Sunday Aug 10 |
 | Orienteering race 1:25:59 [3] *** 10.8 km (7:58 / km) +220m 7:14 / km | |
| spiked:20/22c shoes: Paul |
| US Champs Day 2.
This seemed like it went really well, I was quite happy when I finished as I had nailed all but two controls and I felt much better physically than yesterday. Of course, it was pretty damn flat and easy to run in, so that's not hard to believe. I thought my mistakes (controls 10 and 20) were very small when I finished but I think now that they were much bigger, just based on the amount of ground I must have covered. Time always moves more slowly when you're making the mistake.
Sandra ran ~67. By my rough calculations, based on road/track speed differences alone, I should have been able to run 78. That leaves 8 minutes that have to be accounted for based on orienteering efficiency. The mistake at 10 probably wasn't much more than a minute - more of a long hesitation and coming into the control too low. The mistake at 20 was as boneheaded as can be and must have cost me more like two or three minutes. That still leaves at least 4-5 minutes of orienteering efficiency loss. That's easy enough to believe, just not running quite as much and as fast as I could if I were able to read the map and see things ahead faster; I slowed down plenty to be careful, which isn't necessarily a negative but needs to be reduced. In more complex terrain this number is probably much greater than the speed difference number, but it's still disconcerting that in such a wide open area I can lose so much on orienteering skills alone. I already knew I was slow and I guess it's not a bad thing to be constantly reminded that I can't navigate fast, either.
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Saturday Aug 9 |
| Orienteering race 1:15:12 [3] *** 7.7 km (9:46 / km) +235m 8:28 / km | |
| 14c shoes: Integrators (silver) |
| US Champs Day 1.
Had some trouble on the early controls - I was trying to move too fast for the amount of oxygen available... or maybe that's just too fast for my state of map reading ability. Lost several minutes on several of the early controls. Not a good start. Finally got into the navigational groove only to physically keel less than half way through the course. I really stumbled around a lot after that, with okay orienteering.
Not the best day, but an Infinite improvement over last year's day 1 where I didn't even find the first control. |
| Running warm up/down 10:00 [1] | |
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Friday Aug 8 |
| Orienteering 45:00 [1] *** | |
| shoes: Paul |
| Mary and I arrived in Laramie early enough to head over to Pelican Bay for some eye calibration. The detailed rock sections scared me plenty to be careful. |
Tuesday Aug 5 |
| Running tempo (road/dirt) 40:00  4.1 mi (9:45 / mi) | |
| shoes: Gus |
| Morning run around the bike path, about 6:30. A little haze and clouds to keep the sun off but there was moisture in the air (!) that made it a little unpleasant. About 80 but dp was about 60 (!). Not the best, not usual for Tucson, but hardly bad.
Legs felt really heavy from the get go. Did 15 min easy and then a 6 min cruise interval, shooting for tempo/half marathon-ish pace. This was a shock to my apparently not completely healthy system. I couldn't run 7:40-7:50 pace without huffing and puffing and seeing my HR sky rocket to 194. One min easy (really easy) followed and the second interval had to be cut short at 3 min. I slogged all the way home, using tremendous will power not to walk. Even at an 11 min pace my HR was at 187. Definitely not normal. The cold shower at home wasn't cold enough. More rest, more water, I guess.
I finally pulled off the half of the toenail that I smashed in the Czech Republic. I don't know what took me so long, it was getting kind of annoying. And I must have done something really special at Fantasy Island last week - knee still tender.
Is it just me or does it seem like August and September are going to go by at ludicrous speed? |
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| This is going to seem strange, but I'm looking for some (hi-res) action shots of me (myself? I?). I seem to have a couple that I've saved off of web galleries, but most of them are... hideous (my fault, not the photographers'). I would say that I want them so that I can print them out in poster size and wallpaper my bedroom with them, but that would be a partial lie. Does anyone have any that I could snag? |
Monday Aug 4 |
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| Event: 2008 Laramie Daze & US Champs
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| Running (trail) 40:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Asics B&Y |
| Late morning run at Saguaro East. Didn't rush to get out the door early this morning because it's not supposed to be that hot today (hi 91) and I needed some serious sleep recovery. Unfortunately, mid-80s in 9am sun feels a lot hotter than it sounds, and I don't think I was rehydrated from yesterday's flying. I started slowly and never really felt better. Ran for 40min and then just hiked it back to the car. At least the views were spectacular. |