Training Archive: SamanthaIn the 7 days ending 2008-04-19:
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Saturday Apr 19 | ||
| Event: US Middle Distance and Relay Champs | ||
| trail run 10:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Pro 1 O shoes | ||
| Warming up for the middle. I felt good, and it helped knowing that I had a good middle race two weeks ago in Ohio. | ||
| Orienteering 46:39 [4] 4.59 km (10:10 / km) | |
| shoes: Pro 1 O shoes | ||
| nothing like running over 10 min/k on a middle distance course. You can really tell that you are on your way to the top when this happens.
An almost comical disaster. Started out fine, but then made my first mistake on #3. I attacked off the hill, but then came off at an angle and was too far right of the control. I knew I was in the right area, but just couldn't figure it out. Went further right.... and then wandered back to exactly where I was standing before and could see the control. I think I was a bit scattered and so I ran straight to #4, which meant going over 2 hills. The climb was ok, but the last downhill was like climbing down a dirt cliff. #5 and #6 went well and #7 was a short leg for which I had a plan. But I misread a contour line and ended up too low on the hillside. Wandered for a long time, until I found the rock pile and managed to relocate. As I was leaving some man asked me where I was. Right, like I really want to help when you just ran into this area and I've been wandering around for 5 minutes. Go wander yourself. The rest of the race was clean and steady. I remembered my Golden Rule after #4, when I really wanted to just go home, which was never give up in orienteering. On a positive note, I didn't give up and tried to keep my head in the race. On a negative note, it was still a disaster :) Still a long ways to go this season. | ||
| trail run 10:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Pro 1 O shoes | ||
| warming up for the sprint. Legs feeling a bit more tired than I expected. | ||
| Orienteering 15:10 [5] 2.6 km (5:50 / km) | |
| shoes: Pro 1 O shoes | ||
| A really fun and well designed sprint. My legs were struggling the whole way. I need to really begin working on some speed. Hill beat me on every split, so she and others were just running faster than I was. A pretty clean race. I didn't think I made any mistakes until I compared splits with Hill and lost 20 second going to 13. I started a bit to the right of the line, and then went too far left. My meandering route cost me more than I thought! Good to remember for next time. I need to make a plan even on these short sprint legs, because a lot of time can be lost! A speedy sprint that was fun to (attempt to) run!
All in all, a humbling weekend. Too many mistakes and not enough speed. | ||
Thursday Apr 17 | ||
| Orienteering 52:17 [1] | |
| shoes: Montrail | ||
| Went to hang streamers for the courses I am setting for this Sunday. I wore shorts, because I figured I could run around all the thorns and stick to the trails because I was just going out for an easy run. Really bad idea. The thorns were not the problem. The blueberry bushes were horrible! Even walking slowly produced many scratches on my shins and was painful. This is why I don't wear shorts ever while orienteering. I can't take that much pain. So I walked whenever I was off trail. But I did run for the 52 minutes.
You think I would know better, having lived my whole life in New England. | ||
Wednesday Apr 16 | ||
| road run 20:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Asics 1130 | ||
| Run with Hill around Dedham while waiting for dad to get home. | ||
| trail run 32:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Asics 1130 | ||
| We went to Lars Anderson Park to run hills. New workout. We ran around the park for about 10 minutes before the hills and thought it would be a nice place to make a sprint map of. Not too big though. Then it took about 1:20 to run down the hill each time, and then 10 minutes cool down. | ||
| trail run (hills) 12:00 [5] | |
| shoes: Asics 1130 | ||
| 10 x up the hill. No idea how far it was. Times:
1:11 1:14 1:14 1:12 1:12 1:13 1:12 1:14 1:11 1:09 Legs were maxed out going up, but the breathing wasn't too hard. The hill was just too steep! | ||
Tuesday Apr 15 | ||
| Orienteering 30:00 [2] | |
| memory course with Dad and Hill around Mt. Misery. | ||
| Orienteering 25:00 [4] | |
| A sprint course around there. | ||
| trail run 15:00 [2] | |
| warmup and cool down and such. I didn't have a watch and HIll logged this all all one session and dad hasn't logged it at all. | ||
Sunday Apr 13 | ||
| Event: 30th Annual Billygoat Run | ||
| Orienteering 2:04:00 [4] 13 km (9:32 / km) +500m 8:00 / km | |
| shoes: INOV8 Mudclaw | ||
| The Billygoat. Ran with Hill, as planned. :) We have fun running together, although sometimes it's tough when we both trying to lead and are describing routes to eachother. I think running with us might be amusing for others as we talk constantly and not always about orienteering. But that's why the Billygoat is fun. We had a good pack for pretty much the whole course. We lost most of them after 12 (because some skipped 13 and some ran too fast down the trail), but then we got lost on #16 and everyone caught right back up. We skipped #19, which in retrospect was not the best idea. We should have skipped #18. Others wanted to skip #18 but since we were so intent on skipping 19 they came along too. After punching #20 I began to push harder to try to lose everyone at the end. I punched 21 right ahead of Hill and then ran as hard as I could towards the large trail leading to the last control. I ended up going through a lot of junk, but I think everyone else did too. A tiring race - more tiring that I was expecting. I think when running with the pack I was moving faster than if it had just been Hill and I alone. Left quad was sore, but feels fine now, so hopefully no damage done :) Felt much much longer than the 13k last weekend. And I won cheesecake - yum! | ||