Training Archive: cedarcreekIn the 7 days ending 2006-12-30:
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Saturday Dec 30 | ||
| Event: OCIN New Year's Orienteering Festival | ||
| Orienteering race 1:16:03 [4]*** 5.1 km (14:55 / km) +65m 14:01 / km | |
| shoes: Adidas $42 Cleats | ||
| Green course at Miami University Natural Areas, set by Bill Swift. Climb approximate---I'll count it later.
A really fun course. Somewhat complicated. No long leg, but good variety in leg lengths and difficulty. I did better than I usually do against some people. I attribute this to the difficulty of the course. I might be improving in fitness, but this happened the last time I was on this map (and Bill set the courses). Some of the difficulty was traveling along the flatter bottom areas with vague location features. I had a few hesitations, and I took the right trail route to 5 more to check out the map---the left route through the field looked faster, but boring. The biggest error of the day was about 30 or 60 seconds at 13---the clearing. I overran the attackpoint and misread the map a little. I caught it pretty fast, but it still bugged me. I also took the hardest fall I've ever taken at walking speed---I was leaving 15 (the go control), and I knew there was a fence, so I looked down at the map, and I could feel the fence hit my legs. I hit the ground hard, and my ribs landed on top of my forearm---deforming the ribs inward. It really knocked the wind out of me. For about 10 seconds, I was pretty sure I was going to the hospital. I stumbled to my feet, started walking, and felt better. After about a minute, I was able to run to the finish. I was shocked when I saw my split was just a little over 2 minutes. It felt like at least 4. I was amazed how much this course took out of me. I was forgetful and couldn't put words together normally for a few hours afterwards. I hope I didn't hurt my chances for the sprints Sunday. I really want to do the Night-O Sunday, and that means my original plans to do the BillyPig might have to be changed to the Piglet. Now, about 11 hours later, my ribs have no visible swelling or bruising, but they hurt in places when I push on them. | ||
| Note | |
| Spent about 3 hours massaging the entry spreadsheet, setting up the three SI events in the SportIdent software (OE2003), and importing the .csv files. Now it's 3am on the 31st, and I've got to get up in 4.5 hours. The Piglet is looking more and more likely. | ||
Green - Splits | ||
Friday Dec 29 | ||
| Note | |
| Spent 2 hours today making numbers for the PVC stands. I also made clear, check, start, and finish labels.
I picked up SI gear from Bob F., and took the stands to Mike's. I also spent another hour making 14 more assemblies to hold the SI e-controls onto the stands. | ||
Thursday Dec 28 | ||
| Note | |
| Spent maybe 3 or 4 hours making 21 more PVC pipe stands. This has been one of the smaller reasons OCIN hasn't had more local events using SportIdent, and hopefully, now that we have more stands than we have e-controls, we're one step closer to that. (I took photos, and I will eventually post an article about how I made them.)
(And just to be clear---OCIN has a lot of stands. It's just that they're inconvenient to use with SI. These make it a lot easier.) | ||
| Running 37:06 [3]4.2 km (8:50 / km) +75m 8:07 / km | |
| shoes: Brooks | ||
| One-hill route with a loop around the rec center. Slow, but steady. Stopped twice for intestinal issues. I've been eating way too much good-tasting food. I suppose that blackberry pie with ice cream *and* cool whip is technically considered food.
This has turned into another break where I've squandered beautiful weather. I've pushed the limits of slugdom this last week. Partial movie list: Babí léto (Autumn Spring) (Czech) Strangers With Candy Cast Away* Talledega Nights* On A Clear Day (Laid-off Shipbuilder tries to put his life back together and decides to swim the English Channel.) Something the Lord Made (About heart surgery pioneers Dr. Alfred Blalock and (Mr.) Vivien Thomas. Stars Mos Def.) The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (2000) Little Shop of Horrors (1986)* The Good Shepherd V for Vendetta Hopscotch* * means I had already seen it, and was rewatching it for some reason. I also finished the book "Warning to the West" by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. I guess I'm neglecting my training and being diligent on my movie watching and book reading. Classic slug-like behavior... | ||