Wednesday Oct 17 |
 | Mixed Run (Shafran) 50:00  10.4 km (4:48 / km) +170m 4:27 / km | |
| shoes: Salomon TR2 |
| Ran over to Shafran - 5 min on road, then trails taking a random assortment of options, skipping bridges in favor of direct stream crossing, cutting some trail corners in the woods etc. Distance is GPS time. When I reached 9km at around 40 minutes, I decided to head home and do it as fast as I could so roughly 10 minutes at intensity 5. Hit the road and kept pushing to see if I could get home under 50 minutes. Hit the driveway exactly as it rolled over. Then proceeded to collapse in my chair on the breezeway in the fine autumn sunshine for well over a half hour. Legs are quite tired now (in a good way) |
Tuesday Oct 16 |
| Mixed Run (Happy Feet) 20:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Salomon TR2 |
| helping out with running club. Jogging in/out with the kids, but not much running (for me) otherwise. |
Sunday Oct 14 |
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| Event: NEOC Wells State Park
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| Orienteering - Event race (Wells SP Green) 47:19 [5]*** 3.85 km (12:17 / km) +150m 10:17 / km | |
| shoes: Salomon TR2 |
| Nice day in the woods, used new map of Northern section of park. Still have some areas of questionable mapping. Also using a 1:7500 so I ran a little more conservative to avoid overrunning things which I saw as a distinct possibility. One major blunder on #6, otherwise just minor misses. |
| Orienteering - Event race (Wells SP Yellow) 13:48 [5]*** 2.2 km (6:16 / km) +50m 5:38 / km | |
| shoes: Salomon TR2 |
| Sprint Training on the yellow course. Realized enroute to #2 that my R shoe was untied, but didn't stop to fix it, ran with it loose. Good running speed, but I had copied new course onto my used green map, so upon leaving each control I had to stop and read it carefully to make sure I was heading to the correct control, picked a route and strategy then ran it hard without further referral to the map. Only real troubles were on #6 I opted to shortcut in the powerline area and got mired in brambles that were deeper and thicker than I realized - trail around would have saved me 30s or so. And then on the penultimate the clue said pit, but there was a depression AND a pit in the circle (and the master map was centered on the depression) so I checked that out before hitting the pit. Maybe 10s on the diversion. Add perhaps 30-40s loss on the loose shoe (slower pace) for maybe 75s total loss. Probably wouldn't have hurt my time to tie it when I noticed it. Also lost maybe another minute unfolding map to punch (card stapled to map) over what would have been with e-punching. I'm just not smooth enough when futzing with the pin punches.... |
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| C • Boy, add up all those times... 3 |
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Green - Splits |
Saturday Oct 13 |
| Orienteering - Training (Crandalls) 20:00 [1]*** 2.2 km (9:05 / km) +40m 8:20 / km | |
| shoes: Salomon TR2 |
| hanging streamers for cub scout orienteering session this afternoon. White and yellow level, short legs - 12 controls in 2.2km. Quite enjoyable in the woods |
| Orienteering - Training (Crandalls) 13:23 [4]*** 2.2 km (6:05 / km) +40m 5:35 / km | |
| shoes: Salomon TR2 |
| then turned around and tried to run the course hard. Difficult to breathe at higher intensity, no energy in the legs. Of course Anna's birthday is on Monday so she had a half dozen 6th grade girlfriends over for a sleepover last night (not a lot of sleep on my part) and then helping with things this AM I never ate breakfast. So in retrospect its no surprise I had a tough time.... |
| Orienteering - Training (Crandalls) 50:00 [1]*** 2.2 km (22:44 / km) +40m 20:50 / km | |
| shoes: Salomon TR2 |
| Cub Scout den meeting event. 5 boys (3rd grade), 1 younger sibling, 3 adults. Did a quick intro with a bunch of old maps to get an idea of what the various colors stood for on the map, then more into specific types of features. Then walk to start and begin a series of short white legs having everyone orient their map, and discuss the options, then took turns with one boy leading each leg once decided on the particular course. Plenty of running along in the woods and when I saw the plan going awry, I told them to stop and re-check their map and to review their pre-ordained plan. Most of the time they figured it out on their own and got right back on track. Last 4 controls were yellow/orangish but had the huge handrail of I-84 visible in the distance. Everyone had a good time and enjoyed the fact that this was a running sport, not just a walk in the woods. |