Training Archive: CristinaIn the 7 days ending 2007-09-23:
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Sunday Sep 23 | ||
| Orienteering race 47:21 [3] *** 4.17 km (11:21 / km) +210m 9:04 / km | |
| 16c shoes: Integrators (orange) | ||
| Leg 4 of the DVOA Chick Team (12 pts). Good enough to maintain the second place position that we held when Sandy handed off to me.
I'm not sure what took me so long, though. I felt pretty clean through the woods. Bobbled the first two of the southern (open) loop, but that's not minutes worth of time. I guess I was just being careful and deliberate and so, even though I didn't make mistakes, I was moving slowly enough and stopping enough to add up to a slower run than I would have anticipated... There was a little bit of excitement waiting for Sandy F to come in, as she left in second place behind HVO but had Jeff S from a NEOC team chasing her down. At the spectator control we saw Jeff come through, then Sandy... so we were excited that Sandy had passed the leader but then hoping that Jeff would screw up the last loop to give me a shot against Kristin Hall. ;-) Jeff came in about 10 minutes before Sandy and I lost another ~9 minutes to Kristin on the last leg so it wasn't even close, but it was fun! Overall this was a great meet - the organization was great, the courses were really fun, and most of all the atmosphere was very spectator and socializing-friendly. PG's announcing added a lot to the environment and I think think he may actually have a career in professional orienteering announcing in his future. | ||
| C • PG had already demo'd his p... 4 | ||
Saturday Sep 22 | ||
| Event: Sprint Series Final & US Relay Champs | ||
| Running warm up/down (terrain) 5:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Integrators (orange) | ||
| Warming up before the first sprint. Not as much of a warm up as perhaps I should have had. :-)
Trip to CT was uneventful but long. Oh, actually, the was one thing worth mentioning, that being that Ralph Nader was on our flight to BDL. At least, I'm pretty sure it was him. He was sitting in a very safe row (the final clue) reading the Wall Street Journal and making notes on it. When we landed he ran off before I had a chance to get a closer look or attempt to talk to him. | ||
| C • Ralph 1 | ||
| Orienteering race 22:00 [4] *** 2.22 km (9:55 / km) +51m 8:53 / km | |
| 15c shoes: Integrators (orange) | ||
| First sprint of the sprint series final. Pretty much a disaster for me, not one big goof but lots of big (in sprint terms) mistakes.
I was pretty confused on the first control, I had a lot of trouble adjusting to the scale. At least I didn't blow by it, it just took me a long time - the person who started 30s behind me caught me, and it probably should have taken more than a minute. Then, on the way to two I was stung twice by whatever it was out there (bees? wasps?) that was doing all the stinging. I wish I could blame the stings on my lack of concentration for 2 (I missed a trail junction) but really I just wasn't reading the map well. Managed okay on 3, 4, and 5 but made up for it by totally blowing by 6 and taking a while to realize where I was. Serious scale issues, which continued into 7. Got it together for basically the rest of the course, but that doesn't mean it felt great - just adequate. | ||
| Orienteering race 18:55 [4] *** 2.33 km (8:07 / km) +52m 7:18 / km | |
| 13c shoes: Integrators (orange) | ||
| Second sprint, which went much, much better than the first. I was into the map and the scale and the running was faster with more open woods. Bobbled the first one and ran fine from there. | ||
| Orienteering race 20:38 [4] *** 3.15 km (6:33 / km) +33m 6:13 / km | |
| 21c shoes: Integrators (orange) | ||
| "All comers" sprint final. I didn't have enough points to run in the 6-woman final (I only had 3 sprints going into today) but I definitely didn't want to miss out on this course, especially after watching the top men and women. (Okay, so I had a slight advantage because of that :-).
This went quite well, though of course it was the fastest of the three courses. I was a little confused on 17 (the first of the last loop), not realizing that the control was *in* the green stuff (like the files *in the computer*). The most excellent announcer didn't seem to like my shoe but claimed that my time would have been fast enough for 4th in the actual final, which is nice to know. Next time I'll need to have the full set of sprints so that I can actually run the real final! | ||
| C • I thought your orange shoe ... 4 | ||
Sprint A Course 3 (R/B) - Splits | ||
Sprint B Course 3 (R/B) - Splits | ||
Friday Sep 21 | ||
| Running (road) 20:00 [2] 2.0 mi (10:00 / mi) | |
| shoes: Kayano XII (pink) | ||
| I did it! I got up this morning and went for a run!
Around da hood. I saw two black kitties while running around, neither of them were Kitty or Kitty. Crazy! And my left shoe lets out a hiss of air with every footstrike. Weird. Time to pack and get to PHX for our flight to what I hope is an awesome weekend in CT. Well, I'm pretty sure it will be awesome. I had a late work night (home at 1am) but Seabass worked *all* night (she's coming, too!), which means I'm stuck with the driving! | ||
| C • asthmatic shoes 1 | ||
Thursday Sep 20 | ||
| Note | |
| Well, this is the first time I've had a total of 0 hours of training for a 7-day total in a long time. This has been a ridiculous week, but that's not really an adequate excuse for *0* hours. I feel like a slob. | ||
| C • tapering 7 | ||