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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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.... :) |