Sunday Oct 8 |
 | Orienteering race (long) 2:01:33 [3]**** 12.2 km (9:58 / km) +185m 9:16 / km | |
| spiked:16/22c shoes: VJ pro I |
| I was having a great race until I arrived at #6 and it wasn't there. I attacked from the south side of the big boulder and had to reattack from the north side to find the control. Apparently it was quite visible to people coming straight on from the north. Maybe I'm wrong about the placement, I don't know, but I lost 4 minutes in the circle. Damn!
After that I started to wear out and make bad decisions and bad executions. I think I ran all the way around the pit at #13 before finding it. I couldn't find a trail on the long leg and opted out of my original route instead of sticking with it. Then I spent too long worrying about a trail I hadn't seen going into #19 when really I knew where I was without the trail anyway. Lots of fatigue problems.
Overall, my map reading was fine, except my fine navigation within the circle (which gave me problems in spots other than #6), but my route choice, willpower, and physical and mental stamina were lacking. Even so, I couldn't have posted this result a year or two ago.
Need to get new O shoes. |
| running warm up/down (trail) 15:00 [1]2 km (7:30 / km) | |
| shoes: VJ pro I |
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Long Course 8 - Splits |
Saturday Oct 7 |
| running warm up/down (trail) 8:00 [2]1.4 km (5:43 / km) | |
| shoes: VJ pro I |
| To the start. |
| Orienteering race (middle) 36:36 [3]***** 4.5 km (8:08 / km) +65m 7:35 / km | |
| spiked:14/17c shoes: VJ pro I |
| Overshot #3 by a little bit, almost went to #4 instead of #10, but that was quite minor, it seems, and then paused in the depression just SE of #14. Otherwise fairly clean, but after blowing #3, which it turns out wasn't as bad as I thought, I figured I'd pretty much blown the race. I certainly didn't feel like it had been a great race when I got back.
As it turned out, everyone else apparently had bigger problems than I did, and in retrospect I had a better run than I was thinking at the time. It actually was quite similar to a lot of local races I've run recently, and my performance was quite similar to those, though I was pushing a bit harder this time, I think.
Was able to stay straight and true to my bearing, which I think was key. I slowed down a lot to make sure I was in the right place, and it worked out well. This is probably my best result yet (place-wise and also performance-wise) in a big race, although bubba goat and the classic in the intercollegiates were good results, too. I think I need to work on faster map reading and foot speed, which were the limiting factors for me today. |
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Middle Course 8 - Splits |
Friday Oct 6 |
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| Event: 2006 North American Championships (Golden Leaf Orienteering Fest)
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| Orienteering race (sprint) 18:09 [4]*** 3.2 km (5:40 / km) +10m 5:35 / km | |
| spiked:15/18c shoes: Gel Cumulus 2006 |
| One particularly bad route choice, one instance of inadequate map reading in the control circle, and one mispunch were my 3 non-spiked controls. Overall lack of speed, but that's no surprise (this felt like a tempo run, and I just don't know how to run faster yet). Something I should work on once I figure out what's wrong with my leg and get back into training. |
| running warm up/down (road) 10:00 [1]1.0 mi (10:00 / mi) | |
| shoes: Gel Cumulus 2006 |
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Wednesday Oct 4 |
| rollerblading 20:00 [3] | |
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| Flyin' down to MIT for a soccer game and then back to Harvard to work on some psets that I have to turn in tomorrow morning before I leave for NAOCs. |
| soccer 15:00 [4] | |
| shoes: adidas predator mania TF |
| This really wasn't worth it. I got to the game a couple minutes late, subbed in halfway through the first half, and was subbed out halfway through the second. I think I won't bother playing IM games with Bexley if it's going to be like that. |
Tuesday Oct 3 |
| rollerblading 40:00 [1] | |
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Monday Oct 2 |
| swimming/DWR 30:00 [2] | |
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| Quad felt really good this morning. It's a little sore after swimming, but not very much. |