Training Archive: CristinaIn the 7 days ending 2008-01-20:
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Sunday Jan 20 | ||
| Strength/Core (stretching) 15:00 [1] | |
| Lots of good prep time in the tent, avoiding the morning "chill". | ||
| Orienteering race 1:17:30 [3] *** 7.3 km (10:37 / km) +210m 9:17 / km | |
| ahr:179 max:191 spiked:3/14c shoes: Integrators (orange) | ||
| I have this theory that if I were a faster runner, and if I had confidence that I was competitive on speed alone, then I wouldn't do silly things like try to run fast while orienteering. I would orienteer the way I did yesterday, reading ahead, stopping when I really needed to, trying to be accurate and letting the result be... a win. Today I did exactly the opposite of yesterday. I tried to run fast and basically ignored that sheet of paper in my hand with all the squiggly lines on it. The result? Not so hot.
I went in to today's course knowing that everyone would probably do a lot better than they did yesterday. Much less complex orienteering and more runnable terrain. Holly started only 4 min behind me and I was thinking, oh so brilliantly, "don't get caught". So I took off at the start, and banshee'd it to the first control. No problems. Headed towards 2 and got sucked up the wrong way (sort of parallel) and went straight to number 3. Two minutes lost. Got to 4 okay but at the same time as Holly. Blew number 5 by, again, being off on a parallel. Even saw a group of three people punch my control but didn't realize it. Four minutes lost. And one last big goof where I turned the wrong way in a stream/canyon and lost a whopping five minutes. I got lucky on several controls in that I managed to somehow drive straight towards them by only paying attention to my direction and not really reading the map. So really it should have been a worse run than it was. Fifth of out five today, though amazingly my lead from yesterday was big enough to come away with the win for the 2 day total. Holly in ~62, Angelica ~63, Dasha ~69, Yekaterina ~73. Map | ||
| C • You may be onto something 3 | ||
| Note | |
| Rain (0)
Talk about depressing. | ||
Red - Splits | ||
Saturday Jan 19 | ||
| Event: Anza Borrego Desert O-Fest | ||
| Orienteering race 1:25:54 [3] 7.2 km (11:56 / km) +295m 9:54 / km | |
| shoes: Integrators (orange) | ||
| Pretty good run today. Some small goofs + ~2 min parallel error and a sort of silly route choice. First F-21+. (?!) Booyah.
Map | ||
| Orienteering race 28:00 [2] 2.7 mi (10:22 / mi) +125m 5:38 / km | |
| shoes: Integrators (orange) | ||
| Not very spritely sprint performance on my part. Major error on 4 (> 2min) and too tired to push it. Smoked by Angelica and Holly (at least).
Map | ||
Red - Splits | ||
Sprint - Splits | ||
Friday Jan 18 | ||
| Note | |
| Rock 'n' Roll Marathon | ||
Thursday Jan 17 | ||
| Cycling (road) 20:00 [2] | |
| In to work. I'm resisting the tempatation to say that it was a bit chilly for high noon.
Two items of note so far today: 1) I wore contacts all morning! 2) Two separate suspicious packages arrived today from MA. Both contained at least one compass and neither had any additional information. Spooky! | ||
| C • the other one? 6 | ||
| C • Climbing (road) ? 3 | ||
| Cycling (road) 25:00 [2] | |
| Ride home. I was pretty tired towards the end of the flight, but as usual I had a lot of energy after afterwards. And then about halfway home I started to feel weak and woozy and really just wanted to lie down on the side of the road and sleep.
A-B this weekend. I've been so busy that I just dong feel like I'm in the right frame of mind for it. Might be that I also have memories of the cold last year... I don't think I'm going to have the last laugh in my tent. | ||
Wednesday Jan 16 | ||
| Running (road/dirt) 37:15 [2] 4.1 mi (9:05 / mi) | |
| shoes: Gus | ||
| Morning run on the bike path. I was being so productive this morning that I almost stopped myself from running in order to keep up my momentum and not lose time. But that's just crazy talk! Besides, it was 50 and sunny. Gorgeous! I suppose that's an advantage of working in the evening... at least during the winter. | ||
| Cycling (road) 20:00 [2] | |
| In to work. | ||
| Cycling (road) 18:00 [2] | |
| Ride home, after a night flight, but at a perfectly reasonable hour (ie, way before midnight). I could totally get used to that. | ||
Tuesday Jan 15 | ||
| Cycling (road) 22:00 [2] | |
| Ride in. When I woke up the weather thing said 43 degrees. When I was leaving it said 39. WTF? It's supposed to get warmer as the sun comes out.
Whale Rider (1) | ||
| C • GOI. You could have woken ... 13 | ||
| Cycling (road) 20:00 [2] | |
| Ride home. Today was a funny day at work. | ||
| Strength/Core 8:00 [1] | |
| WOG warmup | ||
| Running (dirt) 48:11 | |
| shoes: Gus | ||
| Had a few minutes to breath before getting to WOG. I was really hungry because I spent the day waiting to fly and never made it out for food. So I stuffed some cheese and dried mango in my mouth and went over to Reid with Seabass. The mango was probably fine, but I don't think large chunks of Harvarti are meant to be eaten before running. I tested the limits - but thankfully did not exceed them - on that one.
Warmup was a lap inside and a stadium lap, then strides. Then we did a tempo-ish run, where each lap (800m) was supposed to be 5 seconds faster than the previous. I ran with Diane, and even though we both knew that I was right about needing to slow down on the first lap, we didn't really do it and ran too fast, which means we got to our sort of goal pace after only 3 laps: 4:05, 4:01, 3:51, 3:50, 3:49, 3:50 Then ran a couple more laps inside for a cool down. I think this was just fine for the first real workout after a rest. Not very fast (even though the second half felt very hard) but a good starting point for January. Oh yeah, and Seabass just ran on her own around the golf course. Haven't been able to convince her to come back to WOG yet... | ||
