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Saturday Feb 9, 2008 #
orienteering race 46:00 [4] *** 6.1 km (7:32 / km) +50m 7:15 / km
ahr:184 max:196 spiked:8/23c
Garmin distance covered: 7.42km, speed 6.12/km
Dunas de Cantanhede
Portugese WRE middle distance
Mattias Karlsson won in 31:07, so I got a fantabulous 744 points... probably more than I dserved anyway.
Surprised I survived the weekend. I used to be able to run faster and read a map better... so hopefully there's progress o come.
Map was fantastic, really fun area, well-planned course...
Dunas de Cantanhede
Portugese WRE middle distance
Mattias Karlsson won in 31:07, so I got a fantabulous 744 points... probably more than I dserved anyway.
Surprised I survived the weekend. I used to be able to run faster and read a map better... so hopefully there's progress o come.
Map was fantastic, really fun area, well-planned course...
trail run 15:00 [1]
warmup and down... after was 1.05km with paddy in 8:34
Friday Feb 8, 2008 #
running 37:33 [3] 7.0 km (5:22 / km)
ahr:143 max:170
run in Porto, down to and then along the banks of the douro
got a twang as i came off a bridge... hope hope hope hope hope it's not serious. I thought I might be better...
got a twang as i came off a bridge... hope hope hope hope hope it's not serious. I thought I might be better...
Tuesday Feb 5, 2008 #
orienteering 1:20:00 [2] 8.33 km (9:36 / km)
ahr:138
Mindelo,
just north of Porto
Took the Metro after work... I had intended stopping work early to run in daylight but got delayed... and then the metro got delayed... so got to see sunset from it en route.
By the time I got to Mindelo and located the map, it was well after sunset but there was still a bit of light. Started running with a single LED.
Did just over 30 controls on a 1:5000 version of the map, mostly in open semi-sand duny area. There was plenty of brambles and gorse for me to run into, which I did with greater and greater frequency as it got darker...
Made a couple of mistakes early on but then got the hang of it, only making one biggy at the 12th (my 18th?) where I knew I was going to make one, flat area, couple of indistinct paths, scattered nasty veg, looking for a smally short ditch...
One of those important training sessions where it would have been all too easy just to go to bed instead of suffering... actually I quite enjoyed it, despite it being dark :)
just north of Porto
Took the Metro after work... I had intended stopping work early to run in daylight but got delayed... and then the metro got delayed... so got to see sunset from it en route.
By the time I got to Mindelo and located the map, it was well after sunset but there was still a bit of light. Started running with a single LED.
Did just over 30 controls on a 1:5000 version of the map, mostly in open semi-sand duny area. There was plenty of brambles and gorse for me to run into, which I did with greater and greater frequency as it got darker...
Made a couple of mistakes early on but then got the hang of it, only making one biggy at the 12th (my 18th?) where I knew I was going to make one, flat area, couple of indistinct paths, scattered nasty veg, looking for a smally short ditch...
One of those important training sessions where it would have been all too easy just to go to bed instead of suffering... actually I quite enjoyed it, despite it being dark :)
Sunday Feb 3, 2008 #
running 33:45 [3] 4.6 km (7:20 / km)
ahr:119 max:157 rhr:45
Having spent most of the day before and all morning in bed, HR was down to 45, lowest I've seen it in a while.
Went out for a gentle run in Porto, spent a good bit of time in the lovely park containing what was a palacio of cristal and now is a millennium bank billboard.
Found a playground with soft surface so did some conditioning exercises, jumps and stuff.
I had been hoping to head out to Mindelo today to do a bit of orienteering, but it's a fair hike and it was raining all day (until a couple of minutes after I started to run) and I didn't feel like getting sick...
Went out for a gentle run in Porto, spent a good bit of time in the lovely park containing what was a palacio of cristal and now is a millennium bank billboard.
Found a playground with soft surface so did some conditioning exercises, jumps and stuff.
I had been hoping to head out to Mindelo today to do a bit of orienteering, but it's a fair hike and it was raining all day (until a couple of minutes after I started to run) and I didn't feel like getting sick...
strength 15 [3]