Sunday Aug 31 |
 | Orienteering 1:29:32 [4]7.2 km (12:26 / km) | |
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| Red course at Pawtuckaway. Pretty clean. Some 30 second errors, and probably lost 4-5 minutes due to poor execution on the longest leg (including crawling through lots of green to get to the Beaver dam; and taking 2-3 minutes to cross a swamp which was up to the top of my thighs). |
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Saturday Aug 30 |
| Orienteering 16:10 [4]1.6 km (10:06 / km) | |
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| CSU event at Pawtuckaway. This was a mass start to provide seedings for the match races. Lost about 30 seconds on last control, otherwise pretty clean (though I mostly followed on first three of six). Seeded sixth. |
| Orienteering 26:00 [3]1.3 km (20:00 / km) | |
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| Match race against Barb Bryant. I lost. I hit the first three controls clean with Barb trying to keep up, then ... lost in the woods for 10-12 minutes. Of course, since Barb had followed me off-track, a winning strategy would have been to stay with her until we found number 4 together. But that wouldn't have been very nice. |
Thursday Aug 28 |
| Orienteering 1:30:00 [2]5 km (18:00 / km) | |
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| Flagging more control locations after work, then running back fast to beat the dark. Unmapped biking trails sprouting like weeds. |
Wednesday Aug 27 |
| Trail/Road Run 45:00 [3]5.75 mi (7:49 / mi) | |
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| Outer loop of XC course from home: third (uphill) mile in 7:56. Legs felt better, but temp in mid-80's. |
Tuesday Aug 26 |
| Trail/Road Run 46:00 [3]5.5 mi (8:22 / mi) | |
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| 5 loops around Smith athletic fields, plus to and from house. Progressively faster, but fastest only 5:19. Legs still tired from Toby: don't recover like I used to. |
Monday Aug 25 |
| Orienteering 1:00:00 [1]3 km (20:00 / km) | |
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| Flagging control locations for score-o. A lot of standing around trying to get map to match terrain. |
Sunday Aug 24 |
| Trail Run 2:00:03 [4]14.0 mi (8:34 / mi) | |
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| Mt Toby trail race. The good weather (70 deg., low humidity) helped me hit my goal time (two hours) without any of the suffering I associate with this race. But rather slow over last four miles. Splits: 16:29, 19:01, 27:07 (1:02:38), 20:26, 21:59, 14:59 (57:25). |
Saturday Aug 23 |
| cycling 48:06 [3] | |
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| Leeds loop, 14.1 m, 17.6 mph. (26:49) |
Thursday Aug 21 |
| Trail/Road Run 53:32 [3]7.0 mi (7:38 / mi) | |
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| Mill River loop out, but got dark and took road back. Steady effort in warm, muggy conditions.
6:53, 18:01, 12:25, 11:02, 5:11. |
Wednesday Aug 20 |
| cycling 1:20:00 [3] | |
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| With PG. I croaked on a steep hill heading up to Chesterfield, couldn't get my foot free and toppled over banging my knee. Otherwise, some good stretches of hard riding. Never made it to Chesterfield: took Kennedy loop to Williamsburg instead. 23 miles, 90 degrees. |
Tuesday Aug 19 |
| Trail Run 49:52 [3]6.0 mi (8:18 / mi) | |
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| Juggler. Low 80's. Legs felt surprisingly good.
