Saturday Jun 2 |
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| Skyline Trail run with Hill. In the beginning we weren't moving too fast - legs were a bit tired and sore from yesterday. Then the hills in the middle of the run were alright, but then at the end Hill picked it up and I chased after her almost at full speed for the last 15 minutes. Wasn't wearing the HR monitor, but felt like I was running above threshold, especially since the legs were burning :) Still, I think it's a slow time for working so hard at the end of the run. |
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| C • chatty 3 |
Friday Jun 1 |
| road run 35:00 [1] | |
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| 12 minutes to run over to the track, and 12 minutes back, plus the time jogging around between. |
| track workout 5:46 [5] | |
| max:198 |
| 1 mile time trail on the track with Hill. We arrived and ran 2 200s at a 5:40 mile pace, but then just as we were about to begin, it started raining harder. So we went for shelter, and then it started thundering and lightning. So we had to wait about 10 minutes to begin.
First lap was on pace, 2nd a bit slow, 3rd we were back on, and then 4th we got a bit ahead. I was leading the first two, and then Hill passed me at the beginning of the third. She didn't gain on me for the last 500 meters, but I also couldn't catch her. My HR maxed at 198 :) Rather impressive :) |
| track workout 4:20 [5] | |
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| After the mile we jogged a lap and then started running 4 200s and jogging/walking 200 between. Times were 34, 35. 37. 38. I was quite tired. |
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 :) |