Saturday Feb 23 |
 | Orienteering 32:05 [4]*** 3.5 km (9:10 / km) | |
| spiked:11/14c shoes: Asics |
| WIOL champs.
The forest part was kind of fun since there was one really interesting control. Sadly I messed up on that one (probably losing a couple of minutes) because I didn't look at my control description and it looked like a reantrant on the map so I charged down this reantrant in the dark green only to realize after a minute or so that I was supposed to be on a spur. My only other navigational mistake was when I went to 12 instead of 11 (they were less than 150 meters apart) because I accidentally started looking at the wrong spot on the map. Besides that it was a pretty clean run.
And it was a really fun meet because I got to hang out with lots of the same people as at Interscholastics. |
| Running 7:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Asics |
| warm-up |
Friday Feb 22 |
| Walking 25:00 [1] | |
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| Walk around the Claremont colleges. |
Thursday Feb 21 |
| Running 29:21 [3] 3.76 mi (7:48 / mi) | |
| shoes: Asics |
| I ran from my hotel room a couple miles up the road and then back. I ran my normal training pace for 5 minutes, then sped up for 2 minutes and repeated that. It wasn't the nicest run since I was running along a busy street with several stop lights since I don't know the area at all. |
Wednesday Feb 20 |
| Running 32:11 [3] 3.5 mi (9:12 / mi) | |
| shoes: Asics |
| I ran a loop around the Claremont Colleges and surrounding area. The distance is a guess since I left my GPS watch at the hotel. |
| Walking 53:04 [1] 2.5 mi (21:12 / mi) | |
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| I walked from my brother's dorm to Jamba Juice and back.
I've done a lot of other walking the last couple of days. I spent about 8 hours walking around Disneyland yesterday (which is why I didn't go running), so my feet were getting kind of sore by the end of the walk today. |
| Strength 12:45 [3] | |
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| planks (1:00-0:30x3-1:00 front-side-front-side-front continuous)
wall sits (3x1:00)
push-up pyramid
abbreviated nifty-nines |
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| C • I'm impressed. I should pro... 7 |
Sunday Feb 17 |
| Orienteering 47:37 [4]*** 5.1 km (9:20 / km) +69m 8:45 / km | |
| spiked:6/12c shoes: Orienteering shoes |
| Day 2 at Interscholastics. Today was so much better than yesterday although I still made a few couple minute errors. My main problems were controls 7 and 10. For 7, if I would have just looked to my left, I would have seen my control, but instead I headed to the other side of the earth bank my control was on, which was down the hill. I then had to loop around, so I lost a couple minutes here. At 10, I went to far along the uncrossable earth bank and came across a control farther along. I then saw the building/dock down by the lake and realized I was a little too far south. I lost a couple minutes here as well. Besides that, most the controls were pretty good, although a lost 30 seconds to a minute on a couple others since I ended up slightly to the side of where I was supposed to be, although I figured it out almost immediately. I liked this course better than yesterday because it had less buildings and I was able to rely on contours more. I also used what I had learned about the terrain yesterday as well as making sure to slow down on the first few controls. I also tried very hard to think of today as a new race and not worry about the time I needed to make up to try and medal, and I was pretty successful with this. I was happy with today's run, and although I'm still disappointed with yesterday's huge error, it was a good meet, I had a lot of fun, I got in some practice, and my team did well. |
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| C • Nice Run! 2 |