Training Archive: peggydIn the 7 days ending 2007-11-04:
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Sunday Nov 4 | ||
| Orienteering warm up/down 8:00 [2] | |
| Jogged part of the walk to the start, and then a bit once I was there. A lovely day for a walk in the woods. Or, in our case, a run in the woods. | ||
| Orienteering race 1:02:07 [4]*** 5.8 km (10:43 / km) | |
| shoes: Jalas | ||
| US Champs ... Day 2 ... PWF ... Green Y ... F45.
Once again Kissy started early and I could have found out her time. I didn't want to, but I gathered, from what she & PG said, that it was good. I guessed it was under an hour, and I aimed for 58 minutes. But I couldn't manage that today, not with a few errors and tiredness. Here's where my lack of consistent training hurt me: I felt tired right at the beginning on the first uphill. I never felt fast or fresh, after two days of racing. I knew I had to push myself to have a chance to hold off Kissy, and I was mostly able to do that. But I wasn't clean, and that annoyed me. I drifted a couple times, on both 2 & 4 ... and I was aware that this was classic QOC o' where you could drift off all too easily. At least I recovered quickly. A few other bobbles here and there just slowed me down. The last few controls (7-8-9) before the stream crossing were in the area I used for my Blue course in '02, and I'd done a bunch of mapping there. Unfortunately, that didn't really help me -- I just recognized some of it and it was kind of fun. Kissy gave me a "I'm disappointed in you -- you didn't have a good run" look when I finished; she knew she'd beaten me for the day, but she also knew I got her overall. She was 2 min ahead for the day, just 6 min behind PG (who didn't have a great run); Pia was first. I think this proved I was right to be concerned about Kris and take her seriously. It definitely helped me focus. Lovely day in the woods, great weather. Good map, course, etc. I thought the club did a bang-up job putting on the event. Although I know there were some bumps, from a competitor's point of view, it was perfect. Only last night (Sunday) did Nadim tell me some backstage stories. He took the day off today (Monday)-- good for him! He (and the whole crew) did a great job. | ||
| Note | |
Walk to the Start. What a beautiful day!
Max & Alex enjoyed the string-o course. 
I'm about to get a congratulatory kiss from the Meet Director. :-) 
Kissy is wondering where her congratulatory kiss is.  | ||
| C • blue course from 2002 2 | ||
Day 2 Green Y - Splits | ||
Saturday Nov 3 | ||
| Orienteering warm up/down 8:00 [3] | |
| Trail run to the Start. Further than I expected, but I had just the right amount of time. And I felt nice and warm when I got there. | ||
| Orienteering race 56:59 [4]**** 5.2 km (10:58 / km) | |
| US Champs, Day 1 ... PWF ... Green Y ... F45.
I'd heard from the F21s how hard their first control, especially, was, and how green it was. So that just reinforced my plan to be very cautious. I started out slowly, really checking everything to the first control. Spiked it, and perhaps got a bit too confident (I'm suprised, in retrospect, how well #2 went given my sloppiness at the beginning of that leg). The only leg I beat Peter G on was #1, despite my cautiousness; he said he was going slowly for the same reason I was ... he just did it slower. And then sped up a whole lot more. He started 10 min behind me and caught me at #9; the next leg was a speedy run along the powerline and he was out of sight. Happily, he only made up an additional 40 seconds on me before the end. Cautiousness got me to 3 & 4; lost some time in the circle on 5 (we all agreed things ... vegetation ... didn't look quite as expected there), then had my biggest error on 6. Left 5 the wrong direction, corrected quickly but was then off my line and didn't really correct. Thought I was reading the contours but of course it was typical Quantico parallel stuff ... I came up over a ridge expecting to be just above the control; instead, I hit the road. Ack. Well, it was pretty straightforward to find the control from there. Although it was green and somewhat subtle, I thought the map and course were excellent, and in a way, I enjoyed it. Definitely I enjoyed sucessfully meeting the challenge. I thought it was a legitimate test as a championship (and WRE) area/course. Finished 3rd on the course behind Peter & Pia, 6 min up on Kissy. Lots of people had trouble today, some of them significant trouble, and some of those people (according to their logs; I was bored at work today and read as many as were already posted) thought the area was not very good, the courses weren't appropriate, the course setting poor, even the control placement bad. I, on the other hand, found myself agreeing with Swampfox ... and that hardly ever happens. (Though we both agree Kissy is a lovely person :-). | ||
| C • I thought it was just right... 3 | ||
Day 1 Green Y - Splits | ||
Friday Nov 2 | ||
| Event: US Champs | ||
| Orienteering 58:02 [2]*** | |
| Sprint & Classic models. I nominally was in charge of the models, but in reality all I did was set them on paper. Nadim was concerned about me gaining any kind of competitive advantage, and he didn't want there to be any suggestion of unfairness, so he and Jan Merka vetted and put out the controls. I put out the Clear control for the sprint model. Then I jogged the course (which was not intended to be a course, just 8 controls ... oh well). The woods were mostly not very nice, but I knew that they were greener than the actual sprint terrain. Mostly it was good for scale & map preparedness.
