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Friday Apr 30, 2010 #
Note
just dumping my Garmin before West Point this weekend. Will come back and clean up (well that's the theory at least).
7 AM
biking 18:27 [0] 3.93 mi (4:41 / mi)
4 PM
biking 19:02 [0] 3.34 mi (5:41 / mi)
Thursday Apr 29, 2010 #
8 AM
biking 20:03 [0] 4.3 mi (4:40 / mi)
4 PM
Road run 26:30 [0] 2.44 mi (10:52 / mi)
orienteering 43:27 [0] 2.44 mi (17:48 / mi)
7 PM
Road run 22:03 [0] 1.43 mi (15:27 / mi)
Wednesday Apr 28, 2010 #
9 AM
biking 20:10 [0] 3.9 mi (5:11 / mi) +10m 5:08 / mi
6 PM
biking 17:17 [0] 3.28 mi (5:16 / mi)
Tuesday Apr 27, 2010 #
8 AM
biking 23:08 [2] 4.34 mi (5:20 / mi)
Monday Apr 26, 2010 #
Note
Trying to catch up with my logging. Adding a few maps from the Harriman camp and will follow that up with splits too. My DOMA page.
Plan for the week
Tuesday - Track
Wednesday - Terrain Intervals? Possibly set flags at Cat Rock?
Thursday - Park O Cat Rock
Friday - Drive to West Point
Plan for the week
Tuesday - Track
Wednesday - Terrain Intervals? Possibly set flags at Cat Rock?
Thursday - Park O Cat Rock
Friday - Drive to West Point
8 AM
biking 20:36 [2] 4.05 mi (5:05 / mi)
Had big plans to get a lot of stuff done around the house and then go for a long run on the way to work... but by the time I actually got ready to leave it was late enough that biking was necessary. I did make time for cruches and push ups so that's good, and the kitchen got cleaned and some of the laundry got folded and put away.
12 PM
Road run 41:30 [3] 5.59 mi (7:25 / mi)
To make up for missing my morning run I skipped the noon seminar on Non Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and went for a run around Jamaica Pond instead. Beautiful afternoon, I'm pretty sure I made the right choice here.
5 PM
biking 16:39 [2] 3.76 mi (4:26 / mi)
Leaving from work I was in a hurry so I took the straight route home along Rt. 9. Actually, heading west along this route is just fine, there is a wide shoulder and traffic isn't too bad. Going east wouldn't be so pleasant though.
A splendid dinner at Casa Luis in the evening. Feeling happily spoiled with good food. As Sam likes to say "We have a pretty good life", though my favorite quote of hers today was "I kinda forgot how time works" in reference to running late on her schedule of events.
A splendid dinner at Casa Luis in the evening. Feeling happily spoiled with good food. As Sam likes to say "We have a pretty good life", though my favorite quote of hers today was "I kinda forgot how time works" in reference to running late on her schedule of events.
Sunday Apr 25, 2010 #
Trail run 1:15:00 [3] 8.0 mi (9:22 / mi)
Shopping at IKEA is less stressful if you are only interested in buying Lingonberry Jam :) Though a huge sheepskin rug would have been nice too.
Sam very cleverly found a fun new place to run that was near IKEA, so after Sean and Ariane drove home we drove down to Borderlands State Park. On Tuesday a guy from the CSU running section was telling me how great Borderlands was and we also have some friends that go there to play disc golf... it's weird when non-orienteers know more about a park than you do.
Anyway, I was feeling a bit out of it at the beginning, much better for the middle section and then out of it again at the end. Probably just a result of dehydration or strange sleep schedule.
Park itself was beautiful if a little buggy. There are more trails to explore, so maybe we'll go down again sometime... it's only 25 or 30 minutes away.
Sam very cleverly found a fun new place to run that was near IKEA, so after Sean and Ariane drove home we drove down to Borderlands State Park. On Tuesday a guy from the CSU running section was telling me how great Borderlands was and we also have some friends that go there to play disc golf... it's weird when non-orienteers know more about a park than you do.
Anyway, I was feeling a bit out of it at the beginning, much better for the middle section and then out of it again at the end. Probably just a result of dehydration or strange sleep schedule.
Park itself was beautiful if a little buggy. There are more trails to explore, so maybe we'll go down again sometime... it's only 25 or 30 minutes away.
