Training Archive: bishop22In the 31 days ending 2006-08-31:
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Thursday Aug 31 | ||
| Running 39:49 [3] 5.38 mi (7:24 / mi) | |
| slept:6.0 | ||
| GTA with Erik, Lawrence and D&JV. Most everyone was up for an easy day, due to past and upcoming events, so I was able to hang on for much of the run, despite yesterday's workout. Then I ran into some intestinal distress issues and had to cut the run short - unbelievably, they had no porta-pots at the Elmwood Ave construction site, which would have really helped. I ate dinner too late last night. | ||
| Golfing 9:00 [1] | |
| Final chance to play before this weekend's club champs. Lipped a par putt on 1, which turned out to be an omen. I missed a 2-footer for par on 4, a 4-footer on 5, and left a 10-footer just short on 6, then missed a 5-footer on 8. So, I shot 43. If I can turn the putting around this weekend, I could be ready to score. | ||
Wednesday Aug 30 | ||
| Running warm up/down 27:54 [2] 3.25 mi (8:34 / mi) | |
| rhr:45 slept:6.75 weight:171lbs | ||
| 12:13 before workout;
15:41 after workout. | ||
| Running intervals (and Hills) 14:39 [5] 2.1 mi (6:58 / mi) | |
| Main workout at Ellison Park was:
3x400m: 89, 90, 89 6x1min hills 3x400m: 71, 91, 89 The 400m was out and back on a slight incline. The hill for the 1min repeat was steep - looking at the O-map, it was at least 25m climb. For the first 400 of the second set, I had the kids run down from the top of the hill to the 200m mark and in (it was probably a few seconds short - I went by the 200m mark in 30). The kids enjoyed it and I figure it's good to occasionally practice running downhill fast, since we have to do so in races. I had a couple of guys do a 4th 400m before and after. | ||
| C • Tomorrow morning run 3 | ||
| Running warm up/down 12:00 [2] 1.2 mi (10:00 / mi) | |
| After each 400 and hill. | ||
| Golfing 9:00 [1] | |
| Played with a guy who was pretty terrible. He said "it's not my night", I felt like saying "it's not your game". But I looked pretty awful myself: ugly bogey on 1, double on 2 after hitting a short wedge 45-degrees right into the trees, double on 4 (OB off the tee, else par). I did par 3 and 8, but missed < 4' putts for par on 5 and 7, and 3-putted 9 for a 44. | ||
Tuesday Aug 29 | ||
| Note | |
| rhr:46 slept:6.25 weight:171lbs (rest day) | ||
| Unplanned rest day - couldn't get out at lunch, then had to mow and get the kids to "spike night" at the local Fleet Feet. First pair of spikes for both Chelsea and Nate.
A day off seems reasonable at this point. | ||
Monday Aug 28 | ||
| Running 38:00 [2] 4.9 mi (7:45 / mi) | |
| Warm-up with the team, then ran around for some encouragement during their tempo run. My legs were in no shape to attempt tempo pace today. | ||
Sunday Aug 27 | ||
| Running warm up/down 15:00 [2] 1.76 mi (8:31 / mi) | |
| Warm-up before the COC Long. | ||
| Orienteering race 1:48:13 [4] *** 9.79 km (11:03 / km) +210m 9:59 / km | |
| spiked:16/24c rhr:50 slept:5.25 | ||
| COC Long at Mono Cliffs Provincial Park. Well, first let me say that I spiked C10 today!
