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Monday Oct 4, 2010 #
vélo 40:00 [2]
ahr:144 max:182
biking today to take it easy on my knee. I can still walk just fine and nothing seems to be bothering it so wooohoooo!!! I'm going to try and start putting some more speed into my o-trainings (i don't think pavement and my knee would mix too nicely) and i'll see how it feels. crossing my fingers that i'll be back to race racing by the CNE weekend!!!!!!! :)
Sunday Oct 3, 2010 #
orienteering race 1:58:00 [3] ***** 9.0 km (13:07 / km) +360m 10:56 / km
ahr:165 max:188 22c
holy macaroni
quite the first world cup race ever!! I kinda fudged up my warmup as in i didn't have one cause i knew that already i'd be running wayyy longer than i have for the past month. plus i wanted to try and stay at an easy pace so as to take care of my knee. the terrain was so technical though i had to go super slow just to read the map!! :P
Took the first control easy trying to to freak out and get imtimidated by the sheer confusing-ness of everything!! geepers! I found that it helped to pick a feature on the map to look for in the terrain cause it was just too easy to get screwed up by simplifying the map too much.
On the trail run to two Tove passed me closely followed by another Italian runner which meant that I had it easy getting into the control. I did my best to find an attack point for each control but there was so much else to think about that I always kind of forgot... oopsies.
I took the high road to three which wasn't the best plan since i ended up too high and had to back track to the control.
Four was def tricky with some parallel re-entrant shenanigans going on which tricked the Italian girl but with some careful speculation and observation I did manage to find the right re-entrant to go out and found the single tree in the middle of the white forest... teehee!
Five was fine right up until the circle... it's one of those controls you mess up and then look at afterwards and nearly die from regret of not having enough common sense. There was a whole group of us wandering the hill side looking for this darn cliff, I had attacked the control fine; following the handrail of scattered rocky ground, but then i just never dropped down to the control and ended up with a large scribble on my map.. good thing i wasn't wearing a gps!!! :P My butterfly loop was an itsy bit rough... For six i knew i was in the darn circle the control just wasn't there!!! argg! I also just couldn't figure the contours out in the section which was frustrating cause they looked so obvious and clear in real life... hmmmm.
Nailed seven!!!!!!!!!! woohooo!!!!!!!!!!
Eight not so much but oh well!! I was so epic with my bearing and then once I got close I just lost it so hardcore. Someone was running up the spur to the left and so of course I had to be like "heyy it's over there!!!!" ninety degrees off my bearing... darnnn!! I understand what was happening know I was just being stubborn with orienting my map the wrong way. More re-entrant shenanigans going on there!!! :P
Nine... been there before... oooohyaaa!!! this was a common control and so I saw everyone else running along the hill but too high as well.
Ten I think i just ran there and kept my head up. Hip hip hooray for controls being easy to see!!!
Eleven been there too!!! I think the guy sitting at the water table laughed on the inside at the sight of my over-esctatic face...
Twelve... yay!! Booked it down the hill as fast as my knee could carry me and then skirted around the hill covered in green and read my control descriptions (ooh yaa that's right) as a re-entrant and so definitely nailed that one :)
The whole way down the hill to 13 I had no clue what was going on. I couldn't find some trails and then other ones would just pop up outta nowhere!! ahhhh!! Good thing all I had to do is get to the road :P
Fourteen and Fifteen were craziness to read!! But found them fine with some very super dee duper precise map reading! Fifteen is also where one of my legs gets swallowed by a crevace and I briefly disppear from view in the online video. teehee!!
Spectator control!!! oh my goodness gracious me!!! Kinda wanted to run fast but knew that I shouldn't... see I refrained, but it was hard!!! :S And then I screwed up 17 hard core. I fell into a pile of scrap and then just got all scrambled. Spent a good couple minutes wondering around in slash looking for a pit and cursing the course setter for choosing such a horrible location... hehe imagine that! I was in the wrong place!!!!! but Yay me for going back to the last place I knew where I was and figuring it out from there!!! :)
Eighteen was fine apart from the super huge cliff that was in the way...
Nineteen was the most beautiful control that I have ever seen in my whole entire life. I nearly cried. I came up over this spur and there it was... a vision of beauty... crisp orange and white hanging pristinely across a re-entrant and inbetween two cliffs! Ah it was gorgeous!!