Saturday Apr 24, 2010 #
Note
Socially imposed rest day. A pretty awesome day though. Tossed a Frisbee with Sean before the girls woke up, then made buttermilk chocolate chip pancakes before heading out to play minigolf. Lunch at Union Street followed by a lazy attempt to try some geocaching at Hammond Pond. Frozen yogurt at Chill and then "how to train your dragon" before coming home to play Settlers of Catan all evening.
Friday Apr 23, 2010 #
9 AM
biking 21:10 [2] 4.35 mi (4:52 / mi) +10m 4:50 / mi
Biking to work. This has seemed like an awfully busy week. Trying to cram 5 work days into a 4 day span, most likely the culprit.
Splendidly good Cambodian food at lunch though. Myra bought us all lunch from Elephant Walk as a farewell to Raju party. Our little lab is really great most of the time and it will be sad to be a Trio instead of a Quartet in the lab now.
Splendidly good Cambodian food at lunch though. Myra bought us all lunch from Elephant Walk as a farewell to Raju party. Our little lab is really great most of the time and it will be sad to be a Trio instead of a Quartet in the lab now.
7 PM
biking 17:07 [2] 2.33 mi (7:21 / mi)
Rushing home. Sam spent a whole day of her vacation cleaning the apartment and stocking the kitchen for a visit from Sean and Ariane this weekend. They had gotten a late start leaving from Albany so we had enough time to visit a Colby gathering down in JP. Misjudged time a bit (typical I suppose) and so arrived late at home after our guests had arrived.
Thursday Apr 22, 2010 #
9 AM
biking 18:13 [2] 3.95 mi (4:37 / mi) +10m 4:35 / mi
Biking to work. A day late and a dollar short... seems to be a motto I picked up from Mom and Grandma.
C • Inov-8 12
5 PM
biking 19:06 [2] 2.99 mi (6:23 / mi)
Once more, late out the door, trying to finish experiments but also make it to the park o in time to help with logistics. Rain was giving us a break for the bulk of the park-o and we had a great turnout of new faces (thanks to David and Isabel Byrant's friend group). The frantic biking to the park, trying to collect money and hand out maps and record times doesn't count as great race preparation.
Ian set some fun courses, and there was a lot blooming out there. After the park-o was over I went out and collected a few stands.... way easier when everything is calm.
Ian set some fun courses, and there was a lot blooming out there. After the park-o was over I went out and collected a few stands.... way easier when everything is calm.
7 PM
orienteering 15:46 [0] 1.83 mi (8:37 / mi)
I struggled a bit with this race. I was freezing when I started and so wore gloves and a coat, but was quickly annoyed at how constrictive the gloves and coat felt. Little annoyances like that seem like a big deal when I'm racing, and I was making lots of little mistakes. Not so clean to 2, not so clean to 3, not so clean to 5 (misread a boulder) not so clean to 6, not so clean to 8. Yikes, it's starting to feel more like pinball than orienteering. A nice solid effort up the hill to 9 calms me down and I start to get feeling like I should. Then out of nowhere, I trip over nothing and sprawl in the mud on the way down to 10... hmm unpleasant and my newfound calm is shattered. I read 10 as being in the white woods and so I run to the corner of the white woods and then realize that the flag is way off to my left. I head to 11, and read it as being at the corner of the white woods, and then realize that I'm too low. really far left on 12. Coming down the hill to 15 I think I'm on the line and I think I see a clearing through the trees.... run in and can't make sense of the vegetation.... control is way off to the left. Finished just feeling like I should do it again, this time without making a dozen little mistakes. I guess this is an indication that race prep is important and if you're not careful one mistake will breed another and another.
Wednesday Apr 21, 2010 #
7 AM
orienteering (Woods Intervals) 24:30 2.4 mi (10:13 / mi)
Alex proposed woods intervals at 7:15 in the morning. My first instinct for exercise that early is to laugh, but then I realized that I needed to get up and go to work earlyish anyway. Sam and I went over to the start and because I was in a hurry I started right away. Alex was there by the time I got back from my first. Did 4 laps before heading to work. First one slower because of trying to remember the route. 1:30 between laps. Much better with orienteering shoes this time.
