Training Archive: CristinaIn the 30 days ending 2008-04-30:
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Monday Apr 28 | ||
| Running (road/dirt) 38:00 [2] 4.1 mi (9:16 / mi) | |
| shoes: Gus | ||
| Taking advantage of the jet lag, early morning run around the golf course. Nice out, upper 60s, awesome looking moon just before sunrise. Legs felt like they needed to be stretched from yesterday, but otherwise okay.
And now back to work. I'm so happy I could cry. | ||
| Cycling (road) 20:00 [2] | |
| Ride in. | ||
| Cycling (road) 20:00 [2] | |
| Home. | ||
| Strength/Core (softball) 20:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Paul | ||
| Actually made it to a softball game. I didn't feel too wanted, I guess it's because I'm a girl, experience shmicksperience. Figured it was time to see if I could contribute and to shake some rust off. Or, in this case, mold. I dug my glove out of the trunk of the car and it actually had mold on it. It might have had mold *in* it, too, but I couldn't see inside, so I just stuck my hand in and hoped it wouldn't feel too mushy.
Not exactly a superstar, but they probably won't keep the games a secret from me - went 3-for-3, some nice line drives. And we won. Nice. | ||
Sunday Apr 27 | ||
| Note | |
| 8k for 88-crime | ||
| Running warm up/down (road) 10:00 [2] 1.05 mi (9:29 / mi) | |
| shoes: Gus | ||
| Warm up along the path. | ||
| Strength/Core (stretching) 10:00 [1] | |
| Still before the start. | ||
| Running race (road/dirt) 37:24 [4] 5.0 mi (7:29 / mi) +30m 4:34 / km vdot: 43.0 | |
| ahr:193 max:199 weight:144.5lbs shoes: Gus | ||
| Woke up plenty early, thanks to jet lag and falling asleep at approximately 6:30 last night, so I figured I might as well do this race. Nice course, along the Rillito River path with ~a mile through a little unknown park on dirt.
A nice day for a hard run, but as far as racing goes it was really sort of a pacing disaster. First mile too fast, but I was with two other women who also had meant to go slower, so I figured I'd stick with them. Not such a great idea, pretty dead by the time we hit mile 3, which was on a sandy trail (think horse use) and quite slow, and never was able to pick it up again. Mile 3 was also a bit long, so it was a true 5 mile+ rather than an 8k. Mile splits according to the mile markers: 7:02 (slightly downhill) 7:13 (still slightly down and w/ bridge crossing) 7:57 (loose sand, slightly uphill, too long: 7:37 pace by FR) 7:50 (slightly uphill and just plain slow) 7:20 (slightly uphill, just under a mile: 7:33 pace by FR) Temps were nice when we started at 8am, but getting warm. Feeling pretty toasty when we finished, even though it was probably not even 80 yet (in the shade). After the first mile my HR averaged almost 196 - can't imagine trying to use HR to pace myself with numbers like that! I think I was 7th woman overall and ended up 1st in my age group. I think that's the first time I've pulled that off in a Tucson race, so at least I have that. And a mug! It's red! | ||
Saturday Apr 26 | ||
| Cycling (road) 45:00 [2] | |
| weight:144lbs | ||
| To and from the hospital to have lunch with seabass. And to recover one of the car keys from her, since she took both of them with her to work. And no, she didn't drive. | ||
Friday Apr 25 | ||
| Note | |
| Travel day: Heathrow - DFW - Tucson. | ||
| Note | |
| Ovangelism report:
The passport control agent dude in Dallas asked me what I was doing on my trip, and I said orienteering, and he asked, "what's that?" and I told him a little about it. He was very interested so I told him about NTOA and he started writing stuff down, and I told him to talk to Tom, and that it's really cool and he should definitely give it a try. I was the last person in line, no one behind me, so then I asked if he wanted to see a map. I pulled some maps out and started showing him, until the guy in the next booth popped his head over to see what we were talking about. I'm not sure if he ended up interested, too, but my guy seemed like he really wanted to give it a try. Assuming he doesn't lose the little sheet of paper he was writing on, I'll count that as +1 Cristina. | ||
