Wednesday May 30 |
 | road run 28:00 [2] | |
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| Yay! First weekday in over two weeks where I have no class!
warm up and cool down for the threshold intervals. |
| road run 29:00 [4] | |
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| 3 x 1.5 miles with 30 seconds of rest
These were supposed to be run at threshold pace, which I didn't realize the first time around. After the first one I gave the HR monitor to Hill to use and I think I ran the next one too fast. We were thinking that our times would be around 10 minutes, but that was actually too slow. Times were: 9:55, 9:29, 9:45. I was tired by the last one, which means I took the second one too fast. |
| Orienteering 18:02 [4] 2.8 km (6:26 / km) | |
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| After a short rest at home, we drove to the park-o at Peter's Hill. I started out fairly slow and made a silly mistake on #6, climbing, then going down then having to climb again. Then I got behind a big train and had to run hard to try to pass them all. Ross passed me though and I couldn't quite keep up.
This was followed by a family picnic in the park and then ice cream. Dad and I shared a bananna split :) |
Monday May 28 |
| Orienteering 1:15:30 [2] | |
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| A longer cuorse with long legs - each about 1k or more. This was a good route choice course! It went alright, although felt slow since it took forever to get to each control. I ended up adding on the optional control in the middle and so I took off the last control at the end. I was done being chased by mosquitos and tripping over logs and into spider webs. We need to come back again when there aren't so many mosquitos!
Great weekend - we lucked out on having nice people let us camp on their lawn, feed up crepes and stawberries for dinner, then a boat ride and cookout for dinner! We all probably need blood transfusions for the amount of blood we lost to mosquitos, but it was worth it!
I really don't want to go back to work. I think running around in the woods with friends, even with the mosquitos, is better than school and work. |
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| C • Sounds like a fun weekend! DV... 5 |
Sunday May 27 |
| Orienteering 27:30 [2] | |
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| Ross's "sprint" course (it was over 3k). The beginning went alright, but then I actually got lost at the end. I was running too fast and just couldn't locate myself. Tried to stand around, but could't because of bugs, so jogged around until I could relocate and move on. |
| Orienteering 1:00:00 [2] | |
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| A route choice course. It was designed so that people go out in groups of three and run different routes to each control, and meet up at every control. But that wouldn't work with the mosquitos. So everyone ran separately. There wasn't an incredible amount of route choice on some of them, but the longer legs required more concentration than what we had been doing. |
| Orienteering 37:00 [2] | |
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| Another short course. It was going to be longer, but Ross ran out of streamer tape when setting, so the course was shortened. This was a lot of fun, which was nice after two more shaky exercises thsi morning. I ran quite well and was confident the whole way, picking up speed as I went along. It felt nice to run through the woods with confidence again :) |
Saturday May 26 |
| Orienteering 1:11:00 [2] | |
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| Pawtuckaway Training Camp! Organized by Brendan and Ross. It was a blast. The only downside was the amount of mosquitos in the woods. You seriously could not stop in the woods because you would be instantly swarmed. Ross and Brendan hung streamers for all the exercises, which I am very grateful for. The mosquitos provided good training, as you couldn't get lost because you couldn't stand around. This forced very careful navigation. I ran almost the whole weekend at a pretty eask pace - running a bit faster on the two short courses. The easy pace also helped because I was able to actually navigate! It was an amazing feeling - going at a pace where I could actually read and make sense of the Pawtuckaway map!
The first exercise was an attackpoint course. It was very well designed, although the loop on Big Island was slow becasue of thick vegetation. We avoided that part of the map for the rest of the weekend. |
| Orienteering 53:00 [2] | |
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| Then a line-o, set by ross. I usually hate line-os and so was not looking forward to this one, but I actaully quite enjoyed it! My goal was never to stop (for training purposes, not only because of the mosquitos) and I found the terrain fairly easy to move through. Twice I was probably close to the line but not quite on it. Pretty happy overall though with my ability to stay on the line without having to stop. |
| Orienteering 1:03:00 [2] | |
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| I approx. the time since I can't remember. This was a memory exercise. I went out with Hill and each person memorized two controls - one long one followed by a short leg. You memorized while the other person was reading, and then you switched. We thought this was going to be too difficult going into it, because Pawtuckaway is very detailed and difficult to see. It ended up going quite well - although I did have to grab the map back to look at it twice and we sometimes had to ask the other person to tell us what the feature was again.