4:53
4:42
4:30
4:25
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4:42
4:30
4:25
biking 20:48 [2] 4.71 mi (4:25 / mi)
Was already part way up Hammond Pond Parkway so I just continued up to the top and then biked down past the reservoir as normal. Nice change of scenery. Then spent all morning collecting mouse tissues to send off for sectioning. We're hoping to find something cool in these tissues, as we're submitting a paper next week and if the slides look good we'll add them in.
7 PM
biking 22:12 [2] 3.19 mi (6:58 / mi)
After work, I went to a farewell dinner for a co-worker that's leaving this week. Plenty of good food and good company. Biked home after.
Tuesday Apr 20, 2010 #
9 AM
biking 18:24 [2] 3.97 mi (4:38 / mi) +10m 4:36 / mi
To work. Hard to be motivated to leave the house when Sam is still abed. I guess that's how she feels every morning.
6 PM
biking 17:35 [2] 2.29 mi (7:41 / mi)
From work to the Harvard Track for CSU running section workout.
Track 27:40 [5] 3.93 mi (7:02 / mi)
Did some drills and some strides then the workout which was 4x1200 @ 5k pace (ish) 200 jog rest between and 500 jog rest before a magic mile which is a mile where you start at the 100 mark and run the straights hard and just stride out the curves... also, you're not allowed to look at your watch at all.
Ran with Mark for the first 1200, and just as we were about to start the second interval SGB arrives and sprints the length of the track, stripping, to make it in time to run the next one with us.
Left quad was feeling tired by the last 1200, fence still?
3:46
3:51
3:50
3:53
Ran with Mark for the first 1200, and just as we were about to start the second interval SGB arrives and sprints the length of the track, stripping, to make it in time to run the next one with us.
Left quad was feeling tired by the last 1200, fence still?
3:46
3:51
3:50
3:53
Track 5:24 [5] 1.05 mi (5:09 / mi)
Magic Mile. Seemed easy, felt like I was only working half the time, so not so shabby that it was a 5:24 mile. SGB pointed out that if I was only working half the time, it was really a 5:24 800. Would have cooled down with the group but wanted to use the remaining daylight to bike home.
biking 23:53 [2] 5.04 mi (4:44 / mi)
Home afterward. Sam had made dinner, which was great. Then we got bogged down in trying to sort through all the maps and quickroutes from the weekend.... not so great.
Monday Apr 19, 2010 #
10 AM
orienteering 1:15:44 [5] 10.7 km (7:05 / km)
7.3 miles by Garmin. 1990 US Champs Blue course at Baileytown
map without QR
So I was pretty excited for this course. Mikell Platt had won this course in about 71 minutes and I was hoping to best that time. We had been doing a lot of hard work the whole weekend, but my legs felt good at the start.
Our group did a bit of a chase start, sending out Alex, Dancho, Sam, Brendan, Boris, Nikolai and then me in that order. The start triangle had gotten really overgrown so the first 30 seconds of thrashing through the woods were pretty miserable... finally got out of the treacherous footing and low visibility and then starting going okay. 1,2,3 were all clean, 4 I navigated thinking that the control was on a cliff and then had to check my descriptions and drop down into the reentrant. Don't know if seeing Alex here slowed me down or sped me up in figuring out my mistake. 5 and 6 were clean and I caught sight of Boris, Brendan, Sam and Nikolai going over the ridge to 6. Feeling great, chasing Nikolai out towards 7 and got pulled very far right.... which was weird, thought I read a cliff on the front and a cliff on the back side of the ridge to mark where I had come over. Realized I was too far south pretty quickly and then continued on. 8 was clean but 9 I oversimplified and got too low and missed my reentrant. stood a moment at the base of the swamp until I figured it out. 10 clean. 11 running well and running strong, no problem at all with the climb caught Dancho coming down into the reentrant. Again thought it was the cliff but adjusted quickly. for 12 I was going well, found a way up through the green and made my way to the saddle... dropped down towards my control and all of a sudden got really lost. distance estimation was off. Spent 2 or 3 minutes wandering around the hillside until Nikolai came streaming past.... this shook me out of it a little bit and I was able to figure out that I needed to go much further to get the flag. little bobble on the way to 13 and then didn't see the depression when I got to the circle. not navigating all that well to 14 (got a bit lucky I guess) but really smoked it on the way to 15. Got on a sweet contouring deer path and just cruised all the way to the flag catching Nikolai in the process. Feeling strong still and pushed hard to 16, 17 and finish.
