Sunday Oct 29 |
 | MTB (technical) 1:05:00 [3] 9.4 mi (6:55 / mi) | |
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| 2 loops at Leb with Mark, Will, Leslie and Rozzi. |
| MTB (road) 45:00 [3] 10.0 mi (4:30 / mi) | |
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| Round trip between Mark's house and Leb. |
Saturday Oct 28 |
| MTB (technical) 1:30:00 [3] 15.0 mi (6:00 / mi) | |
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| Afternoon bike at Leb. 5 short laps waiting for Chuck, then the usual 2XX. Fast average of 9.6. |
Friday Oct 27 |
| Orienteering 1:10:00 [2] *** 7 km (10:00 / km) | |
| spiked:15/17c shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D (2006, black |
| Control picking at Tierney's Woods. Map is still pretty good, woods are nice and open this late in the season. |
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| C • control picking?...what have y... 2 |
Thursday Oct 26 |
| Trail Run 58:00 [4] 7.6 mi (7:38 / mi) | |
| shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D (2006, black |
| W-E-W run at river bottoms. Felt tired and slow. Definitely more effort but turned out to not be so slow after all. Maybe I'll rest the running for a couple of days and get on the bike. |
Tuesday Oct 24 |
| Trail Run 35:15 [3] 4.0 mi (8:49 / mi) | |
| shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D (2006, black |
| Easy run on the Lake-Franklin loop, looking for trails. |
Sunday Oct 22 |
| Orienteering race (Minne-goat) 2:15:22 [4] *** 14.4 km (9:24 / km) +250m 8:39 / km | |
| spiked:26/28c shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D (2006, black |
| Minnegoat at Murphy. Loop A was long, almost 10 km, with some hilltop to hilltop hopping. Jerritt, Stephen, and I ran mostly together through the first 6 controls, then I took a different route to 7 (probably slower, after analysis) but ended up ahead by 10. Came in for map exchange 5 min ahead, slammed down a Gu and kept going on the shorter and more technical 2nd loop. Managed it cleanly (one bobble on B6) and gained time on the loop.
Course distance adjusted for skips: 11 on loop A and 13 on loop B.
Eye didn't bother me during the race (focus is everything!) but it's hurts a little now. |
Saturday Oct 21 |
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| (injured) |
| Woke up last night with a swollen and painful eye. Found out this morning I have a 2 mm scratch on my cornea. I guess last night's branch to the eye made a direct hit this time. Still hoping to run the 'goat but I'll play it by ear. I don't want to miss 2 years in a row. Luckily, this kind of injury heals within a few days. |
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| C • Ouch! 1 |
Friday Oct 20 |
| Orienteering race 54:43 [4] *** 6 km (9:07 / km) | |
| spiked:11/14c shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D (2006, black |
| Bad start to the 3rd adventure run. Stupidly went to the wrong hilltop on #1 (although it was hilarious to see most of the field following me). #2 was just off the top of a hill with really thick vegetation and I must have gone right by without seeing it, then got turned around in the thick stuff. By the time I got #2 I was sure I was back half of the pack. Ran clean from then on and passed a bunch of teams, finished within 2 min of MoBizMoLuv for 2nd overall. Although the result wasn't really disappointing, the performance was. I expect a better job out of myself at the beginning, especially with easy controls like that. |
Wednesday Oct 18 |
| Trail Run 48:10 [3] 6.5 mi (7:24 / mi) | |
| shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D (2006, black |
| Same loop as Monday, except backwards. |
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| C • Telemark Controls 4 |
Monday Oct 16 |
| Trail Run 50:00 [3] 6.5 mi (7:41 / mi) | |
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| Ford-Lake loop plus some time messing around figuring out where the trails were. JJ is right - there are some really nice soft trails to run down along the bluffs. It was sheltered and the yellow maples still had a lot of leaves so it looked earlier in the season than it actually is. Didn't see any sketchy guys. |
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| C • Glad you found the trails... 2 |
Friday Oct 13 |
| Note | |
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| Fall Adv Run #2 |
| Orienteering race (Night-O) 52:30 [4] ** 6.6 km (7:57 / km) | |
| spiked:10/11c shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D (2006, black |
| Run #2 at Hyland. Lots of trail running including a route choice around Hyland Lake. Took an unusual route in order to get away from JJ at #3, and managed to reach the split 10 sec before him. Wasn't so fast on the 2nd half but made less mistakes than the other runners. |
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| C • good race... 4 |
Wednesday Oct 11 |
| MTB (technical) 1:10:00 [3] 10.0 mi (7:00 / mi) | |
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| 2 loops at Leb with Chuck and Dave. Windy, mid 30s. My feet went numb, can't someone invent thermal bike shoes? |
Sunday Oct 8 |
| Orienteering race (Sprint) 19:00 [4] *** 2.21 km (8:36 / km) | |
| spiked:5/7c shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D (2006, black |
| Bad bad bad bad run the next morning. Blew two of seven, not really seriously but enough to count in a sprint. |
| MTB (technical) 30:00 [3] *** 4.0 mi (7:30 / mi) | |
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| Biked the Ojibwe trail to go pick up some controls from yesterday. Right as I was coming back to North End it started to rain - no more biking this weekend :(
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| Hiking 30:00 [2] 2.0 mi (14:59 / mi) | |
| shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D (2006, black |
| Hiked the loop trail at Copper Falls SP. |
Saturday Oct 7 |
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| Event: MNOC Fall Orienteering Weekend
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| Orienteering race 1:08:17 [4] **** 6.41 km (10:39 / km) +200m 9:13 / km | |
| spiked:10/12c shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D (2006, black |
| Telemark Day 1. Good run but I got tired at the end. One bobble on 3 and a 5min boom on 6-7, but the rest of it was clean. Warm, windy, almost all the leaves off. |
| Map Run 1:20:00 [2] *** | |
| shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D (2006, black |
| Off trail jog/walk Sat morning, to get my head into the map. |
| Orienteering race (Night-O) 56:25 [4] **** 5.48 km (10:18 / km) +120m 9:17 / km | |
| spiked:15/16c shoes: Salomon XA Pro 3D (2006, black |
| Two loops of Night-O with a map exchange. First loop was the orange-level. Owen, Graham, Justin and I ran together at first but Owen gradually gained some distance. We came around for a map exchange onto a much more difficult loop, and despite the early leads the four of us hit B2 together again. Justin and I dropped off the back a little, and I had to fight Kevin T on the run from B6 into the finish. Telemark is HARD at night - concentration is key. |
Thursday Oct 5 |
| MTB (road) 1:36:00 [3] 21.7 mi (4:25 / mi) | |
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| Finally! some time to get a session in. Twi-night ride on the extended river loop, with some trail riding. |