My route to twenty was a tad sketch but I found it just fine, just maybe coming at from the top of the cliff was not the most genious plan everrr....
Twenty one was a piece of cake I just freaked out cause the camerman was there and so my route out of it goes all wonky. I decided to go one way; but then ran into some yucky forest and so headed back towards the other trail ducking down low so that the camerman wouldn't see me... he he... boy and then the trail one back was brutal!! all i wanted to do was put a little speed into my stride but then by 2hrs of running I knew my knee wouldn't like it. I hadn't had any troubles by that point, but still I didn't want to blow it all apart. A bit of an inner battle but I ended up taking it at a comfy pace into the fnish chute much to the disappointment of the spectators when I didn't go any faster after they yelled "Allez allez!!!" I did smile for them though, so voila!!
Ermm soo yaa that's it that's all!! My focus was complete bologna out there since I was so worried about my knee. But hopefully with the rest of the races this month I'll be able to run with a bit more speed and get myself into the zone. I'm really happy with my relocation during the race since it would've been easy to lose more time. I def have to work on having my routes picked out before I leave the control to avoid embarassing encounters with cameramen. But actually I noticed that a lot of the elites stopped at the control and had a staring match with their map before heading off in the right direction. I'll have to keep that in mind next time!! :)
Overall pretty snazzy i'd say!! And yay for france for dominating their home turf!!
quite the first world cup race ever!! I kinda fudged up my warmup as in i didn't have one cause i knew that already i'd be running wayyy longer than i have for the past month. plus i wanted to try and stay at an easy pace so as to take care of my knee. the terrain was so technical though i had to go super slow just to read the map!! :P
Took the first control easy trying to to freak out and get imtimidated by the sheer confusing-ness of everything!! geepers! I found that it helped to pick a feature on the map to look for in the terrain cause it was just too easy to get screwed up by simplifying the map too much.
On the trail run to two Tove passed me closely followed by another Italian runner which meant that I had it easy getting into the control. I did my best to find an attack point for each control but there was so much else to think about that I always kind of forgot... oopsies.
I took the high road to three which wasn't the best plan since i ended up too high and had to back track to the control.
Four was def tricky with some parallel re-entrant shenanigans going on which tricked the Italian girl but with some careful speculation and observation I did manage to find the right re-entrant to go out and found the single tree in the middle of the white forest... teehee!
Five was fine right up until the circle... it's one of those controls you mess up and then look at afterwards and nearly die from regret of not having enough common sense. There was a whole group of us wandering the hill side looking for this darn cliff, I had attacked the control fine; following the handrail of scattered rocky ground, but then i just never dropped down to the control and ended up with a large scribble on my map.. good thing i wasn't wearing a gps!!! :P My butterfly loop was an itsy bit rough... For six i knew i was in the darn circle the control just wasn't there!!! argg! I also just couldn't figure the contours out in the section which was frustrating cause they looked so obvious and clear in real life... hmmmm.
Nailed seven!!!!!!!!!! woohooo!!!!!!!!!!
Eight not so much but oh well!! I was so epic with my bearing and then once I got close I just lost it so hardcore. Someone was running up the spur to the left and so of course I had to be like "heyy it's over there!!!!" ninety degrees off my bearing... darnnn!! I understand what was happening know I was just being stubborn with orienting my map the wrong way. More re-entrant shenanigans going on there!!! :P
Nine... been there before... oooohyaaa!!! this was a common control and so I saw everyone else running along the hill but too high as well.
Ten I think i just ran there and kept my head up. Hip hip hooray for controls being easy to see!!!
Eleven been there too!!! I think the guy sitting at the water table laughed on the inside at the sight of my over-esctatic face...
Twelve... yay!! Booked it down the hill as fast as my knee could carry me and then skirted around the hill covered in green and read my control descriptions (ooh yaa that's right) as a re-entrant and so definitely nailed that one :)
The whole way down the hill to 13 I had no clue what was going on. I couldn't find some trails and then other ones would just pop up outta nowhere!! ahhhh!! Good thing all I had to do is get to the road :P
Fourteen and Fifteen were craziness to read!! But found them fine with some very super dee duper precise map reading! Fifteen is also where one of my legs gets swallowed by a crevace and I briefly disppear from view in the online video. teehee!!