My legs were a little sore and tired from yesterday's races, so I started rather slowly, which certainly helped my navigation. Going to C4, I learned that the rough open land could be pretty deep - I had to bail to a trail earlier than I wanted, then I got sucked into a tiny patch of white to attack, when I meant to cut in at the big patch of white. I ended up avoiding the rough open most of the rest of the way. Leaving C8, I took off for the road, only to realize when I got there, that there was no good way to cut back in. The cemetery was OB, so I had to cut thru medium green to avoid that. I missed C11 way right, then spent too long deciding where to leave the trail for C12. The route to C14 actually had some fast-ish rough open, but I struggled to cut some distance to C15 by running thru that same color, then I started running towards C16 when I got into the woods (but they were close together and I corrected en route). I was distracted by others and went the wrong side of the hill to C17. I tried the rough open heading towards C18, but it was nasty and I had to bail to the trail, which was probably the better route anyway because of the hills/cliffs. C19 was another running leg, but I was starting to wear down, and I ended up walking several stretches on the way to C21. Leaving C23, I was catching two people quickly, and one pulled over to let me by, and had a front-row spot for my face-plant as I didn't see a narrow stump embedded in the grassy trail. I caught back up to the other guy, but he went diagonal thru some woods, while I had had enough green for the day, and ran around, and couldn't quite catch him on the way in. So, no serious errors, but the terrain was a little tougher than I expected, and I was dragging a bit after yesterday, hence the 11-ish pace, instead of the sub-10 that I should have been capable of. Zach picked up the win on the M-12 course, zipping thru in under 7 min/K. Nate also ran pretty well in M-16 (course 3/"Orange") and finished 3rd, only about 2 min. out of first. | ||
| C • newsprint 2 | ||
Saturday Aug 26 | ||
| Hiking 20:00 [1] 1.33 mi (15:02 / mi) | |
| After a longer than expected drive up to Orangelville, we arrived at the model event site right at 4, but missed the end of the event. So, Nate, Zach and I just did some wandering to check out the terrain. Very hilly, but with the sorts of vegetation we are used to. I actually did stumble upon 1 control. | ||
| Orienteering race 1:00:00 [4] 4.8 km (12:30 / km) | |
| I don't have the map with the details, but I turned another very promising race into a disaster. I made no big mistakes thru the first 9 controls. I was reading contours like never before, and that seemed to be a good skill for this map (when the contours were accurate, I guess). C10 was a nightmare: I think I drifted a bit left and got distracted by another control. I knew I had another 60m to go, so I tried to adjust and move on, but the bearing led me into some nasty undergrowth, so I bailed and tried to reassess. I thought I could see the other mapped undergrowth patch, and tried to get the right angle, but the contours didn't line up; then I had most of the contours lining up, but the overgrowth patches didn't make sense, so I bailed to the road (10 minutes later), which was only 100m away (so I should have gone there much sooner), and quickly found the control. I had a couple of small mistakes on the way in, but nothing too bad. I think that without the 13 minute mistake, I may have been respectable - the running was much easier than out west, and perhaps I am not as out of shape as I thought. | ||
| Running warm up/down 8:30 [2] 1.0 mi (8:30 / mi) | |
| The registration was supposed to start at 8, but our breakfast in Brampton didn't open until 7, so we hit the road at about 7:30 and got to the site at 8:30, which turned out to be 75 minutes before the registration materials showed up at the site. So much for the 10am start, which became 10:30, then 11, then 12. I've never seen so many people gathered at the start before.
The start was over 2K away, and there was no shuttle (as advertised), so Zach basically covered his course distance before the race, and again after the race. Luke also got to cover the distance to the start and back with Chris, since the finish was also over there. Nate and I jogged much of the way to the start, for a warmup that turned out to be way too early. | ||
| Orienteering race 50:00 [4] 2.8 km (17:51 / km) | |
| COC Sprint. Just when I thought the afternoon couldn't go worse than the morning, err, earlier in the afternoon, I was mistaken. Again it was evil C10 that was my downfall. I wasn't running quite as well as this morning thru 9 controls, but fairly solid. C10 and C11 were both long trail legs, so I thought I could do some serious running. But I ran too fast, and blew way past C10, and couldn't relocate (I thought I was only a little past). Fast people (like John F and Hammer came flying by, but I was reluctant to follow because I didn't want to get all the way to C11. As it turned out, backtracking wasn't allowing me to relocate, so I had to go forward anyway, found C11 and returned to C10. Only blew a couple of controls on the way in - ran all the way around the pond to get to C12, after missing a trail junction, then couldn't see the trails on the way to C17 and ended up hitting the fence at the property boundary before recovering. Oh, I also embarassed myself in front of the fans by running by the last control. Nate beat me 14 seconds to 26 on that leg. I did manage to tie him on the finishing leg, a whole second ahead of Zach.
