Saturday Apr 29 |
 | Orienteering race 43:02 [5]*** 4.17 km (10:19 / km) +140m 8:50 / km | |
| spiked:14/16c |
| Short O champs at Thacher State Park near Albany. I warm up well, but I still don't have much punch when I start. I am not moving aggressively enough.
I have a big error at #9. I know it is a tricky area. This alone is a dangerous thought. The expectation of trouble leads to trouble. I navigate carefully when approaching the control, but I rely too much on seeing the white hill. From this side it is rather indistinct. I can't figure which cliff is which. I invent a paralllel error where there is none.
I am glad there is another race tomorrow. Short-o races are unforegiving. It is difficult to make up for a mistake. |
| Running warm up/down 30:00 [3]4 km (7:30 / km) +20m 7:19 / km | |
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| I run to the start instead of taking the bus. I want to be fully warmed up and ready. I need to do this, since I am slow in waking up from the vegetative state of sitting in the car. I need a good 20 minutes of running and some stretching, martial arts and focusing before being warmed up for the race. |
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Friday Apr 28 |
| Running 37:00 [3]7.5 km (4:56 / km) +50m 4:46 / km | |
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| The short and easy 7k warm up and warm down. I still feel the 20 k control pick-up and control scouting from Wednesday. Maybe I should have a juicy turkey sandwich to re-energize myself. |
Thursday Apr 27 |
| Running 37:00 [3]7.5 km (4:56 / km) +50m 4:46 / km | |
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| An easy run to recover, with some fast speed elements, just to wake the energy up.
Spend most of the day successfully procrastinating some accounting, instead I finish one adventure racing map, sent the sprint map to Mr. G and cleaned up a bunch of files. All the excuses make a good day of work. And in the end I begin to sort a pile the receipts, dig out the paper work, the files and really begin setting up the accounts. What a beautiful numberful work, all so clean and almost satisfying.
This leads to the question (not to emulate Spike's ruminations of how to get from any issue to orienteering): Is there procrastination in orienteering? Maybe getting lost is a form of procrastination? Is a long slow race the procrastination of the unavoidable fact that sooner or later one gets to the finish? Or even more philosophically: Is writing on Attackpoint procrastinating? |
Wednesday Apr 26 |
| Orienteering 1:20:00 [3]*** 9.6 km (8:20 / km) +300m 7:12 / km | |
| spiked:10/10c |
| Control pick-up at Silvermine. Beautiful weather, blue sky, black flies, spring fresh blue berry leaves. |
| Orienteering 1:34:00 [3]*** 10 km (9:24 / km) +200m 8:33 / km | |
| spiked:16/16c |
| Course setting at Ringwood, checking controls sites which work for an AR. The controls need to be clearly defined, not too much intricate map reading yet still something to think. I like to put them spectacular features, a cliff with a view, on top of a boulder, an old building, something special. I check out a bridge, but the water is 3 feet deep. Decide against it, for now. Or does anyone out there request an underwater control? |
Tuesday Apr 25 |
| Running 37:00 [3]7.5 km (4:56 / km) +50m 4:46 / km | |
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| Tapering off. I could do another hamburger training, but I don't. Need to hold my horses and build up some energy.
I don't play golf, so I guess I have to do what I can. Like doing work for example. Invest my surplus time in writing on a new chapter. In the evening I plant 12 different kinds of plant and vegetables seeds.
I start trying out a the MapStudio plug-in for Adobe Illustrator. Gives me all the map symbols. I figure how to scale the contours. So I will try to get the printing improved with more legible contours and maybe other symbols which were not scaled correctly before. |
Monday Apr 24 |
| Running 37:00 [3]7.5 km (4:56 / km) +50m 4:46 / km | |
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| Easy run on the river, day light and no rain, just a pleasant run to begin the tapering off before the EMPO meet. - I have been moved up from HVO vice president to interim or acting or whatever HVO president, so I need to get used what to do. Maybe I take a pointer from the great leader: Delegate, choose a laid back attitude and make uninformed & rushed choices. I am still waiting for the castle which comes along with the job plus the limousine service. |
Sunday Apr 23 |
| Intervals tempo 26:00 [4]6.4 km (4:04 / km) +80m 3:49 / km | |
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| The 8x3min. tempo runs in drizzle and partly at night, so I have to slow down somewhat. I waited out the end of the rain, but it started again and it gets cold. I run with the headlamp on the trail. Some fishermen return from fishing and probably wonder what the heck this means, when I pass them again and again. |
| Running 53:00 [3]8.4 km (6:19 / km) +50m 6:08 / km | |
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| Run to Dennings Point and back, also recovery jog between tempo runs. On the way back it rains and I am cold, can't think nor run well anymore. Slosh home and de-ice the body under the shower. |
| Relax warm up/down 10:00 [1] | |
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| Stretching and de-icing the body. I return my stiff back to working order. Guess the rain was good for nature and garden, but for running it was suddenly cold and winter like. |