Saturday Oct 27 |
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| Event: WCOC DuO #3, Huntington
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 | Orienteering 24:33 [4]1.94 km (12:39 / km) | |
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| Sprint at Huntington, a 40 pointer, put on by Joe. Not well attended, probably from the rain. (So I got lots of points!). Lost time on first and last control, maybe 4 minutes. On the first, I went to the center of the circle below the monster cliff, but the flag was up the hillside behind me. Just never looked there. Figured "top of the reentrant" was below the cliff, and began poking around boulders looking for it, then staring at the map to see what could be up. Then, Alexi caught up to me, and I saw the flag. Lost over a minute. I was behind Alexi for a few legs, ahead of him for a couple (when he missed 5), fell behind again at 7 (because I went higher instead of just following the stream), got ahead again going to 8 (I went straighter, he went more right), lost him going to 10 where I boomed. Mistook the stone wall after the control for the stone wall before the control and went too far south, checking out some rock features there. Didn't click until I saw the fence, 100 meters too far south. Lost 2 and a half minutes.
Unfortunate that with only a few runners doing the sprint, I didn't get the course to myself. |
| Orienteering 1:59:21 [3]9.3 km (12:50 / km) | |
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| Joe's score-o with 20 flags, 10 for the bike-o and 10 for the foot-o, but I did it all on foot. I got them all before the course closed, barely. Steady rain, and my feet were sloshing around in my shoes, and a blister was forming on my left big toe. Felt OK for about 40 minutes, then it was clear I was getting dehydrated and by about 60-70 minutes, I was in bonk mode, with almost no running; even felt dizzy a couple times. Run was very clean until I mysteriously, and inexcusably, drifted off the trail going to B7, a little knoll right off the trail. I drifted farther than I thought, ended up cutting back to the trail through laurel, and then went the wrong way on the trail, checking out a knoll that couldn't be right. Finally turned around and went right to it, but somehow, it appears I lost at least 6-8 minutes on this. Only other mistake to speak of was, again, an easy bike-o control B9, where I crossed the trail without seeing it and climbed the knoll north of the one I wanted. Wasted 2-3 minutes before figuring it out.
A fun course. Not sure why I had such a bad day physically. |
| Trail Run 8:00 [2]0.7 mi (11:25 / mi) | |
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| Easy jogging before the sprint. |
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Sprint - Splits |
Thursday Oct 25 |
| Road Run 38:51 [3]4.8 mi (8:06 / mi) | |
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| UMass loop with trail cut-off. Stiff starting out; never loosened up. That's how road runs are. |
Wednesday Oct 24 |
| Trail Run 1:09:01 [3]7.5 mi (9:12 / mi) | |
| weight:141lbs |
| With Peter on Toby. The route that heads towards the gate but turns right on the Frost (up a steep hill) and then loops back. Trail was wet, but the rain held off and the temp was a nice 55; colors were at or near their peak. An acceptable pace, fast enough to feel it was doing some good. 17:18,17:07, 19:35, 14:59. |
Tuesday Oct 23 |
| machines (elliptical) 20:00 [3] | |
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| After stretching and lifting. It was late: cut it short from boredom and hunger. |
Monday Oct 22 |
| Trail Run 1:15:40 [2]7.6 mi (9:57 / mi) | |
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| Work be damned, I had to get out and enjoy the Indian Summer: 78 degrees, low humidity. I drove to Amethyst Brook but went south on the Frost, something I hadn't done in over 10 years, covering the Harkness Brook and Amherst Woods sections, across route 9 to Station Road and back. Really nice woods trails, mostly flat, and more interesting than I remembered. (At one point, the trail runs on a narrow ridge above the Harkness Brook ravine which must have been over 20 meters at it's deepest). Lots of twists and turns, but the trail was well marked except where there were jogs on the roads in suburban developments. All but one was a left turn, so it was easy to remember. Pace was beyond relaxed going out, relaxed coming back. Slowed by the scores of wood planks over marshy areas, sometimes with rotted wood, but it was often dry enough to just go around them. |
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| C • "beyond relaxed" is even sl... 5 |
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| AOWN. When showering after the 4 map event on Saturday, I pulled a tick off my calf. When showering after my run today, I pulled a tick off my left side, waist high, who had been feasting on my blood for some 48 hours. He was reluctant to leave. (I had noticed some soreness in my side yesterday and today, but I just assumed it was a normal scrape from orienteering.) |
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| C • 48 hour tick 4 |
Sunday Oct 21 |
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| Combined a long dog walk with streamering a yellow course at Mt Tom. All slow walking, no loggable time. |
| cycling 32:28 [3] | |
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| Short spin through Florence, decent pace. Temp in the 70's. |