Sunday Sep 9 |
 | Orienteering race 1:13:19 [4] ***** 7.9 km (9:17 / km) | |
| spiked:12/14c shoes: Adidas Novas |
| An awesome run on the blue course at Pawtuckaway to end the weekend. It was wet and raining, which always makes me feel stronger. I started out 3 minutes back from Ross and caught him at #5. We met up at the next 4 controls, until #10 when I stayed on the trail for longer and got mixed up in a marsh, losing 2 minutes. I subsequently almost caught him again by the end. I think he was a lot more tired from yesterday than I was. Today was in stark contrast to yesterday morning. Even when I screwed up #10, I was able to relocate fairly quickly, and apart from that I was in constant contact with the map (well, slight bobble on #4). I was moving pretty quickly, too, and I kept up a good speed for the full 73 minutes. |
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| Looks like this run garnered more AP ranking points than my NAOC middle distance last year. Feels good to have more than one anomalously high result. |
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Blue Day 2 - Splits |
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Blue Day 1 - Splits |
Saturday Sep 8 |
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| Event: UNO Camping Weekend
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| Orienteering race 1:41:30 [2] ***** 7.9 km (12:51 / km) | |
| spiked:8/15c shoes: Adidas Novas |
| Blue course at Pawtuckaway. I woke up hungry and didn't eat until ~10 I think. Then I went running at 11:30 or so and figured I didn't need to bring anything since it was only 7.9k. I went out hard-ish and I completely bonked on the way to #5. After getting some water at #7 I was able to run a bit. My route was littered with sloppy mistakes. I kept going because I wanted to pull something positive out of it, and not finish with exclusively negative thoughts. Fortunately this was the low point of the weekend. |
| Orienteering (line/bus-o) 45:00 [2] ***** 3 km (15:00 / km) | |
| spiked:4/6c shoes: Adidas Novas |
| Barb's bus-o at Pawtuckaway. I was the D bus, which went through some really tricky terrain. On two of the controls I arrived right as I was supposed to be leaving (no time for coffee and donuts, yo!). It was a seriously legit line-o; very good training, and just what I needed to whip myself into shape after the morning's fiasco. |
| Orienteering (night-o) 2:08:51  ***** 7.19 km (17:55 / km) | |
| spiked:13/14c shoes: Adidas Novas |
| JJ's wicked hard night-o at Pawtuckaway. I ate a lot for dinner and had a bunch of lemonade stuff, so I was totally up to 2 hours of fuel-burning. I'd say it was about half slow jog and about half walking, with the rest crazy crashing through dense underbrush. Definitely incurred my fair share of scrapes. After Ross took off from #1, I figured he was way ahead, and stayed more or less with PG up until #9. At that point he was a little behind me and I wasn't sure what he would do if he found the control - would he punch it and run along as if nothing had happened, leaving me stranded and lost in the dark? Needless to say I wasn't totally confident of where I was, and looking over my shoulder to check up on him didn't help much. Pretty soon I yelled, "I'm lost" and he said something similar, so we thrashed around a bit more and I looked down at my map to see if it was possible to bail out to anywhere, and I found Mymeeba Pond not too far away so I called out, "I'm bailing to the pond". I don't know if PG heard me well or not, but I saw his light running around in the rocks when I was down at the pond. I guess sometime around then he decided to bail too and so by the time I got to the control he was nowhere to be seen. I called out, "Peter!" but heard nothing, so I went on. Apparently he was thrashing around for another 15 minutes or so. In the mean time Ross, who managed to get lost on (I think) 6-9 passed PG and was apparently now behind me. I didn't see him until the finish. The rest of the course was trod with caution, as I figured I was probably now well behind Ross, Ernst (who I figured was with Ross) and PG (who I thought had found 9 and gone on before I got there) and therefore my only hope was to not screw up. I didn't, and was surprised to turn in my punch card at the finish and hear, "congratulations, you won!" Huh? Where's Ross? And Ernst? And Peter?
Physically, I felt spectacular when I finished. Nothing like 2 hours of slow-going bush-whacking to clear out all the waste products from your various brokennesses and loosen up the muscles. |
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WHN-O - Splits |
Wednesday Sep 5 |
| running warm up/down 2:24 [3] 0.25 mi (9:36 / mi) +30m 4:21 / km | |
| shoes: Adidas Novas |
| To the start. |
| Orienteering 1:12:00  *** | |
| 26c shoes: Adidas Novas |
| Pia's training at Prospect Hill. Mostly short legs, interspersed with some longer ones. Started 3 min back from Ross and caught him on the way to 21, then stopped thinking and completely bombed the rest of the course. It was getting dark so I eventually gave up on the last one. I took it fast at the semi-intentional expense of accuracy, and I'm glad I was able to keep up the intensity for as long as I did. I'll have to be a bit more accurate this weekend. |
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Prospect Hill - Splits |
Monday Sep 3 |
| stretching warm up/down 15:00 [0] | |
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| Same quad pain I had last summer has returned. I suspect it's due to a lack of stretching in the past month, so will have to be more diligent with the stretching regimen. |
| running 43:00  4.6 mi (9:21 / mi) | |
| shoes: Gel Cumulus 2006 |
| Ran over to Lori's apartment and then down to the Charles. Should look into some new shoes. |
| running (strides) 3:00 [5] 0.9 km (3:20 / km) | |
| shoes: Gel Cumulus 2006 |
| 6x30sec strides along the river before heading home. |