If I blow C10 again tomorrow, I will quit this sport. Nate and Zach both cruised thru their courses in about 17 minutes. Zach's time included about 2.5 minutes on the last control, so he could have been really quick. At least the start was delayed only about the announced amount of time. But I guess that turned out to be a problem for 3 or 4 SI units that must have run out of batteries while waiting for people to show up. This made for quite a mess at the download (which started way late to begin with). All the various problems aside (mine and the organizers'), the sprint course was one of the better ones I have run. | ||
| Running warm up/down 25:00 [2] 2.86 mi (8:44 / mi) | |
| Ran part of the way to the start to get Z a start time, then did some warm-up with Nate. Afterwards, I did a long-ish warm-down while waiting for the download queue to disappear, so that I could walk, let alone run, tomorrow. Then it was a bee-line for the Beer Store, where they sell OV for the low-low price of $20/12-pack.
The whole awful day was completed by hearing the end of the Bills game on the way back to the hotel (I didn't know it was a 6pm kickoff), when the Browns overcame a 3-and-15 and kept a field goal drive alive that broke the tie. I thought I'd see some OT at the hotel. | ||
Friday Aug 25 | ||
| Running 20:00 [2] 2.5 mi (7:59 / mi) | |
| Did some warm-up with the team before our Blue & Gold intrasquad meet. Then running around during the race. My Gold team defeated the Blue team 27-28 in both boys and girls. For the boys it came down to a 1-second gap between the 4th runners. The girls weren't quite that close. Chelsea outkicked a Gold girl in a photo finish for 6th. | ||
| Hiking 25:00 [1] 1.67 mi (14:58 / mi) | |
| Arrived at the COC Model event at 4pm, but no sign of any organizers. Nate, Zach and I wandered in the terrain a bit (I actually stumbled on a control), before heading out of there. | ||
Thursday Aug 24 | ||
| Swimming 33:30 [3] 0.91 mi (36:48 / mi) | |
| First swim in almost a month, and it felt like it was longer.
4:02/8:21 1:33,6,6,6,5 (on 2) 3:28,26 | ||
| Golfing 9:00 [1] | |
| Took Wilbur out, since he was in town from Phoenix. Record bag line (almost an hour), so we only had time for 9. I shot 41, despite 2 doubles (pulled second shot into the water on 3 and hit a tree on 9). Did pick up a bird on 5. | ||
Wednesday Aug 23 | ||
| Running warm up/down 35:00 [2] 4.24 mi (8:15 / mi) | |
| slept:7.0 | ||
| 10 min w/up
13 min run before stregth work 12 min w/dn | ||
| C • Part of XC coaching? 3 | ||
| Running intervals 7:30 [5] 2 km (3:45 / km) | |
| Speed/Strength work at Ellison Park. The 400m loop was thru grass that hasn't been mowed in awhile, was wet with dew and was not flat: added 3-4 seconds to each interval.
3x400 before the hill work 89,89,88 2x400 after the hill work 90,94 | ||
| Running hills 4:53 [5] 0.54 mi (9:02 / mi) | |
| 6 x "45 sec" hills at Ellison Park. I could have picked a better spot - the place we were was almost parabolic shaped, so most of the kids had to walk near the top. | ||
| Running 10:00 [1] 1.0 mi (10:00 / mi) | |
| Other jogging after repetions and down the hills. | ||
Tuesday Aug 22 | ||
| Running 52:32 [3] 7.0 mi (7:30 / mi) | |
| slept:7.0 weight:169lbs | ||
| First run with the XC team. We had them scheduled for an easy day, so I followed behind the top group. We ran from North Ponds out the Hojack trail past Vosburg and back. | ||
| C • Coaching XC team? 3 | ||
Monday Aug 21 | ||
| Note | |
| slept:6.0 (rest day) | ||
| We stayed in Salida one more night, so we had to leave at 7am to catch our 12:45 flight, which didn't arrive in Rochester until almost 9pm. | ||
Sunday Aug 20 | ||
| Orienteering race 1:39:06 [4] *** 8.29 km (11:57 / km) +295m 10:09 / km | |
| spiked:9/15c rhr:48 slept:6.5 | ||
| Started off OK - chose to run around on the road to C2. Missed C3 to the right and as I was searching Anders caught me (from 4 minutes down). I punched just before or after him at C4 thru C7, but didn't see him all that much in between. I did notice that he walks uphills with his hands behind his back (speedskater form). I came down the hilltop just before C8 and missed the control. I thought I may have been on the hilltop to the left, so I went way right before coming back, probably a minute behind Anders. PG caught me on the next leg, so I picked up the pace. His line seemed right of mine (he was aiming for the trail junction, I was conservatively aiming just left of that), so I lost contact. I had a costly problem at C10, not recognizing the shape of the clearing, so I spent some time looking high (I originally thought I had spiked this leg, because there was a control just about where I was aiming, but it must have been Green). I missed C12 right, and just could not read what kind of yellow or yellow/white combinations were on the map, so I just headed for what looked like the center of the local boulders (I could see I was on the edge of the serious boulders). I then missed C13 left, but it was probably the highest control of the whole week, so I saw it from a distance. Getting to C14 was tricky, but I knew right where it would be when I got there. I punched just behind someone who was pretty quick - thought I had a better line to the GO control, but he edged me out, and outkicked me by a couple of seconds. | ||
