Saturday Mar 31 |
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| DVOA A-meet Sprint course setter. |
| Orienteering warm up/down 55:00 [1] **** | |
| shoes: VJ Integrator 2006 |
| DVOA A-meet.
Sprint course flags set up. |
| Orienteering race 1:25:25 [4] ***** 14.63 km (5:50 / km) +480m 5:01 / km | |
| ahr:158 max:170 spiked:24/26c slept:6.0 shoes: VJ Integrator 2006 |
| DVOA A-meet, Day 1, FH- Little Egypt area.
Official distance - 12.64km, GPS - 14.63km.
Was at the start area just several minutes before my start time, which is not usual for me. But there were just enough time after I set sprint course flags and got ready for main course. Missed #2 by minute or so. Was in the area and in the right place, but approach direction didn't give good visibility angle and spent some time reading map and matching it to terrain. Then some time lost at #12. Again I was in right place, saw my cliff, but control was located so low I could not see it. Thougt it wasn't the right cliff, ran a bit forward, found another control, and immediately turned around toward first cliff. And from that direction I saw control. Everything else was clean with few hesitations in controls circles and probably couple not optimal route choices. Got tired by the end, used my GU too late. |
| Orienteering warm up/down 40:00 [1] **** | |
| shoes: Salomon XA Comp2 XCR |
| DVOA A-meet.
Sprint course flags pick up. |
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Day 1: Blue - Splits |
Friday Mar 30 |
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| Event: DVOA A-Meet (Interscholastics)
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| slept:6.0 (rest day) |
| Shorter work day, face-to-face interview in Somerset area, followed by loooong trip back home and beer training :) |
Thursday Mar 29 |
| Trail-Grass Running 50:00 [2] 10.23 km (4:53 / km) | |
| ahr:124 max:129 slept:6.5 weight:66.7kg shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D (2006) |
| Tried to run slowly today and less. |
Wednesday Mar 28 |
| Trail-Grass Running 1:00:00 [3] 12.82 km (4:41 / km) | |
| ahr:126 max:131 slept:7.0 weight:66.2kg shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D (2006) |
| Easy run, nothing special. |
Tuesday Mar 27 |
| Trail-Grass Running 40:55 [3] 8.75 km (4:41 / km) | |
| ahr:128 max:139 slept:7.0 shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D (2006) |
| AM: Nice weather, couldn't miss it. |
| Trail-Grass Running 1:36:00 [3] 20.01 km (4:48 / km) | |
| ahr:132 max:142 slept:7.0 weight:65.7kg shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D (2006) |
| PM: Decided to test-run my knee for a longer time. Not good at all ... |
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| C • So much daylight & you're runn... 1 |
Sunday Mar 25 |
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| DVOA meet @ Batsto - CANCELLED. |
| Trail-Grass Running 1:16:00 [3] 13.86 km (5:29 / km) | |
| ahr:126 max:156 shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D (2006) |
| Ran with TNT+ gang in Media, first half slow, then faster pace. |
Saturday Mar 24 |
| Trail-Grass Running 1:01:00 [2] 10.74 km (5:41 / km) | |
| ahr:116 max:136 shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D (2006) |
| Ran with Angelica & Johnny WW from Chesterbrook to VF and back, then with Wyatt in the Chesterbrook park. |
Thursday Mar 22 |
| Trail-Grass Running 57:50 [4] 13.03 km (4:26 / km) | |
| ahr:137 max:149 slept:7.0 weight:66.8kg shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D (2006) |
| Easy run at O-race pace, sort of. It was faster than normal, but still not a tempo run. |
Wednesday Mar 21 |
| Trail-Grass Running 1:01:45 [3] 12.96 km (4:46 / km) | |
| ahr:128 max:136 slept:7.0 weight:66.5kg shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D (2006) |
| Another easy run, was thinking of doing longer run, but opted for an hour. |
Tuesday Mar 20 |
| Trail-Grass Running 1:13:45 [2] 15.33 km (4:49 / km) | |
| ahr:127 max:133 slept:7.0 weight:66.7kg shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D (2006) |
| Easy run, nothing special. |
Sunday Mar 18 |
| Trail-Grass Running 10:00 [2] **** | |
| slept:6.0 shoes: VJ Integrator 2006 |
| Jogged at Fair Hill to verify couple spots/features for Sandy's model course. |
| Orienteering race 1:10:20 [3] **** 9.93 km (7:05 / km) | |
| ahr:155 max:163 spiked:18/19c slept:6.0 (injured) shoes: VJ Integrator 2006 |
| DVOA event at White Clay Creek, Blue course.