Physically very happy with the race, but not crafty enough to outdo the swampfox. Mikell would probably be too gentlemanly or too modest to gloat :)
map without QR
So I was pretty excited for this course. Mikell Platt had won this course in about 71 minutes and I was hoping to best that time. We had been doing a lot of hard work the whole weekend, but my legs felt good at the start.
Our group did a bit of a chase start, sending out Alex, Dancho, Sam, Brendan, Boris, Nikolai and then me in that order. The start triangle had gotten really overgrown so the first 30 seconds of thrashing through the woods were pretty miserable... finally got out of the treacherous footing and low visibility and then starting going okay. 1,2,3 were all clean, 4 I navigated thinking that the control was on a cliff and then had to check my descriptions and drop down into the reentrant. Don't know if seeing Alex here slowed me down or sped me up in figuring out my mistake. 5 and 6 were clean and I caught sight of Boris, Brendan, Sam and Nikolai going over the ridge to 6. Feeling great, chasing Nikolai out towards 7 and got pulled very far right.... which was weird, thought I read a cliff on the front and a cliff on the back side of the ridge to mark where I had come over. Realized I was too far south pretty quickly and then continued on. 8 was clean but 9 I oversimplified and got too low and missed my reentrant. stood a moment at the base of the swamp until I figured it out. 10 clean. 11 running well and running strong, no problem at all with the climb caught Dancho coming down into the reentrant. Again thought it was the cliff but adjusted quickly. for 12 I was going well, found a way up through the green and made my way to the saddle... dropped down towards my control and all of a sudden got really lost. distance estimation was off. Spent 2 or 3 minutes wandering around the hillside until Nikolai came streaming past.... this shook me out of it a little bit and I was able to figure out that I needed to go much further to get the flag. little bobble on the way to 13 and then didn't see the depression when I got to the circle. not navigating all that well to 14 (got a bit lucky I guess) but really smoked it on the way to 15. Got on a sweet contouring deer path and just cruised all the way to the flag catching Nikolai in the process. Feeling strong still and pushed hard to 16, 17 and finish.
Physically very happy with the race, but not crafty enough to outdo the swampfox. Mikell would probably be too gentlemanly or too modest to gloat :)
Sunday Apr 18, 2010 #
9 AM
orienteering 36:19 [5] 3.26 mi (11:08 / mi)
Middle Distance Race at Hogencamp
map with quickroute
This was an exciting race for me. Patrick was going to race and I was eager to see how I'd match up. I did well until 10-12. On 10 I got stuck in the green ( coming down the wrong side of the bare rock patch anyway) and then misread some rocks on the hillside below as cliffs. Took awhile to relocate and then banged my knee pretty hard against a rock. I was angry and set off on 11 a bit too quickly, found a great swath of woods to run along on the ridge but popped out farther north than I expected and then tried to cut through the green on the way to the control... it all added up and ended up being a slowish control. On 12 I overshot the cliff and had to come back. And then brought it back under control again for 13 on. I was the first to the finish circle and didn't know exactly where to stop... then I saw there was a streamer after all.
So, running well, but need to be careful in low visibility/runnability areas. I can see a lot of good things in this race too, very happy with my confidence on the end section (13 and on) for example.
map with quickroute
This was an exciting race for me. Patrick was going to race and I was eager to see how I'd match up. I did well until 10-12. On 10 I got stuck in the green ( coming down the wrong side of the bare rock patch anyway) and then misread some rocks on the hillside below as cliffs. Took awhile to relocate and then banged my knee pretty hard against a rock. I was angry and set off on 11 a bit too quickly, found a great swath of woods to run along on the ridge but popped out farther north than I expected and then tried to cut through the green on the way to the control... it all added up and ended up being a slowish control. On 12 I overshot the cliff and had to come back. And then brought it back under control again for 13 on. I was the first to the finish circle and didn't know exactly where to stop... then I saw there was a streamer after all.
So, running well, but need to be careful in low visibility/runnability areas. I can see a lot of good things in this race too, very happy with my confidence on the end section (13 and on) for example.
Saturday Apr 17, 2010 #
11 AM
orienteering 1:01:43 [4] 4.23 mi (14:35 / mi)
ahr:0 max:0
Line-o, Control Picking, Contouring, Control Picking
3 PM
orienteering 28:23 [5] 2.93 mi (9:41 / mi)
Orienteering intervals. With Eric, Ken, Nikolay. Way too close to lunch.
