Sunday Nov 25 |
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| Event: Mt Tom
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 | Orienteering 5:00 [4] 1 km (5:00 / km) | |
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| Oops. The control number for #9 on the yellow clue sheet was wrong. Fortunately, I found out before it affected more than 2 or 3 people. Sprinted out to tape on a correction; jogged back. |
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| C • very speedy 3 |
| Orienteering 46:00 [3] 3 km (15:20 / km) | |
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| Picked up all the e-punch stands south of the road. Moving along at a good clip until the stands started feeling heavy and unwieldy. Time includes stopping to velcro the flags, about a minute each. |
| Orienteering 6:00 [3] 0.6 km (10:00 / km) | |
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| Joanne was picking up the remaining five (mostly orange) e-punch stands, but missed the red control in the reentrant north of the road. It was getting dark, and the gate was closing, but I just had time to zip out and grab it. So the e-punch equipment is off to Boston and the Blue Hills for next weekend. |
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| The meet was a big success. Perfect fall day near 50 degrees. We had 120 people out on 96 separate starts. A surprising 29 starts on red (22 finishers) exhausted what I thought was a generous supply of pre-printed red maps. Fortunately, I was able to print a few extras on site. E-punching went off without a glitch. It's an amazing system, almost idiot proof. |
Saturday Nov 24 |
| Orienteering 3:00:00 [1] 10 km (18:00 / km) | |
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| Putting out controls and SI units. (NEOC has this cool vest with 16 velcro pockets to carry the units in.) Just enough jogging to make this loggable. Beautiful day, though a bit chilly. Should be 10 degrees warmer tomorrow for the meet. |
Friday Nov 23 |
| Trail Run 24:07 [4] 3.1 mi (7:46 / mi) | |
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| Didn't feel motivated to do a long run, so instead I did a moderately hard tempo run on the Noho XC course. 34 degrees, so I wasn't dressed for speed: I had two layers on top and my heavy trail shoes.
7:45, 7:36, 7:53, 50. |
| Trail/Road Run 36:37 [2] 4.0 mi (9:08 / mi) | |
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| About two miles before and two after, very easy. Legs felt really dead by the end: hard to imagine running 26+ miles on them. |
Thursday Nov 22 |
| Orienteering 1:00:00 [2] 4 km (15:00 / km) | |
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| Put some flags out at Mt Tom, mainly as a way to get some exercise before pigging out at the in-laws. |
Wednesday Nov 21 |
| Trail Run 54:35 [2] 5.0 mi (10:55 / mi) | |
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| From Amethyst to the (true) summit of Mt Orient and back. 37 degrees, mizzling, wet slippery trail. Very slow, probably the slowest I've ever done this. 22:45, 6:42, 5:36, 19:30. |
Tuesday Nov 20 |
| Track 20:46 [4] 3.0 mi (6:55 / mi) | |
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| Wintry day, good day to run indoors at the track. I did my standard three mile (really 4800 m.) tempo run. 27 seconds faster than two weeks ago, and with about the same perceived effort. Progress? 6:57, 6:56, 6:53. |
| Track 7:56 [3] 1.0 mi (7:56 / mi) | |
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| Warm-up mile. |
| Track 4:20 [2] 0.5 mi (8:39 / mi) | |
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| Cooldown. |
Monday Nov 19 |
| Trail/Road Run 55:21 [3] 6.5 mi (8:30 / mi) | |
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| Puffers Pond loop from UMass. Really a road run with a 1.2 mile trail segment in the middle. My legs didn't like the road, but it's part of my marathon training. 8:50, 8:44, 12:45, 7:57, 8:48, 8:15. |