| C • Ovangelism 3 | ||
Thursday Apr 24 | ||
| Note | |
| CC-Air HQ Ramstein Orienteering Champs
The event is an inter-nation competition between various CC-Air member Air Forces. Countries represented this year: UK, USA, POL, EST, NED, BEL. Format: a short course (classic style) in the morning and a sprint relay in the afternoon. Scoring is based on combined time for the best 5 men/3 women on the morning course and the total (3-person) relay time. Since we only had 2 women and 1 man, we had no team scoring. Boo hiss! Time to recruit more AF orienteers. | ||
| C • Anticipation is high 2 | ||
| Running warm up/down 15:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Paul | ||
| Running from the start area back to the gym to pick up my bib and dibber/e-punch stick/finger thingy before the start. Twice, because neither Maiya nor I could remember to do it before heading over there. | ||
| Orienteering race 40:19 [3] *** 4.5 km (8:58 / km) +200m 7:20 / km | |
| spiked:9/10c shoes: Paul | ||
| Morning race, set as a W35S, short so they didn't lose too many inexperienced orienteers. Expected about a 50-min winning time. The start and finish was on the edge of both the base and the map (Wendover), which also meant at the bottom of a nice, steep hill. The map is basically a big hill, with a split down the middle on one half, and lots of trails. It happened to be the one map that Kat had sent me beforehand, so I'd taken a look and knew that it was not the most technical place, but probably appropriate given the wide range of experience the organizers expected.
I drew the second start time, but since they had two courses each for men and women I was the first on my actual course. Sadie Burrow (RAF) started a minute ahead. The courses were very similar, many of the same controls, basically just forked. I don't think this was necessary, especially for the women (they could have just spaced out the starts more), and I think it's inherently unfair, but most likely to my advantage. Started at the same time as Eric, our sole male representative about to experience his very first orienteering race. I took off at the start and kept waiting for him to pass me on the way up the hill... he never did. The course was disappointingly simple and I was clean until the penultimate control. I caught Sadie on the way to my 6th/her 7th and we were right next to eachother for the next two. I was behind her going to my 8th and went the same way she did, thinking we were both headed to the clearing ahead of us. She went right by, I realized she had a different control, looked for mine in the clearing, and then immediately said, "shit shit shit" when I realized I had bit off on the wrong clearing... ran and scanned down the hill, saw Sadie's control in a depression, figured out which depression, realized I needed to go left, ran left, and punched. Pushed it for the last control and the run in but that mistake was fatal. A finished in very respectable 2nd place...by 12 seconds. There are a lot of ways to lose 12 seconds in an orienteering race, but the fact that we were head-to-head at the end makes that goof particularly painful. Had I gone to bed before 5am I probably would have lost plenty of sleep running through how I *should* have attacked that control. In reality, Sadie's course - with 100 extra meters and an extra control between my 2 and 3 - should probably have taken just a bit longer, so it's not really a straight-up fair comparison. At least on my course the next runner ran a 47, so I can safely say I that crushed the B course competition. Small consolation. Map | ||
| C • Eric 4 | ||
| Orienteering race 13:55 [4] 2.5 km (5:34 / km) | |
| shoes: Paul | ||
| Sprint relay, leg 2.
