Sunday Mar 30 |
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| Event: NEOC Rocky Woods
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 | Orienteering 1:53:59 [3]*** 8.2 km (13:54 / km) | |
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| Rocky Woods, Blue, on a perfect early spring day. Nice course by Jeff, with some good route choice legs (2-3, 9-10. 14-15), and a couple of legs I didn't like (8-9, 17-18), coincidentally, the ones I messed up. Like yesterday, I had a sore back and some right hamstring trouble, so I wasn't moving very well, but not as bad as I feared; so I'm glad I did two days in a row, since there are lots of multi-day meets on the horizon. I had two bad legs, and a bunch of smaller misses. On #9, a boulder on a hillside with lots of unmapped rock, I was looking too far south and had to go back to the trail and try again (didn't spike it the second time either). On #18, I got thrown off by multiple unmapped boulders that (it took me too long to realize) were outside the reservation boundary in an area that wasn't field checked. All tolled, adding in the 30 second to 2 minute mistakes, I probably lost 13-15 minutes. Not the level of orienteering I aspire to. The 1x15,000 map didn't help. |
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| C • Thought that was you - but ... 2 |
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| Adam did his second orange course on his own, in 63 minutes, second best time. (Best was a European sounding name in 58.) A couple big mistakes, but I think he's making the transition to orange nicely, and really enjoying it. |
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Blue - Splits |
Saturday Mar 29 |
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| Event: WCOC Trout Brook Valley
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| Orienteering 1:15:25 [3] 7.2 km (10:28 / km) | |
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| Trout Brook, one-person relay, which was basically three woods sprints, each with 75-100 meters of climb, and with no break between. Back was sore, and back of right leg hurt over the second half, but I got through this better than expected and kept up a moderate pace the whole way. Orienteering was orange level, but I still made one bonehead mistake: coming back to the start/finish on my first loop (B), I turned on the wrong road/trail and ended up at the paved road. I guess I "oversimplified" a bit too much, i.e., didn't bother to look at the map. Lost maybe 3-4 minutes.
Times on the loops in the order I did them: B: 28:39 (2.5k), A: 25:28 (2.6k), C: 21:18 (2.1k). |
Thursday Mar 27 |
| grass 36:38 [3] 4.5 mi (8:09 / mi) | |
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| 5 laps around UMass field. Well, I can no longer ignore the fact that I'm injured: feels like sciatica shooting down the back of my right leg. Bummer. Stopping to stretch doesn't help. I can jog slowly, but I can't even run at an 8:00 minute pace. I'll try easy orienteering over the weekend, but it looks like I get a break from training. |
Wednesday Mar 26 |
| Orienteering 1:48:13 [3] 5.0 mi (21:38 / mi) | |
| weight:145lbs |
| Training at Norwottuck, the day 1 red course from 2002 Troll cup. A challenging course: 6.7 k, 340 m, lots of laurel and face-high branches. Mostly walking; orienteering was OK. Felt very uncoordinated, with lots of falls or near falls. |
Tuesday Mar 25 |
| machines (elliptifcal) 30:00 [3] | |
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| After lifting. (Real lifting, not just posing: about 36,000 lbs in about 20 minutes.) Legs had a lot of pent-up energy, but my hamstring wanted a day off from running. |
Monday Mar 24 |
| Road Run 33:00 [3] 3.6 mi (9:10 / mi) | |
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| Tried to do a hill workout, but couldn't. Back of right leg is screwed up from my hip to my knee, and by the second hill I couldn't lift my leg without pain. Bummer. Two hills I did were 3:34 and 3:37. |