Sunday Aug 31 |
 | running tempo (dirt/road) 1:03:40  8.42 mi (7:33 / mi) | |
| shoes: Mizuno WR VI 07 |
| See splits for route. Intended to run earlier, but it ended up being at night (8:30pm). Nice weather, and felt pretty energetic, so I just started out fast and kept going, until hitting Western on the return and figuring I should probably take a bit of a cool-down. Ran negative paces up to then, which was probably aided by being almost run over by a cyclist while waiting for the light at MIT, then being told to [sic] "c'mon yeh fuckin' taaht". Really made me want to land a kick through his spokes, but I channeled that energy into a harder effort. Feels good afterwards, even my right thigh which was a bit sore for the first part but feels fine now. |
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lyman-eliot-harvard-lyman - Splits |
Saturday Aug 30 |
| running 23:22 [2] ***** 2.58 mi (9:03 / mi) | |
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| Decided to take a different tack from home, and ran down to Union Square, up prospect hill (not the O one) and back along Highland. Got through 5 controls on a 1:10 Hogencamp map. |
| strength 5:00 [5] | |
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| Got some new stretchy-bands and did various stuffs with them. Kind of got distracted, whoops. |
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| Went to Target this afternoon to get some new sheets. Apparently the college population has wiped them out of almost all their twin XL sheets, except for, you know, fuchsia, bright green, or hospital white. Finally found some not-horribly-abismal color of brown. Too bad I'm not an extra-long sorority girl. GD, yo. |
Friday Aug 29 |
| strength 8:00 [5] | |
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| running 44:08  4.9 mi (9:00 / mi) | |
| shoes: Blue WR X 2008 |
| Over to Tufts, 4x30sec strides on the track, then back. Kind of slow, I guess, but taking it easy on the ankle, which has been feeling good and gave me no problems. |
Thursday Aug 28 |
| strength 5:00 [5] | |
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Sunday Aug 24 |
| Orienteering race (long) 1:53:12 [3] *** 9.1 km (12:26 / km) +325m 10:33 / km | |
| spiked:15/20c (injured) shoes: Nike Terra Ridge 07 |
| Took things pretty easy, just trying to be clean. My game plan was to go carefully on the first control, spike it, and ease into the rest of the course. This went horribly wrong as far as the first control was concerned. I headed off into the woods with my attackpoint in mind but not much else in between. I think I have this problem a lot, actually. I need to think about how to do some map reading/concentration exercises to change what I focus on over the course of a leg. My mind should be more present on my current location (I should percept myself as a moving point, as the Russians say). Anyways, lost about 7 minutes after overshooting a bit to the left through a bunch of dark green, then relocating at the power line. After that, basically clean, careful, and pretty slow. I was a little off on 5; got into the circle and didn't know what I was looking for. Then took an overly cautious route to 6 and 7, but ok, that was part of the plan. Got lucky on 8, took an apparently slow route to 12 but executed nearly perfectly, so ok. Fine on 13 and 14, just slow up the hill, then real slow to 15, lots of hesitation, couldn't read any of the features I was looking for, but held my bearing and spotted the control a little ways off to the left. Way to the left on 16, not quite sure how that happened. Slow through the green crap to 17. Glance at my watch: 1:40. Dang, that's probably a good time with only 3 to go, so I head off at a good clip to 18; finally I can read the clearings into the control. Now to 19. A little off of my bearing, ok so out to the road and then into the woods. Two steps into the woods and I've twisted my ankle. Hurts a lot but maybe not too bad. Now it's dead easy to the finish. All those little hesitations left me tied with Eddie in 7th place over all, 13 seconds behind Torrance (3rd place Canadian). Maybe I should register as a Canadian next time.
