Tuesday Oct 16 |
 | Cycling (Road) 55:00 [2] | |
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| In to work. Blew off the morning track work again. It's just too much to try to shoehorn it in when I'm getting out on a map every day. I'm sure the map work is more valuable. |
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| C • The adventure runs you're o... 4 |
| Cycling (Road) 1:18:00 [2] | |
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| From work to Emmennegger and then home. First 45 minutes was super easy since I wanted my legs fresh for the run. |
| Orienteering (Woods) 24:24 [4]*** 2.5 km (9:46 / km) +95m 8:12 / km | |
| 14c |
| Emmennegger test loop. No chance for a PR with the vegetation still thick and just to make a slow time worse, I boomed 12. However, an excellent session for moving through the green stuff quickly. Still not sure how fast I should try to move through the green at Country Lane this weekend, but I'm thinking I should give it a go at full speed and see what happens. |
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Monday Oct 15 |
| Orienteering (Woods) 1:13:00 [4]*** | |
| 28c |
| 3x500@3:25-3:40 6:00R at Babler (1:15). Pretty much the same drill as Friday, but these legs were set in light green. Followed with a control picking course that was supposed to train focus when tired. Failing at that, it was more a session of correcting stupid mistakes when tired. |
Sunday Oct 14 |
| Orienteering (Mix/Night) 1:08:00 [2]** | |
| 6c |
| Scoping out the Third Thursday course for December using the USGS quad. Some fun stuff, but I'll have to enhance the map to make it work. Mostly trail and grass, but some roads as well. Did a major face plant while running on the sidewalk and reading the map. |
Saturday Oct 13 |
| Cycling (Road) 2:54:00 [2] | |
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| Over to JB and back. Return trip with David Frei. |
| Terrain (Grass) 10:00 [2] | |
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| Warmup. |
| Orienteering race (Woods) 1:26:10 [3]*** 8.8 km (9:47 / km) +270m 8:29 / km | |
| 33c |
| SLOC meet at Jefferson Barracks (1:10). Rudy's updates helped, but the map is still really rough. The situation was made worse by some substandard printing where the shades of green were all printed too light which exaggerated the optomistic view of the runnability. Turned out to be a pretty brutal HTFU session.
That said, it was a fun course on interesting terrain. Generally the challenge was finding the best around route as going straight through the woods was only tolerable in small doses. After a while I started treating all the woods like they were medium green, regardless of what the map said.
David is so despondent about the state of the Death Match that he's resorted to treachery. He got there before me and "helped out" by copying some of the first loop maps which were in short supply. I got one such map and it had control 9 on the wrong feature. That set me back about 3 minutes and he beat me by 1. At the finish he feigned great distress at the "error". |
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| C • specific comments on map ap... 6 |
Friday Oct 12 |
| Orienteering (Woods) 1:04:00 [4]*** | |
| 25c |
| 5x800@4:05-4:15 in the terrain with equal recovery spent picking controls. Felt like I've been moving too slow in the woods so I took advantage of the fact that Kate didn't need her car today and went up to Cuivre River (1:15) for some high-speed work. Effort was pretty close to threshold, but I took just enough edge off so I could stay in contact with the map. Set the 800m legs along ridge tops, so all I had to do was make sure I got onto the right spur to approach the control.
I certainly couldn't move at that pace on a technical leg without things going terribly wrong, but it was a hoot moving at 5:15/K through the woods on a map. I think I actually tend to run most legs cleaner at high speed, but am obviously more prone to disasterous errors. I think I need to do more sessions like this and reset my expectations regarding nav speed. |
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| C • Question about controls in practice runs 1 |
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| First opinion on the WRX from a friend of mine who's a mechanic: dump it - it's through. Crap. |
Thursday Oct 11 |
| Cycling (Road) 58:00 [2] | |
| weight:164lbs |
| In to work. Even more frosty. I remembered to put on a long-sleeved jersey, but I should have worn full-finger gloves as well. Legs felt OK, but an easy day is clearly in order with hard stuff scheduled for tomorrow and Saturday. |
| Cycling (Road) 1:24:00 [2] | |
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| Home via Tilles. Easy pace. |
| Orienteering (Park) 28:00 [2]*** | |
| 20c |
| Direction drills at Tilles (1:4). Not too tough given the easy pace, but it did a good job of getting my head into a map for the day. |
Wednesday Oct 10 |
| Cycling (Road) 55:00 [2] | |
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| In to work. Frosty! Quite a change from the last few days. |
| Cycling (Road) 1:34:00 [2] | |
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| Home via a rambling and not particularly interesting route through mid-county. |
| Running (Road) 53:00 [2] | |
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| Over to CC Lake and back for... |
| Orienteering (Woods/Night) 27:00 [2]*** | |
| 10c |
| ... some night nav at Creve Coeur Lake Park (1:10). Woods were thick for this time of year and I was pretty much out of gas for the day, so I went slow. Clean nav, fun sesion. |