Friday Apr 16, 2010 #
10 PM
Road run 5:10 [2] 0.0 mi
ahr:0 max:0
I guess this is warm up in the rain on the way to the start of the night sprint
orienteering 25:00 [5] 2.27 mi (11:01 / mi)
ahr:0 max:0
Awesome night sprint. very wet, forked course running about the same speed as Boris.
Thursday Apr 15, 2010 #
Event: CSU Park-O: Fresh Pond
9 AM
biking 20:00 [2] 4.0 mi (5:00 / mi)
Biking to work, stopped at post office on the way to drop off a package. Lulled into thinking it was a nice warm day.
5 PM
biking 30:00 [2] 6.5 mi (4:37 / mi)
got caught up at work, so left late and then also navigated poorly on the way to fresh pond. I had volunteered to run registration, and was now 10 minutes late. Luckily everything was going smoothly without me. Didn't really have much work to do, and then Ed offered to take over while I ran the course.
Also met some fun new people, Ed and Alex brought some skiiers, Eric Benson recruited a Dartmouth alum... I'm stoked.
Also met some fun new people, Ed and Alex brought some skiiers, Eric Benson recruited a Dartmouth alum... I'm stoked.
6 PM
orienteering 15:52 [5] 2.03 mi (7:48 / mi) +1m 7:47 / mi
Park-o set by Audun. It was cold to start, I was trying to warm up properly but then got impatient and just started anyway. Managed the course just fine but felt frantic and frazzled the whole first part. Not super clean on any of the first controls. By 5 I had settled down and settled in, and this was good until I ran full speed into a cable fence along the parking lot before 11. Apparently not a great time to read the map. Not running so well after that and off the line on 15 down the hill... I think thrown mentally (figuratively) by flipping over the chain.
Picked up a few controls and dropped the gear off at the Berman's. They are attending a party for Boston Marathon VIPs tonight. Sara Mae's medal is pretty awesome. Very cool to have a running celebrity offer me jelly beans whenever I come over to visit their shop at an A-meet :)
Sam was super helpful throughout, sacrificing her evening of homework and school prep time to help with the meet.
Picked up a few controls and dropped the gear off at the Berman's. They are attending a party for Boston Marathon VIPs tonight. Sara Mae's medal is pretty awesome. Very cool to have a running celebrity offer me jelly beans whenever I come over to visit their shop at an A-meet :)
Sam was super helpful throughout, sacrificing her evening of homework and school prep time to help with the meet.
Wednesday Apr 14, 2010 #
9 AM
Road run 31:18 [2] 4.03 mi (7:46 / mi) +10m 7:42 / mi
I've been pretty lax with my pushups and crunches in the mornings this past month... decided that I would make time for them this morning. So I was a bit behind schedule as I ran to work.
did the crunches with an added 5 pound weight (Sam leaves these conveniently in the living room [it's not so convenient when she leaves them in the middle of the room and I stub my toe in the middle of the night]) so maybe tomorrow my core will be a little bit sore.
did the crunches with an added 5 pound weight (Sam leaves these conveniently in the living room [it's not so convenient when she leaves them in the middle of the room and I stub my toe in the middle of the night]) so maybe tomorrow my core will be a little bit sore.
12 PM
Road run 10:12 [2] 0.99 mi (10:18 / mi) +8m 10:03 / mi
Missed the CSU running section track workout last night, so I decided to run the workout at noon. SGB did offer to run with me if I waited until after work, but I had already planned out the day in my mind and wanted to get an afternoon run in.
really sunny which made me happy.
really sunny which made me happy.
Track 29:55 4.39 mi (6:49 / mi)
Terry's workout email had 3x1000 at 5k pace 4x600 at 3-5k pace 200 jog. I did the math on the jog down and came up with 3:12 for the 1000s and 1:51 for the 600s. Shared the track with the BC women's middle distance team... they were very considerate about sharing lane 1.
ran with my shirt off, not to impress the girls (I'm no Gswede) but because it was quite warm. Bit of a breeze on the back stretch. Pleased with how it went overall.
3:12
3:12
3:14
1:55
1:53
1:52
1:54
I guess that I was aiming a bit fast on the paces and that's part of why I was a bit slow on the 600s. However, I was coming through the 400 split right on 74 so it could also be the windy backstretch.
ran with my shirt off, not to impress the girls (I'm no Gswede) but because it was quite warm. Bit of a breeze on the back stretch. Pleased with how it went overall.
