Saturday Mar 1 |
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| A special education conference all day. |
Friday Feb 29 |
| road/trail run 1:06:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Montrail |
| I decided to run from my house over to Hammond Pond, where there is an o map. It's only about a 15 minute run. The air today seemed slightly warmer than yesterday, so I wore the same outfit, but with gloves. I really should have worn another long sleeve shirt, and I was quite cold most of the time, but especially in the beginning. I decided to run hard to warm up, but then I overdid it and began to sweat a bit. Therefore when I slowed down my arms got cold again because they were sweaty! I was really not enjoying the run over on the road, but then had a good time running around on the trails. I think that I am truly a trail runner/ orienteer who occassionally likes track workouts. But roads are boring and difficult to run on alone. |
| lifting/strength (plyometrics) 6:00 [2] | |
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| My quads were sore a long time from my last try at plyometrics. I'm taking it more slowly this time. |
Thursday Feb 28 |
| road run 50:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Asics 1130 |
| Dad and I ran over to Westfield street for the usual Thursday workout. It was colder than it looked, and my hands were cold the whole time, except when I was runing the intervals. Next time, I need to wear gloves. |
| road run 21:30 [4] | |
| shoes: Asics 1130 |
| Three times up Westfield street. On the first one I felt cold and didn't think I was going very fast. Times were 7:08, 7:13 and 7:11. HR was rather low today, although it could be the HR monitor because it does read funny sometimes. Maybe it was the altitude training in Tucson :) Besides my hands freezing, it felt good to run fast. |
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Wednesday Feb 27 |
| lifting/strength (pilates) 51:00 [1] | |
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Tuesday Feb 26 |
| trail run 1:49:12 [1] | |
| shoes: Montrail |
| A long run with Dad on the trails in the Blue Hills. The snow was softer than we thought so there was a fair amount of slipping around. I entertained us both by giving a detailed account of the weekend which almost took the whole run. It began to rain near the end, and I was glad that I have a half day on Tuesday so we got out before it really started. |
Sunday Feb 24 |
| trail run 10:00 [1] | |
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| warm up down the road before my start. |
| Orienteering 32:45 [5] 4.81 km (6:49 / km) +175m 5:46 / km | |
| shoes: INOV8 Mudclaw |
| A shorter course with more climb than yesterday. I found the navigation to be easier, and I didn't make any of the small mistakes like yesterday. I think I could have chosen a better route to #2 (I took te trail, which caused me to up and down through the reentrant), and I was a bit confused on #6 when I hit what I thought was the end of the dirt road, but in fact the road extended longer in reality than on the map. After much thought I think my route to 9 was the best for me. I decided not to drop down to the trail and run the flat because I was worried I wouldn't know where to cut up the hill to the control. Instead I climbed up to the fence and then ran along the fence to the top of the hill and used that as an obvious attackpont. I think the trail route may have been faster, but I took the safer route with big features and obvious attackpoint. And I know that some people did overrun the control by taking the trail. I tried to push harder today, especially on the flat to 7 and 8, and really tried to push the pace at the end of the race. Could still feel the 5,000 feet though! |
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Green2 - Splits |