Saturday Sep 22 |
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| Event: Sprint Series Final & US Relay Champs
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 | Orienteering race 18:46 [4] 2.22 km (8:27 / km) | |
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| Sprint Series Finals at Cranbury Park in Norwalk. 3 sprints: the first two were were an A-meet with staggered starts; I ran in M45. The last was the sprint final run as a mass start after the finalists ran. It was a fun day, with excellent courses set by Joe; and a good day for me, with no mistake over 30 seconds, and the last sprint clean as a whistle. I felt my hip when I tried to go fast, but it held up pretty well throughout the weekend.
Sprint A had the most green, and the most potential for trail or stone wall confusion. It started badly with the worst mistake of the day: I got confused right off as to what trail I was on ( the 1:4,000 map scale didn't help), and ended up taking a circuiitous route to 1, losing 30 seconds. Beyond that maybe a couple 10-15 second mistakes for under a minute total. |
| Orienteering race 18:58 [4] 2.33 km (8:08 / km) | |
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| Sprint B had more open woods, and more distinct contours. Another solid run with just a couple of 20 second errors. Most people were at least a minute faster on this sprint than sprint A, but I guess I just didn't have any higher gear to move in to. |
| Orienteering 19:24 [5] 3.15 km (6:10 / km) | |
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| The sprint finals course, done after the finalists as a mass start. This was great fun: the course started with 3 short loops that could have been done in any of six orders depending on the map you got. I had variation 1 where I first went north, then east, then south. The orienteering on these loops was very fast and easy. Then there was a map exchange with a 1200 meter loop to the south, also fast and pretty easy: the only challenge was coming straight at 19 from the stone wall junction, and I nailed it. I can think of only two controls where I lost as much as 5 seconds; and I tried to put out a bit more physical effort from the start than the first two sprints. |
| grass 8:00 [2] 0.8 mi (10:00 / mi) | |
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| Some easy jogging before the first sprint to loosen up. |
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Sprint A Course 3 (R/B) - Splits |
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Sprint B Course 3 (R/B) - Splits |
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Sprint C - Splits |
Thursday Sep 20 |
| grass 29:01 [3] 3.6 mi (8:02 / mi) | |
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| 4 loops around UMass athletic field. Felt kind of hot with the sun beating down and high 70's. 7:32, 7:14, 7:10, 7:02. |
Wednesday Sep 19 |
| Track 14:09 [4] 2.0 mi (7:04 / mi) | |
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| After lifting at Smith. Too dark to run trails, so I did a short, easy tempo run on the track. (Well, it didn't feel that easy, but it should have.) 7:05, 7:04. |
| dirt 25:00 [2] 2.8 mi (8:55 / mi) | |
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| Before and after. |
Tuesday Sep 18 |
| Trail Run 45:29 [4] 5.5 mi (8:15 / mi) | |
| max:160 weight:140lbs |
| Juggler. Best time on this course in years, 3:20 faster than last week. Felt really good. I had only planned to run something under 48, but about 12 minutes into the run some tall, buff, bearded Nordic-looking guy (definitely not my Dean) was coming up behind me, so I instinctively sped up to keep ahead of him. He continued on the Frost past Juggler, but I felt committed to maintaining the same pace on the way back.
8:12, 9:01, 6:09 (23:23), 6:12, 8:37, 7:16 (22:06). |
Monday Sep 17 |
| Trail Run 38:48 [3] 4.5 mi (8:36 / mi) | |
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| After lifting at Smith. Tired, and unmotivated. |
Sunday Sep 16 |
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| Event: NEOC Great Brook Farm
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| Orienteering 1:27:46 [3] 7.2 km (12:11 / km) | |
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| NEOC event at Great Brook Farm in Carlisle, put on by Tim P. I did red. First time on this map, which seemed pretty good (except on the way to 15 where unmapped stone walls and an unmapped trail threw me off a bit). There are some technical areas, with trail runs between. Lots of "light green" on the map with low visibility. My orienteering was on the sloppy side: a bunch of 2ish minute mistakes. And at the end I stupidly tried to go to 18 straight across the marsh (everything had been pretty dry!), and lost 3 minutes getting stuck in some deep mud. |
| Trail Run 8:00 [3] 0.8 mi (10:00 / mi) | |
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| The older I get, the more I need a warm-up. This wasn't enough, but it was better than nothing |
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Red - Splits |