We decided to run the women's relay with Eric as our third. We'd be unofficial, but at least this way we could race against the other women's teams for the first 2 legs. All legs were 2.5km, Maiya started us off and smoked the other women, passing off to me in the lead. I had wanted the second leg because Sadie was running leg 2 for the RAF and I wanted something of a rematch. I stayed ahead but she may have gained on me - I haven't seen the results yet or even my own splits, as they were having computer trouble. The run went fine, just a bit of confusion on the second leg from leaving the control the wrong way which resulted in an acceptable but probably not optimal route. No idea how long I actually took, but unless we started early I think Maiya and I got our legs done in a combined ~28 minutes, which isn't too shabby for 5km... even if it was a pretty simple area. I handed off to Eric and he did just fine, except for blowing right past the spectator control. He had read the wrong description ("horse jump" instead of "concrete block"), set his sights on a control on a horse jump ahead of him and just barreled on. He got there, checked the code, looked really confused, and then ran back to the concrete block. I think we wrapped it up in about 43 minutes, not to mention having a lot of fun with it. Next time we'll at least need another chick to round out the team, if not a whole crew of men, too. I''ve got the maps up now: Sprint Sprint model from the day before... you can see why it might build a false sense of security. ;-) | ||
| C • url 2 | ||
| C • Out of Bounds? 3 | ||
Wednesday Apr 23 | ||
| Running (road) 20:00 [2] 2.1 mi (9:31 / mi) | |
| ahr:154 max:164 shoes: Gus | ||
| Quick early morning run to wake up a little. Not too hard to wake up when it's chilly out (chilly compared to Tucson, that is). It's unclear from the agenda today whether we'll have time to do anything else, so I wanted to get in the minimum to remind my legs what they're supposed to do. Don't want them thinking they're on vacation! | ||
| Orienteering 21:00 [3] *** 2.8 km (7:30 / km) | |
| 10c shoes: Paul | ||
| Sprint map model training at RAF Halton. We mainly used this as an opportunity to give Eric a chance to actually try orienteering before the race tomorrow. Unfortunately this was a very simple course, even for a sprint, and he is a very fast runner, so I'm a bit afraid that it wasn't the best preparation for a technical and physical woods course. We shall see.
Tomorrow morning classic race and tomorrow afternoon sprint relay. We don't have a full team, so we're just out there for the individual glory ;-) Not that many women here, unfortunately, but that just means that the pressure is a bit higher to place well - it should be easier... | ||
Tuesday Apr 22 | ||
| Note | |
| My bag made it to Heathrow this morning and Maiya, my new favorite orienteering person, was able to retrieve it from AA before it was sent off for dubious delivery servicing.
I spent the day (or what was left of it after trying to get an address to AA for above-mentioned dubious delivery) in Cambridge. I imagine that going to school in Cambridge is different than going to school in Rochester, but not by much. Grey skies still prevail. Teammate #3 has never actually orienteered before, but he has adventure racing experience so I'm sure he'll come back alive. Dinner in a pink pub (no O suits). | ||
| C • Pink pub 1 | ||
Monday Apr 21 | ||
| Note | |
| I made it to England but my bag didn't. Luckily I had the wisdom to pack an O suit in my carry-on, so at least I have something for running, sleeping, and going out to the pub. That's a good start to my 5-day skin re-hydration program.
No one here knows anything about orienteering (it's an American base), and my request to the local club remains unanswered. So certainly not out on a map today, but hopefully soon, like before the race on Thursday (which is the reason that I'm here, for those of you keeping score at home). | ||
| C • Pub... 7 | ||
| C • Karma bites 4 | ||
| Running (grass) 30:30 [2] 3.2 mi (9:31 / mi) | |
| ahr:161 max:171 | ||
| After spending a very long time trying to get through to the AA baggage people so that I could give them an address - with no luck - I set out for a short run around the base. All I had for appropriate shoes were the new Integrators that I ordered from CompassPoint, which were waiting for me at the Fitness Center (at least those made it here). Sought out every bit of grass I could, didn't turn out to be that much since this is a tiny base.
Shoes felt good like an Integrator should, except for a bit of rubbing on the right heel. These will probably need breaking in, unlike those Inov-8s. If I ever get them back. | ||
| C • New Integrators 2 | ||
Sunday Apr 20 | ||
| Note | |
| rhr:47 slept:4.0 weight:143.5lbs | ||
| Well, the marvelous sleep from Friday night (I slept in til 10am!) (!), the best I'd had in months, was completely wiped out by last night. I guess getting up late meant I wasn't tired enough to fall asleep early. Plus, I didn't really have any rigorous activity. Couldn't sleep until almost 3am, then couldn't sleep past 7:30 or so. And it wasn't nice sleep, either. Suckage.
Would like to call this a rest day but it's really a long travel day: Tucson - DFW - Heathrow. Hopefully it will be more restful than not. | ||
Saturday Apr 19 | ||
| Running (road) 20:00 [1] 1.75 mi (11:25 / mi) | |
| shoes: Gus | ||
| Easy evening run around da hood with seabass. We both felt very blah. My legs were heavy. It was warm (88) but cloudy, so I don't think it was that... just weekend blues, I guess.
