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Friday Jan 6, 2017 #
1 PM
Running - Trail 15:01 [1] 2.34 km (6:25 / km) +70m 5:35 / km
shoes: 201606 Inov-8 Oroc 280s
Auto-san's battery had died overnight (frustrating), but fortunately, Alec Breton was clutch and gave me a jump. I drove it around a bit, stopped it by a Toyota Dealer, and restarted it without incident. I also bought some jumper cables, but everything seemed ok. Perhaps I left something on last night?
Due to the dead battery, I missed my rendezvous with the Ahlswede crew, so I started on my own a bit later in the day. Naturally, I had a handful of maps of exercises of Harriman in my car (also Pawtuckaway), so I decided to race the Red Middle from the 2010 Team Trials and then saunter around the first half of the Blue Long from the 2010 Team Trials.
Trail run to the start. Pleasant.
Due to the dead battery, I missed my rendezvous with the Ahlswede crew, so I started on my own a bit later in the day. Naturally, I had a handful of maps of exercises of Harriman in my car (also Pawtuckaway), so I decided to race the Red Middle from the 2010 Team Trials and then saunter around the first half of the Blue Long from the 2010 Team Trials.
Trail run to the start. Pleasant.
C • Jump 13
Orienteering 31:42 [4] 3.83 km (8:16 / km) +104m 7:17 / km
19c shoes: 201606 Inov-8 Oroc 280s
2010 Team Trials Red Middle, no flags. A dusting of 1 cm of snow was everywhere. I missed 6 badly by making a parallel error on an unmapped marsh, and I missed 15 by confusing a bare rock and clearing. I'll post a QR after the weekend. My intention was to run fast, with three goals: (1) be aggressive, (2) read ahead, and (3) simplify. The aggression was key, as especially when I'm tired, I tend to stop short of the control when I get confused rather than running all the way to the center of the circle. While on occasion, stopping short corrects errors, more often, I hesitate unnecessarily when I'm actually on the correct path.
A fun outing.
A fun outing.
Running - Trail 11:27 [1] 1.67 km (6:51 / km) +18m 6:30 / km
shoes: 201606 Inov-8 Oroc 280s
Run back to auto-san.
3 PM
Orienteering 1:21:31 8.34 km (9:47 / km) +367m 8:01 / km
14c shoes: 201606 Inov-8 Oroc 280s
Thursday Jan 5, 2017 #
3 PM
Orienteering 1:13:16 [3] 10.54 km (6:57 / km) +299m 6:05 / km
12c shoes: 201606 Inov-8 Oroc 280s
Trail run from Kanawaukee Circle parking lot to a middle distance exercise I designed in 2012, the exercise itself, then run back. Comfortable.
Tuesday Jan 3, 2017 #
10 PM
Running 30:18 [1] 6.33 km (4:47 / km) +3m 4:46 / km
shoes: 201606 Inov-8 Oroc 280s
To Anna's and back. Obviously, I patronized Anna's before departing.
Monday Jan 2, 2017 #
Note
Today, I enabled developer access on my Google Nexus 5 (running Android 6); I am excited to explore its potential.
4 PM
Orienteering 57:19 [2] 6.5 km (8:49 / km) +289m 7:13 / km
8c shoes: 201606 Inov-8 Oroc 280s
A quick visit to Ward Pond Ridge to rerun some controls 5-13 from Day 2 of the Classic Champs. My goal was to simplify, but I didn't do that very well - making some mistakes on control 6 and deviating from my plan. I slowed down as the sky darkened and wrapped after finishing a little mini-circuit. The woods were great fun to run.
Running - Trail 37:01 [1] 5.85 km (6:20 / km) +135m 5:40 / km
shoes: 201606 Inov-8 Oroc 280s
To finish the evening, I ran a short trail bit at an easy intensity. There is a niggle in my right achilles.
Sunday Jan 1, 2017 #
Note
(rest day)
Rest day. My resting heart rate has been very high, so I'm hoping a good night's sleep will cure those ills.
A question comes to mind from something Peter Gagarin recently said to me: how can the senior team - given its current personnel - get better? (How do you get to Carnegie Hall?) While obviously it would help if everyone quits their jobs, becomes independently wealthy, and can sustainably train 600 hours/year, I'm looking for sustainable programs we - as the senior team, ESC, and supporters - can organize collectively to help the team get faster.
A few ideas:
Ideas?
A question comes to mind from something Peter Gagarin recently said to me: how can the senior team - given its current personnel - get better? (How do you get to Carnegie Hall?) While obviously it would help if everyone quits their jobs, becomes independently wealthy, and can sustainably train 600 hours/year, I'm looking for sustainable programs we - as the senior team, ESC, and supporters - can organize collectively to help the team get faster.
A few ideas:
- Organized team training camps. I find there are few more efficient opportunities to improve than training camps. We've gotten good at somewhat impromptu training camps (for instance, I've spent the past six Thanksgivings at Harriman), but they can be better organized and planned in advance so more people can attend. We could also put together a systematic calendar. Ideally team members wouldn't organize all the camps, but even that could work. The geography is always going to be challenging, but a few regional training camps are not impractical. The same organization could also host JNT and JDT trainings and foster camaraderie between the juniors and seniors.
- Coaching - requires money or substantial enthusiasm. For someone like me, more training might be a reasonable prerequisite (a paltry 250 hours in 2016), but I think getting organized, cogent training for the entire team is a reasonable goal. Preferably from one person.
- Periodic (e.g. monthly) challenges or group training targets. The idea here is to motivate and organize everyone to train. For example, a good group target for January could be 20 hours of running and 10 hours of orienteering. Group targets motivate progress and establish accountability and camaraderie.
Ideas?
C • Ideas 37
Saturday Dec 31, 2016 #
1 PM
Running - Trail 1:16:49 [1] 10.02 km (7:40 / km) +346m 6:32 / km
shoes: 201607 Asics GT1000
And no trip to New York is complete without a visit to Harriman. I had planned on running the 2010 Red Team Trials Long course on Jackie Jones, but I still felt tired. I took a 90 minute nap in my car and listened to Wait, Wait before resolving to go out on an easy trail run. This turned out to be perfect - a little 10k loop was therapeutic, relaxing, and cathartic.