Overall, had a lot of fun this weekend, definitely glad I went. Came away with some good results, but definite room for improvement, and good motivation. Hopefully the ankle isn't as bad as I initially feared. |
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| C • Bloody awesome run 6 |
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Long Course 10 - Splits |
Saturday Aug 23 |
| Orienteering race 58:00  **** | |
| spiked:13/16c shoes: Nike Terra Ridge 07 |
| This was almost a really awesome race. The terrain was similar to the model, but rockier in general, and, in my opinion, not quite as nice. I had some problems with #1, which may have been because the start was misplaced (I was told on Sunday by one of the organizers that it was). Then had no problems until 7, which I was a little off on, but decided to be cautious when uncertain, and corrected (lost ~1:30). Then fine until #11, a little slow going into it. Then fine to the road crossing. At this point I am 37:11, Patrick is 37:09, Holger, Mike Smith, and Nick Duca are ahead of us. The rest of the field is apparently badly mangled and confused (only 2 others below 40 min at the road crossing). So I punched control #13 and headed across the road and blasted down the field and into the woods, spiking #15, only there was no control. Went a little further, up and down the reentrant, etc., then bailed out to the field, and realized I hadn't actually punched #14, which was the control on the other side of the road that was apparently being manned by marshalls to make sure I didn't get run over or take longer than 60 seconds to cross, but not to make sure I actually punched. Oh, btw, the helicopter is now taking off, right in the middle of my route back to the road. Anyway, punched that, then went back to look for #15. I'm now 41 minutes into things. 11 minutes later, still no 15. I head off to find 16. Spike. Ok, maybe I can find 15 now. Nope. Dejected, I head off to 17 thinking about how I will word my protest. In the finish, Nick Duca sprints past and punches just ahead of me. "Hey, Nick, can you show me where 15 was?" Nick looks at my map. Some confusion and then Nick says something about my map having a different finish loop. Turns out the course 10 pile of maps had a few "special editions", i.e. older versions of the course, from before they had decided to move 15 to a different location. Myself, Brian Graham, Barb, and a couple other people picked up these maps, so the WRE was voided. .Kind of a bummer, but I guess I was heading for a mispunch anyways, so I can't be too upset.
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Friday Aug 22 |
| Orienteering race 21:00 [5] **** 2.7 km (7:47 / km) | |
| shoes: Nike Terra Ridge 07 |
| Sprint race. Made some mistakes, probably ~2-3 min worth. First part was kind of fun, the woods at the end were awesome.
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| strength 4:00 [5] | |
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| typical stuff |
| Orienteering 40:00  **** 3 km (13:20 / km) | |
| shoes: Nike Terra Ridge 07 |
| Went out for a run on the model map before it closed. Got to most of the controls, couldn't find one of them. This terrain is friggin' awesome. |
Thursday Aug 21 |
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| Event: Canadian Orienteering Championships 2008
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Tuesday Aug 19 |
| running (road/track) 40:21 [2] ***** 4.6 mi (8:46 / mi) | |
| 10c shoes: Mizuno WR VI 07 |
| Ran from home to Tufts, did a mile on the track, then home, taking it easy. Legs pretty sore from yesterday. Took along a 1:10 Hogencamp map, did the first 10 controls in ~25min, then it was too dark to keep reading. Fairly good concentration, routes look ok afterwards, could definitely be better. |
| stretching warm up/down 10:00 [0] | |
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Monday Aug 18 |
| running 30:00 [3] ** 3.5 mi (8:34 / mi) | |
| spiked:11/12c shoes: Blue WR X 2008 |
| The running part of tonight's training. Approx. Felt much more intense than the pace would suggest, but perhaps it took less time. These shoes do something weird to my left pinky toe. |
| strength 10:00 [5] | |
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| Various kinds of strength stuff. Lori had planned a workout at MIT, where we began with one scaling of the Green building, then did a course on an incredibly simplified map of campus, stopping periodically to do various calisthenic exercises. I skipped out on a lot of the calisthenics (mainly shortening stuff), but did some additional core stuff afterwards. |
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Sunday Aug 17 |
| Orienteering race 1:33:10  *** 9.9 km (9:25 / km) +380m 7:54 / km | |
| spiked:19/22c shoes: Nike Terra Ridge 07 |
| Clem decided to drive down to the DVOA meet at Spackman Creek, and I figured it'd be much more fun than dragging myself out to Pine Hill for another long trail run, so I went with him. It was a fun course and I orienteered pretty well (though the map is fairly forgiving so I did get lucky in some places when I wasn't paying super close attention), Clem is a great person to drive with, and the weather was gorgeous, so all in all, it was a great day. |
