Sunday Apr 8 |
 | Orienteering race 1:30:15 [4] 10 km (9:02 / km) +400m 7:31 / km | |
| shoes: O-VJ-Grey-Spikes |
| NZ Long Champs. Aside from a logistical error (didn't epunch the map exchange/water-stop) I was happy with my run. 90 minutes vs. 76 for the winners (<20% back) and that including 1 error of ~2 minutes and a few other lesser issues. Really steep.
2 Excedrin at finish, 1 @ 3 & 6 hours later. Still a headache from 4-7 hours later, but with some Powerade at about Run-Finish+7-hours, it cleared up pretty quick. |
| Running warm up/down 15:00 [2] 1.0 mi (14:59 / mi) | |
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| Light warmup. Short cooldown. |
Saturday Apr 7 |
| Orienteering race 43:15 [4] 5.5 km (7:52 / km) +70m 7:24 / km | |
| ahr:170 slept:8.0 shoes: O-VJ-Grey-Spikes |
| NZ Middle Distance Champs - A bit sloppy - mostly, I think, due to my incompetence with the baseplate compass I was borrowing - I'm so used to getting my rough compass at a glance and then spending the rest of the time reading the map at a similar glance & go... After 2 45-degree errors costing a minute or so each, I slowed up a bit. Still was annoying as even quick bearings from attackpoints were difficult - still with my baseplate incompetence.
I think you just get into such a rhythm for how everything should go when you are aiming for <1-minute time lost as a goal, that any little thing that isn't working as expected can really muck the whole thing up...
I tried to use my Moscow N-hemi compass a bit on a trail walk yesterday morning, but it was a far better detector of down than of North. When totally flat, it did point North pretty quickly, but when tipped only about 5-10 degrees, the south-arrow whipped around to point toward the down-tilt of the compass, rendering the North arrow useless. I think the JWOCers coming to Australia will definitely be better off with a familar form-factor compass, in a Southern-hemisphere version, than they would trying to use their own...
Winner was 32 something (Carsten Jorg. was 33), but 43 was still good enough for 16th of ~30 in M21E
Long distance tomorrow, in steeper terrain. |
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| C • NIce to see your log :) Have a... 1 |
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| On a really bad internet connection today - will try again later... |
| Running warm up/down 10:00 [2] 1.0 mi (10:00 / mi) | |
| shoes: O-VJ Integrator Cleats |
| Mostly warmup time - did very little cooldown. I wonder if that will hurt tomorrow? On a plus side, my hamstring isn't sore this evening (vs. the past few days...) |
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| Saw Matt Scott today. He can run faster than I can at this point - and his Achilles issue is apparently improved. He & Lara seem pretty happy. :) |
Friday Apr 6 |
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| Event: New Zealand Champs
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| Orienteering warm up/down 20:00 [2] 3 km (6:40 / km) | |
| shoes: O-VJ Integrator Cleats |
| incl. cooldown w/AJ on his run of half the Sprint course |
| Orienteering race 16:59 [4] 3.1 km (5:29 / km) | |
| shoes: O-VJ Integrator Cleats |
| NZ Sprint Champs @ Auckland Botanical Gardens - The Gardened areas made for some nice mazes in many locations - had some trouble due to compass but I really didn't need it much.
Winners were ~14:xx. Matt Scott was low 16's. I had probably ~30+ sec. mistakes on very tricky Sprint course lots of little trail sections and zig-zags through OOB planted areas. About 15th of 25 in M21E. Angelica then went out got to 5 before 1, and just before 2 when I began videotaping (it was near the car park), she totally blew up turning right, coming back almost to the right spot, then running 500m away from the bag (she was 30m from), right off the map& Hopefully shell do better tomorrow&
Note: Tonight, at Wesley College, we found out that the dormitory style accommodations required you to bring your own sleeping bag/linens, which we did not have there were mattresses, and we managed something with clothes-pillows a picnic blanket and a towel. But it was no picnic. Weve just booked a hotel for tomorrow&
L-Hamstring (middle) was sore walking this morning, and after the race (okay after warmup & during) not sure what set this off perhaps still from last weekends no-warmup Sprint? Or the hills of the past two days? (4/5s hills included a few hundred wooden stairs, so perhaps that (unusual) did the damage?
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Thursday Apr 5 |
| Running 50:00 [2] 9 km (5:33 / km) +200m 5:00 / km | |
| shoes: R-NB Grey Shoes |
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Wednesday Apr 4 |
| Running 58:00 [2] 5.8 km (10:00 / km) +250m 8:14 / km | |
| shoes: R-NB Grey Shoes |
| Hilly, grassy, 1st day in NZ |
| Running intervals 3:00 [4] 0.3 km (10:00 / km) +45m 5:43 / km | |
| shoes: R-NB Grey Shoes |
| Two steep hill intervals were all I could muster given the travel, and the back-to-back racing weekends... |
Tuesday Apr 3 |
| Running 42 [1] 0.04 km (17:30 / km) | |
| shoes: R-NB Grey Shoes |
| Total of several segments of up to 5 seconds each, in the aisles of the Air NZ 747, enroute after midnight, before crossing the international date line. Mostly done in the segment about 1500 miles SE to S of Hawaii... :) |
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Monday Apr 2 |
| Running 45:00 [2] 4.5 mi (10:00 / mi) +40m 6:03 / km | |
| shoes: O-VJ Integrator Cleats |
| Very slow run with Angelica near Oceanside, CA (from Mike W's house) - her Quads were sore and my hamstring was a bit sore too (both probably due to the DVOA event/Sprint) |