This time it's white for real after Friday night snow storm :) Sunny, but windy. A lot of briars as usually.
Helped Tom at the start and then took off for my corse w/out any warmup. Not a good thing for my knee. Anyway, nice course by Tom, ran mostly close to the straight line with few exceptions. Missed only one control, but didn't lost too match time. Was stuck several times in briars bushes ... |
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| C • Thanks 3 |
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Blue - Splits |
Saturday Mar 17 |
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| Miserable weather and another round of madness at work (had to work late, then from home till 2AM, then every 2 hours for 10 minutes till morning, and still working right now, Saturday morning - NOSKI). |
Friday Mar 16 |
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| Event: Flying Pig XI
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Thursday Mar 15 |
| Trail-Grass Running 41:30 [2] 8.47 km (4:54 / km) | |
| ahr:30 max:142 slept:6.5 weight:66.4kg (injured) shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D (2006) |
| AM: Nice morning run, warm and sunny. |
Wednesday Mar 14 |
| Trail-Grass Running 1:01:30 [3] 12.97 km (4:45 / km) | |
| ahr:127 max:135 slept:6.5 weight:66.5kg (injured) shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D (2006) |
| Nothing special, normal loop nearby. |
Tuesday Mar 13 |
| Trail-Grass Running 1:12:30 [3] 15.35 km (4:43 / km) | |
| ahr:131 max:139 slept:6.5 weight:66.3kg (injured) shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D (2006) |
| I like daylight saving time :)) Enjoyed longer run and it wasn't in the dark! |
Sunday Mar 11 |
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| Event: Valley Goat III
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| Orienteering race 1:36:23 [4] **** 15.92 km (6:03 / km) | |
| ahr:158 max:167 30c slept:6.0 (injured) shoes: VJ Integrator 2006 |
| DVOA Valley Goat III - Long edition.
Couple last weeks I didn't have a chance to train properly due to sickness and some work related circumstances. Left knee still hurts ...
Was pleased to see a lot of folks opted for the long version of VG like John F., Greg B., and others. After start glanced at my map, found first control, and headed into the woods leading pack for first hundred meters or so. There were John, Clem, Wyatt, and Greg A. Several first controls we were almost together. First real challenge was climb on the rocky and muddy hillside to the #5. Here I used all my fours and managed take a lead (probably my climbing was on more straight line than others). On the way to #7 John passed me on downhill, he was just flying while I was caution. Unfortunately control wasn't there and main pack got us and there was Sergei (it's really nice to see him running with us). Now Clem was leading us to #8. At maps exchange John got confused, Wyatt stopped for longer water break, and I took off toward #12. There were no reason to push harder, just kept cruising speed on the grassy field. Now we were three of us: Wyatt, John, and me. Clem was about 100m behind. For the next several controls we exchanged lead. Now I was together with John and Wyatt a little bit behind after he overshot one of controls. Water stop was quick and John took lead from there. I tried to stay with him, but he was faster than me. So, kept him in sight as long as possible and navigated by myself for a bit. That part of the course was on the rocky and hilly part of Mt.Misery map. My knee started hurting going up the hills on the way to #22 and after #24 I slowed down - at that point it was clear for me I can't catch John, my knee is hurting, and it makes no sense to push hard. So, tried to navigate with out major mistakes and keep moving toward finish.
Pleased with second place, 1:30 behind leader (John). Wyatt crossed finish line ~45sec. later taking third place.
