Thursday May 30 |
 | trail running 46:47 [3] 5.5 mi (8:30 / mi) | |
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| Sugar-Gunn loop. Decent effort on a warm and humid afternoon (was about to start walking on one hill but just kept plugging away and it was no problem ... you never know) |
Wednesday May 29 |
| trail running 1:10:26 [3] 8.2 mi (8:34 / mi) | |
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| Over to the gate and back. Felt tired starting out, better after a while. Warm and humid, didn't push it. |
Monday May 27 |
| trail running 1:28:07 [3] 10.3 mi (8:33 / mi) | |
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| On Mt. Toby (race course up to hairpin, back via s curves and muck). A little faster than a couple of weeks ago, but quite tired at the end, and afterwards. Maybe because it was warm and I was dehydrated (lost about 5 pounds). |
Sunday May 26 |
| trail running 26:13 [5] 3.5 mi (7:29 / mi) | |
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| Up to power line and back. Hadn't intended to run hard, but it just happened.... |
Saturday May 25 |
| trail running 32:01 [2] 3.7 mi (8:39 / mi) | |
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| Dirt roads on the Five Ponds map, with my brother. (He took a header yesterday -- he's got the same genes as me -- so today we stayed on stuff with better footing.) |
Friday May 24 |
| trail running 30:28 [2] 3.4 mi (8:57 / mi) | |
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| On trails of the Five Ponds map, with my brother. |
Thursday May 23 |
| road running 27:01 [3] 3.6 mi (7:30 / mi) | |
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| In Litchfield, visiting my mother. |
Wednesday May 22 |
| trail running 1:14:38 [3] 8.5 mi (8:46 / mi) | |
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| With Phil, to Bull Hill, back via Greene Swamp. Good pace going up, relaxed on way back. Ankles/feet still very sore -- OK when running/warmed up, but an hour later can barely make it up/down stairs....
Don't have much O' for the next 6 weeks prior to APOC. In a way that makes it easier to train, since I seem to get banged up more by orienteering than anything else. I'll try to run some of the local XC races (there are four different weekly series, each on a different evening, within 30 minutes drive, so there are plenty of opportunities). I don't know why most orienteers don't run in these kind of events. For me they (1) satisfy my competitive needs, (2) give a measure of my fitness (since I've run them regularly in the past, and it's hard to fool the stopwatch), and sometimes a kick in the rear to get training harder, and (3) serve as a good hard tempo workout. But to each his own, I guess.... |
Monday May 20 |
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| I've posted my routes for last weekend. |
Sunday May 19 |
| trail running 5:00 [2] 0.5 mi (10:00 / mi) | |
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| Warm-up. Legs felt lively! |
| orienteering 1:02:33 [4] 7.5 km (8:20 / km) | |
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| A couple of weak moments (mentally), but overall pretty good run. Legs felt pretty good (nice cool weather). Missed about 2 minutes (including a minute at the first leg when I went to #6 instead of #1.
I thought it was an excellent course and really fine terrain, similar to some in Switzerland I've run on (and enjoyed). What I liked was the variety, of terrain, of the legs, of the tactics to use. Even the mapping was more like continental Europe in the sense that all the green was better running than green is on most of our maps (i.e. I equate white in the northeast U.S. with light green in central Europe). On this map you could make good time through the medium green.
Feet/ankles very sore by the time I got home.... |
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Red - Splits |
Saturday May 18 |
| trail running 5 [2] 0.5 mi (9 / mi) | |
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| warm-up |
| orienteering 23:12 [4] 2.9 km (8:00 / km) | |
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| Better than I've been doing, though that might have been due to the downhill course! Still left a lot of room for improvment, especially the failure to plan a good route to #10 while I had a couple hundred meters run on the pavement from 6 to 7. Simple lack of discipline.
Legs felt ok, not great.
No falls! |
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Green X - Splits |
Wednesday May 15 |
| trail running 1:31:07 [3] 10.3 mi (8:51 / mi) | |
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| With Phil on Mt. Toby (race course up to hairpin, back via s curves and muck). Legs tired, wind ok, relaxed pace. |
Tuesday May 14 |
| trail running 22:35 [2] 2.7 mi (8:22 / mi) | |
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| Warm-up/down. |
| trail running 20:47 [5] 3.1 mi (6:42 / mi) | |
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| Northampton 5K XC race, about what I expected (about 15-20 seconds slower than at this time last year). Still various aches and pains.... |
Sunday May 12 |
| trail running 26:48 [5] 3.5 mi (7:38 / mi) | |
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| Up to power line and back, race effort.
Haven't run much this week. Gone for a couple of days to New York and Litchfield, still lots of aches from 7 sisters and various O' crashes, plus I'm not putting golf in my log. But today felt ok (got out just before the rain). Need to get back going again. Goal is to be fit for APOC stuff in Alberta in early July.
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Wednesday May 8 |
| trail running 29:22 [3] 3.5 mi (8:23 / mi) | |
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| Power line and back. Still some sore places from Sunday. |
Sunday May 5 |
| trail running 2:35:51 [3] 12.0 mi (12:58 / mi) | |
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| Seven Sisters race. "Taking it easy" isn't quite the right term, but I wasn't pushing. Had decided to shoot for 2:40-2:45 (last year was 2:20, a much harder effort) and see if I could enjoy it, and that was pretty much what happened. Got a hot spot/blister under one heel early on while shooting down a steep hill, so had to run the downs more gently thereafter. Which was probably just as good. Still did one nose dive in the rocks -- virtually no damage, except I spent the next 30-40 seconds on my hands and knees looking for my glasses....
It would be interesting to see how the CSU guys would fare.... |
Friday May 3 |
| trail running 1:04:00 [5] 8.2 mi (7:48 / mi) | |
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| Robert Frost loop on Mt. Toby. Max effort, struggling on the last few ups.
Seem to have been running quicker the last few days, but even today I was feeling wobbly after 15-20 minutes. And if I'm off-trail, I seem to go under pretty fast. But today was a good time for the loop, and that's progress. |
Thursday May 2 |
| trail running 27:40 [4] 3.5 mi (7:54 / mi) | |
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| Up to power line and back, hard effort. Light rain and 45, perfect conditions. |
Wednesday May 1 |
| trail running 29:04 [3] 3.5 mi (8:18 / mi) | |
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| Up to power line and back. Lots of aches, but a good (but short) effort. Need to get back on a regular schedule.... |