Saturday Oct 21 |
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| Event: WCOC Tarrywile Meet
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 | Orienteering race 1:05:15 [4]7.18 km (9:05 / km) +360m 7:16 / km | |
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| Tarryville red. An excellent run on a fine fall day: just one 30 second miss, when I went to the southern dot knoll first on #8. Fast course in spite of over 350 m of climb. |
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Red - Splits |
Thursday Oct 19 |
| Orienteering 49:52 [3]4.8 km (10:23 / km) +175m 8:47 / km | |
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| Same course at Norwottuck, 6 minutes faster. At this point, I hardly need to look at the map or compass, so it made for good physical training, and allowed me to focus more on micro-route choice. (But again I missed the junk car, losing almost two minutes; not sure what's going on with that.) |
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| C • If it's the junk car I'm think... 2 |
Wednesday Oct 18 |
| grass 35:52 [3]4.75 mi (7:33 / mi) | |
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| 5 laps around UMass fields, hard enough to get my heartrate up. (7:25, 7:06, 6:55, 6:39, 7:44) My foot's doing a lot better, but I need to keep being careful not to aggravate it. Overall, my legs felt pretty good except for a bit of tendonitis in my lower right hamstring -- an injury I used to get on and off, but not for at least ten years. More confirmation for the Nietzschean theory of eternal recurrence. |
Tuesday Oct 17 |
| machines (elliptical) 20:00 [3] | |
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| At Smith, after stretching and lifting. Cold rain and darkness made staying inside a no-brainer. But my legs feel OK. |
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 |