Sunday Apr 1 |
 | Orienteering race 58:13 [4]6.8 km (8:34 / km) +255m 7:13 / km | |
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| Day 2, a bit longer. Started out shaky to the first three controls. Very slow down the rocky hillside to the cliff at 1; already had tired legs climbing up towards 2 (questioning the wisdom of having done the previous day's sprint); and ran into a fence mapped as crossable (about five feet high with barbed wire on top), and lost 30 seconds running around (would have taken me that long to get over it). But then I settled down, kept up a modest pace, and made no real mistakes the rest of the way, just a couple of hesitations.
When I finished, I found Charlie S. had beat me by about two minutes (which didn't surprise me, given my tired legs). But I was still ahead of him for the overall, and no one else had made up any ground on me, so I was just waiting for the Swiss guy to finish. I saw a 50+ looking guy with German all over his O-suit come through the shute, walk over to the M50 results, and say to his wife: "uberall zwei." Sweet! My first A-meet win. I got him by 48 seconds on day 2 for a 28 second come from behind win on the overall. I was first of 67 runners on GreenX for the two-day, though I was third one day and fourth the other. |
Saturday Mar 31 |
| Orienteering race 52:49 [4]5.9 km (8:57 / km) +240m 7:26 / km | |
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| DVOA A-meet at Fair Hill. I ran well here in the long-O in 2005, so I was looking forward to it. Both days were on the north side of 273. Large open fields that you run through to get between the low-lying pockets of forest and streams and sometimes steep hills. Lots of vines, especially rimming the fields, make where to enter and exit the fields is a major factor in route choice.
I had a good run, though I was flagging towards the end due to poor conditioning. Made a one and a half minute mistake going too far on the trail to 9. Otherwise just a couple 20-30 second errors. Good enough for second M50 on the day, 20 seconds behind Marcus Gloor, who I found out was a Swiss orienteer transplanted to HVO-land for two years. |
| Orienteering race (sprint) 19:23 [5]2.7 km (7:11 / km) +60m 6:28 / km | |
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| Sprint, on the south side of 273, in part of the area of Day 1 in 2005. Fast open woods sprint with trail options. I was tired from the morning, but when the starter says go, you just run as hard as you can. I had one small miss when I didn't see the depression at 5 from 10 meters away (unlike some sprints, the flags were sometimes hidden, though not unfairly). I lost fastest old guy honors to Glen, who got me by about 10 seconds. |
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Sprint - Splits |
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Day 1, Green X - Splits |
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Day 2, Green X - Splits |
Friday Mar 30 |
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| Event: DVOA A-Meet (Interscholastics)
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Thursday Mar 29 |
| Trail Run (tempo) 23:08 [3]3.1 mi (7:27 / mi) | |
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| Noho XC course, at a moderately hard pace. Wanted to be under 23 but trails were very muddy, especially the last mile.
7:21, 7:16, 7:44, 46. |
| Trail Run 22:00 [2]2.5 mi (8:47 / mi) | |
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| Trails from Smith gym to start; road back (twilight). |
Tuesday Mar 27 |
| Road Run (tempo) 42:23 [3]5.6 mi (7:33 / mi) | |
| ahr:144 max:152 weight:148lbs |
| Clement Street loop, after dark. Decent effort, almost a 4. |
Monday Mar 26 |
| Road Run 33:57 [3]4.1 mi (8:17 / mi) | |
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| UMass, slow. Short on time and motivation. |