After that we walked to the movie theater (and back, of course), which has to count for something. On the way there we encountered some Mormon missionaries, only this time with a twist - one was deaf, and they were looking for deaf people to convert. I mean, to talk to. I don't know any deaf people in Tucson, and if I did I certainly wouldn't have told two random strangers on the street where they lived. Seriously. There must be better ways to find people with a connection than asking on a street corner. 21 (1) Kate Bosworth. Yeah. | ||
Friday Apr 18 | ||
| Cycling (road) 20:00 [2] | |
| weight:143lbs | ||
| In to work. Plenty warm today... | ||
| Cycling (road) 22:00 [2] | |
| Home. | ||
| Cycling (road) 30:00 [2] | |
| To and from Chuy's for dinner with Seabass, who was already over in that direction.
I don't usually feel scared riding the roads in Tucson. However, the section of Speedway between Columbus and Alvernon has no bike lane. I guess I've never ridden that part at night, because I'd never paid attention. First of all, scary. Second of all, WTF? | ||
Thursday Apr 17 | ||
| Running hills (road/dirt) 55:00 | |
| ahr:169 max:185 weight:143.5lbs shoes: Paul | ||
| It's awesomely not hot today (high 78!) so I took advantage of my late showtime to run mid-day... one last time? My new shoes (Inov-8 Mudlaw 270s) finally arrived yesterday after a few months of size confusion and returns getting lost, etc. I wanted to give them a try on something that wasn't pavement, so I ran from home to the bike path and then over to the "hill" in Reid Park. Did 3 "hill" loops, running the ups at full throttle (that makes 12 small surges) and then ran home around the rest of the bike path.
Felt pretty good today and the HR numbers are closer to what I'd expect, so I think the chill day yesterday was a good idea. And the shoes! The shoes kick ass. They feel really nice on my feet and gave me absolutely no trouble. Most new O shoes will give me some rubbing problems when new. The grass and dirt at Reid and along the bike path are hardly as gnarly as real O terrain, so they still need to be truly tested, but so far so good. Thank goodness, because I wasn't looking forward to bringing 3 pairs of dying O shoes with me next week. | ||
| C • Shoes named Paul 5 | ||
| Cycling (road) 20:00 [2] | |
| In to work. With sunglasses. | ||
| Cycling (road) 22:00 [2] | |
| Home from work. I think with tonight's flight I finally busted 300 hours in a -130. Took long enough.
I neglected to take into account the fact that 77F at lunchtime ---> 49F at 2am. I was clever enough to have packed a jacket, but my legs were a wee bit chilly. | ||
Wednesday Apr 16 | ||
| Cycling (road) 20:00 [2] | |
| In to work. On the way in, just after going through the gate, my right eye started to hurt, like I had something stuck under my contact. I tried to keep riding so that I could deal with it in the wind-free environment of the bathroom in the squadron, but couldn't keep my eyes (or eye) open (I can only wink with my left; I know, weird) so I stopped and took the contact out. Immediate relief, but I ripped the contact in the process and it blew away. So now what? I don't have any place to put the other one, so it's still in my eye. I think I'll get a headache if I stay like this. | ||
| C • One contact 6 | ||
| Cycling (road) 25:00 [2] | |
| Home, with fuzzy vision. I couldn't take the one contact thing for more than a few hours, so out it came. | ||
Tuesday Apr 15 | ||
| Cycling (road) 17:00 [2] | |
| To work from the car dealership. Smoking is bad for people, it's probably bad for cars, too. | ||
| Cycling (road) 30:00 [2] | |
| From work to home, briefly, where I changed into running clothes and scarfed most of a cheese sandwich on my way back out to WOG. | ||
| Running intervals (dirt) 1:05:00 | |
| ahr:164 max:191 | ||
| Got to WOG late and ran a Viola loop warmup with Liz while everyone else started. Wondered once again why the Viola loop was called the Viola loop.