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| C • You know you have an addiction... 2 |
| running tempo 7:00 [2] 1 km (7:00 / km) | |
| shoes: Nike Terra Ridge 07 |
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| stretching warm up/down 3:00 [0] | |
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| Should really have stretched out everything, but ended up just stretching my calves. |
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BLUE - Splits |
Saturday Aug 16 |
| soccer 38:00  | |
| shoes: Nike 90 cleats |
| Soccer practice with WTR. |
| strength 20:00 [5] | |
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| (Little) Jon's shoulder workout plus some situps afterwards. |
Friday Aug 15 |
| strength 7:00 [5] | |
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| core, etc. |
Thursday Aug 14 |
| cycling warm up/down 45:00 [2] | |
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| To Franklin Park. |
| Orienteering 51:30  *** 5 km (10:18 / km) | |
| spiked:8/15c shoes: Nike Terra Ridge 07 |
| Ian's CSU training at Franklin Park. Lots of green; went to parts of the map which are less-well mapped. In retrospect, there were a lot of places where I wasn't really paying attention. I think if I don't read a map at least 4 days a week, this whole navigation thing just isn't happening. |
Wednesday Aug 13 |
| strength 1:00 [5] | |
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| 60 crunches. Pretty lame, but I was showing my apartment in the evening after a long day, and I just didn't muster the motivation for more of a strength session. |
Tuesday Aug 12 |
| running intervals 1:04:08  7.0 mi (9:10 / mi) | |
| shoes: Blue WR X 2008 |
| Got out of lab at 6:30 and ran over to the track for the CSU running section workout. They were running 800, 3x1000, 2x600, 400, but I only did the 800, the first 1000, turned the next two into 800s, and then the first 600, which was plenty, I think. Legs felt pretty good, I'm just slow.
800 - 2:55.9
1000 - 3:43.0
800 - 3:02.5
800 - 3:02.7
600 - 2:14.5 |
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Sunday Aug 10 |
| cycling warm up/down 1:15:00 [2] | |
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| To/from Fells, also includes some time biking to/from MIT in the morning to go to mass. |
| Orienteering 1:05:00  *** 7.0 mi (9:16 / mi) | |
| shoes: Nike Terra Ridge 07 |
| Went out to the Fells at noon to do a long workout. Started with the first part of the line-o I set a month ago, then did a trail-run on the other side of the road, then finished the line-o. |
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| I anxiously await the US champs day 2 results. Ross and Boris had 4 or 5 minutes to make up; William will surely have pulled out another amazing run; Kenny and Mikkel top ten?
On the ladies' side, Kat is just 4 minutes back on 2nd place and 6 on 1st. Can she catch the leaders? And Peter looks to be in a nail-biter for the M-60 title.
Go CSU!!! |
Saturday Aug 9 |
| soccer (grass) 45:00  | |
| shoes: Nike Terra Ridge 07 |
| Soccer practice at Harvard with the WTR. Nobody (i.e. 5 people) showed up, but that was actually a good thing, since the hardcore people (I will consider myself semi-hardcore) were not diluted enough for the "practice" to degenerate into a scrimmage, which is what usually happens. So instead, we actually ran some half-decent drills, which makes for a much better workout. |
| strength 7:00 [5] | |
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| Core/upper, a slightly harder workout than I've typically been doing recently. |
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| Stopped by the Marathon Sports clearance sale. Picked up 2 pairs of Mizuno VI's, which I guess were the two pairs I neglected to buy at last year's clearance sale. Probably they just can't sell them in any other format. Also picked up some Nike trail runners, plus some apparel (wind jacket, top, shorts), all for $175. The dude standing next to me in the checkout line was some Kenyan guy who apparently held the marathon world record 20 years ago. |
Friday Aug 8 |
| strength 5:00 [5] | |
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| Core, not a super workout; feeling kind of lazy before bed. |
Thursday Aug 7 |
| cycling warm up/down 1:15:00 [2] | |
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| To/from Alex's place. From was a bit longer, as I neglected to turn off at Western Ave. and ended up going around on Soldier's Field Rd. |
| running 1:02:56 [2] *** 7.34 mi (8:34 / mi) | |
| 9c shoes: Mizuno WR VI 07 |
| Alex designed a street-o in Newton, through some pretty posh areas, which was cool. The map has changed a little in places, but that wasn't such a big deal. Food afterwards was great. Thanks Alex!
route: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=2153173 |
Wednesday Aug 6 |
| strength 5:00 [5] | |
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| Kind of a half-hearted effort, but I did some strength stuff this morning when I woke up. Decided to take another day off running; tomorrow will probably be longish.
