Sunday Oct 15 |
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| Event: Hudson Highlander
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 | Orienteering race 4:50:00 [3] 25.5 km (11:22 / km) | |
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| Highlander, my sixth, and my fastest by 30 minutes. Finished 27th, compared with 20th last year, but a much better run: no mistakes to speak of, just stuck in laurel a little more than necessary. A combination of fast legs early on with people around, and slower legs on my own on Rockhouse and almost the whole last section on Silver Mine. Starting cramping bad towards the end of Rockhouse, both hamstrings, and had to walk almost the entire last section, even the trails. One nasty fall smashed my elbow and my magnifier; but no injuries I expect to last very long. |
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XI - Splits |
Saturday Oct 14 |
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| Two hours walking around Mt Tom checking control locations for a meet (Western Mass Rules) the Sunday after Thanksgiving. |
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| C • Mt Tom 11 |
Wednesday Oct 11 |
| Orienteering 55:53 [3] 4.8 km (11:39 / km) | |
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| AT Norwottuck, south side. Same course as a couple weeks ago that took me just over an hour. Thought I'd try it at a faster pace. That was no problem, since my legs felt good. But I made a four minute mistake on the junk car (!), and a couple other small errors. Also, took a branch in the right eye, which hurts quite a bit now, and my vision in that eye is quite blurred. No doubt a corneal abrasion. I'm expecting this goes away on it's own in a day or two, but maybe I should have it checked out, and get some antibiotics? I hate going to doctors. |
Tuesday Oct 10 |
| Road Run 42:12 [3] 4.9 mi (8:36 / mi) | |
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| UMass loop, after dark. Foot really painful the last 20 minutes. Looks like I need to stick with terrain running for a while. That'll be good for my orienteering ... but it's hard to get away from work in the daylight. |
Monday Oct 9 |
| cycling 1:10:24 [3] | |
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| Gorgeous day in the 70's. Haydenville loop, legs a bit tired. |