Training Archive: ebuckleyIn the 7 days ending 2007-11-10:
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Saturday Nov 10 | ||
| Event: SLOC - Meramec State Park | ||
| Running (Road) 25:00 [2] | |
| Warmup. A bit longer than usual because my legs felt a bit off. Just stiff from driving out there I guess because by the time I started they were fine. | ||
| Orienteering race (Woods) 1:05:38 [4]*** 8 km (8:12 / km) +300m 6:55 / km | |
| 14c | ||
| Kick-ass run at SLOC's Meremac meet (1:15). Possibly my best run ever. One parallel error on 5 set me back a couple minutes. Maybe another minute total of little things. Moving fast and stayed in good contact. Nice change from last weekend. First ahead of Komm and Frei. Map; I'll add my routes later. | ||
| Orienteering (Woods) 1:16:00 [2]*** | |
| 11c | ||
| Control pickup with Nish. Nice to have company so I didn't think about how beat up I was from the meet. | ||
Red - Splits | ||
Friday Nov 9 | ||
| Running (Road) 1:29:00 [3] | |
| From home to the Clayton MetroLink station plus the 8-minute jog from Union station to work. Includes 20 minutes at something like tempo pace although it's been so long since I've done a true tempo run on the road, I've forgotten exactly what that feels like. Time to break out the HR monitor, I guess. | ||
| Cycling (Road) 1:25:00 [2] | |
Back home via Big Shark where I made my first serious investigation into what I'm going to do for commuting this winter. Options are:
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| C • Commuting clothing 1 | ||
Thursday Nov 8 | ||
| Cycling (Road) 59:00 [2] | |
| In to work. | ||
Wednesday Nov 7 | ||
| Orienteering (Woods) 23:00 [2]*** | |
| 6c weight:167lbs | ||
| Warmup on the map. | ||
| Orienteering (Woods) 20:27 [4]*** 2.5 km (8:11 / km) +95m 6:52 / km | |
| 14c | ||
| Emmenegger Test Loop (1:10). PR. A boom on 12 cost me a sub-20 run, but I'm pretty sure I'll be able to do that over the winter when the vegetation opens up more. | ||
Test Loop - Splits | ||
Tuesday Nov 6 | ||
| Cycling (Road) 57:00 [2] | |
| In to work. Coldest commute so far (35F), but not at all unpleasant as I've dug out all my cold weather gear. I do think I'll need a heavier set of gloves for the winter. | ||
| Cycling (Road) 1:30:00 [2] | |
| Back home via Midland. Stiff headwind and chilly, but still quite pleasant. | ||
Monday Nov 5 | ||
| Cycling (Road) 57:00 [2] | |
| Figured an off day was in order, but Kate needed the car, so I rode in to work. Had breakfast with the Kate & Baby-O, so I didn't head in until 7:00. Traffic was remarkably light and it was nice to ride in the daylight. | ||
| Cycling (Road) 1:35:00 [2] | |
| Back home via Kirkwood to pickup some dinner rolls from Great Harvest. | ||
| Note | |
| So the string is over. Updated stats:
Days: 35 Days on a map: 35 Total maps: 40 Orienteering maps: 37 Sessions with technical merit: 27 Sessions with near or above threshold effort: 21 Sessions with neither (fluff): 7 Total time navigating: 37 hours 5 minutes Total controls visited (includes training locations not marked with a flag): 766 Now the big question (as posed by Peter): did it work? Well, certainly not the way I 'd hoped, but as disappointing as the weekend's results were, Friday can be almost completely attributed to being very comforatble reading the map while running fast through the woods. I haven't been very good at that in the past and I did a lot of it last month. That's the funny thing about training; sometimes the unintended consequences are the most significant. At any rate, any month that ends in a National Championship is a good month, so I'd do it all over. And that brings us to the really good news of the weekend. Upon returning home, Kate and I had a serious conversation (at my request, not hers) about my goals and what it might take to get there. She's been mighty supportive this year and I was concerned her patience might be running a bit thin. Her response (and this is a direct quote): "Take care of the list on the refrigerator and you can do pretty much whatever you want." Now, that's not exactly a blank check - that list has got pretty long so I'll have to cut back a bit just to get it knocked out, but damn, that's about as easy a pass as one could ever hope for. So, we'll try again next year. | ||
Sunday Nov 4 | ||
| Terrain (Trail) 35:00 [2] | |
| Warmup (25 min)/dn. | ||
| Orienteering (Woods) 2:10:00 [3]*** 11.1 km (11:43 / km) +505m 9:32 / km | |
| 21c | ||
| Somewhat better effort for Day 2 of US Classic Champs at Prince William (1:15), but still pretty lame. Forest was much more open and the terrain was pretty similar to Cuivre River, so I'm not sure why I couldn't put together a better run here. Just sloppy in general with one really bad boom on 16. | ||
Day 2 Blue - Splits | ||