Nabokov is really cutting into my productivity in lab.
I have USA uniforms for various people who "live in the Boston area". Like Gerald. And Kris Beecroft. Sweet. |
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| C • uniforms got to you how? 4 |
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Tuesday Aug 5 |
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| I put some of the maps from the weekend up online, including my routes for the no-rocks and night-o courses (scroll down to the "2008" section). I probably should do some more serious thinking about my performance over the weekend, but just a couple of quick thoughts on the weekend as a whole:
1. Probably not enough time for discussion afterwards. Also, a lot of people weren't running the same stuff, which made discussion a little difficult.
2. While we had the courses all planned "beforehand" (i.e., before the first course was run), I don't think there was enough emphasis on having a "purpose" for each training. I think we need to have some kind of focus for every training session, and we're definitely lacking that in general (not just this weekend).
3. Eating together is always awesome. |
| running (road) 26:53 [2] 2.92 mi (9:12 / mi) | |
| slept:9.0 shoes: Mizuno WR VI 07 |
| Evening run from Lyman to Eliot and back, via JFK. Legs are still tired from the weekend, so this was slow and easy, trying to loosen up a bit. Hamstrings in particular felt kind of heavy. Some short sections at a higher speed, some buttkicks and knee raises to get a bit more motion in during the run. |
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| Dang, I did 18+ miles of orienteering over the weekend. As the crow flies. |
Monday Aug 4 |
| Other (volleyball) 15:00 [2] | |
| (rest day) |
| Played volleyball with the lab. Was actually about an hour, but of course most of that is standing around waiting for the ball to come to you.
Muscles feel good'n'sore from the weekend. |
Sunday Aug 3 |
| Orienteering (hanging controls) 40:00 [3] ***** 4 km (10:00 / km) | |
| spiked:2/2c shoes: Nike Terra Ridge 07 |
| Hanging the last two controls for the long course. Semi-twisted my ankle while returning to the parking lot. |
| Orienteering (long) 1:00:00 [3] 5 km (12:00 / km) | |
| 3c shoes: Nike Terra Ridge 07 |
| Started running the long course. Didn't find a streamer at #1, which was confusing; spent ~7 minutes searching for it. Then didn't find a streamer at #2; figured Clem had thought he was supposed to be picking up the streamers or something. Now the FDFs have descended in a relentless swarm, I am totally exhausted, and there are no streamers. Motivation sinks into oblivion, so I head back through #8 to the parking lot. Turns out Ross just forgot to set those streamers. |
| Orienteering (night-o control pick-up) 1:15:00 [4] 4 km (18:45 / km) | |
| 5c shoes: Nike Terra Ridge 07 |
| Well, it felt like a 4, at least for the run-in when I was frantically trying to flee the FDF swarm. Actually, running downhill with FDFs on your tail is pretty good training - requires intense concentration while moving fast. |
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Saturday Aug 2 |
| Orienteering (control hanging) 1:29:56 [2] ***** 6 km (14:59 / km) | |
| 30c shoes: Nike Terra Ridge 07 |
| Not really sure about the distance. Hanging ~30 controls for the training weekend. |
| Orienteering 54:22 [3] ***** 5.1 km (10:40 / km) | |
| 20c shoes: Nike Terra Ridge 07 |
| Contours-only course. Hordes of FDFs. |
| Orienteering (night-o) 1:46:07  ***** 5.9 km (17:59 / km) | |
| 12c shoes: Nike Terra Ridge 07 |
| Ross's version of the wicked-hard night-o. Passed Ross on #3, then more or less spiked #4, which put me something like 7 minutes into the lead. Had some problems after that, chose some more round-about routes, probably was moving slower, and ended up 10 minutes back from Ross. Fortunately the thunderstorm held off until I had finished. |
| stretching warm up/down 15:00 [0] | |
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