Nice hard race overall. Pleasant weather. |
| Trail-Grass Running warm up/down 15:00 [2] | |
| shoes: VJ Integrator 2006 |
| Warming up is necessary part of any races for me since last december, at least 10-15 minutes until my knee feels better and don't hurt. |
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Long - Splits |
Saturday Mar 10 |
| Trail-Grass Running 1:12:00 [2] 12.44 km (5:47 / km) | |
| slept:7.0 (injured) shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D (2006) |
| Easy and slow run with Wyatt at VF from visitor center over mt. Joy to the top of mt. Misery and back. Nice weather, a bit windy, but sunny. |
Friday Mar 9 |
| Trail-Grass Running (Some Snow) 38:30 [3] 8.01 km (4:48 / km) | |
| max:145 slept:6.0 weight:66.4kg (injured) shoes: Salomon XA Comp2 XCR |
| AM: Drag myself out of bed for a nice morning run ... definetely I'm out of shape. |
Thursday Mar 8 |
| Road Running 51:30 [3] 10.81 km (4:46 / km) | |
| ahr:133 max:143 slept:6.0 weight:66.9kg (injured) shoes: Salomon XA Comp2 XCR |
| Managed get out of work around 6PM and was glad to run outside - nice work-stress relief option :) |
Wednesday Mar 7 |
| Trail-Grass Running (Snow) 41:30 [2] 8.08 km (5:08 / km) | |
| ahr:130 max:141 slept:6.5 weight:67.1kg (injured) shoes: Salomon XA Comp2 XCR |
| Late evening run on the fresh snow, probably last time this season. |
Tuesday Mar 6 |
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| slept:7.0 weight:68.3kg |
| It's no longer fun. I spent another day with non-stop e-mails and phone calls (which I didn't answer on purpose, only few special people received help via phone). Probably I managed to handle more than 500 e-mails (it's a madness) in two business days, most of them related to permission/access settings and several with real problems or bugs. And then again couple hours work from home.
Always there is a hope tomorrow will be better day :) |
Monday Mar 5 |
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| slept:8.0 (sick) |
| That was day after upgrading software ... I didn't answer any phone calls and spent over 9hr in front of my desktop almost w/out breaks. Then I had few things to finish from home, another couple of hours. There were no time for training, plus cold from last week wasn't gone. |
Sunday Mar 4 |
| Hiking - Jogging (Course setting) 3:00:00 [1] **** | |
| slept:10.0 weight:68kg (injured) (sick) |
| Finished field-check and streamering at Batsto. It was windy and a bit colder than yesterday. Also, there was smoke from the fire in the woods. |
| Trail-Grass Running 1:05:00 [2] **** 12.47 km (5:13 / km) | |
| ahr:136 max:148 slept:10.0 weight:68kg (injured) (sick) shoes: Salomon XA Comp2 XCR |
| Trail run around Batsto map to discover brand new mountain bikers trail. Got a GPS track, which is very accurate to the existing trails/roads network. |
Saturday Mar 3 |
| Hiking - Jogging (Course setting) 2:15:00 [1] **** | |
| slept:8.0 weight:68.4kg (injured) (sick) |
| Batsto - field check. Felt a bit sick since yesterday morning, no running today, instead drove to the Batsto to field-check and streamer controls. There are few changes - they did another controlled burn and one more part of the map is more runnable than before; bikers are building new trail (it's premarked with pink streamers), which I suspect is going through all map (I plan to run on that trail tomorrow after I finish field-check and streamering). |
Friday Mar 2 |
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| Event: BOK/US Team Umstead 007
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| slept:6.5 (sick) |
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SW upgrade - Day 2.
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Another 14hr non-stop work ... very tired by the end. |
Thursday Mar 1 |
| Trail-Grass Running 40:30 [3] 8.72 km (4:39 / km) | |
| ahr:131 max:143 slept:6.0 weight:67.5kg (injured) shoes: Salomon XA Comp2 XCR |
| AM: Nice morning weather, ran faster than wanted, but it's the only way to get some training right now. |
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SW upgrade - Day 1.
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Planned scope of SW conversion at work went almost w/out problems except one minor issue with data which cost me about 2hr delay :( Came back home too late, plus another portion from last week has to be done before tomorrow morning and that part is causing a lot of problems.11hr of work ... Don't ask me why I hate "smart" users who thinks they know what they are doing ... |
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| The Ugly Mudder has frozen... |