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Saturday Jun 1, 2013 #
2 PM
Road running 1:20:18 [3] 10.04 mi (8:00 / mi) +18m 7:57 / mi
shoes: Saucony protread wide
Humid long run. It was hard to hold the pace for the final 1.5 miles.
Warmup-down 17:29 [2] 1.48 mi (11:49 / mi)
shoes: Saucony protread wide
walk/run switch each minute
Thursday May 30, 2013 #
Road running 46:28 [3] 5.83 mi (7:58 / mi) +35m 7:49 / mi
ahr:156 shoes: Saucony protread wide
Tuesday May 28, 2013 #
6 PM
Road running 24:57 [3] 3.04 mi (8:12 / mi) +15m 8:05 / mi
shoes: Saucony protread wide
Sunday May 26, 2013 #
11 AM
Orienteering race 2:05:56 [3] *** 13.81 km (9:07 / km) +504m 7:43 / km
spiked:6/14c shoes: Inov 340 Pair #1
Tar Hollow Buckeye Highlander Goat. A beautiful comfortable day for a run in the woods. Low attendance at the race as some of the usual culprits were otherwise occupied, sunbathing and such.
Dersu, the defending goat, arrived and this made it hard to figure what approach to take. Ultimately, I chose to treat the race as an ultra-long and not worry about trying to stay with him. In fact, it seemed best to maximize the differences in the hopes that I might make a better choice somewhere.
Started in the lead chased by cheery Chiori Shimizu; no warm up made the first mile feel pretty poor but eventually my stride opened a bit and I found a rhythm. It seems like Tom may have gotten away a minute late but we started to clump up after the 3rd and met at control 4. I spent part of the way to 5 figuring which split to take and I let Tom run off the end of the spur into the distance. The course had no skips and one double-control fork. B looked shorter and steeper in the start, I chose the slightly longer A with more road and trail running. I think that they choice was slightly poorer but was insignificant on the day.
In terms of more detailed analysis,
-cut too E off line from 5 in a rush to the road
-control circle for 6a seemed to high on gully, which, together with a few other examples later on, made me less trusting of the circle centering and caused unnecessary hesitations (all controls were indeed in the big circles)
-took a suboptimal line to 7a leading to a crappy indistinct trail loaded with debris
-over ran 7a slightly but recovered. Costly due to fight and hesitation. 2.5 min error
-undershot 10 at the west end of a forked gully; could have been much worse
-largest error was 11; control was at the foot of a cliff on a large hillside. I did not aim off and then I needed to choose when I didn't hit the cliff. Needless to say, I guessed wrong. 5 min error (mostly not distance rather uncertainty). I liked the control placement and the gigantic rootstock at 13.
-Lost a minute at 14; confused by the clearings and didn't see the shed under the control circle
2:05:56 on the 10.5 km course. This was more than an hour better than my 2011 run and only 9 minutes behind dersu. While the errors were the difference, I most needed to run more confidently.
Congrats to Tom and thanks to Alexander and Sharon/Matt for a good challenge!
Dersu, the defending goat, arrived and this made it hard to figure what approach to take. Ultimately, I chose to treat the race as an ultra-long and not worry about trying to stay with him. In fact, it seemed best to maximize the differences in the hopes that I might make a better choice somewhere.
Started in the lead chased by cheery Chiori Shimizu; no warm up made the first mile feel pretty poor but eventually my stride opened a bit and I found a rhythm. It seems like Tom may have gotten away a minute late but we started to clump up after the 3rd and met at control 4. I spent part of the way to 5 figuring which split to take and I let Tom run off the end of the spur into the distance. The course had no skips and one double-control fork. B looked shorter and steeper in the start, I chose the slightly longer A with more road and trail running. I think that they choice was slightly poorer but was insignificant on the day.
In terms of more detailed analysis,
-cut too E off line from 5 in a rush to the road
-control circle for 6a seemed to high on gully, which, together with a few other examples later on, made me less trusting of the circle centering and caused unnecessary hesitations (all controls were indeed in the big circles)
-took a suboptimal line to 7a leading to a crappy indistinct trail loaded with debris
-over ran 7a slightly but recovered. Costly due to fight and hesitation. 2.5 min error
-undershot 10 at the west end of a forked gully; could have been much worse
-largest error was 11; control was at the foot of a cliff on a large hillside. I did not aim off and then I needed to choose when I didn't hit the cliff. Needless to say, I guessed wrong. 5 min error (mostly not distance rather uncertainty). I liked the control placement and the gigantic rootstock at 13.
-Lost a minute at 14; confused by the clearings and didn't see the shed under the control circle
2:05:56 on the 10.5 km course. This was more than an hour better than my 2011 run and only 9 minutes behind dersu. While the errors were the difference, I most needed to run more confidently.
Congrats to Tom and thanks to Alexander and Sharon/Matt for a good challenge!