3:12
3:12
3:14
1:55
1:53
1:52
1:54
I guess that I was aiming a bit fast on the paces and that's part of why I was a bit slow on the 600s. However, I was coming through the 400 split right on 74 so it could also be the windy backstretch.
C • Easy 3
Road run 11:00 [2] 1.32 mi (8:20 / mi) +9m 8:10 / mi
Back to the lab. good mental break from a full day up in the mouse facility.
Tuesday Apr 13, 2010 #
7 AM
Road run 31:50 [2] 4.02 mi (7:56 / mi) +11m 7:52 / mi
Running to work. Got in a bit earlier than usual to do an experiment. That experiment, however, was postponed.
Spent the evening playing around with SI config, Or, and OCAD. Trying to get the NEOC epunching printer to be happy (success) trying to get Or to import a printer dump into a competition so that we can use Or to retroactively produce splits (failure, anyone done this before?) and trying to add an Inov8 logo to our fresh pond map for Thursday (success)
Spent the evening playing around with SI config, Or, and OCAD. Trying to get the NEOC epunching printer to be happy (success) trying to get Or to import a printer dump into a competition so that we can use Or to retroactively produce splits (failure, anyone done this before?) and trying to add an Inov8 logo to our fresh pond map for Thursday (success)
Monday Apr 12, 2010 #
8 AM
Road run 31:16 [2] 4.34 mi (7:12 / mi) +2m 7:12 / mi
To work. Feeling pretty good, though I'm still pretty snotty and the mucous from my left nostril (and thus sinus) is clear and the right one is thick and green. Eww.
5 PM
Road run (Hills) 57:17 6.0 mi (9:33 / mi) +295m 8:17 / mi
Yikes, feeling really tired heading out to do these hills. I talked myself into doing 7, feeling like I wanted to quit after just the first. Oddly I felt strong just not quick on this whole thing. Very tired though, my head was bobbing like crazy at the top of each hill. So sunny and light, I could get used to this whole summer thing :)
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Sunday Apr 11, 2010 #
10 AM
orienteering 1:26:29 [4] 6.56 mi (13:11 / mi) +472m 10:47 / mi
Headed out to run the CSU semi-permanent course at Blue Hills West, set by Ian, with Jeff and Brendan. We needed to be back at the car by 11:40 so I ended up cutting off the last two controls.
Some good some bad orienteering-wise today. The streamers were pretty faded orange things, so often I'd be standing in the right reentrant just looking for the streamer. I set a few pink streamers out there, on the controls that Ian hadn't gotten to yet. 3, 14-19. Spent a huge amount of time over by control number 8. Tricky area and the streamer was hung in the reentrant by mistake. Also, even when I finally was standing on the feature I don't think I would describe it as a cliff on a spur. Not my only mistake of the day, just my biggest :)
on the plus side I was moving along pretty well through the woods, legs a little tired from yesterday but not holding me back at all. I had a few controls that were really smooth and the weather was fantastic.
Some good some bad orienteering-wise today. The streamers were pretty faded orange things, so often I'd be standing in the right reentrant just looking for the streamer. I set a few pink streamers out there, on the controls that Ian hadn't gotten to yet. 3, 14-19. Spent a huge amount of time over by control number 8. Tricky area and the streamer was hung in the reentrant by mistake. Also, even when I finally was standing on the feature I don't think I would describe it as a cliff on a spur. Not my only mistake of the day, just my biggest :)
on the plus side I was moving along pretty well through the woods, legs a little tired from yesterday but not holding me back at all. I had a few controls that were really smooth and the weather was fantastic.
Trail run 1:10:01 [2] 7.92 mi (8:50 / mi) +31m 8:44 / mi
After orienteering, Jeff dropped me off at the bottom of Cutler Park and I ran home. With a backpack on and another run already this morning this was a pretty slow run, but fun too. I didn't really know where I was going, just figured that I'd make it home eventually. Explored, accidentally, a lot of the side roads in Newton while trying to work my way over to familiar territory. So a short run became a lot longer than strictly necessary.
