Training Archive: PGIn the 7 days ending 2008-05-31:
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Saturday May 31 | ||
| nautilus 50:00 [1] | |
| Good to work out some frustrations....
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| run/hike 25:23 [3] | |
| weight:138.5lbs shoes: Asics trail | ||
| 2 x South Sugarloaf (450' climb). Hike up the trail (7:55), run down the road (7:11), hike up the trail (6:58), run down the trail (3:19). Second trip was surprisingly quick, perhaps because I was working out a few more frustrations....
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| C • World Cup at O-ringen? 6 | ||
Thursday May 29 | ||
| nautilus 50:00 [1] | |
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| track 20:23 [4]4.8 km (4:15 / km) | |
| weight:138lbs shoes: Asics trail | ||
| Thursday evening track group, but no dogs this time. :-)
3 x 1600 on a 9-minute cycle. Hoped to do no worse than 7 minutes for each one. First took a little effort to do that, the second seemed the same effort and was a touch faster, and the third seemed only slightly more effort and was a good bit faster. I think the legs just felt looser. Any faster would have taken a lot more effort. Splits: 6:58, 6:51, 6:34. So it seems like 6:30 is certainly doable, and quite possibly 6:15, but I think I under 6 is no longer in the cards. | ||
| track 10:16 [2]2 km (5:08 / km) | |
| shoes: Asics trail | ||
| Three laps before (not enough) and a couple after.
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Wednesday May 28 | ||
| Note | |
| So here is my route for the long course on Monday.
It only took about 50 meters worth of rocks leaving #1 to decide that the best routes for me were to stay on trails as much as possible, because the rocks just seemed terrible. And for the most part I think that was a wise decision. No problems finding 2-5, though slow, stopping to look at the map a lot. To 6 the only route that made sense to me was climb up (and up) to get the ridge trail. In fact it turned out to be my best leg of the day. I think some folks who tried to more or less contour had some rough going. Hooked up with JJ on the last bit to 6, we were more or less together until on the way to 8, where he went straighter and then missed the control. Another long climb up to and out of 10. Over the top and staying in the good running seemed clearly the best to 11. Joe caught me going by the last buildings and was a little quicker in to 11, and then a lot quicker back up and out of 11, never saw him again. He was muttering about missing a bunch of controls, which he must have because he started only 3 minutes after me. Ok to 12 and 13. To 14 I climbed up and came in from above. I think the straighter route coming in from the side was faster. Ok to 15, also to 16-18, woods were less rocky, also to 19-20 even though I checked out another control on the way to 20, at the pit, actually punched it, was starting to leave, checked the code, oops. Didn't lose much time but felt pretty stupid. Rest of the way ok, some walking some slow running, trying to get in under 2 hours, made it with 3 minutes to spare. Not so bad. If running there again, I might try wearing running shoes instead of O shoes, a little more padding for the feet and better grip on the rocks. | ||
| hike 40:32 [2]2.6 mi (15:35 / mi) | |
| shoes: Asics trail | ||
| Same as 5/14, hike briskly to the top of Toby, except this was before dinner, and no pack. So a little quicker.
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| trail running 32:13 [4]4.1 mi (7:51 / mi) | |
| shoes: Asics trail | ||
| And then the run back down, pretty good pace (12:31 back from the power line), working hard even if it was mostly downhill.
Beautiful late afternoon, no bugs yet. | ||
Tuesday May 27 | ||
| nautilus 50:00 [1] | |
| weight:139lbs | ||
| Plus the usual long walk. Legs didn't feel so bad, plus the weird right leg pain is much better. Must be the usual cure -- get something else that hurts more.
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| trail running 1:44:52 [3] | |
| shoes: Asics trail | ||
| Same loop as last week from Cranberry Pond, this time with just Dave and Donna. They claimed to be tired from an ultra on Sunday (50k for Dave, 50 miles for Donna), and therefore the pace would be slow, which suited me just fine. But as we were running it felt just the same as last week, chugging up the hills ok, to the point that I was starting to think, I feel too good, I really didn't put out during the orienteering the last couple of days.
But when we finished, a look at the watch showed we were 6 and a half minutes slower, same perceived effort. So maybe I was a little tired. Really nice run regardless, chatting with Donna most of the time, even going uphill, telling old ultra tales (she's run a bunch of 100-milers). Very pleasant. And certainly not a run I would have done on my own. | ||
Monday May 26 | ||
| orienteering 1:56:59 [3]11.9 km (9:50 / km) +525m 8:03 / km | |
| Team Trials long course at South Mountain. Not so bad, made it around in under 2 hours, which after about 90 minutes I wasn't sure I could do.
My initial reaction to the run was more or less the usual, somewhat dissatisfied, thinking back to the trials a couple of years ago in St. Louis where I seemed to be running about 10% faster. But then on the way home I was thinking, not so bad, made it around all three days without totally embarrassing myself (or anyone else, I hope). And looking at the years of birth of the rest of the field, where it seems I have a head start in this world on the next oldest by 17 years, again, not so bad. And if I was feeling totally uncoordinated in all those rocks, afraid of doing serious damage anytime I would try to run, well, considering how my agility, balance, flexibility, eyesight, well, pretty much everything except my good looks, has all gone to hell over the last few years, then today was all right. And certainly the best time of anyone eligible to collect Social Security.... :-) So while not exactly thrilled, it seems unreasonable to be pissed off. So there. Though it is a stretch right at this moment to say "I feel great!" Lost a reasonable amount of skin off my right knee, my bionic toe is sorer and more swollen than usual, and I have a purple third toe on my left foot, the result of what may have looked like a very unsuccessful attempt to dislodge a piece of very well planted rock. On the other hand, my left knee held up ok, as did the hamstrings, and my weird very painful right leg walking around the house syndrome seems to have calmed down a good bit, at least for now. The last is probably due to the fact that lots of other things hurt. So here's the course, no routes yet. | ||
| C • Lookin' GOOD!! 11 | ||
| trail running 5:00 [2] | |
| shoes: integrators 2006 | ||
| Just enough of a warm-up to get the joints lubricated enough to be able to run when they said Go.
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Blue Long - Splits | ||
Sunday May 25 | ||
| orienteering 44:23 [3]484 km (6 / km) +190m 5 / km | |
| shoes: integrators 2006 | ||
| Middle distance at Hickory Run. Sort of disappointing run, another in a series it seems, not bad, but a little too sloppy and certainly too slow to be satisfying. Maybe a minute of two of mistakes -- 20-30 seconds on #2 double-checking the reentrant just short of the correct one, 30-45 seconds on #3 going too far, and several little bits. But mainly just not having a fighting spirit. Only time I really put out was on the way up to 17, pretty easy leg, good visibility, just cussed myself a couple of times and finally got a move on. Needed to get in that frame of mind a lot earlier but it just never happened. A day when there were scalps to be taken....
Best time on the course was 32 for Will Smith. Eddie had 34+, Eric about the same I think, Tom Hollowell 36+ I think. Lots of folks in the 40-43 range (Wyatt, Leif, Ross, Clem, among others). Samantha was best woman, then Pavlina and Viktoria I think. Hillary had a bad day. My routes on the men's course. Another really good course, this time by Sandy Fillebrown. Leaves were pretty much out, so the visibility was less than it might have been. | ||
| trail running 8:00 [2] | |
| shoes: integrators 2006 | ||
| Warm-up jog to the start. | ||
Blue Middle - Splits | ||
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