Thursday Aug 17 |
 | Orienteering race 1:10:45 [4]6.1 km (11:36 / km) | |
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| Laramie, A-meet, red, middle distance. Far Meadows map. Beautiful terrain, great map, abyssmal orienteering. Maybe 16 minutes lost. Oxygen was the least of my problems. |
| Orienteering 35:00 [3]3 km (11:40 / km) | |
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| Control pickup. Drove out with Peter: picked up four from blue course, then a couple more with Peter. Had some trouble finding them, but the worst was, coming back to the car, I just headed SW to the road, but when I checked my compass, it said I was going due S, so I turned a bit the left, ran some more, checked my compass and it still said was going due S, so I turned a bit more, ran some more ... I was holding the baseplate compass I borrowed from Peter in the same hand as a punch. And now I had drifted so far W I missed the road. |
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Red Day 3 - Splits |
Tuesday Aug 15 |
| Trail Run race 20:53 [5]3.1 mi (6:43 / mi) vdot: 47.2 | |
| weight:145lbs |
| Northampton 5k XC race. Temp in mid-80's, but low humidity so able to put out a hard effort. Pleased with the time: goal was breaking 21. I was 15 seconds faster than last time I ran it, and (more important) only 1 second off Peter's time in April! Legs felt good. I've said it before: training works. Split profile was the same as usual for me: 6:30, 6:37, 7:06, 40. |
| Trail Run 40:00 [3]4.75 mi (8:25 / mi) | |
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| Good warm-up of almost three miles seemed to help. Cooldown with Gary Krinsky. |
Sunday Aug 13 |
| Orienteering 1:37:38 [3]7.2 km (13:34 / km) | |
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| O-practice at Mt Tom: red course from my meet last year. Slow, and a bunch of misses (even though I set the course). Some areas look a lot different with the vegetation at its thickest. At least 8 minutes lost, 5 on the little cliff at the farthest end of little Mt Tom where I drifted onto the neighboring spur and overshot; then took a while to figure where I was. The silver lining: almost no bugs! |
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| C • No bugs in Laramie either 3 |
Saturday Aug 12 |
| Trail/Road Run 50:03 [4]7.0 mi (7:09 / mi) | |
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| Mill R. loop. Pleased with the time. I guess training works (dewpoint in the 40's helps too). Goal was 51, but when I saw I had a chance of breaking 50, I pushed hard at the end. Just missed. Back has been hurting some; but probably more from the bad mattress than the mountain running.
23:14, 11:40, 15:08. |
Friday Aug 11 |
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| Rest day. A good two weeks of training coming to an end. In addition to the mountain running, there was 15 or so hours of tennis that I didn't log. |
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| C • The hour you toyed with me sur... 2 |