We were going to do the short course after this, but people were tired and I wanted to go to the beach. So this was our last event of the day. Then to the beach for swimming, croquet and kubb. |
Friday May 25 |
| road/trail run 34:00 [2] | |
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| another morning run. This time I did 8x1 minute sprints, with a random amount of rest between. Wore the HR monitor, and HR was somewhere between 177 and 186 during the sprints. |
Tuesday May 22 |
| road run 18:00 [1] | |
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| running over to the trail and then back home again |
| trail run 22:00 [3] | |
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| Threshold run, same thing as last week - exactly. When I started today though I just couldn't get my HR up high enogh. I fely like I was running threshold speed, but my HR was around 178, which is really quite low for my threshod runs. After about 10 minutes I was still trying ot run harder and my HR went up to about 180. I then passed a person biking on the trail :) I felt fast then. For the last 7 minutes I was basically sprinting, trying to get my HR up. I did hit 184 near the end. I thought I was maybe jsut going slow, but I actually went further this time than last time. so I was abviously running faster. Maybe my body thinks I'm tapering? |
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| C • your heart rate in general can... 1 |
Sunday May 20 |
| Orienteering 1:45:00 [3] | |
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| Billygoat, aprox. time. Hill and I ran together. We weren't planning on it, but we were together in the group in the beginning and then we just kept talking about which one to skip and then when we decided to skip 12, we were the only ones in our group to do so, so we ran together :) It's much faster running with someone else. In the beginning I would lead a leg as Hill would look at whichj control to skip, and then we would switch off :) It was actually a lot of fun, even though she did beat me in the end. Ross caight us at the 4th to last control and from there the pace really picked up. Hill was ahead and I just couldn't catch her and pass her. I think that if we didn't spend the 1.5 minutes debating about which control to skip at the drink spot Ross may not have caught us.... :) |
Saturday May 19 |
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| Event: Billygoat
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| road/trail run 52:00 [2] | |
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| got up in the morning to run with dad before Hill's graduation. We ran on a Vassar trail, and it went on longer than we thought and we got a bit lost. Sprinted up the road in an attempt to get home before too late, so mom woun'd tkill us :) So there was about 5 minutes of threshold+ runnng in this. |
Thursday May 17 |
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| I just can't exercise on 5 hours of sleep a night. Which means no running today and probably none tomorrow... or friday :( |
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| C • your really need to get more s... 3 |
Tuesday May 15 |
| road run 20:30 [1] | |
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| an 8 minute warm up to the trail beginning and a 12 minute cool down jog back home |
| trail run 22:00 [3] | |
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| Quality not quantity. I did a 20 minute threshold run around the trail at Cold Spring Park. It's hard running by myself! Also, I'm not used to running at 7:30 at night and I had a wicked cramp jogging back to the house. I was only going to do 20 minutes, but I felt good at 18 minutes so decided to do an extra two. Luckily I decided this at 18 minutes, because at 20 I felt really tired, but I had already decided to do 22 minutes! HR around 182, max at 186. |
Monday May 14 |
| road run 22:30 [1] | |
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| woke up early again this morning to go for a short run around the lake. My alarm went off and I thought, no this can't be right. My alarm must be going off by mistake and it's really still the weekend. Sadly, not true. But I can't run this afternoon or any other afternoon this week or next (class and work) so I figured I should at least do something. |
Sunday May 13 |
| road biking 1:51:00 [3] | |
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| went on a bike ride with dad and Peter out in Western Mass. We went up some big hills, and I was working pretty hard during those. It was fun to be riding some place new. And quite a leg workout too! My heal has been hurting since Thursday evening (oh no!) so this bike ride was good for it. It doesn't hurt anymore! I actually took care of myself! |
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| C • JWOC info 2 |
Saturday May 12 |
| Orienteering 2:03:00 [2] | |
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| Dad and I went out to run an old Blue Hills Traverse course. It seems so much longer when you are not racing!! We were just moving along, and we probably did just over half the course. IT felt like forever, but when I'm actually racing it, it doesn't seem so bad. |
Friday May 11 |
