Wednesday Oct 29 |
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| This whole discussion about the championships restructuring has firmed my resolve to not rejoin USOF. The idea of changing the rules with the intention of undermining a particular event seems ludicrous to me. And somehow, waving the IOF banner around in defense of such a policy just comes across as a cheap trick and discredits the already disfunctional BOD as a policy making organization.
So, in lieu of being a USOF member, I'm going to stick with my COF membership for the time being. Still a CSU member, but in Canada I'm a falcon. Can't compete for US champs or a spot on the Team, but I don't seem to be getting there any time soon anyway, so what the hey.
We'll see how many relay champs go by before I relent. |
Saturday Oct 25 |
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| Event: NEOC Heart and Troll Revival A-Meet
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| Orienteering race 20:00 [4] *** | |
| spiked:3/5c (injured) shoes: Nike Terra Ridge 07 |
| NEOC meet at Mt. Tom. Twisted my ankle right after #5. It's a little worse than at NAOC, I think. This will be the end of my season, so sometime soon I should think about what to do next. Probably going to take November pretty light on the running to give it a chance to heal. No O til March or April. In the interlude, I'll probably focus on building a real base instead of the faux-base I've tried to pass off in the past. But I intend to do one speed session each week. It's kind of boring otherwise, and I just get slow. Maybe I'll try to take road running seriously. |
Thursday Oct 23 |
| Orienteering (night-o) 29:29 [2] *** 3.2 km (9:13 / km) | |
| spiked:10/12c |
| CSU night-o at Hammond Pond, by Ross. |
Tuesday Oct 21 |
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| (rest day) |
| Was planning to go to the CSU track workout (running section) but kind of needed a break after yesterday's marathon soccer session, plus I'm a bit behind on work... |
Monday Oct 20 |
| soccer (turf) 2:10:00  | |
| shoes: adidas predator mania TF |
| Went over to MIT for the CUA balldrivers game, which the other team failed to show for, so we scrimmaged for a while. Then I got picked up by the Alumni B team for their game, and then their C team needed players, too. Kind of tired by the end, hips are pretty sore afterwards. |
| cycling warm up/down 10:00 [2] | |
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| To MIT. |
Sunday Oct 19 |
| cycling 45:00  | |
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| To/from Fells. |
Saturday Oct 18 |
| soccer (grass) 1:00:00  | |
| shoes: Nike 90 cleats |
| Game at Danehy with WTR. Lost 1-0 against the top team in the league. We played well in the second half. |
Friday Oct 17 |
| running warm up/down (treadmill) 8:00 [2] 0.98 mi (8:09 / mi) | |
| shoes: Blue WR X 2008 |
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| strength 10:00 [5] | |
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| Core only. |
| stretching warm up/down 5:00 [0] | |
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Thursday Oct 16 |
| running warm up/down 25:15 [2] 4.8 km (5:16 / km) | |
| shoes: Blue WR X 2008 |
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| running tempo 16:24 [3] 4 km (4:06 / km) | |
| shoes: Blue WR X 2008 |
| 4x1000m threshold workout with Ross at the MIT track. Target pace for me was 4:06/km, which I stuck to pretty well. I'm going to be lazy and not pull all the 200m splits off my watch. Felt easy. |
Wednesday Oct 15 |
| soccer 35:00  | |
| shoes: adidas predator mania TF |
| IM soccer with the CUA balldrivers. Tied 0-0, scored 0, obviously. Had a few chances but I haven't touched a ball in a few months, so they kind of slipped away. Left knee feels kind of sore in the joint afterwards. |
Monday Oct 13 |
| running warm up/down (treadmill) 20:00 [2] 2.46 mi (8:07 / mi) | |
| shoes: Blue WR X 2008 |
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| strength 15:00 [5] | |
| shoes: Blue WR X 2008 |
| Some upper (mostly back) plus core. |
Sunday Oct 12 |
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| Event: Hollis O-Ringen
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Saturday Oct 11 |
| running 36:50 [3] * 4.5 mi (8:10 / mi) | |
| 9c slept:9.0 shoes: Mizuno WR VI 08 |
| Over to Tufts for some conditioning drills. This includes there/back, plus 4x(150m strides + 250m jog). Took along a 1:10 Pawtuckaway map to do a little reading along the way. I decided to focus on the control circle, rather than the usual, haphazard imagine-everything-about-the-route "plan", so the first thing I did on each leg was to notice the feature the control was on, and the general shape of the circle, and only after doing that for a couple of looks at the map did I then think about route. Having something simple and concrete to focus on is good. |
| strength 5:00 [5] | |
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| Conditioning stuff on the grass field by the track. 2xlunges, 2xbuttkicks, 2xknee lifts, 2xpower skips. (~25s each). 1x(toe raises: 30 both, 20 left, 20 right). |
Friday Oct 10 |
| erg warm up/down 12:30 [3] 2.94 km (4:15 / km) | |
| shoes: Mizuno WR VI 07 |
| Actually I'm not in erging shape, so it's a bit more than a warm-up, but... whatever. |
| strength 20:00 [5] | |
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| Upper and core. The goal was to be sore tomorrow, which I think will definitely be the case. |
| stretching warm up/down 3:00 [0] | |
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Thursday Oct 9 |
| running race (track) 5:36 [5] 1.0 mi (5:36 / mi) vdot: 52.3 | |
| slept:9.0 shoes: Blue WR X 2008 |
| The CSU track workout turned into a mile time trial since it was just myself and Ross who showed up, and I kind of wanted to do a time trial. I seem to have restarted my watch after it was over without recording the last split, but I finished in 5:36, which I was pretty happy about. Ross clocked in at 5:28. I'm sure we could go faster with pacing practice. The first lap was 86.6, then 84.9, 84.1 and ~80. |
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| C • Great run! 6 |
| running warm up/down 22:00 [2] 4.4 km (5:00 / km) | |
| shoes: Blue WR X 2008 |
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Saturday Oct 4 |
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| Event: Prospect Hill
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Thursday Oct 2 |
| cycling 40:00 [1] | |
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