Sunday Sep 10 |
 | Orienteering 1:22:25 [4]6.3 km (13:05 / km) | |
| spiked:6/11c |
| Red course. Put a new contact in, and it felt fine. Not a lot of energy, especially going through the thick stuff, and lost 3-4 minutes being sloppy on #2, and maybe another 3 minutes total on 4, 5, 6, 7, but mostly felt I was reading the map and navigating well. Nice course, with a mix of challenges. |
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| Got home from Pawtuckaway and had to go straight to the department picnic (after showering!). Played about hour and a half of softball, frisbee, and bocce, but not aerobic enough to log the time. |
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Red Day 2 - Splits |
Saturday Sep 9 |
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| Event: UNO Camping Weekend
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| Orienteering 26:20 [2]2.3 km (11:27 / km) | |
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| Started the camping weekend doing a yellow with Adam, letting him navigate, making sage comments when appropriate, and a couple of major corrections. |
| Orienteering 1:20:00 [3]5 km (16:00 / km) | |
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| Then I did the green while Adam did the white. First DNF in 5 years (when I injured my hip at Paugusset), and normally I would finish a course even if I had to crawl, but this race was special. Here are some of the problems I had. Something was wrong with my contact from the start, and it was irritating my eye; that, and the lack of focus where my footing was, caused a couple of really nasty, painful falls early on, and a slip off some rocks into an ankle deep marsh. By the time I was approaching 8, I had lost about 5 minutes on a small reentrant at 4, and a minute on 6. Then I got nailed by a swarm of wasps. Second time this has happened to me at Pawtuckaway. Counting the welts on my body now, I'd say I got 8 stings: legs, back, and one, on the back of the neck, that was especially painful. After outrunning the wasps, I just walked for a while to assess the damage. Then I rubbed my sore eye and, poof, the contact was gone and the map was a blur (no magnifier). I found 8 (after maybe a 2 minute error), walked to 9, checked my watch and saw I would be really late for Adam: I had told him I'd be back in 60-70 minutes at most, and didn't want to piss him off. So I went straight back. |
| Orienteering 42:00 [3]3.5 km (12:00 / km) | |
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| Vampire-O with Adam. Got all 18 controls, thanks to getting a fast start and being the first to #11 with the holy water (pretects against vampires). Downside was that I had to carry the gallon jug of water around for most the course (filled 2/3 up). Thought about dumping the water and refilling at the end, but the pale yellow color of the water would have given it away (Hmm, pale yellow, that suggests a way to do this ... nah, that would be cheating.) We kept up a jog the whole way, but after the first few controls, Adam was content to have me do the navigating. We were the second team, one of only two teams to get them all (first was Childs mom and younger son, who got the ghost sheet): but that's because without protection, you always get vamped. We would have been vamped at least 5 times. Lots of fun. |
Thursday Sep 7 |
| grass 20:42 [4]2.85 mi (7:16 / mi) | |
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| 3 laps around the (now shrunken) UMass fields. All I could fit in between teaching and Adam's birthday dinner. Legs felt good again (finally). 7:17, 6:51, 6:33. |
Wednesday Sep 6 |
| Trail Run 51:32 [4]6.2 mi (8:18 / mi) | |
| weight:148lbs |
| Frost to Atkins Reservoir and back. Left quad not quite right, but put out a decent effort anyway. 8:27, 5:08, 2:25, 6:22, 5:00 (27:23), 5:14, 4:51, 2:13, 4:26, 7:24 (24:08) |
Tuesday Sep 5 |
| Trail Run 38:20 [2]4.3 mi (8:54 / mi) | |
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| Frost to the stone wall, then back via the tree farm and the fourth hole of the Cherry Hill golf course. Very stiff and slow to start - Wapack did a number on my quads - but moving somewhat better by the end. |
Monday Sep 4 |
| cycling 1:12:46 [3] | |
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| Westhampton-Leeds loop, easy pace on sore legs. But seems to have helped. |