Training Archive: simonIn the 31 days ending 2007-10-31:
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Sunday Oct 28 | ||
| Orienteering race (Vampire Score O) 1:00:11 [3] *** 7.29 km (8:15 / km) +160m 7:26 / km | |
| 28c shoes: Falcon VJ | ||
| Briefly, a score O with a special kind of runner, "vampire". Mass start where everybody get his map - if you get a map without control, you are a vampire: that is, you have zero point since you cant get controls. But, you can touch a regular runner and exchange your map with him. So the tactic (for the vampire) is to wait near the finish and vampirize a finisher (preferably one who has all the controls, so you score max without effort) - for anxious runner, the tactic is to be very cautious when you approach the finish area. Apart from this, it is a regular Score O.
As it happens, I was finishing my course (with all controls and in first or second position) when I have been surprised by a vampire. Bummer. Had to wait 10 or 15 minutes in the zone before another runner came. Played the annoyed orienteer who had lost its compass in order to come near him and touch him. Funnier (he was so surprised by my tactic that he bursted out laughing) Terrain was greener than last week but enjoyable. GPS trace Oh, and I got a pumpkin as a consolation prize, for being caught with full controls (by someone who hasn't any :P) | ||
Saturday Oct 27 | ||
| Note | |
| I have been playing for the past months with the new user-friendly map-building interface (...) of Google Maps. Nice, and very easy, which makes kind of a killer app.
Since it's raining here, my afternoon was spent remembering where I had run in the past and localizing those races on google maps: Here for the France http://maps.google.ca/maps/ms?oe=UTF-8&hl=fr&ie=UT... And here for Brittany, where of course I spent much more time http://maps.google.ca/maps/ms?oe=UTF-8&hl=fr&ie=UT... I expect to see some maps from other parts of the world (Canada...), but it is not very impressive nowadays (Finland and Canada, both in 2007, I can be a bit 'stay-at-home' some times) | ||
| C • St 1 | ||
Thursday Oct 25 | ||
| Note | |
| (sick) | ||
| Busy the whole week with the OOPSLA conference. As usual, some good and some uninteresting, but I must say that I am a bit disappointed this year by the scope of papers and the conference feeling. Good keynotes, but keynotes only fuel the long term inspiration. Where is the excitement of the early object-oriented conferences? Where is the actuel, inspiring, new fun stuff? Where do good programmers go nowadays? In web conference perhaps?
Also a bit sick the whole week after my race on Sunday, will not train and don't know if I will go next Sunday. | ||
Sunday Oct 21 | ||
| Orienteering race 1:26:44 [4] *** 10 km (8:40 / km) | |
| 22c shoes: Falcon VJ | ||
| GPS: 12.5km at 6:56min/km - 130m+ (6:36)
Race (local meet) at the Morgan Arboretum, very nice weather (20C, sun, no cloud, slight breeze), nice terrain ('no hills' they said, but lots of diffuse contours, rocky underground, marsh, low visibility, and orange bags on yellow leaves, the whole typical of flat, glacial terrain and challenging). I started easy and tried not to speed up too much, as I am quite uneasy about my shape - it was ok, except I was very tired at the end". Lots of mistakes when approaching a control (well, that's not new, it's been long time that I don't train enough to have this routine of slowing and map reading after the attack point. Meet a very interesting guy who is planning on pushing the sport here. He has some nice projects. Can't talk about it too much now. http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/episode/view.do... | ||
| C • Results 1 | ||
Thursday Oct 18 | ||
| Running 54:00 [2] 10 km (5:24 / km) | |
| shoes: Asics Gel 1090 | ||
| Still Parc Jarry, but with temperature rising and higher, it was much more enjoyable. Night is falling very early here (at 6pm - or is it that in France, we always like to be a bit late, even on timezone?). Still, to come up with 10km, I have crossed the park at least 5 times in all directions.
New country, new town, new timezone, I have decide to use motionbased (the garmin website) as a log to upload my GPS trace. We will see how it performs (not so well tonight, because I have fallen right during a maintenance time) === edit: well, it seems to perform much better at work than at home. Still pages seem heavy and full of script, so a fast config is a plus. Apart from this, this is a top site! It corrects GPS trace as well as climb based on a elevation database, shows the trace on google maps, gives simple metrics... Very good tool to simply upload and visualize a session right after - then log it to attackpoint. Here is the link http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/425307... | ||
Sunday Oct 14 | ||
| Running 29:00 [1] 6 km (4:50 / km) | |
| shoes: Asics Gel 1090 | ||
| They keep promise the weather will be better in the next 7 days for the past 7 days. What do you do with that?
So typically, some kind of eastern, cold wind has the bad habit to flow through those long, linear, flat, very open streets which are the norm in NA. Never thought 30min of so easy run could be soooooo boring. I cant wait to have my student access to sport facilities at th university. Reminder: buy some neopren socks, waterproof shoes, and perhaps a windproof sport jacket. | ||
| C • NA weather 2 | ||
Monday Oct 8 | ||
| Running 30:00 [1] 5.8 km (5:10 / km) | |
| shoes: Asics Gel 1090 | ||
| Time to get back in shape. Basic training, basic running. | ||
Thursday Oct 4 | ||
| Hiking 40:00 [0] | |
| shoes: Asics Gel 1090 | ||
| Yeah, still a bit lame to log myself wandering around, but at least it keeps my log busy. And it was for good cause.
Left the university to go to the Beaver Lake Pavilion on the South side of Mount Royal Park, through the Côte-des-Neiges cemetery (and back around the cemetery, because first time I lost some time turning inside and feared it could close before I leave). There I met with John Charlow, local club president, and had a nice talk with him, learned a lot about local (i.e. North American) history of orienteering. To sum up, the whole thing started in Canada and the USA because of a norvegian who spent less than six months in NA - and made the very first maps, introduce the sport to new people, etc. OK, now for the map, I have only the Mount Royal on a A4 sheet (scale 1:7500 and contours 3m) - seems nice, even if some slopes are uncrossable. There is a bigger map which encloses the cemetery Mount Royal (not the university, but it's right next to it) - "funny" rule, we have the right to run through the cemetery (provided of course, we dont disturb the people around here, whether living or dead) - it's like a huge park. There will be a score'O beginning of November, and two local meets before this date. After that, it looks more like it will be time to train for ski'O. | ||