Saturday May 3 |
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| Event: West Point A-Meet
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 | Orienteering 1:06:49 [4]3.8 km (17:35 / km) +160m 14:32 / km | |
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| West Point A-meet, middle distance, green. Abysmal orienteering on a well-designed, challenging course. It was too wet to use my magnifier; but instead of slowing down or stopping to read detailed areas on the map, I let myself lose contact three times leading to huge losses of time on 1, 4, and 8: 25 minutes total. Some flags were "tucked away", but not, I suppose, unfairly: if you knew where you were (and read the clue), no problem; if you were hunting around in an area with many similar features, good luck. |
| Orienteering 19:28 [4]2.5 km (7:47 / km) +60m 6:57 / km | |
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| Afternoon sprint, O-Br-Gr. A fun course, first half mostly woods, second half through the barracks. This went OK, about 50 seconds of mistakes, but what a difference two weeks makes. My latest injury, top of left hamstring, shortens my stride and makes my running much less fluid and efficient. I couldn't move any faster. Peter had the best time about 1:50 faster. I was third M50. |
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Sprint O/Br/G - Splits |
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Middle Green X - Splits |
Thursday May 1 |
| machines 30:00 [3] | |
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| Ellliptical, after lifting. Didn't bother my hamstring, so I pushed the "hills". |
Wednesday Apr 30 |
| Trail Run 1:01:33 [2]6.0 mi (10:14 / mi) | |
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| Atkins on the Frost. Gentle pace befitting an old man. Legs not good. |
Tuesday Apr 29 |
| dirt 38:44 [3]4.7 mi (8:14 / mi) | |
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| From Smith gym, 6 laps around fields. No progress: left top of hamstring still sore and very tight. Have to keep my stride short so I worked on turnover and pushing off. |
Sunday Apr 27 |
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| Event: WCOC Macedonia
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| Orienteering 1:12:17 [4]6.5 km (11:07 / km) | |
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| Macedonia Brook, red course, on a perfect day. A nice course by Peter Goodwin, though it seemed easier navigationally than others I've done here. Climb was kept to a minimum; the main impediment was the everpresent barberry. With my sore butt, I decided in advance to avoid any fast running,and just try to keep up an even pace and work on "flow". I had a very clean run except for one total lapse: I inexplicably hit the river going to #4 (a 100 m. leg) over a 100 meters north of where I should have been; I continued north for a ways (since I had been aiming off a bit south) until I relocated on a stone wall and had to come back 200 meters to the control. When I got home to look at the map and see what in the world had happened, I quickly understood: I never went the 150 meters south from 2 to 3, but left 2 due east thinking I was leaving 3. (In sympathy with Will?) Sometimes skipping a control saves you time; this time it cost me over 4 minutes. (And, yes, I did notice it was taking too long to get to the river, but, hey, on such a short, easy leg, why bother to look at the map?) Driving home, I was thinking how I would write in my log that Charlie's 12 second victory was bogus because he didn't go to the 9 on our revised map, and so his course was 100 meters shorter than mine. (His split to 9 confirms what he said, that there was a control on the unrevised 9). But the laugh's on me. |
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Red - Splits |