Sunday Apr 13 |
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| Event: 30th Annual Billygoat Run
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 | Orienteering 2:36:16 [3] 13 km (12:01 / km) | |
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| Billygoat at Clear Lake, my ninth: after a late start with orienteering, I'm slowly moving up the Billygoat shirt ranking. This was the hardest Billygoat, physically, since Norwottuck in 2005, and it really beat me up: some falls, lots of near falls, and just generally staggering over the last hour. This was about as well as I could do on this day, though I think a better skip (I skipped 18, which was inferior to 4 or 12), and better route choices to 13 (didn't see the trail up along the ridge so dropped to the lower trail), and 22 (went west to the trail along the lake, instead of north to the trail) would have saved me 8 minutes or so. |
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| C • north to the trail on 22? 3 |
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The Goat - Splits |
Saturday Apr 12 |
| Orienteering 1:15:00 [1] 3.0 mi (24:59 / mi) | |
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| O-training with Adam, focusing on contours. Gorgeous spring day in the woods at Mt Tom, in shorts. |
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| C • Mt Tom 2 |
Thursday Apr 10 |
| Orienteering 1:32:51 [2] 5.2 mi (17:51 / mi) | |
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| Norwottuck, red day 2 from the 2002 Troll Cup. Point to point is 6.45 k, 350 m climb. Since I've done this course in training a few times, I tried some different routes looking to minimize climb and maximize white woods. A nice outing with good navigation, but a sore toe, sore hamstring, and low energy made for walking all the hills and slow jogging the rest. (My toe is really beautiful, with colors ranging from violet through dark purple: a Martian sunset. Fortunately, my new Jalas o-shoes have a stiff, roomy toebox that kept the toe pretty well protected.) |
| Orienteering 5:40 [2] 0.5 mi (11:19 / mi) | |
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| Jog to the start. |
Wednesday Apr 9 |
| Trail Run 54:57 [3] 6.0 mi (9:08 / mi) | |
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| Frost to Atkins Res. and back. Modest pace, but felt hard going up to Flat Hills. In the first mile, I smashed my middle toe into a small stump sticking up about 4 inches and went splat. No damage from the fall, but the toe's pretty tender. A couple hours later, it's turning black and looks like it's going to fall off (the whole toe, not just the nail). 28:57, 26:00. |
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| C • 'the whole toe, not just the nail' 2 |
Tuesday Apr 8 |
| Trail Run race 21:37 [5] 3.1 mi (6:58 / mi) vdot: 45.3 | |
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| Tuesday night race, 60 degrees and almost no mud. OK except for the chest congestion that built up because I haven't been doing speed. I felt the right hamstring, but it didn't hold me back much, and both hips held up. The usual split profile for this race: 6:46, 6:49, 7:17, 43. |
| Trail/Road Run 26:30 [3] 3.2 mi (8:17 / mi) | |
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| About two miles before, 1.2 miles after. |