Saturday Apr 10, 2010 #
9 AM
orienteering 1:10:48 [2] 6.51 mi (10:53 / mi) +145m 10:10 / mi
Helping set out epunch units at the NEOC meet. There were a lot of people helping out at the meet, which was nice. I had three controls to hang near the bottom of the map, not much trouble getting there, but the last location hadn't gotten a stand yet, so I came back and got one and then placed it. Played around by taking different routes each time out and back.
First run in my new pair of X-talons. Pawtuckaway was not gentle on my last set. I will probably end up getting a pair of the O-roc x-talons when they come out. The 3mm footbeds are a key aspect of my happiness with these shoes, too tight otherwise.
First run in my new pair of X-talons. Pawtuckaway was not gentle on my last set. I will probably end up getting a pair of the O-roc x-talons when they come out. The 3mm footbeds are a key aspect of my happiness with these shoes, too tight otherwise.
orienteering 45:27 [5] 7.1 km (6:24 / km) +234m 5:30 / km
spiked:14/16c
NEOC local meet. I had already been running around setting flags and so perhaps I had too much local knowledge for this race to actually count.
It was cold starting out, warmed up okay while running. Legs did get a bit scratched up, but didn't notice it while I was running. Pretty clean, high intensity race. Biggest error was from 8 to 9, a lot of extra development in that area that isn't mapped. I drifted a little left, hit the cliffs too far down and then had to figure out if I should go left or right to the flag. Really shouldn't have been thrown off there.
Link to my map with my drawn course (in purple) and also my garmin track overlaid. I was fairly confident with where I went, so in all but a few places the purple may be more accurate than the Forerunner.
It was cold starting out, warmed up okay while running. Legs did get a bit scratched up, but didn't notice it while I was running. Pretty clean, high intensity race. Biggest error was from 8 to 9, a lot of extra development in that area that isn't mapped. I drifted a little left, hit the cliffs too far down and then had to figure out if I should go left or right to the flag. Really shouldn't have been thrown off there.
Link to my map with my drawn course (in purple) and also my garmin track overlaid. I was fairly confident with where I went, so in all but a few places the purple may be more accurate than the Forerunner.
Friday Apr 9, 2010 #
biking 40:00 [2] 8.0 mi (5:00 / mi)
To and from work in the rain. So much standing water on all the roads. ended up sopping and gritty from all the stuff on the roads kicked up by me and the cars driving past.
12 PM
Road run 43:48 [3] 5.8 mi (7:33 / mi)
Running at lunchtime from work. Rainy, but not as rainy down along Jamaica Pond as in the Longwood area. My garmin thinks it's low on batteries, so no tracks for today. Two laps of the pond, plenty of unperturbed-by-the-rain waterfowl.
Thursday Apr 8, 2010 #
biking 40:00 [2] 8.0 mi (5:00 / mi)
Dusted off the bike for the first time. I put it away for the season when it still needed quite a lot of TLC, it still does. Wanted to quickly get home from work and stop at the store too. Maybe this weekend I will finally get the rear wheel properly trued, not just sort of trued. Butt is a bit sore from the seat.
6 PM
Road run ((Woods Intervals)) 35:39 [0] 5.24 km (6:49 / km) +99m 6:13 / km
Alex set a streamered loop at Hammond Pond. Alex, and Sam and Jeff also in attendance. We cut across a kind of trashy (well all of Hammond Pond is a little trashy) reentrant, up the slope to run along a ridge, down and up over another ridge, then through a light green area, to a path, to some nice open downhill running.
4 loops, wishing the whole time that I had worn my inov8s. got a little dark at the end, so 5 would have been asking for an injury.
then back home for dinner and games.
And Splits for the 4 intervals
4:50
4:45
4:42
4:37
4 loops, wishing the whole time that I had worn my inov8s. got a little dark at the end, so 5 would have been asking for an injury.
then back home for dinner and games.
And Splits for the 4 intervals
4:50
4:45
4:42
4:37
Wednesday Apr 7, 2010 #
5 PM
Road run 32:00 [2] 4.0 mi (8:00 / mi)
Just running home. Still feeling a bit tired actually.
Tuesday Apr 6, 2010 #
6 PM
Road run 19:00 [2] 2.8 mi (6:47 / mi)
Somehow I'm always running late. Heading over to the track after work to join the CSU running section.
