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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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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| 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. |
| stretching warm up/down 3:00 [0] | |
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