Sunday Oct 7 |
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| Event: Hudson Highlander 2007
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 | Orienteering 5:34:23 [3] 25 km (13:23 / km) | |
| slept:4.0 weight:139lbs |
| Highlander XII, my seventh. Hogencamp, trail run on Rockhouse, Pole Brook, and Sebago. It was hot - high 70's, moderate humidity - too hot for me to do well in a race of this length. Physically, this was as bad as it gets. I pulled something in my left quadraceps on the first map, and could barely keep up a slow jog on the trail run. Then, at the beginning of the third map, the cramping started and never abated. I usually have problems with cramping in the Highlander, but this was by far the worst: both hamstrings and my left foot. I couldn't run much on Pole Brook, or at all on Sebago. The last two controls, I couldn't even walk in the woods; had to kind of drag my left leg because I couldn't bend it at the knee; ended up flat on the ground a couple times when it went into full spasm. But I was happy with the orienteering: just a couple small misses. I had company for most of Hogencamp, including Pavlina and Bernie. On my own for all of Polebrook. Saw some people on Sebago, including Mike Lyons for a couple of legs, but I was just doing my own routes. Nobody was moving as slow as I was. |
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HH XII - Splits |
Thursday Oct 4 |
| grass 27:35 [3] 3.6 mi (7:40 / mi) | |
| slept:5.0 |
| Four laps around the outside of the UMass athletic fields as a modest tempo run. I figured this was the safest way to do a run that would get my HR up for an extended period. The game I play - every lap has to be faster than the previous, even if only by 1 second - is a great motivator for me; I feel like a total failure if I mess it up. 7:04, 6:56, 6:50, 6:44. |
| Road Run 10:00 [2] 1.0 mi (10:00 / mi) | |
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| Jog before to loosen up. Real creaky to start. |
Wednesday Oct 3 |
| dirt 30:31 [2] 3.3 mi (9:15 / mi) | |
| slept:6.0 weight:140lbs |
| From Smith gym after lifting. Easy jog. It was dark and I was tired. |
Tuesday Oct 2 |
| Trail Run 1:12:14 [3] 8.0 mi (9:02 / mi) | |
| slept:5.0 weight:141lbs |
| With Peter, Frost to Depot Road and back. Modest conversational pace until I foolishly raised the ante by passing him with 10 minutes to go and then, after he passed back, I had to run hard to the finish. Hip didn't like that. Unusual sighting: the Vermonter. Beat it to the crossing point by about 10 seconds. 26:08, 22:58, 23:07. |
Monday Oct 1 |
| machines (elliptical) 20:00 [3] | |
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| Plus lots of stretching and lifting. |