Saturday Mar 31 |
 | Orienteering 1:05:28 [4] 8.2 km (7:59 / km) +350m 6:35 / km | |
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| Day 1 of the Fair Hill meet. It was fun terrain - open fields and white to green woods. I wasn't feeling super fast from the beginning and my stomach and back started cramping about halfway through, slowing me down a bit, especially towards the end (where normally I try to pick it up). My big mistake was on #2, when I came off the trail at the wrong angle and hit too high on the stream. I ran by #1, but realized it very soon after. I did a good job of reading ahead and picking good routes - the fields were great for that. Overall, it was good to ok navigation, and decent to ok running speed. Ankle felt great though! Decided not to tape since the tape was too restricting (ok, so maybe that's the point, but it didn't feel good as I was warming up) |
| Orienteering 18:08 [4] 2.7 km (6:43 / km) +60m 6:03 / km | |
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| Trying to run a sprint later in the afternoon. This was after having eaten lunch and sitting around. Ankles were sore and I was running all over the place. Hopefully my mistakes all got out of the way during this race! |
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Red - Day1 - Splits |
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Sprint - Splits |
Friday Mar 30 |
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| Event: DVOA A-Meet (Interscholastics)
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Thursday Mar 29 |
| Orienteering 29:46 [2] | |
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| running in Hammond Pond with dad. I wore the HR monitor to see what my HR was like. I maxed at about 182, and I was probably around 160 for most of the run. The HR went down in the control circle when dad and I were handing off the map to eachother or I was lost :)
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| The training was short because I went to physical therapy. Nothing new really - I pulled the ligament in my left foot when I twisted it in September, and I just restrained it Tuesday. They gave me exercises and a cool rubber band to play with. At least they didn't tell me not to run :) |
Tuesday Mar 27 |
| Orienteering 23:00 [4] | |
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| dad and I went to the Blue Hills to run the two sprints that Peter Amram set for this weekend. The first sprint. |
| Orienteering 19:23 [3] | |
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| the second sprint... I had a hard time running in a straight line on my compass but otherwise it was ok. |
| trail run 30:00 [1] | |
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| 20 minutes of warmup and 10 minutes of cool down. During the warm up I hurt my bad ankle. I actually felt it pop (I always thought peole were exaggerating when they said ankles pop). I thought it was nothing, but then it started to ache. Now I'm back to the stage where it hurts when the front of my foot is lifted higher than the back... just like a few months ago. I'm going to PT for the first time on Thursday, so we'll see what they say. |
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| C • damn. That doesn't sound good... 3 |
Monday Mar 26 |
| trail run 1:10:00 [1] | |
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| an easy trail run with dad. |
| rowing machine 10:00 [1] | |
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| I forgot to add this. It was easier erging - 2:20ish |
| lifting/strength 5:00 [1] | |
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| pilates with the roommate for a bit :) |
Sunday Mar 25 |
| Orienteering 23:45 [4] 4 km (5:56 / km) | |
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| First Sprint at Mine Falls. The navigation was easy, and I was runnning hard the whole way. My speed didn't feel too fast, but I was just about maxed out. Need more speed training! I was about 2 minutes behind John and 20 seconds behind Ross. |
| Orienteering 25:20 [4] 4 km (6:20 / km) | |
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| The second sprint. I got stuck going to #2, as the river was marked as crossable and I didn't even consider that it may not be. Had to stop, look around, and then the long way around back to the bridge. Again about 2.5 minutes behind john and about 20 seconds behind Ross. At least we're all consistent! Beat both the boys on some splits ;) |
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| C • Animal 2 |
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It's Pits 1 - Splits |
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It's Pits 2 - Splits |
Saturday Mar 24 |
| road/trail run 53:00 [1] | |
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| an easy run with ross in the evening after class. We might have run a bit further, but Ross had just eaten for the last 2 hours straight and so wasn't feeling great. |
Friday Mar 23 |
| Note | |
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| Class after work until 9pm. |
Thursday Mar 22 |
| trail run 22:00 [3] | |
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| Threshold run on the trails in the Blue Hills with dad. HR was a bit low because the trails were a mess of soft snow, slush, ice and mud. Couldn't get the grip I needed to run fast. HR around 180/181 most of the time, dropping to 175 and peaking at 184. |
| trail run 38:00 [1] | |
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| warm up/down run around the trails in Blue Hills before and after the threshold run. |
Tuesday Mar 20 |
| road run (threshold hills) 21:00 [3] | |
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| 3 times up Westfield Street. My HR was lower than usual and I had trouble getting it to go higher simply because I couldn't run any faster. Times were 7:02, 7:05, 7:12. Around normal times, but a bit slower, which makes sense since HR was lower. |
| road run 1:20:00 [1] | |
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| To Westfield Street the long way, down the hills and the run back home. |
Monday Mar 19 |
| Orienteering 1:00:00 [3] | |
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| An orienteering cvourse in the Blue Hills with dad. There was a few inches of snow on the ground - enough to go over the top of my shoes and get my socks wet. We were trying to run harder than usual, and still were trading off legs to run from memory. |
Sunday Mar 18 |
| road/trail run 1:43:00 [1] | |
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| Dad and I drove to the trails in Weston to go running. But when we got on the trail, we had to turn back after 2 minutes. There is a crust on the snow, and one foot would be on the crust and then the other would break through. If we broke through every step or if we stayed on the crust every step, it would have been ok. But the occasional break through made it impossible to actually run.
