Thursday Aug 30 |
 | Orienteering 29:52 [4] *** 4.2 km (7:07 / km) | |
| spiked:11/14c shoes: Adidas Novas |
| Ross organized the CSU training this week at Franklin Park. I took it at a pretty good pace, I thought, but it seems I was about 2min slower than Sam and Alexei. I did blow #7 pretty badly, which Sam apparently didn't bother to actually find the flag for, and I found the misplaced flag for #6, which Sam also didn't bother to do. I think I found 5, but probably wasted some time on that too. Anyway, decent run, I thought. Good to get back in the woods after slackin' for so long. Sam (or Ross?) baked some brownies too, which was awesome. |
| cycling warm up/down 1:10:00 [2] | |
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| To/from Franklin Park. |
| stretching warm up/down 3:00 [0] | |
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| Uh, yeah, probably should do some more before I go to bed. |
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Franklin Park - Splits |
Wednesday Aug 29 |
| running (road) 28:06 [3] 3.59 mi (7:49 / mi) | |
| slept:8.0 shoes: Gel Cumulus 2006 |
| Same route as last time. Slight arch pain in right foot this time; went away immediately. |
| stretching warm up/down 15:00 [0] | |
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| Before and after. |
Sunday Aug 26 |
| running (road) 28:30 [2] 3.59 mi (7:56 / mi) | |
| slept:6.0 weight:158lbs shoes: Grid Propel 2007 |
| Finally back in Boston after a while out in California and then another while at home. Ran over to and around Tufts, then was going to do some strides on the track but my left arch flared up in pain, so I stopped, stretched out and ran home. And realized I had left my keys at the track. Arch was giving me more problems by that point, so I stopped and walked. Need to stretch out. |
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| C • what map do you think we shoul... 1 |
Friday Aug 17 |
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| Finally updated my log for the past two weeks. |
Wednesday Aug 15 |
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| Driving across the rest of Utah, a bit of Arizona, a butt-load of Nevada and the Mojave Desert to Santa Barbara with Catherine. The desert gets progressively worse until finally you cross the San Bernardinos, at which point the air is so filthy with soot and polution that the temperature is bearable. |
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| C • wait, they make other kinds of... 2 |
Tuesday Aug 14 |
| hiking 4:00:00 [1] * 8.0 mi (29:59 / mi) +630m 14:59 / km | |
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| Climbed up to "Observation Point" at Zion National Park with Catherine, who's still used to sea-level altitude. Really awesome scenery; highly recommended, if you can stand the drive. |
Monday Aug 13 |
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| Spent the day driving across Colorado and Utah to Zion NP. I-70 sucks. |
Sunday Aug 12 |
| Orienteering (sprint relay) 54:00 [4] *** 7.4 km (7:18 / km) +200m 6:26 / km | |
| shoes: Adidas Novas |
| I ended up not having a team for the sprint relay, so I ran it by myself. I think I was in the lead for the first 10 seconds, before everyone else realized that John had started us backwards. Then the Halden guy took over and that was pretty much the end of it. I made some embarrassing mistakes, partly because of the forking, mostly because of not orienteering well.
Now would be a perfect time for a mixed technical intensity option. The first loop was significantly harder than the next two which were ... basically the same. I don't know that there's really a widespread need for that sort of complication, though. |
Saturday Aug 11 |
| Orienteering race (Long) 2:20:16 [3] **** 14 km (10:01 / km) +515m 8:28 / km | |
| spiked:14/18c shoes: Adidas Novas |
| I decided to run red at the long-o champs, which I think was a good decision. The map was 1:15 which took some getting used to. I didn't get used to it fast enough and was caught by the people starting 10 minutes back by #4 (oh, forgot to mention that they mass started us {championship mass start? wierd, no?} by class, so I started with two other guys on red, one of whom I later joined up with about halfway through and stayed with for the rest of the course. The M-40s had a distinct advantage, though, because 4 of them started together all of similar skill level, and apparently stayed together for the first few controls). After that I cleaned up and had a good run. The last half of the course I kept seeing a Swiss guy now living in Milwaukee (?), a woman from Halden, and Ted Good, which made it a little more fun. |
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Red - Splits |
Friday Aug 10 |
| Orienteering race (short) 47:51 [4] **** 5.3 km (9:02 / km) +220m 7:29 / km | |
| spiked:10/12c shoes: Adidas Novas |
| Might as well have been a contours-only map, but that was fine because the contours were exquisitely accurate. Very enjoyable terrain, if a little steep. I made a parallel error on #10 which cost me 4 minutes, and I was thinking all the while "ok, be careful on this one, it'll be hard". Then I aimed off on the next one but didn't trust myself, losing another minute. A good effort but I need to be more attentive. |
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| C • I hate it when I know to be ca... 1 |
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Blue short - Splits |
Thursday Aug 9 |
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| I think I won the trail-o demo, with all correct answers and 5s at the timed control. I guess trail-o is kind of fun when you win :) Also went to see the olympic training center. Much less impressive than I had imagined. |
Wednesday Aug 8 |
| Orienteering race (night-o) 2:00:43 [3] **** 11.3 km (10:41 / km) +350m 9:15 / km | |
| spiked:19/25c shoes: Adidas Novas |
| Night-o champs. I decided to run blue, even though this was only the 4th night-o I've ever done, and only the second I've ever completed. I had my wimpy 5-led headlamp which was perfectly adequate. Someday it would be interesting to run with one of those floodlights, but somehow that seems like it would detract from the challenge. Anyway, I thought it was a good course, better than the blue courses here last weekend. I had fun.