Menu: 10 x (400 hard + 400 easy), with the first five at "current 5k pace" and the second set at "goal 5k pace". I don't have a good idea of what either would be right now, so I tried to guess without making it too easy. Recoveries were around 2:40. Interval times with avg/max HRs 1:43 - 149/177 1:44 - 171/181 1:44 - 174/183 1:44 - 175/184 1:42 - 176/186 1:39 - 179/188 1:37 - 180/189 1:40 - 180/189 1:37 - 186/191 1:37 - 182/190 Ran the first set with a group and the second by my lonesome. I think these were good speeds. I had to work but I could keep it up until the last one, which really took some grunting. After the workout I was the only one left on the track except for this one woman who was cooling down after running the workout really fast. We cooled down a lap together and it turns out that she is Viola! She has lived in Germany for the past seven years, but the loop still bears her name. I'm so glad to have that question answered. HR was absurdly lower than normal for a lot of this, took a long time to get to 190 and then only barely. I seem to be saying this fairly frequently, so I'm not sure if maybe my HR patterns have changed... or maybe I'm tired. Or perhaps a combination of both. A full night's sleep would be magnificent. And maybe I'll just chill tomorrow and not run. | ||
| C • pacing 2 | ||
Monday Apr 14 | ||
| Running (road) 20:00 [2] 2.0 mi (10:00 / mi) | |
| weight:145lbs shoes: Gus | ||
| A little morning recovery run around da hood. Today may be the first 'hot' day of the year (high 95), so I figured I should start trying to do some mornings. Lovely, about 65. Mornings are awesome. Thankfully, I get to ease into it, as it's going to be cooler the rest of the week.
As for the run itself, legs felt totally fine when I got up and walked around but were pretty creaky and sore while running. I also had a really strange moment when I passed by one house that had two little puppies running around the front yard, yipping and yapping and trying to chase me behind their fence. Instead of feeling disgusted I thought, "they're kind of cute". Kind of cute? What's wrong with me? Why didn't I want to kick them or put their cute little puppy heads in a vise? This may be the beginning of the end. | ||
| C • Don't worry 7 | ||
| Cycling (road) 25:00 [2] | |
| Ride in. | ||
| Cycling (road) 20:00 [2] | |
| Home. | ||
| Strength/Core (core) 20:00 [2] | |
| Got about halfway through and then was overcome by an intense feeling of boredom combined with a strong desire to get other things done. So I stopped. | ||
| C • Since I know that feeling i... 2 | ||
Sunday Apr 13 | ||
| Running (trail) 3:50:00 | |
| ahr:168 max:186 shoes: Asics B&Y | ||
| Tuscon Trail Run Series Mt Bigelow Ascent/Marathon/50k/whatever distance you want. I was going to run an 11-mile trail race at Catalina (site of the world's worst map) yesterday, until I started to register and saw that it would cost me $50. Fifty. I had hoped to run and place well in my age group, but when I saw that I figured I'd just be buying a placing, so I nixed it. And planned on doing the totally free, casual, and well-supported TTRAZ run today. Good choice, I think.