| Note | |
| Nate and Zach both made some errors today, but they were small enough that they each hung on to win their age groups! | ||
| Running warm up/down 5:00 [2] 0.56 mi (8:55 / mi) | |
| Just a short warm-up. No real warm-down, just plenty of walking around and a little football tossing with the boys. | ||
Red Day 2 - Splits | ||
Saturday Aug 19 | ||
| Event: US Classic Champs | ||
| Event: Canadian Orienteering Championships Festival | ||
| Orienteering race 1:33:15 [4] 7.1 km (13:08 / km) | |
| Don't have the map handy, so I can't recall all of the details, but I ran great thru 5 controls. I caught someone going into C5, and had already picked out my line for C6, which was a long leg. But it was easy to simplify (started out just right of the line thru a long field), and I got a jump on the other guy. I heard his footsteps behind me, so I was really hustling. The middle section of the leg had some undulations, leading into the final section that had some rock detail, but there was a dry stream that I could catch to make the attack easy. Well, as it turned out, I stayed too far right, and missed the dry stream, and because of the high speed, my pace counting was off, and I came to another dry stream, with the other guy not too far behind me. I found a boulder all alone on the side of the hill (which was what we were looking for), but no flag. I checked around as a 3rd guy joined us, then attacked from some other prominent features, and came to the same boulder. We eventually gave up, thinking the flag must be in the wrong place. I followed the dry stream/reentrant for awhile, just in case, then came out to a clearing that was near the model event. I realized I was not where I should be, and went back (about 6 minutes worth) in the direction of the real boulder and found it (just after one of the other guys had found it). A 20-25 minute mistake (I’ll have to check others’ splits) - very depressing! I did too much walking on the next couple of legs, before I rallied and put forth a good effort again (with only 1 small miss and 1 60-90 second miss) the rest of the way.
All I can do is try to turn in a respectable performance tomorrow. Nate ran quite well and leads Yellow by about 4 minutes. Z was in the lead on M-10 (only 2.5 minutes behind Ethan Childs), but the youngster who beat him in the Night-O did not yet have a time posted, well after the last start (which is what happened at the Night-O). The White course was more of a Cross Country race than an Orienteering race: all of the legs were streamered, except one, which was all on the main dirt road. | ||
| Running warm up/down 22:00 [2] 2.54 mi (8:39 / mi) | |
| Warm-up was a little hectic because Zach's compass wasn't in the car when I went to get it after Nate's start - I did bring the backup for him.
Longer warm-down than usual (but the amount I should do). | ||
Red - Splits | ||
Friday Aug 18 | ||
| Orienteering 16:40 [3] *** 1.8 km (9:16 / km) | |
| spiked:6/6c slept:7.0 | ||
| Model event outside of Buena Vista. Tried to jog the course, but not much jogging involved: a lot of downhill which required running, and a lot of uphill which required walking. Read the map quite well (although the white vs. rough w/scattered trees is sometimes tough to see) - hopefully that can carry over to the weekend. | ||
| Orienteering 37:00 [1] 2.2 km (16:49 / km) | |
| Mostly walked the model controls with Nate and Zach, letting them take turns navigating. From the bottom, Nate wanted to run back, so I picked features for Zach to find on the way back up the hill. | ||
Thursday Aug 17 | ||
| Orienteering race 1:11:37 [4] *** 7.06 km (10:09 / km) | |
| spiked:13/18c rhr:48 slept:7.0 | ||
