Saturday Apr 26 |
 | track workout 11:30 [4] 3 km (3:50 / km) | |
| shoes: Asics 1130 |
| Spent the weekend at the Northeast Junior Training Camp. It was lots of fun working with the juniors and everyone else. Dad lost his voice on Saturday :( so I had to do more of the talking than I expected. Woke up Saturday morning feeling very blah. I went to the track with the juniors where they were running a 1k or 3k test. Lots of them showed up! Decided to run the 3k to see what happened. Only warm up was one lap around the outdoor track before starting. Ran the first lap with the group and did the first 400 in 90 seconds. Decided that sounded good and decided to try to run 90 seconds every lap. Never having done a 3 k on roads, trails or a track, this seemed reasonable :) Had a bit of trouble staying at 90 for each lap and did the first mile in 6:10. Working hard, but not killing myself. Sped up a bit trying to catch the juniors in front of me (although never caught Amos who ran a 10:30!). Did 2400m in 9:19, 2800 in 10:50 (91 seconds) and then 39 for the last 200. Yeah, didn't take splits in the beginning. Not bad for no warm up and relaly tired legs this whole week.
I felt so much better after having done this - alive and ready to face the day. Running feels so good when you are done :) |
| Orienteering 25:29 [2] 4 km (6:22 / km) | |
| shoes: Montrail |
| Ran the advanced control picking course. Standing around at the start was the worst because of the small bugs that like to fly around your head and into your ears and eyes. Easy speed and paying close attention to my compass. Messed up once when I ignored my compass and made a parallel error. It's a 1:5000 map that looks like a 1:10000 because of the amount of detail. It throws you off a bit because you can see so far. Kicked the juniors butts, but that also could be because one control was not there at first when they ran by... :) |
| Orienteering 45:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Montrail |
| Easy run around in the woods with Alison and Susan. Some shadowing and relocation exercises. Found that it was easy to relocate when you weren't the one navigating. I would run to a feature, and they would follow without looking at the map, but they could look at their compass. No matter how hard I tried, they could relocate successfully every time! But then when they were the ones leading to the control, they would get lost and find it difficult to relocate. I think it has to do with having assumptions in your head when you are navigating about where you expect to be. When you're following you keep an open mind and don't have a plan that you are trying to execute. You can keep your head up and really look around with no assumptions about where you think you are. These assumptions are hard to let go of when you're lost and trying to relocate. Hopefully they learned something! |
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| C • I did!!! 1 |
| trail run 45 [5] | |
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| Clem, Corinne and I decided to put together an adult uphill map memory relay team to challenge the juniors. Corinne successfully drew the start in the correct place, but then Clem accidentally drew #12 thinking it was #1. I realized it when I went to draw #2. Corrinne went up to check what Clem did, but then memorized #2. So we had some communication problems in the beginning :) But we still managed to finish at the same time as the first junior team - they were working hard and were a challenge in to race against while running uphill!! |
Friday Apr 25 |
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| Event: 2008 Northeast Junior Training Camp
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| road run 7:30 [1] | |
| shoes: Asics 1130 |
| Today was a threshold run day. I really wanted to run on trails, but didn't want to take the time to drive to any. Was going to run up Comm. Ave, but that wasn't too appealing either. Decided to run to Cold Spring and run around that trail loop. I figured since it was early afternoon there wouldn't be too many people and dogs to run over. So I ran down to where the trail begins in Waban. |
| trail run 20:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Asics 1130 |
| Threshold run around Cold Spring on the trails. Legs still heavy feeling, although better than Wednesday. HR monitor not working too well, but it felt like I was running around 180 the whole way. Had to come to a quick stop near the end as I was about the run over some dogs. |
| road run 13:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Asics 1130 |
| Running slowly back to my house. |
Thursday Apr 24 |
| road/trail run 21:45 [1] | |
| shoes: Asics 1130 |
| A slow easy run around Cold Spring Park to loosen up my legs. Felt ok... but was also moving very slowly. |
Wednesday Apr 23 |
| road run 50:30 [3] 6.0 mi (8:25 / mi) | |
| shoes: Asics 1130 |
| Joined Yvonne for our usual Wednesday run. I felt ok for the first mile, but then it got rough. The last 2 miles were really hard and if I had been with anyone else I would have just stopped and walked home. Felt like I had hit a wall and was trying to run through it. Good exercise in mental training, since I had to convince myself to keep going for another 20 minutes. I did slow down a lot though and our per mile time is much slower than usual. I'm really tired this week, not sure why. Pilates was a struggle yesterday too. |
| Orienteering 19:26 [3] 3.1 km (6:16 / km) +90m 5:28 / km | |
| shoes: INOV8 Mudclaw |
| I picked up Hill in Watertown and we drove to the sprint at Menotomy Rocks in Arlington. It was a beautiful evening to be outside! Temperature was dropping to a reseaonable 75 or so. Last time I was here I had some real problems navigating, especially around a certain open area. This time I resolved to navigate cleanly, especially since I would probably be moving at a snails pace. It was a really pleasant sprint, since I was running at a comfortable speed and not getting lost :) Some minor hesitations in the field where it was again confusing. |
Tuesday Apr 22 |
| trail run 1:04:30 [4] | |
| shoes: Montrail |
| Ran the skyline trail this morning by myself. It's school vacation! And I wanted to run in the morning so that I could get it over with :) The first skyline run of the season - better late than never. The time is decent for the first time. Quite tired legs and arms, really struggling in the first half. Halfway time was 28:40. Beautful day! And now I am in the library trying to catch up on school work... |
| lifting/strength (pilates) 51:00 [1] | |
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| Pilates with dad in the evening. |
Monday Apr 21 |
| road run 35:29 [3] 4.6 mi (7:43 / mi) | |
| shoes: Asics 1130 |
| A really nice run with Ross at 8:00 pm. The day was packed with fun so we didn't go earlier. I was tempted not to go, but when I asked Ross if he wanted to go for a run, he did! So that got me out the door. We had a really fun day - starting with going to watch the Boston marathon for a couple of hours. Beautiful weather, though probably a bit hot for the runners. Ross cheered so much for everyone that he was hoarse for a few hours after. Then we played some kubb and croquet in the nearby park and some Settlers at home. A great way to spend Patriots Day! |
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| C • 8:00 PM?! 2 |
Sunday Apr 20 |
| trail run 8:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Pro 1 O shoes |
| Warm up run ended suddenly when I saw Carl sprinting towards the finish. An 11 minute yellow leg! |
| Orienteering 39:59 [5] 5.3 km (7:33 / km) +280m 5:58 / km | |
| shoes: Pro 1 O shoes |
| Third leg of the Killer Bunnies relay: Dad, Carl Underwood, me and Hill. I really enjoyed this race! It was lots of fun and very fast - wish I had more speed to truly enjoy it! I was doing well until the end of the first loop (before the field). I think I was getting tired and making some silly mistakes. I picked a good route to #11 but missed my turn up the reentrant. Then I ran out to the trail in a different spot than I expected on the way to #12, and then missed 12 in the green area. I'd imagine about 5 minutes of mistakes on 11, 12 and 13. 5-10 were lots of fun through well mapped and open terrain. The field running was fun and the second loop went well. John Goodwin, from the winning WCOC team, managed to gain time on me in the first loop, due more to my mistakes than running speed. An amazing venue. You could see running crossing the field in all sorts of directions. |