Spectator control!!! oh my goodness gracious me!!! Kinda wanted to run fast but knew that I shouldn't... see I refrained, but it was hard!!! :S And then I screwed up 17 hard core. I fell into a pile of scrap and then just got all scrambled. Spent a good couple minutes wondering around in slash looking for a pit and cursing the course setter for choosing such a horrible location... hehe imagine that! I was in the wrong place!!!!! but Yay me for going back to the last place I knew where I was and figuring it out from there!!! :)
Eighteen was fine apart from the super huge cliff that was in the way...
Nineteen was the most beautiful control that I have ever seen in my whole entire life. I nearly cried. I came up over this spur and there it was... a vision of beauty... crisp orange and white hanging pristinely across a re-entrant and inbetween two cliffs! Ah it was gorgeous!!
My route to twenty was a tad sketch but I found it just fine, just maybe coming at from the top of the cliff was not the most genious plan everrr....
Twenty one was a piece of cake I just freaked out cause the camerman was there and so my route out of it goes all wonky. I decided to go one way; but then ran into some yucky forest and so headed back towards the other trail ducking down low so that the camerman wouldn't see me... he he... boy and then the trail one back was brutal!! all i wanted to do was put a little speed into my stride but then by 2hrs of running I knew my knee wouldn't like it. I hadn't had any troubles by that point, but still I didn't want to blow it all apart. A bit of an inner battle but I ended up taking it at a comfy pace into the fnish chute much to the disappointment of the spectators when I didn't go any faster after they yelled "Allez allez!!!" I did smile for them though, so voila!!
Ermm soo yaa that's it that's all!! My focus was complete bologna out there since I was so worried about my knee. But hopefully with the rest of the races this month I'll be able to run with a bit more speed and get myself into the zone. I'm really happy with my relocation during the race since it would've been easy to lose more time. I def have to work on having my routes picked out before I leave the control to avoid embarassing encounters with cameramen. But actually I noticed that a lot of the elites stopped at the control and had a staring match with their map before heading off in the right direction. I'll have to keep that in mind next time!! :)
Overall pretty snazzy i'd say!! And yay for france for dominating their home turf!!
Saturday Oct 2, 2010 #
Event: World Cup stage 10
orienteering 25:00 [1]
The Orientshow was soooo coooooll!!!!! teehee! I only ran one of the courses but it was so much fun!!! Then in the evening we had a spring in old Annecy which was super cool!! A tad shady with just a petzel lamp... but oh well!
Thursday Sep 30, 2010 #
Note
un jour de repose avant le weekend!!! bennn presque avant le weekend :) je vais courir un petit peu demain pour faire un test avec mon genou!
Wednesday Sep 29, 2010 #
orienteering 30:00 [2]
ahr:141 max:170
second o-map in france and it was even more beautiful than the first one!! for the most part the forest is really open with a mossy/pine needle ground!! ahh!! although then there are green slash parts that are falling trees covered by this prickly vine thing. I had to tiptoe carefully through those cause they kept getting caught on my leg and pulling it to weird angles so that my knee felt yucky. It was an o-tervals session but I just pretty much ran it at a constant pace to test my knee in the woods. Oh aand i cut off the last part cause i didn't want to run more than an hour. Ooooh aaaaaaand each training uses emit!!! c'est quoi ca la? hehe i guess now i'll really learn to love emit... it's just cool to have splits for trainings :)
C • Le F 4
running warm up/down 25:00 [2]
chauffement avec Fanny!!!
Tuesday Sep 28, 2010 #
running 50:00 [2]
warming up and post abdominaux run. eeky eeek eek about my knee!! so far it's ok but i'm hoping i won't regret this when i get out of bed in the morning!!!
core 12:00 [3]
abdominaux!!! à cote du chemin sur des cartons... lol!!!
vélo 25:00 [1]
attacked my never ending to-do list and then had to book it to the bus in order to not miss it... et puis j'ai du faire du velo du centreville jusquau chez moi apres l'entrainement. ce n'etait pas beaucoup de fun ça!!!