| 1000 Days A Event - Blue Course on the First with the Most map. First control was strange - had to run backwards past the callup line and parallel to the walk to the start. Then I wiped out with my knee landing on a rock instead of the grass (found out later that I had a small cut plus a nice little bruise). Was reading pretty well, but ran one cliff past the control and stood still for a 20 secs, figuring that out. C2 went smoothly. I think Ross passed me on the way to C3. I punched (embarrasingly slowly) just before Hillary at C4, then almost stayed with her to C5 (shared leg with Red). C6-9 went great - I was reading wonderfully on the run, perhaps best I've done. I thought C10 was also going well, but it turned out I had drifted left - in hindsight, it should have been obvious that there were too many trees around. C11 was a minor mistake - didn't see the control hung from a single tree in the reentrant, so I sprinted over the top of the next "spur" to bland terrain (no reentrant), so I quickly turned back around. C12 was short and C13 was fun - countouring around right of the line. I ran the road around to C14, which was great for me - I think Peter Gagarin only made up a little ground going straight. Instead of blindly following Peter, I took the time to set a bearing for C15, and was right on 2/3 of the way there, running off a distinct patch of light green, when I decided to try to catch Peter. Unfortunately, he missed this leg pretty badly (for him), and it took me a couple of minutes to relocate and get the flag. John F passed me on the way to C16, but he slowed on the uphill, so I caught back up and tried to hang. We went opposite ways around the knoll, and I set a bearing for C17 on the way in, but he was still long gone by the time I had punched. I ignored the C17 boulders because it looked like they were in the green, and the circle was in a gap (but it was a white gap, so after checking a couple of rock features to the left, I returned and punched right behind someone who totally outran me down the road to C18 and the finish.
Zach did well on Yellow, placing second in about 10min/km, and Nate finished 6 minutes behind the late Orange entry, Andrew Childs, to grab 2nd. Most of the lost time (4 minutes?) was on the penultimate control, where Andrew caught Nate. | ||
Wednesday Aug 16 | ||
| Orienteering race 1:06:09 [4] *** 7.45 km (8:53 / km) | |
| spiked:17/19c slept:8.5 | ||
| 1000 Days Crystal Relay on the Antenna Hill map. Nate led off our relay and ran well, although a mistake on the penultimate control switched a 30sec+ lead over Andrew Childs to a 2min+ defecit. Zach did quite well on the 2nd leg - just over 40 minutes for 3.1K of tough yellow/easy orange orienteering. Kathy Bannister ran the 3rd leg, and finished shortly after the "catch-up mass start" - they started the last 14 teams together (out of 34), but the order of finish was still the order coming across the line, no adjustments were added for late 3rd runners.
Since I had seen Boris run the early part of the 4th leg course, and C1 was actually visible in the distance from the hilltop that served as the start/finish area, I was off quickly on the mass start. I ran around just a bit, and almost beat Marty Hawkes-Teeter to the first control. I punched just behind him (and one other person slid ahead of me) at the next two controls, then I didn't follow them to C4, and wound up going slightly longer, plus I was slow on the big upill to the control, so I was down about a minute. I eventually caught and passed the other guy, but wound up over 2 minutes behind Marty. I guess I also caught 5 others who started before the mass start, so out team moved up to 16th. I'm not sure where I passed everyone - I passed a few people on running sections by walking slightly less on the uphills. I think I also passed a couple of people by spiking the control that Nate had trouble with. That control was followed by "The Wall", which was steep enough that I lost sight of the antenna at the top of the hill that was my aiming point. After the top of the hill, the other courses came to the finish, but we still had 4 controls up top. I thought I was alone, but as I left C18 (of 19), someone was coming right in to punch. I guess that made some adrenaline kick in, as I ended up finishing 50 seconds in front of him, even though I thought I was out of gas before I punched. So, maybe this anti-taper stuff can work. Or, maybe these courses were "runners' courses", boding well for Nate, Zach and me. We're committed to the anti-taper now, as we are all running up a course tomorrow. Luckily it's "middle distance", which means only 7K for Blue (vs 6K for Red). | ||
| C • Anti-tapering? 3 | ||
| Running warm up/down 6:00 [2] 0.67 mi (8:57 / mi) | |
| Very brief warm-up, since I was not ready for the mass start. Warm-down was jogging thru the hail back to the car, as a thunderstorm moved in quickly, a little while after my finish. | ||
Crystal Relay Leg 4 - Splits | ||
Tuesday Aug 15 | ||
| Orienteering race 39:05 [4] *** 2.9 km (13:29 / km) +135m 10:56 / km | |
| spiked:7/12c slept:5.75 | ||
| 1000 Days Sprint at the Gates of AMT Hell. Very poor navigation on a very difficult Sprint course. Eric Bone was the only one to go under 20 minutes, and not by much.
