Sunday Dec 9 |
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| Event: WCOC Five Ponds meet
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 | Orienteering 1:44:20 [4]*** 7.7 km (13:33 / km) | |
| spiked:15/18c |
| 5 ponds, red course, set by Peter Grollman, from the spring meet in a deluge that nobody went to. Some challenging legs, made especially challenging because I couldn't read the map at 1 to 15 except at a standstill (which I should have done more often!). Three bad legs. Lost about 12-13 minutes on 13: I was in the right area (but couldn't say precisely where because I wasn't reading the contours well enough); then I had to relocate twice before finding it, the second time relocating on the big cliffs 150 meters east of the control (never saw the trail I had planned to use to relocate, though I must have crossed it twice). Also lost four minutes on 2 (map made no sense if you were off to the right; I came back to it from the trail near the marsh/pond to the east), and about four minutes on 5 (a couple minutes on route choice, a couple by going past and doing a big circle around the pit). So not a very good day. But I loved the open woods section from 6-12! (Though maybe the road would have been faster to 11; I went right of the line). I'm missing some splits because the e-punches malfunctioned; I guess I need to punch my watch too at WCOC events :) |
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| C • Splits 3 |
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Red - Splits |
Friday Dec 7 |
| Trail Run 49:34 [2] 4.7 mi (10:32 / mi) | |
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| Mill River: the Ellsworth-Barnard loop. Easy pace. Still no bare ground on the trails, but the footing was fine. |
Thursday Dec 6 |
| Road Run 56:06 [3] 7.2 mi (7:46 / mi) | |
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| Same UMass loop as Tuesday, but fresher legs and lighter shoes made for a respectable pace. This wasn't all that hard aerobically, but it was hard on my legs which just don't seem to have any shock absorbers any more, or any resilliancy in the muscles.
7:07, 5:46, 12:27 (25:21), 7:39, 6:55, 8:23, 7:46 (30:45). |
Tuesday Dec 4 |
| Road Run 59:42 [3] 7.2 mi (8:17 / mi) | |
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| Longer UMass loop, cold and breezy. Pretty slow pace for the effort, not helped by ice and snow on the side of the road. 26:49, 32:53. |
Monday Dec 3 |
| machines 30:00 [3] | |
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| Smith gym, after lifting. Did 15 one-minute intervals on the elliptical. |