Training Archive: bishop22In the 7 days ending 2007-08-04:
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Friday Aug 3 | ||
| Event: 2007 USOF Convention and Colorado 5-Days | ||
| Orienteering 59:36 [3] *** 6.62 km (9:00 / km) | |
| spiked:28/31c | ||
| I'm taking the Zero-to-Orange "Train the Trainer" course. Our first exercise was at the end of the day. It was a score-o with 32 controls, but we were given a control card with just 24 spaces, with the explanation that no one would get them all. With 2 Blue courses coming up this weekend, I started out as easy as I could, with no intention of getting them all. I skipped #6 (they were worth face value), so I could be sure to get some 20+ flags. I got distracted by the kids who were playing ultimate near our camp site and missed #3 - no big deal. I relocated to go after 13 and saw 3,just 30m away, but decided to skip it, since I had already missed 6. I finished up, and realized I had time to run out and back to 6 (800m round trip, which I turned into 900+), and kicked myself for not grabbing 3 when I had the chance - could have had them all. And it turned out one guy in the class just missed #2, so I lost bragging rights by one point out of 600+. | ||
| C • orange 1 | ||
Thursday Aug 2 | ||
| Running 45:07 | |
| Long freakin' drive from Yellowstone to Elbert, CO. We were going to stop in Laramie for a run, but I forgot to bring any maps from last year, so we continued on to Fort Collins. I called my brother-in-law, who spent time at school there, and he directed us up to Horsetooth Resovoir, which was an excellent choice. We parked at the first lot and ran trails to the north. It started raining before we got going, eased up a bit, then poured by the end.
They took off before I could get out of the car, which was just as well, since I needed an easy jog to transition from driving to running. I ran out 15 minutes, then picked up the pace and followed the "foothills trail" back down to the edge of town, which meant I had to turn around and climb a ton, back above the resovoir. Eased up after 30 minutes or so. Driving back thru Fort Collins, we encountered some mighty rivers flowing down some of the roads. I wasn't ready for the first couple - good thing we were in a high van. I allowed for an IHOP dinner stop to drag out the drive, with the hope that the weather would improve, which it did, moderately. | ||
Wednesday Aug 1 | ||
| Running long 1:23:38 [2] 11.3 mi (7:24 / mi) | |
| In Yellowstone Park. Ran the length of a bike path, then along the road briefly, and back. I couldn't keep up with the youngsters (Nate, John, Emily and Amos) on the way out, but was able to keep up on the faster return trip. Andy went 45 minutes, Zach and Sylvia went 30. Ethan went 60 minutes. Sergei disappeared for awhile, then followed us back.
Splits Out Back End of road 7:32 6:29 Side path 12:13 10:32 Turnaround 25:00 21:50 | ||
Tuesday Jul 31 | ||
| Running intervals 58:43 | |
| rhr:48 slept:5.0 | ||
| Intervals on trails from Old Faithful with the whole crew. About 14 minute warm-up, then 5x(3 min hard/3 min easy). John out in front, then Nate and Amos on the early ones, Emily on the last couple, then me, Andrew, Sergei, Ethan and Sylvia. Zach ran the w/up and w/dn and explored while we did intervals.
I think the altitude got to me a bit. I had the strange chest feeling that I used to get after racing indoors. I was dragging a bit on the last one, while the others were racing. | ||
| C • Thanks 2 | ||
Monday Jul 30 | ||
| Running 25:22 [2] 2.9 mi (8:44 / mi) | |
| slept:6.5 | ||
| Easy run thru some pastures adjoining the KOA outside West Yellowstone. Ran with Nate, John, Andrew, Ethan, Amos and Emily (I think that's everyone). I couldn't keep up on the uphills, since my legs were quite hungover from yesterday plus about 9 hours of driving today.
Cut off early with Andrew as darkness set in. Doesn't stay light past 10pm like in Saskatoon. | ||
Sunday Jul 29 | ||
| Orienteering race 3:41:14 [3] *** 12.8 km (17:17 / km) | |
| spiked:15/23c | ||
| COC Long Champs at Mr. Eb's, northwest of Saskatoon. I'll try to add more when I have the map and it's not 1AM, but the short story is DNF, and I would have been OVT. I punched control 22 just under 3 hours, then couldn't find 23. The open and white and open with scattered trees blended too much for me to decipher, and there was no place to relocate. I gave up at about 3.5 hours and jogged back the long way (if I had found 23, I could have gotten back quicker thru the terrain.
The heat was tough. I drank as much as I could at each water control, and it was still not enough. The terrain was tough. I could feel cramps coming on each time I jumped (/stepped) over deadfall in the latter parts of the course. The navigation was tough. The visibility was limited in many places and there were many subtle depressions that I need more practice to determine which are on the map. It was certainly a challenge. I've never DNF'd in a running race, and I think my only DNF was in a ski-o, when I ran out of time (although the blisters would have been a good excuse, too). I almost went back into the terrain when I got to the road and quickly figured out where I was. Am I a wimp for packing it in? If the time limit had not been 3 hours, I would have gone on. | ||
| C • yes... 2 | ||
| Running warm up/down 8:00 [2] 0.89 mi (8:59 / mi) | |
| I wasn't going to do much of a warm-up, but I jogged out to catch Zach on the way to the start, then I sat down and was attacked by bugs, so I hustled back to the assembly area for bug spray, then back out to see Zach off. | ||