I was to anxious to get to C1 and overran it, punched after the next starter (30s intervals). I blew C4 way left, trying to run from the map instead of the compass. Overran C6 to the left (as did about a half dozen others), but recovered in reasonable time - it was just a foreshadow of my problems on the next leg. Again, I tried to be cute and run around left of a hill, but did not come back to the right correctly. My first clue should have been when I was hunting around for a couple of minutes without seeing anyone. After failing to relocate a few times, I finally noticed the dirt road which was only 60m past the control, and ran parallel to it to get back to the control. The rest of the course went smoothly, but slowly, as my legs were too heavy to make it uphill without walking breaks. C6 was a total disaster for Nate - he ended up around 48 minutes. The course was too difficult for Zach, but he did make it around (but it took around 100 minutes). | ||
| C • Nerves? 2 | ||
| Running warm up/down 25:00 [2] 2.78 mi (8:59 / mi) | |
| Warmed up with about 10 min of jogging - mostly with Nate. My warm-down consisted of jogging/walking the course backwards, starting when Z had been out 45 minutes. I spotted him just before C8, and followed him to C10. | ||
| Hashing 50:00 [2] 5.0 mi (10:00 / mi) | |
| Continuing the anti-taper for the upcoming US Champs, Nate, Zach and I headed out to the campgrounds for the hash/pizza party. The trail was all trail, and longer than I expected (and no beer stop). There was a chicken/eagle split, and Zach chose the eagle, which was probably a little more than he needed after the long sprint this AM. Nate and Andrew were the FRBs for much of the way, then they eased back to save something for tomorrow, since they will both be running the leadoff leg of the relay. I walked down Eric Bone (newly named "Head Butt" at his first hash, in honor of his stitches-inducing collision with Mike Smith at the WOC Sprint Qualifier) - nice to say that since it would NEVER happen on an O course.
Abbreviated circle included an A&W birthday down-down for Zach. | ||
Monday Aug 14 | ||
| Event: US Night Champs | ||
| Hiking 2:30:00 [1] 8.0 mi (18:44 / mi) | |
| slept:6.25 | ||
| Hiked from Lake Marie in the Snowy Range, up the Medicine Bow Peak trail. We planned on going 1 hour up, max, but when we got to the hour mark, the peak seemed to be teasing us, so we kept going. 15 minutes later we saw the real peak in view (the first was false), so we decided to keep going - the peak turned out to be a little farther up: 1:28 in total. Zach and I stayed on the trail, but Nate scrambled up the last 100m or so to the actual peak. The trip down went quicker than expected - it didn't feel like an hour. A little over 1/3 of the way down, we ran into 5 Amish girls that we had passed coming up - they were planning to hike past the peak, down the other side, and around the lakes (a longer, but flatter return route). I suggested that they may want to just turn around - they had been out over 3 hours, so they were still probably 1.5 to the peak. | ||
| Hiking 10:00 [1] | |
| After the main hike, we stopped down the road and had my first-ever August snowball fight (well, Zach nailed Nate from point blank). Can't believe that there could still be snow, with the sun beating down on it and the number of rain storms they get here. | ||
| Running warm up/down 15:00 [2] 1.73 mi (8:39 / mi) | |
| 5 minutes with Zach, then 10 before my start. My warm-down was limited to 5 minutes of walking after midnight. | ||
| Orienteering race 1:36:10 [4] *** 8.78 km (10:57 / km) | |
| spiked:7/10c | ||
| US Night-O Champs on the Light of Cheyenne map outside of Laramie. BTW, I actually did see the light of Cheyenne (~40 miles away?) during the race.
