Low Place and back. Slow. High 30's and drizzle. 9:56; 14:52; 8:47 (33:35); 9:43; 14:48; 8:53 (33:23). |
Tuesday Apr 1 |
| Trail/Road Run 53:53 [3] 6.4 mi (8:25 / mi) | |
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| Puffers from UMass. Tired. Cold and snowing. |