Then I realized I needed to streamer the first leg of the "intermediate" course for the classic model, so I headed out there and did that, then did the "advanced" course nice and slowly. I blew the first control, then was clean; it was useful. Although the area was green, it was well-mapped, I thought, and some of the woods were very nice. Thanks to Dasa for watching Max while I did this. | ||
| Orienteering race (sprint) 21:20 [5]*** 2.5 km (8:32 / km) | |
| US Sprint O' Champs ... Green ... F45. Wow, this was a blast. Caught Valerie at #1 (she started a minute ahead of me after having to get a new start time). Gave her some words of encouragement, I think.
I was clean the whole way ... except for my boneheaded second-guessing of myself on the "long" leg to 8. I took the left trail, and about halfway there, at a trail junction, I suddenly thought I had made a big mistake and I was somewhere else. I turned about 270 degrees onto a ride, and took several steps but my compass didn't make sense so I stopped, freaked out for a second or two, then pulled myself together and realized I was right in the first place. Bad mistake in a sprint -- cost me over a minute. Thought about the road option to 9 but decided on the more straight route through the parking field & to the trail. Coursesetter Dave Onkst was happy to hear I went that way -- most took the road -- and claimed it was the best route. Who am I to argue? Great fun, very fast, loved it. Finished 1st in F45, about 2.5 min ahead of Kissy. Whew, one race down, 2 to go. Hey, how'd ya like those start chutes??!! ;-) | ||
Sprint Green - Splits | ||
Thursday Nov 1 | ||
| Cross training (recumbent exercise bike) 47:00 [2] | |
| Very easy spinning on the bike. Just wanted to do something to counteract, in a small way, all the Halloween chocolate I've been eating. Who scheduled the US Champs just a few days after H-ween?? Too much discipline needed to avoid the candy. :-(
Forgot to bring a magazine so I picked up an old People; the mindlessness of the mag went along with the mindlessness of the workout. | ||
| C • No no no 1 | ||
Wednesday Oct 31 | ||
| Cross training (recumbent exercise bike) 42:00 [3] | |
| I was planning on going to the old gym, my regular Mon-Wed-Fri gym, but I got distracted when I ran into a former co-worker and he asked me a question (about the Swedish alphabet, of all things). So I found myself at the new gym instead. Oh well.
Finished reading Women's Health. Just the right amount left for the ride. | ||
| Cross training 5:00 [2] | |
| 10 lb barbells. | ||
| Note | |
| Halloween! Max was Clifford the Big Red Dog. Woof!
Photo will follow, but I don't have time today to get that worked out ... leaving for the US Champs meet HQ very soon (writing this on Thursday). Looking forward to fighting rush hour traffic heading south. :-) Yay! I have mastered photos in the log. Max before trick or treating, with me on the porch.  | ||
Tuesday Oct 30 | ||
| Trail intervals 32:24 | |
| Max's daycare had its Halloween "parade" today at 10:30, and I decided I'd just take the rest of the day off & get stuff done. First up, after the party, was a run. I moved my car to the trailhead for the Georgetown Branch Trail (southern trailhead in East Bethesda) and ran south, past Max & his friends still playing, in costume, at school, through the tunnel & back for my warm up. Then I did 3x800, jogging back & forth after the first two for recovery and starting where I ended the last one. I thought about only doing two, given the races coming up, but the first one felt pretty good so I decided I'd do three. I like to think this was sprint race pace (!) but I doubt it. The last one was much slower for some reason. I did feel like I was slowing but not that much.
Splits: 3:41, 3:31, 3:52. Horrible pacing! It's not like the 800s were of varying difficulty. So I don't have a good explanation. Around 52; felt cool enough that I kept my (very light) jacket on the whole time. Wimp! Foot felt okay. It does best on unpaved flat stuff, like this. | ||
| Note | |
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Happy 46th Birthday Nadim!! Max made Nadim a birthday card.  | ||
Monday Oct 29 | ||
| Cross training (recumbent exercise bike) 47:00 [2] | |
| The regular crowd at the gym; we all recognize each other now. The new fitness leave has not added anyone to our little group. :-)
Continued reading Women's Health. Someone in the group (everyone but me?) has a thing for The Price is Right, so that was on ... just doesn't do anything for me. | ||
| C • TV in the waiting room 1 | ||
| Weights 5:00 [2] | |
| 10 lb barbbells, arms/wrists/shoulders. | ||
| Note | |
| Nadim called from home this morning, and Max wanted to say hi. After saying that, he said "I don't like my life!" I was about to get into some philosphical musings about how we all go through times when we don't like our lives, when Nadim clarified that he was eating Life cereal... :-) | ||
| C • :-))) 2 | ||