Friday Nov 2 |
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| Event: US Champs
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 | Orienteering race 17:02 [4]*** 2.9 km (5:52 / km) +100m 5:01 / km | |
| shoes: O-VJ Integrator Spikes |
| US Sprint O' Champs, 7th(?) US. Not a really bad run, but did lose 20 sec. each on two controls and apparently didn't run quite fast enough.
Fun course, just aim and run like crazy... |
| Orienteering 10:00 [1]1 km (10:00 / km) +10m 9:31 / km | |
| shoes: O-VJ Integrator Spikes |
| Running along w/AJ on his 2nd place M10 run at the US Sprint Champs. Very hard course, and he's not afraid to aim straight through the woods sometimes, especially after double-checking. His navigation and confidence improved noticably a few times during the course. |
| Running warm up/down 18:00 [2]3 km (6:00 / km) | |
| shoes: O-VJ Integrator Spikes |
| Perhaps not enough warm up/down for the race. Did most of the Sprint model at a walk with AJ early. Time includes some running later in the day on the Classic model. |
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Sprint Blue - Splits |
Thursday Nov 1 |
| Running 19:00  2.46 km (7:43 / km) +50m 7:01 / km | |
| ahr:121 max:136 shoes: R-NB 531's |
| Really close to a day off before the US Champs. Mapped a few more Mill Grove trails.
Lower front of left shin muscle is quite sore today - starting getting sore last night. I imagine it's from pounding downhill on the trail & paved road passing Clem last Sunday, but I'm surprised it's sore now, not, say Tue/Wed. Hopefully it will feel better by tomorrow. DTing a bit (by hand, too small for pineapple. |
Wednesday Oct 31 |
| Running 22:43 [2]4 km (5:41 / km) +42m 5:24 / km | |
| ahr:132 max:143 shoes: R-NB 531's |
| Mill Grove easy/short... |
Tuesday Oct 30 |
| Running 1:12:27 [2]12.2 km (5:56 / km) +140m 5:37 / km | |
| ahr:134 max:150 shoes: R-NB 531's |
| GPS mapping of one of the alternative routes on a long leg, and some detail (e.g. trails...) around one of the controls. |
Monday Oct 29 |
| Running 45:18 [2]7.4 km (6:07 / km) +85m 5:47 / km | |
| ahr:128 max:140 shoes: R-NB 531's |
| Trails at Mill Grove, GPS mapping for marathon. Found several new trails and added a control on them... |
Sunday Oct 28 |
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| Event: DVOA - Green Lane
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| Orienteering race 51:50 [4]7.7 km (6:44 / km) +250m 5:47 / km | |
| shoes: O-VJ Integrator Spikes |
| After yesterday's significant defeat to Clem, I decided I needed to run a lot harder today. Clem & I were ready about the same time, so I gave him a 5 minute gap, not expecting to see him, but hoping to make up some of the gap. I ran hard, trying to pretend it was the Sprint Series Finals. At # 10 I saw his back. By # 13 I passed him and pulled away slightly, but then it got tricky and we traded bobbles. I finished 9 second behind him, which was good for a nearly 5 minute win. Much better than yesterday. Can I find that fire next weekend? 3 days in a row? |
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| C • Fire 1 |
| Running warm up/down 13:00 [2]1.5 mi (8:39 / mi) | |
| shoes: O-VJ Integrator Spikes |
| 8 up, 5 down, not too bad. |
Saturday Oct 27 |
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| Event: DVOA - Washington's Crossing
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| Event: DVOA - Myrick
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| Orienteering race 39:27 [4]7.27 km (5:26 / km) +135m 4:58 / km | |
| ahr:163 max:172 shoes: O-VJ Integrator Spikes |
| Not since 1999 has anyone beat Clem at Washington's Crossing. Today was no exception. In pouring rain I had a pretty clean run, maybe 1.8 minutes lost being quite picky. Beat Zhyk by 2 minutes (he had a 2 minute mistake), thinking I'm doing alright, and as long as Clem only beats me by a minute or maybe 2 I'll be okay on the DVOA rankings goal. Wham, almost 4 minutes. What the?
I think it may be partly that Clem knows the park reasonably well, but partly he's just got some serious self-motivation going on. He just hammered out of the start and apparently kept that up all the way around, while I was never really pushing as hard as I would on a road race.
Even my track intervals have been pretty weak over the last few weeks, both on HR-measurement effort and time, which suggests to me I'm not driving myself hard enough. How to relight that fire? |
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| C • Clem 6 |
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| C • Interval times/HRs 1 |
| Running warm up/down 8:17 [2]1.14 km (7:16 / km) +31m 6:24 / km | |
| ahr:130 max:147 shoes: O-VJ Integrator Spikes |
| Really short warmup, short cooldown... BTW, my left hamstring (center & attachment) per the long injury of just over a year ago started bothering me again on Thursday, after a long cool run in tights. I wonder if it's the cold, the tights, or something else. Hit it with pineapple and will do so again shortly. |
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| C • Hamstrings 3 |