Sunday Oct 14 |
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| Event: NEOC Wells State Park
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 | Orienteering race 51:46 [4] 4 km (12:56 / km) | |
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| NEOC meet at Wells State Park, green course. A lot of in your face vegetation. I was being a bit sloppy, with two minute mistakes on 9 and 11; then, heading to the penultimate control, I took a big stick in my right eye. Wham. Thought I might be carrying my eye back in my hand, but it was still there when I felt for it. And I could still see, sort of. Lost four minutes on the next easy control. Felt a bit better by the time I finished. Hurts like hell now. I may be wearing a patch to work tomorrow. |
| Orienteering 46:00 [3] 3 km (15:20 / km) | |
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| Felt like heading home, but I had a date to do the orange with Adam who had just finished yellow in second place (because - again - some old guy ran yellow to steal the glory). I let Adam do most of the navigating, and just tried to keep up. I had to show him where we were on the map once, and correct a couple of errant compass bearings; but not bad. We were first on orange. |
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| C • because - again - some old ... 7 |
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Green - Splits |
Saturday Oct 13 |
| Orienteering 1:30:00 [2] 5.0 mi (17:59 / mi) | |
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| Mt Tom, nice fall day. Finished designing and streamering my advanced courses, mostly jogging when I wasn't checking the accuracy of the map. Coursesetting is fun. I can't wait to try running some legs at speed, trying different routes. |
Friday Oct 12 |
| Road Run (hills) 40:59 [3] 4.5 mi (9:07 / mi) | |
| weight:140lbs |
| Getting too dark for trails, so I did a road loop from UMass with 3 repeats on the Amity Hill. First was kind of slow, then OK. I could tell fall is back: my hands froze. 3:52, 3:40, 3:35. |
Thursday Oct 11 |
| machines (elliptical h13) 40:00 [3] | |
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| Smith, after dark. Didn't feel like running outside. |
Wednesday Oct 10 |
| Trail Run 51:40 [4] 6.0 mi (8:36 / mi) | |
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| Met Peter at Mill R. to run the Frost to Atkins and back. Strange run. He was complaining about some headache or something, and fell behind on the long hill, so I said I'd wait for him at Flat Hill Road. But I wasn't paying attention and missed a turn. (I've only done this run a gazillion times, but I was in the zone ...) By the time I got back to the Frost Peter was way ahead wondering where the hell... I met him coming back up from the reservoir, feeling zippier, and we ran pretty hard to the end. So I never made it to Atkins, which is too bad because it would have been a really good time for this run. I felt good all the way: last split in 6:53. Maybe it was the 16 oz of Rao's Tanzanian coffee I had a half hour before the run? |
Tuesday Oct 9 |
| machines 30:00 [3] | |
| rhr:41 slept:4.5 weight:141lbs |
| Elliptical, after some lifting. Quad sore from Sunday. |
Monday Oct 8 |
| Orienteering 1:30:00 [1] | |
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| Streamering most of the advanced controls for my upcoming Mt Tom meet. The courses start at Lake Bray and use both sides of the road. The technically and physically more demanding section north of the road comes first. The second half is mostly downhill and should be pretty fast. As it stands now, the red course is about 6 k, which seems plenty given the climb (about 250 m) and the lack of trailrunning. |