So we drove back to Newton and went running on some of the trails and roads around here. It was shorter than planned, and slower too, since the trails were not ideal for running. But it was good to get outside. |
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Sprint - Splits |
Saturday Mar 17 |
| Orienteering 32:00 [3] | |
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| My class was canceled today because of the snow. It actually was fine weather today, but the forcast was bad last night and my professor canceled it. I went to the NEOC junior run meet and ran the sprint. It was difficult to run in the woods because I broke through the crust on the snow every step, but then the crust would hit my shin when I tried to lift my foot. And on the way to 3 you had to cross through a marsh. I waded through ankle deep water and when I punched 3 I couldn't feel my feet. I thought about turning around and going back, but I knew the only way ot make my feet feel better was to try and run on them. I stumbled along until the pain came back, and then finally they warmed up. |
| Orienteering 25:00 [2] | |
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| picking up yellow controls. Trying hard to keep my feet from going into puddles. |
Thursday Mar 15 |
| trail run 48:00 [2] | |
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| trail running with dad at Hale. It's getting colder again, but the snow has melted for now (we're supposed to get more this weekend). The trails were incredibly muddy and we were slipping around. At time the mud went over the top of my shoe. 20 minutes of warm up and 28 minutes of cool down. |
| trail run (threshold) 20:00 [3] | |
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| Threshold run. Ran for 20 minutes with HR around 180 (a bit lower than the Westfield street hills, but that's shorter and it's easier to get the HR up because I'm running uphill the whole time). It felt good and maybe i could have kept going longer. Dad drew a trail route on the map that I was to follow and I only went the wrong way once :) I realized it though and turned around. The mud made it difficult to go fast, but I was able to keep the HR up most of the time. |
Tuesday Mar 13 |
| trail run 1:05:00 [3] | |
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| Blue Hills skyline run with dad. The ice has finally melted - and turned the trails into mud! It's funny though, because I was running in shorts and a tshirt today and it's supposed to snow Sunday... oh well!
The ground has thawed quickly making a gap underneath the crust where there was once ice. On parts of the trail in the beginning we had to be careful as we were running that we would not punch through the top crust of the dirt down through about 2 inches of space underneath. It was really weird.
I thought the time would be slower, with cautious running in the beginning and not having run this in awhile. |
Monday Mar 12 |
| road biking 53:00 [2] | |
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| rode from Dedham to Trader Joe's in Needham with dad to pick up groceries. A beautiful day in the 50s! Maybe now most of the ice has melted on the trails... |
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| C • you need ice bugs for the wint... 7 |
Sunday Mar 11 |
| trail run 5:00 [2] | |
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| We went out to Wells today to do some training with the old A-meet maps from last spring. There was more snow out there, but less ice. The warm weather has made the running possible, although difficult. Running in a couple inches of snow is harder than usual! The jog to the start was a bit longer than it should have been since everyone was following me and I missed the trail :) |
| Orienteering 1:09:00 [2] | |
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| Ran the Blue course from day 1 at Wells state park, which was a short coruse. Everyone there broke up into groups and J-J and I ran together, doing the course memory-o style, trading off legs. It was difficult running, and we both felt like the person leading was running fast. I guess that shows you how much you slow down when you are reading the map. I made a few mistakes here and there, but one would probably not have happened if controls were out, and the other I could have corrected more quickly if I had the map to look at.
A difficult workout, and my legs were tired from the past 2 days. They are quite sore and tired this evening. |
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| I have clicked the "recovered" button on my ankle injury! It's not completely pain free all the time, but I can run whole o courses without it hurting now. Still, if I step on something wrong I get a shot of pain, but that goes away after a minute. I am still trying to go to physical therapy (if they ever get back to me) to see about really healing up permanently. But I'm feeling much, much better and am confident running on it. |
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| C • Yay! 5 |
Saturday Mar 10 |
| road run 2:00:00 [2] | |
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| A long Newton Street-O with dad and Ross. So much warmer today than it has been, but still not relaly melting all that ice. My quads were getting really tired and sore by the end and dad's ankles were bothering him so we cut this run short - which I'm grateful for :) |
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| C • Short? 2 |
Friday Mar 9 |
| road run 48:00 [1] | |
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| to and from Westfield Hill, plus the runs down in between |
| road run (threshold hills) 21:00 [3] | |
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| ran up the Wesfield Street hill 3 times. My heartrate monitor worked!! This is the first time in years that it has actually worked for the entire workout.