8:47, 9:37, 7:20 (25:45), 6:50, 9:33, 7:43 (24:07). |
Monday Aug 18 |
| Orienteering 1:00:00 [1] | |
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| Mapping a trail and checking out some areas on Norwottuck map - after a red eye from CA! |
Sunday Aug 17 |
| road 29:00 [2]3.25 mi (8:55 / mi) | |
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| Around Rancho Park. |
Saturday Aug 16 |
| Note | |
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| In L.A. Creamed Richard at tennis, 6-1, 6-1, 6-1. |
Friday Aug 15 |
| Orienteering 1:43:53 [4]7.2 km (14:26 / km) | |
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| A-meet red course at Baldwin Hills. Badly missed number 4 and floundered for 4-5 minutes, apparently north and west of the deparession. (Didn't help that I was looking for a reentrant.) Then, bailed to the stone wall and came back right to it, but not until another 5 minutes were lost. Probably bailed too soon: I should have been able to relocate if thinking clearly. Otherwise, a very clean run, with only one significant miss on number 3. Had to take it easy in the heat. |
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Red - Splits |
Wednesday Aug 13 |
| Orienteering 1:10:00 [3]4 km (17:30 / km) | |
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| Shadowing exercise with Tom Carr, alternating legs. (Twice he went way off course - once, off the map - but he doesn't seem to make many mistakes in the meets.) |
Tuesday Aug 12 |
| Orienteering 1:00:00 [3]3.6 km (16:40 / km) | |
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| Short course at Sergeant Center, mostly with legs emphasizing precision compass. Not my strong suit. Hot and Humid and thick. |
| Orienteering 1:00:00 [2] | |
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| Canoe-O with Nora at Sergeant Center. Made her go for two land controls: she was one out of two. |
| Orienteering 45:00 [1] | |
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| Vampire-O with Nora, Adam, and his friend Toby. They bravely followed me off trail a couple times into the dark woods. Got vamped as we were coming in to the finish. |
Monday Aug 11 |
| Orienteering 5.25 km ( / km) | |
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| A green course at Fox Forest as part of Wilderness-O camp. Two five minute errors. Hot and humid. |
Sunday Aug 10 |
| Orienteering 1:32:00 [3]5.9 km (15:36 / km) | |
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| Day 2. A-meet. Dismal orienteering. Lost 15 minutes on one control from a series of mistakes on trails beginning with a 180. Dehydrated, overtired, and unable to concntrate. |
Saturday Aug 9 |
| Orienteering 2:16:48 [3]6.6 km (20:44 / km) | |
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| Bolder Dash A-meet at Burnt Mt. Excriciatingly slow per k time due to: warm and muggy weather; challenging terrain with constant ups and downs; and poor orienteering which lead to total lack of confidence. Major mistakes on five controls totaling about 30 minutes. When I got offline (as I always do), I often had trouble matching map to terrain in order to correct. |
Friday Aug 8 |
| cycling 53:42 [2] | |
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| Easy spin. |
Thursday Aug 7 |
| Orienteering 52:00 [1]3 km (17:20 / km) | |
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| Tooling around Norwottuck from Bachelor St. entrance. Too buggy to be pleasant, and got stung again, this time on front of left thigh. |
Wednesday Aug 6 |
| Track 20:16 [4]3.0 mi (6:45 / mi) | |
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| Did 3200 in 13:36 (6:46, 6:50), then a two-three minute water break, then 1600 in 6:40. Warm and muggy. Mile AHR's: 149, 156, 152. MHR: 158. |
| Road Run 30:00 [2]3.5 mi (8:34 / mi) | |
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| Before and after. |
Tuesday Aug 5 |
| Road Run 33:54 [3]4.2 mi (8:04 / mi) | |
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| Around outside of Smith athletic fields, in a downpour. Last half with Bob Austin: I had bagged a planned track workout, he had bagged the 5k race. |
Monday Aug 4 |
| Road Run 38:44 [3]4.9 mi (7:54 / mi) | |
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| UMass loop. Light rain and very humid. |
Sunday Aug 3 |
| cycling 2:17:26 [3] | |
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| Conway-Ashfield-Goshen with Peter and Walter (from Walter's house). Exceedingly muggy, but best I've felt on the climbs. Pushed the uphills to stay with Peter; pushed the downhills to stay with Walter. Averages somewhat low due to some waiting at tops of hills on the clock. AHR: 120; MHR: 150. |
Saturday Aug 2 |
| Trail Run 12:00 [3]1.5 mi (7:59 / mi) | |
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| Planned on doing loop at Mt Tom but quickly gathered a swarm of deer flies around my head. After getting bit a couple times and killing about ten, I bailed. |
| Trail Run 24:40 [4]3.1 mi (7:57 / mi) | |
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| Second try. Did 5k XC course. Warm, humid, and not much shade at 2 PM, so didn't push too hard. AHR 144, MHR 156. 8:07, 7:40, 8:02, 50. |
| Trail Run 10:00 [2]1.0 mi (10:00 / mi) | |
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| "cool" down. |
Friday Aug 1 |
| Road Run 49:23 [2]5.5 mi (8:59 / mi) | |
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| Just getting in some mileage. Outer loop of XC course from home. AHR: 128. Stung twice on my calf by a giant mutant wasp that looked like it was out of a sci fi movie. Quite swollen. |