I struggled on the first control. I got distracted by a green control (turns out it was their C2), and lost focus. I circled back to that control and it was obvious where it was, so I was able to get to C1. C2-C5 went quite smoothly. I actually led some people into some of those controls. I had a reasonable (although zig-zag) approach for C6, and it was going smoothly until the batteries in my light started to die. I had to change the batteries, which cost me time, and more importantly, focus. I recovered with a pretty clean C7, but C8 was a disaster - I tried to ignore others, since I took a different approach, but that backfired, since, in hindsight, there was a clear convergence going on. C9 was just tough going, but that was just a warm-up for the difficulty in leaving C9. Nate finished 9 seconds out of first. His biggest regret was his hesitation in approaching the last control: he aimed right of the control to hit a fence, then went left, but had second-thoughts, and lost time. Zach was also 2nd - missing by 44 seconds, and was about 9 minutes behind the M-12 winner on White. | ||
Night-O - Red - Splits | ||
Sunday Aug 13 | ||
| Orienteering race 1:28:55 [4] *** 7.4 km (12:01 / km) +285m 10:05 / km | |
| spiked:12/18c slept:7.25 | ||
| Red course at Day 2 of the Western States Champs on the Superfly Marsh map. Got off to a good start, slow but solid for the first 3 controls. Really struggled on 4 and 5 - big mistakes. Then leaving C7, I put my hand down on a cactus and got over 30 needles of various lengths and diameters embedded in my hand - some were easy to pull out, others are still in there nearly 4 hours later. Did a little better in the next section, but did a face plant leaving C11 and that caused me to lose focus and run too far to C12. C14 was bad news, I spent a lot of time stopped, looking at the map, and still managed to miss big, but didn't think I had, since I found a control on my line that was on the correct feature, but I was off by probably 150m east. Then I promptly overran C15. C16 was looking good, but I got distracted by a control at the top of a reentrant, way to my left - foolishly, I went and checked it, so the older woman that I had caught before C10 (and fell behind before C14, and passed again), beat me to the punch. I did manage to pass her again, and caught Cristina (again) at C17.
Zach put in a solid peformance on White, although Ethan Childs beat him by about 8 minutes. He only made 1 big error - going too far off a trail to get to boulders that were only halfway to his control, and were about 3 times the correct distance off trail - that is where Ethan went by him (had started 4 minutes after Zach). Nate ran fairly well - finished 2.5 minutes behind a 79-point Orange runner. He may have those minutes in him later on Thursday, when he runs Orange again. | ||
| Running warm up/down 25:00 [2] | |
| About 5 minutes with Nate/Zach, then 12 on my own and 8 warm-down. | ||
Red 2 - Splits | ||
Saturday Aug 12 | ||
| Orienteering 40:00 [2] *** 2.86 km (13:59 / km) | |
| After 5:30 Mass, what else could Zach, Nate and I do, but head out to the old Permian Sins map that Dick loaned us. As we were on our way to park in the lot near the finish from 8/16/99, we found out that the sheep do, in fact, own that section of Happy Jack Rd. So, we backtracked and parked closer to I-80 and played around with Green controls 9, 8, 7, 6 and 9 (again) from that meet - each of us leading a leg or two. Very different O'ing here - there was basically no green on the map, but much of the white was various shades of green, and the visibility was almost nil. I guess we now know what sage is - there were tons of little evergreen-ish bushes that Nate found particularly annoying.
We saw a sign of the subhumans that Swampfox writes about. They had bagged themselves a metal folding chair and left it for dead near C6. There was also a half-filled water container near the control location (which was a water control), but the container was not 7 years old. We also got to experience another Laramie treat - as we got to control 9 the second time, the wind, which had been non-existent, kicked up pretty good, and the temparature immediately dropped 10+ degrees. Need to keep that in mind when packing for the Night-O. | ||
Friday Aug 11 | ||
| Golfing 9:00 [1] | |
| (rest day) | ||
| No time to run at lunch - they kept me too busy to punish me for my upcoming vacation.
