Training Archive: iamsinhtIn the 7 days ending 2008-06-28:
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Saturday Jun 28 | ||
| Canoeing 2:00:00 [4]** 5.6 km (21:26 / km) +500m 14:49 / km | |
| shoes: NB ABZORB EX 12 | ||
| The New England championship Canoe-O. Lori and I went through a comparatively Herculean process to attend, and we didn't have a particular interest in our speed. She and I hadn't even rowed a canoe by ourselves before, and while we both had sufficient canoe experience, we expected our lack of preparation to put us well back of the field.
We had a good time, but because I was providing most of the power, I was J-stroking almost constantly to keep us on course. We also used conventional canoeing equipment as opposed to race equipment, a fact for which we were gingerly berated. I was satisfied with our pace and strategy - control 3 was interestingly behind a dam. I estimate we could have finished in about 1:40, but we chose a poor strategy (as it turned out, an illegal strategy as well as a slower one) that resulted in our disqualification. For about 29 minutes, I rowed along by myself, and found it quite interesting. With an empty bow, the moment of the canoe is much smaller, so a stroke rotates the bow by 3-8 degrees. Once the canoe gets moving, the resistance to rotation is larger, and it's easier to maintain speed. I tried kneeling in the center, rowing from the stern, and rowing backwards from the bow; bow rowing was the most effective in general. It's certainly true that I was slower by myself, but I believe I got up to an instantaneous velocity of 3-4 mph - however, I was zigzagging slightly. I'm curious to see how a kayak would perform under race conditions - Keith and I were debating which would be faster. Also, the climb component of this entry is a farce (though we were hit by a few impressive wakes). Congratulations to Jeff Schapiro, who came without a boat, supervised parking for about two hours, then single handedly won the New England Championships singles race with a unique combination of brute strength, perseverance, and uberhardk0reness. | ||
Thursday Jun 26 | ||
| Orienteering 55:00 [2]4 km (13:45 / km) | |
| shoes: NB ABZORB EX 12 | ||
| Pia's training course at Prospect Hill, part of the CSU summer training sequence. As an interesting twist, while the front of the map was the complete course with all the o-details we've come to expect, the back of the map was the controls superimposed only on the contours.
I arrived late, courtesy of my poor planning, and found the contour exercise challenging and interesting. Running into large features - roads, cliffs, open areas and even lakes - is surreal without that data. I find that while contours are interesting, I tend to rely on other features - rocks, cliffs, and major contours, like reentrants and spurs. Anyway, after I hit control 7, I decided it was getting too late and too dark to continue using only the contour map (though I had cheated a few times), so I switched to using the complete map exclusively, and finished through control 15. In the vicinity of control 16, I couldn't find the streamer - possibly because it was too dark - so I aborted and ran back to the start. | ||
| Biking 45:00 [4]11.0 mi (4:06 / mi) | |
| shoes: NB ABZORB EX 12 | ||
| Travel by bike to Prospect Hill Park. Route choice was not optimal. | ||
Sunday Jun 22 | ||
| Event: WCOC Crandalls Park | ||