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| My heal hurt all day today, and I'm worried I caught the disease. Was going to do speed work with dad, but instead went to the library to write this paper that will seriously never end. |
Thursday May 10 |
| trail run 1:33:00 [2] | |
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| A trail run with dad and Zan (yay!!) in the Blue Hills. It was quite hot and we were all glad we were carrying our own supply of gookinaid. |
Wednesday May 9 |
| road/trail run 32:28 [1] | |
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| An easy run around Newton after class got out at 7:00. At 8:08 it was light enough to see fine on the trails, but at 8:13 it was getting to be dark. |
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| C • What happened 8 |
| road run 5:00 [1] | |
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| As I was stretching in the backyard a cat walked by and said hello. Then I remembered seeing lost cat posters when I was out running. So I took off around the block in search of the poster to see if the same cat just passed me in the backyard. Sadly, it wasn't the same cat. |
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| C • Wow--a talking cat! 1 |
Tuesday May 8 |
| Orienteering 1:00:00 [2] | |
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| Prospect Hill O training with dad. We were both really tired, and the course had us going up the hil about 5 times. Planned on running two courses, but didn't happen. |
| road run 12:00 [1] | |
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| run up to the start on the road and back from the finish |
| Orienteering 16:58 [4] | |
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| Sprint at Fresh Pond. Legs were really tired and had no speed. Also felt a biy queasy. I thought I was doing alright, until I missed 12, reading the contours wrong and not looking at my compass. I had passed dad at #2, but he punched #12 before me. |
| trail run 7:00 [1] | |
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| jogging around before the start of the sprint |
Monday May 7 |
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| No running today in an attempt to come close to finishing my paper... I also found out that for my two intersession classes I have class M-Th the next two weeks from 4-8 each night.... so yeah, this should be interesting for my training and sanity. |
Sunday May 6 |
| Orienteering 1:28:49 [4] | |
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| Long day of Team trials. This went MUCh better than yesterday. I slowed way down and took safe routes. I jogged/walked the more difficult controls and still got a bit confused in places, but was able to correct quickly. Never felt like I was running hard or really pushing physically, but was mentally very focused. |
Saturday May 5 |
| trail run 15:00 [1] | |
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| warm up jog to the start and 4 strideas again. |
| Orienteering 56:20 [4] | |
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| Man, this was rough. I just looked at the splits and I either bombed the contol (slowest split of the group) or got the fastest or second fastest split. It was discouraging that I could make those mistakes, but I was having real trouble reading the map in the beginning of the course. I couldn't make the terrain match up to what I was seeing and I should have chosen even easier route choices, but I just didn't learn my lesson. Oh well! I did what I did today, and tomorrow is another day. |
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| C • Glad I wasn't the only one who... 2 |
Friday May 4 |
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| Event: US Team Trials
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| road run 20:00 [1] | |
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| warming up before the sprint. I did a lot of jogging around because I had time to kill. Did 4 strides as well. |
| Orienteering 15:50 [5] 2.98 km (5:19 / km) +65m 4:47 / km | |
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| Sprint for team trials. It was fun and faster than I expected when looking at the map. Made no mistakes, although I think the route Ross took to #8 might have been faster, but I like the way I went :) |
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| C • that is a really good time! ni... 3 |
Wednesday May 2 |
| road run 45:00 [2] | |
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| running from my house in Newton over to Comm. Ave and then running home after the threshold run. |
| road run 20:00 [3] | |
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| Threshold run on the grassy strip on Comm. Ave with dad. I was pretty ried for this run, HR around 183, and maxing at 186. That's a bit high for threshold runs. |
Tuesday May 1 |
| road run 23:00 [1] | |
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| got up early this morning to go running. Probably about the 4th time ever I have done this. But the early mornings have been so beautiful that I wanted to get outside and enjoy it. I almost didn't get out of bed, but I looked out the window and the sun was shining. A slow jog around Crystal Lake. |