Training Archive: CristinaIn the 7 days ending 2008-04-27:
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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 | ||
