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Wednesday Nov 26 | ||
| orienteering 2 [5] | |
| ENOL race in Trieste.
First time running since Venice. Decided to see what rest would do for my knees, but have been walking quite a bit so... ... 2nd place on 60+pts... not sure how donatella picked up her 100 pts but :) first to the bar on several occasions. also held my own inside... vino birra vino*3.5 tequila tequila birra bushmills jameson ... ... took a while to recover :) it was raining. italians also found the going rough ;p---# | ||
Sunday Nov 9 | ||
| orienteering 1:14:20 [5] | |
| Street-O Venice! veramente un bel posto per orienteering...
1st Emil Wingstedt 65:36 3rd Giacomo 67:09 Alberto de Riz 71:58 Me 74:20 A de R caught me at the 4th control 18 minutes in - started 2mins after me... ... ran each other into the ground after. took it in turns leading depending on whose stitch was worse :) in total, maybe 2 minutes lost due to mistakes and bad route choice (incl. going to 30th control on the way to the 2nd!)... and that's including anything over ten seconds I think. Evidently wasn't going as fast when on my own for the first four controls... for the next few we were racing against each other and then racing with each other - staying indept but using each other. Twice I got seriously helped in among the tourists - found it hard t keep map contact in the thick stuff... But in general (since I didn't get properly lost), I wasn't impressed with the difficulty level. It remains to get six or seven minutes fitter and learn to run aggressively from the start. Looking at route choices, I can't see any that are substantially better than the one's I made. ps, stitch started to become a killer stitch (breathing/running really, really difficult) by maybe the 21st control... by the 26th of 30 I was in pieces... held on to finish but... ... a fair bit of lactic acid ... pps crossed bridges 75 times during the race... adds up after a while, although I have to say I didn't have too many problems with them... | ||
Thursday Nov 6 | ||
| running 50:00 [3] | |
| ICTP to Prosecco, dumped bag, then a trail loop on the Santa Croce map. Sunset over the Adriatic even prettier than usual - the tops of the dolomites were peeping through...
A rather stunning brainwave came to me - perhaps starting off my run from cold with a 5-10 minute uphill mostly on big paving-stones/steps may not be the best for my knees... ... not quite sure what the alternative is 'though | ||
Tuesday Nov 4 | ||
| orienteering 30:00 [3] | |
| training 'race' in the old part of Trieste, start/finish at il Melon by the castle/cathedral San Giusto.
two loops, 20 minutes total. two mstakes (one dead end and one at the start before I worked out the mapping style), and a bit of time lost looking for a misplaced control. Possibly two slightly bad route choices. not as fast as I used to be running up stairs... lack of training is starting to catch up... ... on the other hand, that was the first day I felt the knee-cap scraping since Pradis which was reassuring... there's less fluid in there now... also 10 minutes part warm-up, part taking in controls... | ||