We started at Prison Camp, one of the rec areas along the Catalina Highway, elev about 4800'. The route took us west down into Sabino Basin (just under 4200') and then brutally up up up to the Palisades trailhead and to the top of Mt Bigelow, 8600'. There were several possible route combinations - the 11 mile ascent to Palisades, the 15 mile Mt Bigelow option (out-and-back up to the top and finish at Palisades, which is what I did), either of those with the return to Prison Camp (marathon), or all of it plus an out-and-back to Molino Basin for a 50k. Now, I'm not really crazy, so I planned all along to stop at Palisades and get a ride back to my car. We started at 6:30 with howling winds. It was nice to run in a group, especially a group of ultra-runners, many of whom were planning to do a very long run today on top of one yesterday. This meant that the pace was really gentle, especially for the first several miles (flat/downhill). Once we hit the ups I was pushing a bit... I think they're much stronger relatively on climbs, because they were still just yammering away. At the 7 mile point I made the obviously-not-hurting-at-all guys behind me go ahead. They were gone pretty quickly. Did the next 4 miles alone and made it to Palisades in just over 3 hours, about 20 minutes behind the main crowd. The last bit was tough - still feeling tired like yesterday, plus the altitude, so I wasn't running as many of the trail sections as my eyes told me I could. I stopped for some yummy food and some chatting and then was egged on to hitting Bigelow, so I went. The trail up was a mess, gone in lots of places, not redone since the fire, and I was spent. Several times thought, "now would be a good time to turn around", but then I could hear the hum of the towers and just had to keep going. Touched the lookout tower and bolted back. Round trip just under 50 minutes, but it was a lot less than the advertised 4 miles, at least the (largely off-trail) way that I went. Good times. I felt like I could have kept going on flat ground. Up was hard and down wasn't very comfortable, but I still had energy left. Maybe a roundtrip next year... The route (click for bigger):  | ||
Saturday Apr 12 | ||
| Running (trail) 45:00 [1] 4.0 mi (11:14 / mi) | |
| ahr:154 max:168 shoes: Gus | ||
| Sunset run in Saguaro East with seabass. Broadway trailhead, just a short loop. Totally exhausted again today, slept for a while inadvertently. Ran nice and easy since that was all the energy I could muster. Did a few out and backs to seabass but mostly I wasn't moving much faster than she. | ||
Thursday Apr 10 | ||
| Running (road/dirt) 1:07:00 | |
| ahr:169 max:190 shoes: Gus | ||
| WOG. I arrived late because of a silly day at work. I also ate lunch really late (3:30) because of the silliness. And I ate really silly stuff because the sub place had already closed at the BX. So I didn't get much of a warmup and then tried to go silly fast and felt like I needed to puke.
-short warmup (5 min) -strides (x4) -3x (200H + 200E + 200H + 200E + 800H + 200E) -warm down lap around the golf course (~30 min) The 200s were supposed to be quick and the 800s "slightly slower than 5k pace, unless you didn't do Tuesday's workout, in which case go faster". Ugh, I still feel nauseous. All the times so I can see how much slower my recoveries (not bold) got worse as the grease was churned up in my stomach: 44, 64, 47, 65, 3:31, 71 46, 74, 45, 74, 3:26, 77 47, 72, 45, 81, 3:30 A good moderate workout, though I went a bit faster than I should have, even if I had been nutritionally prepared... but way too close to being really gross. | ||
| C • silly stuff 3 | ||
Wednesday Apr 9 | ||
| Running (track) 10:00 [2] 1.0 mi (10:00 / mi) | |
| ahr:161 max:171 shoes: Gus | ||
| Warming up around the track while Elithe did her pushups and situps and stuff. | ||
| Running (track) 11:36 [3] 1.5 mi (7:43 / mi) | |
| ahr:181 max:192 shoes: Gus | ||
| Well, I feel like a failure. Elithe needed to run an 11:24 to get 50 points. I figured she'd just be able to do it, as long as we kept the pace tight. I wanted to push for 7:30 pace but that never really happened. I'm not sure if we could have cut those 12 seconds off, but I can't help but feel that I just wasn't motivating enough. Laps were 1:50, 1:59, 1:58, 1:57, 1:58, 1:54, which (aside from the first one) is pretty consistent... but pretty consistently not fast enough (1:54s would get you exactly 11:24). Bummer.
On the upside, I have no worries about my own run for PFT coming up. How selfish of me. | ||
Tuesday Apr 8 | ||
| Running (road/dirt) 36:00 | |
| ahr:146 max:180 weight:144lbs shoes: Gus | ||
| (Mostly) easy evening run. Seabass and I ran together to the bike path and then set off in opposite directions. We met up on the other side and she turned around to have the shorter run. I took it easy most of the time except for a half-mile at ~7:30 pace to try and calibrate for tomorrow morning - I'm pacing Elithe on her 1.5 mile run for her annual fitness test. I won't be pacing her pushups.