Track 15:13 [5] 3.0 mi (5:04 / mi)
After some drills and two laps of strides, Terry had us running 6-7 800s at Yasso pace minus 10-15 seconds. Yasso pace is found by taking your marathon speed and dropping the units. Daniels says that I would run a 2:34-2:38 marathon... but I think that probably means closer to 2:40 or more, if I'm realistic. So I was trying to do 800s at 2:25-2:30... which seemed a little quick. We had 200 jog rest between (2:15-2:30) while we all gathered back up again. I've moved on to a new, better, phase of illness the post-nasal drip reflexive cough stage. But, even though I was feeling a lot better, I wimped out and stopped after 6. I was the only orienteer there tonight, but the guys were really friendly and welcoming.
2:30 (not so great at pacing, my first 400 was a 70)
2:33
2:32
2:31
2:33
2:34
2:30 (not so great at pacing, my first 400 was a 70)
2:33
2:32
2:31
2:33
2:34
Road run 53:00 [2] 5.5 mi (9:38 / mi)
Slow cruise home, after staying to cheer Terry and Mark on as they finished up their workouts. Got turned around in Allston trying to run home, but didn't mind so much. The added distance gave my calves a chance to relax and my mind a chance to wander. Started out slow but was moving pretty well again by the time I got back to Newton. Thinking about running in the woods always get me to pick up the pace unconsciously.
Monday Apr 5, 2010 #
Note
So, training camp was a success. My legs feel great but just as soon as I got home from NH on Sunday the sore throat and sunburn conspired to wipe me out pretty thoroughly. Pretty snotty and sore throat still present today, probably should have stayed home from work. I didn't run and am doing my best to drown the cold and get healthy. To this end I will go to bed instead of staying up to properly log all the stuff from this weekend. And last week.
Sam made hot and sour soup for dinner tonight, and for the 15 minutes that I was eating that it was like I was magically cured. Is it possible that either white pepper or shitake mushrooms are an overlooked panacea?
A co-worker tried to convince me that getting sick is a positive sign that I'm not overtraining, because apparently not being sick ever can be a symptom of overtraining. I'm skeptical, but happy to try to find a silver lining to the whole "my face turned into a snot faucet" thing.
Sam made hot and sour soup for dinner tonight, and for the 15 minutes that I was eating that it was like I was magically cured. Is it possible that either white pepper or shitake mushrooms are an overlooked panacea?
A co-worker tried to convince me that getting sick is a positive sign that I'm not overtraining, because apparently not being sick ever can be a symptom of overtraining. I'm skeptical, but happy to try to find a silver lining to the whole "my face turned into a snot faucet" thing.
Sunday Apr 4, 2010 #
10 AM
orienteering 56:01 [5] 5.2 mi (10:46 / mi)
orienteering 27:07 [2] 2.09 mi (12:58 / mi)
1 PM
orienteering 33:26 [5] 2.35 mi (14:14 / mi)
orienteering 26:33 [4] 1.87 mi (14:12 / mi)
Saturday Apr 3, 2010 #
Event: CSU Spring Training Camp #1
9 AM
Trail run 16:40 [2] 1.62 mi (10:17 / mi)
orienteering 46:45 [5] 3.51 mi (13:19 / mi)
2 PM
Trail run 19:20 [2] 1.64 mi (11:47 / mi)
orienteering 1:01:50 [5] 4.83 mi (12:48 / mi)
orienteering 52:52 [2] 3.7 mi (14:17 / mi)
9 PM
Trail run 7:00 [2] 0.74 mi (9:28 / mi)
orienteering 55:29 [4] 3.57 mi (15:33 / mi)
Friday Apr 2, 2010 #
Note
So, I decided to rest because the crazy painful knot in my left calf was still bothering me and I wanted to be in top form for the training camp. Drove around in the evening, dropped off some NEOC gear from the junior camp last weekend, picked up some night-o flags from Pia and Mark for the CSU camp this coming weekend (CSU's youngest members are too precious for words) and then stopped at a Thai Restaurant on the way home. I could feel the onset of a sore throat so I ordered green curry as hot as I could get it.... hoping that the capsaicin would drive off the illness.... to no avail. Of course, ordering really spicy foods protects my meal from Sam too :)
Thursday Apr 1, 2010 #
6 PM
Road run 18:39 [3] 2.67 mi (6:59 / mi)
Track 54:52 [5] 6.68 mi (8:13 / mi)
Road run 38:02 [1] 4.0 mi (9:31 / mi)