Awful 45. Opened with 2 doubles and was OB on 4 again - what's up with that? Had 3 pars, but missed a 2-footer for par on 6. | ||
Thursday Aug 10 | ||
| Running 51:20 [3] 7.27 mi (7:03 / mi) | |
| slept:6.5 | ||
| GTA with Erik, DV, JV, Darren and Leo. Over to Highland and picked up the trail parallel to 590 - comfortable 7:20-ish pace. Then we picked it up a bit and I started to struggle to hang on at 6:50-ish the rest of the way - I fell off a couple of times (before Leo), but they let me catch back up and I was fine the last 1.2 miles. | ||
| C • When do you leave for 1000 days? 3 | ||
| Golfing 9:00 [1] | |
| 44 - went OB to take a 7 on 4, missed a lot of par putts (including a 2-footer on 6), but made a 4-footer for a birdie-2 on 5 (shot just missed the pin on the way in). | ||
Wednesday Aug 9 | ||
| Event: Rocky Mountain 1000 Day | ||
| Note | |
| slept:7.0 weight:169lbs (rest day) | ||
| Unplanned rest day - meetings scheduled on top of training time, then I had to mow the lawn and Huntz was in town with his family for the Bills camp, so it was pizza and beer for dinner, leaving no chance for a late jog. | ||
| Pizza Sumption 5 [5] | |
| 5 x 1 slice of Cam's. Hard! | ||
Tuesday Aug 8 | ||
| Running 55:37 [3] 7.25 mi (7:40 / mi) | |
| slept:6.5 weight:170lbs | ||
| XC Camp at Webster Park - ran fairly easy with the faster intermediate group (included Nate and the Riegers), until I stopped to check on Ashley's rolled ankle, after which I couldn't track them back down. | ||
Monday Aug 7 | ||
| Running 31:00 [2] 3.35 mi (9:15 / mi) | |
| Chris's sister directed us to a nice little park outside Salisbury that had several +/- 1 mile trails to run. Ran first with Chelsea and Nate at an easy pace... | ||
| Running 23:18 [3] 3.04 mi (7:40 / mi) | |
| ...then ran at a quicker pace with Nate, while Chelsea ran her own pace. He led a fartlek session for about 10 minutes, so there was some '4' running involved. | ||
Sunday Aug 6 | ||
| Note | |
| (rest day) | ||
| Although I called it a night relatively early (2am) and missed the festivities that went on past 4, I still had enough trouble getting up to prevent a run before leaving the Beach, then in Salisbury, we ate dinner at Uno's, preventing any real chance of a run afterwards. | ||
Saturday Aug 5 | ||
| Running 37:41 [3] 5.0 mi (7:32 / mi) | |
| No one else could answer the bell for a 9:15am run after last night's family reunion bender, so I was on my own. Ran along the boardwalk in Rehoboth to the S end then roads into Dewey Beach. On the way back, I ran 4 minutes in the sand, and that was enough. Picked it up to 7min pace for a measured 3/4 mile, then picked it up again for the return trip on the boardwalk, more than expected because I had to pass someone early on. | ||
| Golfing 18:00 [1] | |
| Family Reunion golf outing at a very nice course outside of Rehoboth. Rumor is they spent $2M on flowers, etc. and it looks like it. Probably the second-nicest course I've played (behind Crag Burn). I spent too much time on the beach and made other bad decisions due to lack of knowledge of the course, and put up a 96. John Foley led all players with a 79. | ||
| C • Short eanough? 2 | ||
Friday Aug 4 | ||
| Running 46:13 [2] 5.0 mi (9:15 / mi) | |
| Awesome run from the family reunion in Rehoboth. Went with Walt, Pat, Huntz, Samantha, PJ, Brig, Nate, and Sarah and Coop (on blades) for a while. Thru town to the canal where we did some impromptu O'ing thru various shades of green to a soon-to-be subdivision with the roads in various states of construction and back. | ||
Thursday Aug 3 | ||
| Running 53:36 [3] 7.33 mi (7:19 / mi) | |
| slept:6.25 weight:172lbs | ||
| GTA - only Frank, Lawrence, DV and Leo today. Thought it might be a little easy today, especially with Frank coming off last weekend's 50K trail run in Ohio, but no. We went Winton - canal - Brighton Park and each time they picked up the pace, I was unable to answer the bell. Stomach distress set in after leaving the park and I lost a minute over the next mile. | ||
| C • 1000-day 1 | ||
| Golfing 9:00 [1] | |
| Birdied 1, even after 4, but took a triple on 7 and wound up with a 43. I could feel the concentration fade as the round went on - need to play again on Thursday without running in the AM. | ||
Wednesday Aug 2 | ||
| Golfing 9:00 [1] | |
| 44
Another day of fire drills at work, so no chance to get out at lunch. Left work at 6 and had to decide between golf or an easy run. | ||
Tuesday Aug 1 | ||
| Running 39:33 [1] 4.0 mi (9:53 / mi) | |
| slept:6.5 weight:168lbs | ||
| Missed today's heat due to "fire drills" at work - didn't leave for home until almost 8pm. So, I just ran easy with Chelsea: Plank-5 mile-Beacon Hills. She did 3x2min pick-ups in the middle (uphill, flat, then downhill, so that got faster, yet easier) - then we did 4 strides on the way in, instead of afterwards. | ||