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Saturday Jan 25, 2014 #
Event: OCIN / TROL Joyce Park
1 PM
Orienteering race 1:53:17 [3] *** 16.52 km (6:51 / km) +14m 6:50 / km
spiked:19/23c slept:10.0 shoes: Inov 340 Pair #2
Joyce Park, Blue 13.6km
First time on this map, fairly interesting for the wide expanses of fields. An entertaining course by Dave with some very long legs and little sprinty bits, like groups of controls among a dense set of fenced ball diamonds. Given the recent winter, it has been a while since I have run this far, so thanks!!
The hardest part of the day was not navigation nor usually the intentional route choice; it was the twin demons of snow drifts and a brutal wind. Because it was so open, legs like 15-16 were whippin' with the westerly wind in your face or driving off the river, I was actually running diagonally to go straight on the last part. The worst was the leg to 18; a straight road with nothing to do but run straight into the wind, plugging slowly along, and feeling for all the world like jogging in a swimming pool. There were a few places where better route choices were obvious but I thought the running would be worse so I chose road or cover. A good run (8:20/k), probably only about 2-3 min lost lost time (dithering about crossing the first stream, a brief wrong turn, some suboptimal lines).
First time on this map, fairly interesting for the wide expanses of fields. An entertaining course by Dave with some very long legs and little sprinty bits, like groups of controls among a dense set of fenced ball diamonds. Given the recent winter, it has been a while since I have run this far, so thanks!!
The hardest part of the day was not navigation nor usually the intentional route choice; it was the twin demons of snow drifts and a brutal wind. Because it was so open, legs like 15-16 were whippin' with the westerly wind in your face or driving off the river, I was actually running diagonally to go straight on the last part. The worst was the leg to 18; a straight road with nothing to do but run straight into the wind, plugging slowly along, and feeling for all the world like jogging in a swimming pool. There were a few places where better route choices were obvious but I thought the running would be worse so I chose road or cover. A good run (8:20/k), probably only about 2-3 min lost lost time (dithering about crossing the first stream, a brief wrong turn, some suboptimal lines).
Monday Jan 20, 2014 #
Cycling (spinning) 30:00 [3]
max:145
worked out levels to get a decent sweat up (5-7-9).
Weights 1:00:00 [3]
1x8 full + 2x12 at 80%
Erging 6:00 [3]
(500m-1min rest)x3
Sunday Jan 19, 2014 #
9 AM
Orienteering race 1:24:55 [3] *** 9.47 km (8:58 / km) +427m 7:19 / km
spiked:10/13c shoes: X-Talon 212
GNC Red, Day 2 6.6 km
A day of happiness punctuated by a mental pause. I was expecting rougher terrain but with a few exceptions found it no better or worse than day 1. Ran ok through C4 except for the difficulties of running into the sun, skipped the very short easy leg to C5 and realized it at C6 after the worst of the green bar rubbish of the day. This was very irritating with the only perk being my absolutely certainty that I had missed C5. So, I took off back easily getting to 5, where I met Mike (he started 8 min after me). Then, I turned it around and repeated C6, hopping through the slash, but sloppily overcompensated between the parallel error possibilities and ending up one reentrant over. Took a longish breath, reset my head, and then had a decent race afterwards. In looking at route choices, I made route choices very similar to Spike except two small differences for C10 and 12. Without these two linked errors totalling 15+ min, my pace was fine and I even felt quick at some points. In the end, even with this bad run I had my best GNC yet.
A day of happiness punctuated by a mental pause. I was expecting rougher terrain but with a few exceptions found it no better or worse than day 1. Ran ok through C4 except for the difficulties of running into the sun, skipped the very short easy leg to C5 and realized it at C6 after the worst of the green bar rubbish of the day. This was very irritating with the only perk being my absolutely certainty that I had missed C5. So, I took off back easily getting to 5, where I met Mike (he started 8 min after me). Then, I turned it around and repeated C6, hopping through the slash, but sloppily overcompensated between the parallel error possibilities and ending up one reentrant over. Took a longish breath, reset my head, and then had a decent race afterwards. In looking at route choices, I made route choices very similar to Spike except two small differences for C10 and 12. Without these two linked errors totalling 15+ min, my pace was fine and I even felt quick at some points. In the end, even with this bad run I had my best GNC yet.