Sunday Oct 30 |
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| Event: WCOC - US Team Fundraiser B-Meet & Sprint
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 | Orienteering race 1:03:01 [4] 6.9 km (9:08 / km) | |
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| Red course at Tarryville. Perfect fall day, around 60 deg. A rare combination of feeling healthy (finally) and (almost) clean navigating. Only one miss, 1:30-2:00 minutes lost. |
| Orienteering race 13:55 [4] 1.5 km (9:17 / km) | |
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| Perhaps I should have quit while I was ahead. I expected to be slow (after running the red), but I couldn't find the flags even when I was on top of them. Lost 2:30 minutes on this short (technically easy!) sprint. Just wasn't thinking clearly. |
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Sprint - Splits |
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Red - Splits |
Saturday Oct 29 |
| Orienteering 50:00 [2] 4 km (12:30 / km) | |
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| Mt. Tom, easy. Trying some new routes. Time doesn't include mapping the changes in the white trail, which I need to include on the map for my meet (or change some control locations). |
Friday Oct 28 |
| Trail Run 1:07:01 [3] 7.5 mi (8:55 / mi) | |
| ahr:139 |
| With Peter, the Frost over Mt Orient to Heatherstone Br. and back. First hard effort over an hour in almost a year. I felt good throughout, so very encouraging. One unusual sighting: Peter struggling to keep up on the climb up Mt Orient. (But I was chasing him, as usual, all the way down.) 26:29 (top), 8:58 (brook) (35:28), 9:36 (top), 21:56 (31:32). |
Thursday Oct 27 |
| machines (elliptical h14) 30:00 [3] | |
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Wednesday Oct 26 |
| Road Run 39:29 [3] 4.9 mi (8:02 / mi) | |
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| UMass loop, 40's, dusk. Moderate pace, but no letting up. Venus was so bright I thought at first it must be a plane.
7:34, 6:06, 13:05, 4:42, 8:01. |
Tuesday Oct 25 |
| Track (tempo) 20:49 [4] 3.0 mi (6:56 / mi) | |
| ahr:151 max:159 |
| Miserable rain from hurricane Wilma, so I ran at the indoor Smith track. Goal was 21:00, which wasn't too tough. But had to bear down the last mile. 6:58 (144), 6:59 (153), 6:52 (156) |
| Track 10:00 [3] 1.25 mi (7:59 / mi) | |
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| Before, and a bit after. |
Monday Oct 24 |
| machines (elliptical) 30:00 [3] | |
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Sunday Oct 23 |
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| Event: Northeast Sprint Championships
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| Orienteering race 25:28 [4] 3 km (8:29 / km) | |
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| First of 3 sprints at Trout Brook. Pretty clean overall. Some hesitations, small misses, a poor route choice to 15. But I was moving better through the terrain, and able to read the map on the run (thanks to the 1:5,000!) |
| Orienteering race 19:17 [4] 2.3 km (8:23 / km) | |
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| Sprint 2. A decent run, and clean navigating. |
| Orienteering race 21:30 [4] 2.2 km (9:46 / km) | |
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| Felt a bit slow, especially through the junky woods. And made my only 30+ second mistake on the day when I let John F. lead me too far left to #7 instead of #5. |
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Sprint 1 - Splits |
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Sprint 2 - Splits |
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Sprint 3 - Splits |
Saturday Oct 22 |
| Orienteering 37:31 [3] 3.3 km (11:22 / km) | |
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| Ran the yellow course for the upcoming Mt Tom meet, easy pace. It's a bit too hard and long for yellow, so I'll make a couple changes. Made one mistake that I'll have to go back and see if I can blame on the map: probably not. |
Thursday Oct 20 |
| grass (tempo) 24:03 [4] 3.3 mi (7:17 / mi) | |
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| 3 laps around UMass field. No time to stretch or warm up much, just ran hard start to finish. Good times on the last two laps (though distance might be inflated a bit). Another encouraging day. 8:26, 7:57, 7:39. |
Wednesday Oct 19 |
| Trail Run 49:28 [3] 5.5 mi (8:59 / mi) | |
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| From Amethyst to Mt Orient and back. 200 m. of climb. Another good run. On the way up I met an Amherst College freshman XCountry runner (Sandra Walter) who was unsure where the trail went, and we ran together the rest of the way. Made me run a bit harder than planned! 26:35, 22:51. |
Tuesday Oct 18 |
| Trail Run 52:22 [4] 6.2 mi (8:26 / mi) | |
| ahr:145 max:158 |
| Frost to Atkins and back, with Peter. Good steady effort, helped by having Peter to push me, especially on the way back. Felt hip a bit on some downhills, but the best it's been in 9 months! 8:51, 5:13, 2:24, 6:16, 5:18 (28:04), 5:42, 4:56, 2:10, 4:24, 7:05 (24:18). |
Monday Oct 17 |
| machines (elliptical h14) 30:00 [3] | |
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Sunday Oct 16 |
| Orienteering race 1:06:37 [4] 5.2 km (12:49 / km) | |
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| Day 2. Not great, but a lot better than yesterday. Could read the map OK, using both bifocals and a magnifier. Spiked the first four and the last five; but lost 10 minutes on the middle three. |
