Saturday Sep 29 |
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| Event: Boulder Dash 2007
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 | orienteering race 1:16:20 [4] 7.52 km (10:09 / km) +160m 9:10 / km | |
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| I'm adding this race from work, and I didn't bring my maps with me or anything, just seems like CSU will have more training hours if I post the stuff that I do on weekends sometimes :)
I pre-ran this race, which meant that Brendan and I (and Lori) got to the race site super-early on Satuday. We hopped a ride with the Olafsens and Loki tried to get me excited about racing by jumping all over me. He needn't have worried, I was already psyched up, and I felt great. I very quickly realized that the woods were not going to be great running; I felt like I was working incredibly hard and pushing through green woods the entire way to the first control. I also was off my line by the time I approached the circle, and luckily I was aware enough that I could read the features and relocate without much hesitation. slightly frustrated I redoubled my efforts and again felt like I was just throwing myself at a wall of green. And again, I wasn't keeping to my bearings at all. On the fourth control I decided to go straight because I was skeptical that the white woods were really going to be white, and I wasn't going to add distance.... I ended up way right on my line, and ended up finding myself on the indistinct trail behind the control. Yikes. felt like I was pulling things back together, and actually running okay through the woods until control #10. I was checking things off just fine, and I think I just shut my brain off at a crucial juncture, and when I came out to a bit of rocky ground it looked a lot like a cliff to me. I then spent what appears to be 5 minutes trying to figure out where this cliff fit into things. I wandered quite a lot, and was pretty wimpy about trying to relocate ( should have run up the hill when I knew I was lost and started over again), things finally fit and I found the control but saw Brendan making his way to it at the same time. I blasted out to the next one ( thinking how hard it was going to be to shake Brendan now that he was with me) and had no issues on 11. Took the road to 12, but still messed up in the woods near the bag so that Brendan was back on my tail again coming out of there. ran as hard as I could out to the road on the way to 13, and was way right of my line again, and ended up with a much harder attack on the control than I would have liked ( and Brendan was just coolly going straight to all these so he was keeping pace quite easily). ran through the swamp with Brendan to 14 ( cursing quite a lot at how hard the running was) and finally got away on the way to 15, spiking 15, 16, and running hard on the way in.
legs felt perfectly fine ( rolled my ankle a little though) and felt like I had pushed hard but not run a smart enough race. |
Thursday Sep 27 |
| road run 46:45 [3] 6.0 mi (7:46 / mi) | |
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| super light backpack, but felt very blah running. I think that I'm basically just bored with this route, and especially bored with all the stop lights that I have to wait for. I raced a guy up the hill in front of BC, he beat me but it still gave me a little energy to finish the run off with.
was daydreaming about getting CSU orienteering socks made and possible designs for a CSU tiomila tshirt. |
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| C • CSU get-up 3 |
Wednesday Sep 26 |
| track 12:00 [3] 2.0 mi (6:00 / mi) | |
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| CSU training. Beginning of the new era CSU trainings, meaning that we aren't trying to make it into the woods while it's still light out anymore. Brendan planned for us to meet at the MIT track at 7, which meant that I could get there on time.
we ran 800s at 3 minute pace, with a 400 jog of rest. I felt incredibly good for these, suspect that i should perhaps have been running a slightly faster interval... but was more fun to run with Brendan anyways.
I was feeling very sleepy before running today, and then after running woke up a lot. nice when that happens :) |
Tuesday Sep 25 |
| road run 46:42 [3] 6.0 mi (7:46 / mi) | |
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| running home after work. Way way too much in my backpack tonight. I gave a presentation so I had nice clothes ( nice clothes just seem to weigh more) and lots of stuff from CVS in the pack. I felt very heavy and slow, but it must have been all mental because I ran about the same speed. My legs hurt a bit more tonight, but that might be a cumulative effect of the weekend (racing at 110% is pretty sweet actually) and the past couple days on the roads.
after the run I had to rush to get ready for my girlfriend's secret-sister's secret birthday dinner at an undisclosed location. I got anchovies on my Bertucci's Caesar salad. mmmm. |
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| C • secret society 4 |
Monday Sep 24 |
| road run 46:53 [3] 6.0 mi (7:48 / mi) | |
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| Running 'to' work! that's how motivating a good weekend of orienteering can be. plus i was planning on having a social engagement in the evening, it fell through so I could have had time to run in the evening. I almost ran both ways, but then I chickened out, and decided to take the train home. The subway was totally sucking tonight though, so maybe it was a sign that I should run more instead :)
feels good to run in the morning, but about 1pm, I started to get sleepy. not saying it was the run, but it probably didn't help. |
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| C • running to work 3 |