Training Archive: walkIn the 7 days ending 2007-08-05:
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Sunday Aug 5 | ||
| Event: Scottish 6-Days | ||
| Trail run warm up/down 25:00 [1] | |
| shoes: VJ Integrator | ||
| Running to the start 1.7k away (Lyn had 3.4k, almost as long as her 3.5k course!) | ||
| Orienteering race 1:02:10 [4] *** 5.3 km (11:44 / km) +225m 9:41 / km | |
| ahr:160 max:176 spiked:14/17c shoes: VJ Integrator | ||
| Scottish Day 1 Alvie, SW of Aviemore - 65, gray, lt rain, wet.
Good run in general trying to be careful. Woods generally very open. Several legs along rides or trails. Couple of steep downs then up. 5 - Overran then back to where I thought it should be but missed. -2' 12 - Slow fighting through bracken. -30" 14 - This was down an open hillside facing the Assembly area and parking. We watched early finishers criss-cross this area before heading to our starts. Some went smoothly but the bottom section was very complicated rock/cliff zone. Lots of standing around or wandering by many. Amazing to see. Worse to experience, as I did a bit. Came over the crest to see the field, looking for a boulder just beyond a tree. Didn't stop to take a careful bearing and headed too high towards another. Then misinterpreted green vertical lines for forest rather than bracken. Fought through a section, overshooting my control but quickly recognizing the problem. -2' Rest went well, probably best result of the week: 75 out of 154 for 1007 points which means I was just above the mean runner. | ||
Saturday Aug 4 | ||
| Orienteering 1:38:00 [1] *** | |
| shoes: VJ Integrator | ||
| Scottish 6 Day Training - Revack, SE of Grantown - 70, sunny, windy.
There were 6 areas set aside with control bags set out for training the week before and during the event. During the first week, trainers were at one of the maps each day. We caught up with them yesterday and chatted before heading out. This area we were on our own. It is a park around an old mansion, now converted to public use with woodlands for O and a tea room for normal public types. The forest took a bit to get used to. It was quite open again but the floor was covered with a thick layer of moss covering lumpy rock under. Developed a technique of trying to bounce around the lumps that worked but was tiring. Ran the longer suggested course, 4k. | ||
Friday Aug 3 | ||
| Orienteering 2:00:00 [1] *** | |
| shoes: VJ Integrator | ||
| Scottish 6 Day Training (Model area) Beachen Wood - This was just up the hill from the camp ground we used for the first 2 nights, W of Grantown-on-Spey. 65, grey, lt wind, lt rain the second half.
Easy effort getting used to the maps and woods. Map very good. Woods mixed: some very open (even the green mapped part), some bracken (6' ferns, thick and impossible to go thru) mapped with vert green. S part very wet from rainy summer. Veg mapping somewhat uneven. Fun nice woods. | ||
Thursday Aug 2 | ||
| Note | |
| Travel - Wed night to Thurs. NW has started a new service from Hartford to Amsterdam. Finally a direct flight to Europe, only 20 years too late for my travel days but really nice now. NW did a nice job, efficient, friendly service. Much different from the last experience. And AMS is a treat, modern, efficient airport with a KLM direct connection to Aberdeen. Very sweet.
Then we arrived and Hertz didn't have any little cars like ordered, so gave us a Jetta instead, very peppy 6 speed thing. Fun. Got 40 mpg, diesel. (BTW - anyone know what happens when unleaded gas gets mixed with diesel? Does it get absorbed? Or stay separated like water?) | ||
| C • this sounds like there should ... 1 | ||
Wednesday Aug 1 | ||
| Trail run tempo 1:11:00 | |
| weight:145lbs shoes: DS Trainer XII | ||
| Horse Tr-full Purple loop - 80, clear, dry. Perfect day for a good run.
Started slowly w L butt complaining. Worked through that and then able to ignore it and the other recent ailments seem to have taken the day off. This was one of those days where the harder we went the easier it became. Got into a really nice flow with some pickups in the middle. Worked on form - leg extension and then Lyn said she was working on quick foot placement. So that got it going. We both were in a good groove. Then on the final cool down jog on the road home (full sun, hot, road) my pace slowed and it became hard. So the difference between a jog and an easy run = the run is much faster pace with a good flow; the jog is a slog. You wear PIs for the first; rubber boots for the latter. | ||
| Stretching 20:00 [1] | |
| After cooling from the run. Worked on specific hip stretches, trying to loosen up the joint. Will expand these to other joints as I go along - back, knees, foots etc.
AOWN - We were concerned that the cardinal had been nesting for a long time. Figured she must have gotten confused by the heat and just was sitting there until the snow started to fall. So I peeked into the nest, enough to see two blue eggs with light brown speckles. If all goes well, there should be a brood when we get back. | ||
| C • have a good one! 2 | ||
Tuesday Jul 31 | ||
| Hiking (Mowing) 1:00:00 [1] | |
| weight:145lbs shoes: Salomon XA Pro | ||
| Final trim before departure. It will be on its own for a couple weeks, not long by certain standards but that's what it is around here. 90, drier than recent days. Sounds like wet and 60's in Scotland. Back to spring weather. Will be a shock to the system. | ||
Monday Jul 30 | ||
| Orienteering 52:00 [2] *** 4.9 km (10:37 / km) +90m 9:43 / km | |
| spiked:5/6c weight:145lbs shoes: VJ Falcon | ||
| Coups Sawmill - 80, sunny, humid.
Laid out a short course (3.4k) on the map, circles around distinct features in the terrain, hopefully, and drew lines between them. Gave Lyn a slightly shorter course. Good to get out in the woods on a map. Really needed the practice as totally undershot the #2 feature, a knoll on a spur in a vague area - thought it looked right and kept going. Others were more distinct. This whole area is so nice, will have to spend some real time mapping it. Wore the FR and got another trace, rather wonky. Matches at one end but not the other without stretching and fiddling. The base map works really well for contours and some veg, rock but misses a lot. Quite a few FDFs buzzing around but not a worry as long as you keep moving. | ||