Sunday Apr 20 |
 | Orienteering 49:27 [4] 5.2 km (9:31 / km) | |
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| US relay champs, at Mendon Pond, on another nice but warm day. I ran third leg Green on an 8-point NEOC team with Ben, Adam, and Dean. This was my first time in "glacial" terrain, where up is down and down is up. I had a good run, in spite of very low energy, with less than two minutes of mistakes. (Poor execution of my route to 4 probably cost over a minute; going to the wrong control in the field after the "map exchange" probably cost 40 seconds (sigh).) I kept good map contact throughout the technical terrain, using my magnifier to make sure I could see the downhill tags. A fun course set by Will with some nice challenges. |
Saturday Apr 19 |
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| Event: US Middle Distance and Relay Champs
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| Orienteering race 33:41 [4] 3.3 km (10:12 / km) | |
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| US Middle champs at Letchworth State Park. Near 80 by the time I went out, and I felt sluggish from the start. Unfortunately, this was a repeat of the middle at the Pig: a 4 minute error early on (this time on #3) wiped out an otherwise decent run and put me well back in the standings. Nice course though, and interesting terrain in the river valley, the first 5 controls. |
| Orienteering race (sprint) 11:15 [5] 2 km (5:38 / km) | |
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| Sprint in the afternoon, for Green-Brown-Orange, with temperature about 85 degrees. A nice, fast course, with some woods legs early and some fast easy legs towards the end. I had a very clean run, and pushed hard the whole way. I figured I might be up near the leaders, but I was very surprised when I saw the next morning that I had won the sprint (first time that's happened), and that I was over a minute ahead of the next four finishers: Tim, Peter, Bob, and Glen. Sweet. Too bad it wasn't sanctioned. |
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| C • Congrats... should be wort... 6 |
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Sprint 2 - Splits |
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Green X - Splits |
Thursday Apr 17 |
| Track (tempo) 13:22 [45] 2.0 mi (6:40 / mi) | |
| ahr:151 max:156 |
| Smith outdoor track, after S&S. Goal was somewhere between 6:40 and 7:00 per mile, so I was pleased to be at the low end. And the hamstring held up OK. Maybe the stretching? The leg machines? Who knows. 6:40, 6:42. |
| Road Run 18:00 [2] 2.0 mi (9:00 / mi) | |
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| Before and after. Felt the hamstring a bit more on the jog home. |
Wednesday Apr 16 |
| Orienteering 1:12:31 [3] 4.0 mi (18:07 / mi) | |
| weight:144lbs |
| Mt. Tom, after work. Did the green course, mostly, from last fall. Still no energy. Plan was to do some terrain running but halfway through I realized I had been mostly walking, so not sure what the point was. I did this without a compass, which was a good exercise for me, but I messed up the boulder on the bland hillside, and then bagged it rather than going back. AOWN: picked two ticks off my legs when I got home and disrobed. |
Tuesday Apr 15 |
| Trail Run 1:00:03 [3] 6.5 mi (9:13 / mi) | |
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| Frost past Juggler to the train tracks and back. Went out pretty easy with the plan of running harder on the way back, but by then my hamstring was too sore: hampers both speed and agility. Very frustrating. 30:45, 29:18. |
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| C • frustrating? 5 |