That said, there were two unfortunate problems with the course. One was that some of the controls were hung right up against trees so as to be nearly invisible. I think this gave me trouble on #2, and frankly it's just irritating when a course setter gleefully casts aside fairness in favor of some demonic goal of difficulty. I enjoy a hard course, but not a bingo course. Kind of reminded me of that West Point course by Jerre Hansbrough a few years back. Anyway, that only applied to a few of the controls. The other problem was that the water was again placed on roads, again not where indicated, and more importantly, without reflectors. This cost me a good 4 or 5 minutes on #9. |
Tuesday Aug 7 |
| Orienteering 25:00 [3] *** 2.5 km (10:00 / km) | |
| spiked:3/4c shoes: Adidas Novas |
| I spent most of the day in the various mapping clinics, which were a little disorganized. But, I met some cool people, and learned a thing or two about mapping, so I guess it was worthwhile. Afterwards I was walking back to my tent when I saw Alar Ruutopold who was about to go run the Orange course from Sunday, so I went out on it with him. We switched off each leg from memory. After I goofed up the first control, we were pretty clean. Felt much better physically today. |
Monday Aug 6 |
| Orienteering 25:00 [2] **** 2 km (12:30 / km) | |
| shoes: Adidas Novas |
| I set a line-o for the junior-junior training camp, then went out with Zach Lyons, Theron Nipson, and David Bryant. I thought the line-o would be quite challenging for them, and I'm glad they did it in groups with an adult, but actually they noticed a lot more about the vegetation and contours than I expected. Zach in particular did quite well matching the map to the terrain. He's quite focussed, too. |
Sunday Aug 5 |
| Orienteering race 1:37:00 [3] *** 13.2 km (7:21 / km) +310m 6:35 / km | |
| spiked:20/21c shoes: Adidas Novas |
| Well, today started out promising but after the third control was again quite easy and mainly just a physical challenge. I managed to slop up #3, so I guess I can't complain too much. Yesterday and today were decent results, I think. The AP ranking looks lower than I expected. I guess nobody had big mistakes. |
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blue day 2 - Splits |
Saturday Aug 4 |
| Orienteering race 1:25:00 [3] *** 11.3 km (7:31 / km) +285m 6:41 / km | |
| spiked:19/22c shoes: Adidas Novas |
| Had zero energy, probably some combination of altitude and lack of training. The course was quite easy, and not a great use of the terrain. For some reason, they decided to put the water on roads. Only, not actually on the roads, but in grassy ditches beside the roads. Lost a minute on that one. Also the water wasn't exactly where indicated on the map. Wouldn't be such a problem back in Boston, but since I'm puffing away on the low oxygen, water is pretty essential. |
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Blue Day 1 - Splits |
Friday Aug 3 |
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| Event: 2007 USOF Convention and Colorado 5-Days
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| running warm up/down 20:00 [3] 2.0 mi (10:00 / mi) | |
| slept:6.0 shoes: Adidas Novas |
| Took a late flight out last night to Denver and spent the night in the airport. Then got a ride out this morning to the convention. I decided I should at least jog around a bit before tomorrow, so I went for a really short jog with the Hubermans. Tried some strides afterwards. Altitude is not fun. |