Times: 6:56, 6:57, 7:08.
HR around 183 the whole time. |
Thursday Mar 8 |
| rowing machine 30:00 [2] | |
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| 2:16.6
It's very cold out this week and the trails and a lot of the woods are covered in ice, so it's difficult running. I want to run in the woods to escape the cold wind, but I need to run on the roads to stay upright. |
Tuesday Mar 6 |
| rowing machine 30:00 [2] | |
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| 2:19.7 |
Monday Mar 5 |
| Orienteering 1:40:00 [1] | |
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| Dad and I went to do a memory course at Powisett. It took quite a while :) In the beginning we were moving at a good pace, but near the end I think I was getting tired (maybe it was getting in at 1am last night from North Carolina). Plus, I didn't have spikes on and the trails were so icy I could barely run on some of them. That slowed us down considerably. Slow, but good orienteering training.
And now that I have updated my log, I'm going to bed :) I miss Raleigh weather :( I have a new briuse on my knee from falling hard in the woods today and landing on ice. I can't wait for spring!! (or at least for the trails to be runnable instead of ice rinks.) |
Sunday Mar 4 |
| trail run 15:00 [1] | |
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| jogging to the start several times. The first time I was checking to see if they had clothing drop. It was chilly this morning! |
| Orienteering 1:23:25 [4] 10.32 km (8:05 / km) | |
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| I was really not looking forward to this 10.whatever course, but I felt pretty good the whole way. I again messed up #1. Again because I was somehow getting confused by my compass. I recovered when I hit the trail and continued fine after that. I took the trail when I should have taken the road to #3 and I took a pretty bad route to #6 (was I the only one who decided to cut through the woods and not take the road?). I think I was getting tired near the end and I took a long route to #11 by heading towards the wrong side of the hill and having to curve around. Then of course I fell into the steam and got wet up to my waist while trying to cross the "crossable" part. (I did find the right spot, I just didn't manage to stay on my feet). The numb legs made me run around on the trail to #12.
But :) it went well and I was pleased that I recovered, again, so well after #1. |
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| C • kicking 3 |
| Orienteering 25:00 [1] | |
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| jogging/walking with Ross to pick up controls. Ross just wouldn't run. |
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Sunday: Red F21 - Splits |
Saturday Mar 3 |
| road run 10:00 [1] | |
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| warm up laps around the parking lot. My stomach felt funny. |
| Orienteering 37:44 [5] | |
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| Well, this was quite a race :) I really blew #1, and Pavlina (who of course randomly started 2 minutse behind me) caught and passed me at #1 without me even seeing her. Although she claims to have seen me running by lower on the hillside and though, "No way could that be Sam." Oh, but it was. After #1 it went really well, with only one error when I overran #4 and had to go back (the control was in a ditch and I was too high up the hillside to even see the ditch behind the fallen tree).
I slowly started to pick up speed after #1, and by #5 I was moving along confidently. I punched #6 right behind Pavlina and got ahead of her at #8. It took a lot of willpower to keep moving and not look behind me to see where she was! My legs felt dead tired running into the last control, but I'm happy with how I was able to get back into it after missing #1. |
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Saturday: F21 WRE Red - Splits |
Friday Mar 2 |
| Orienteering 30:00 [2] | |
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| I jogged around the training course on Friday afternoon. I realized that the controls we hung low because of the SI stands, and they were quite impossible to see unless you were directly on top of them (since they were often in ditches or behind dot knolls). |
| trail run 15:00 [1] | |
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| warming up before the sprint. Ross and I jogged to the start and realized the starts were delayed, so we jogged around a bit more. |
| Orienteering 17:37 [5] 2.59 km (6:48 / km) | |
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| Friday sprint down in North Carolina this weekend. BEAUTIFUL weather there. I didn't want to come home. THe sprint was fun, and I had no major erors, just missing #7 a bit high, like everyone else seemed to. It was hard to keep the legs going fast the whole way. I still can't believe Ross beat me by so much.... |
| Orienteering 20:00 [1] | |
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| control pick up with Ross. Unfortunately, we lost a SI box. Luckily, we went out the next day and although it wasn't at the control site, I retraced our steps and found it lying in the forest! |
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Long Sprint - Splits |