I'm pretty sure I stank more like airplane than running this evening. Another sign that summer's coming. [cue dramatic music. again.] I haven't recovered from the weekend, though that's mostly a sleep problem. I got back rather late on Sunday night and then had to be at work bright and shiny to show some ROTC cadets around. For some reason they wanted to shadow a navigator. WTF? In any case, showed them the plane and where we mission plan and stuff and then ran out of time. Good thing I didn't have any of them for too long, because any longer and they would have had to "shadow" me in the office! | ||
| C • What does Elithe do that re... 3 | ||
Sunday Apr 6 | ||
| Orienteering race 2:25:08 [3] *** 13.2 km (11:00 / km) +396m 9:34 / km | |
| spiked:17/20c shoes: Jalas | ||
| Ultra-long champs. Managed to be clean through the first 14 controls/2 hours (my secret was to move slowly!), and then felt like something of a zombie for the short final loop. This was a much more successful long distance outing than previous attempts, and the first chunk felt good, so I'm happy with it. I should probably run with 1:15 maps more often...
More later for all of these once I get back to Tucson, but overall I thought the meet was very nice and I'm quite pleased with my runs. Friday's result was the best I've had in terms of world ranking points, Saturday morning was good in terms of time behind some speedsters, and Sunday eked out a bronze when I certainly wasn't expecting to do so. No complaints here! | ||
| C • There's a nice weekend 3 | ||
Red - Ultra Long - Splits | ||
Saturday Apr 5 | ||
| Running 10:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Integrators (orange) | ||
| Got in a short warm up and a short warm down bracketing the first sprint. | ||
| Orienteering race 19:05 [4] *** 2.9 km (6:35 / km) +60m 5:58 / km | |
| spiked:17/17c shoes: Integrators (orange) | ||
| Sprint #1. Clean. Fast as I could, which isn't fast enough, but still a good run, thank goodness. The map, when viewed from a distance greater than 30 centimeters from the face, looks like it has chicken pox. With green poxi. Poxes. Pocks? | ||
| Running warm up/down 5:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Integrators (orange) | ||
| Short warmup in the afternoon. Figured my legs were still warm from the morning. That's how it works, right? | ||
| Orienteering race 21:42 [4] *** 2.7 km (8:02 / km) +70m 7:07 / km | |
| spiked:9/14c shoes: Integrators (orange) | ||
| Sprint #2. This one didn't go as well. I was pretty sloppy, probably thinking I could run and navigate as fast as in the morning, but that wasn't always possible. There's also something about 1:5 maps with woods that throws my calibrated brain for a loop. | ||
Red/Blue Sprint 1 - Splits | ||
Red/Blue Sprint 2 - Splits | ||
Friday Apr 4 | ||
| Event: Flying Pig XII | ||
| Orienteering 20:00 [1] *** | |
| 9c shoes: Jalas | ||
| Model event. | ||
| Running warm up/down 10:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Jalas | ||
| On the way to the start. | ||
| Orienteering 36:55 [3] *** 4.3 km (8:35 / km) +150m 7:19 / km | |
| 20c shoes: Jalas | ||
| Pig middle. Pretty happy with the run, despite some bobbles and one pretty sizable goof (at least 1:30). The course felt like a long sprint, so I think I was moving faster than I had planned or would have done on a normal middle course, but for some reason that seems like an okay trade-off today. Obviously I could have run better, but I'm satisfied.
More later. (?) | ||
| C • wish we were there 2 | ||
Red - Short Pig/WRE - Splits | ||
Wednesday Apr 2 | ||
| Running (road) 40:00 [2] 4.0 mi (10:00 / mi) | |
| ahr:161 max:175 shoes: Gus | ||
| Easy noon-time run around the golf course. Warm (low 80s) and sunny but not yet hot. Thank goodness. Not going to be able to run in the middle of the day much longer. Summer is coming [cue death march music].
My legs are sore. My quads aren't sore any more, which is what hurt after Sunday's run, so I'm thinking that the "wimpy" stuff on Monday may not actually have been that wimpy. Maybe it didn't seem hard to me because I'm in better cardiovascular shape than those other guys, but I never do any strength work, so now that's biting me. | ||
Tuesday Apr 1 | ||
| Cycling (road) 20:00 [2] | |
| slept:6.5 weight:144.5lbs | ||
| Ride in.
I'm reminded of the totally un-PC "arguing on the internet is like racing in the Special Olympics; even if you win, you're still retarded". | ||
| C • OMG 13 | ||