| Trail Run 5:00 [2] 0.5 mi (10:00 / mi) | |
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| Warm-up. |
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Green Day 2 - Splits |
Saturday Oct 15 |
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| Event: Boulder Dash
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| Orienteering race 1:31:02 [3] 4.9 km (18:35 / km) | |
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| Boulder Dash, A-meet, at Beaver Brook. Green course. Steady rain. Piss-poor orienteering on my part. It was a challenging course (set by Alar), with lots of very technical legs. I couldn't read the map very well (no glasses, magnifier blurry, couldn't tell a depression from a knoll, etc.). But instead of being MORE careful, I let myself lose map contact on two short legs (4 and 5), hoping I'd figure it out when I got in the area. Bad strategy on any map, but especially bad on this map, on these two legs. Paid with about 20 minute lost. Also lost about 8-10 minutes on other legs that I can't blame at all on poor vision. |
| Trail Run 10:00 [2] 1.0 mi (10:00 / mi) | |
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| Warm-up. |
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Green Day 1 - Splits |
Thursday Oct 13 |
| Road Run 30:05 [3] 4.1 mi (7:20 / mi) | |
| ahr:145 |
| UMass loop, cool and light rain. Pace felt comfortable throughout; best run in quite a while. |
Wednesday Oct 12 |
| machines (elliptical) 40:00 [3] | |
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Tuesday Oct 11 |
| Road Run 31:56 [3] 4.1 mi (7:46 / mi) | |
| ahr:140 max:155 |
| UMass loop. |
Monday Oct 10 |
| Track (tempo) 21:27 [4] 3.0 mi (7:09 / mi) | |
| ahr:150 max:158 |
| Smith track, after lifting. Cool, overcast, breezy. Modest pace, but hard enough for now. Felt the hip strain the whole way, so definitely no intervals this fall. But doing tempo runs at the track helps me to keep focused, checking splits every 200 m. 7:12 (141), 7:11 (153), 7:04 (156). |
| dirt 13:00 [2] 1.5 mi (8:39 / mi) | |
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| Before, after. |
Sunday Oct 9 |
| Orienteering 1:35:00 [2] 7 km (13:34 / km) | |
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| Mt. Tom. Wasn't motivated to move very fast, but at least I got some woods running. After the heavy rain yesterday, the trails were streams and the marshes were full. (And Rt. 5 is flooded between Mt Tom and Northampton.) |
Friday Oct 7 |
| Trail Run 44:49 [3] 5.0 mi (8:57 / mi) | |
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| Frost to Flat Hills and back. Muggy. Felt OK and pushed some coming back. But not much speed there.
9:12, 5:29, 9:29 (24:11), 8:02, 4:49, 7:46 (20:38). |
Thursday Oct 6 |
| grass 25:38 [3] 3.3 mi (7:46 / mi) | |
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| 3 laps around UMass athletic field. Warm and sunny.
8:59, 8:27, 8:11. |
Wednesday Oct 5 |
| dirt 25:45 [3] 3.2 mi (8:02 / mi) | |
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| Loop around Smith fields after lifting. Felt OK. Last 1200 in 5:38. |
Tuesday Oct 4 |
| machines (elliptical) 20:00 [2] | |
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Sunday Oct 2 |
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| Event: Hudson Highlander X
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| Orienteering race 6:09:54 [3] 25.8 km (14:20 / km) | |
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| Hudson Highlander, my fifth. (I've done them all since 2000; 2002 was an off year). The four sections were: Sebago, then a trail leg (the last km of which was for me an unpremeditated bushwhack), then 10k on Surebridge (cruel not to use the Hogencamp map at 1x10,000, not to mention ageism), then back to Sebago. I was 20th overall, first male over 50. (But not first over 50. Sharon went "blazing" by at the beginning of the last map: speed is relative). I had a very poor "race" physically. Maybe the warm weather (80's for second half), maybe the 3 hours of sleep the night before, probably mostly just the lack of training (before every other Highlander, I had trained for and run some long trail races in the late summer and early fall - Savoy, Wapack, and/or Pisgah.) And it was a physically hard Highlander; though not as hard as the one two years ago all on Hogencamp. Anyway, I started cramping after about two hours, right at the beginning of Surebridge. Then I fell and badly twisted my left knee on the way to 14; probably no running for at least a few days. (This was the worst of about 20 falls, almost all from having my feet slip out from under me on hillsides covered with very dry leaves; I wore trail shoes with no traction.) Then, on the way to 15, I landed wrong off a log and got a full strength charleyhorse in my right calf. That ended the "competitive" part of the race; the rest was walking, a little slow jogging, and over ten minutes at the next water control and aid station. The long 2.6 k trail leg became a scenic hike with Bernie, taking almost an hour. (Bernie had a good excuse for going slow: he had done a 12 hour adventure race the day before.) Somehow, in spite of all this, I got the award for being first master. (PG absent, Jeff S. having an even worse time with dehydration and cramping, Charlie was gaining on me at the end (just like last year), but finished about a minute behind.) And my orienteering? Even with people around for most of the course (unlike the last two years), I made lots of mistakes. But at least no really big ones. |
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- Splits |