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Saturday Mar 14, 2015 #
9 AM
Road running race 44:24 10.0 km (4:26 / km) +23m 4:23 / km
ahr:165 max:176 shoes: Saucony Progrid Wide 2
Great North Run 10k
The start of a weekend loaded with running. I have rarely run in any organized runs other than O but this is a repeat meet, a fundraiser for Aragorn's school district.
Managed to keep a very even effort level, improve my pace by 5 s/mi and hold my placing, in what seemed like a smaller field. Was supposed to run with A for the first two but he dropped me after about a third of a mile. I got to watch him slowly fade from view.
Got in the the car and headed to....
The start of a weekend loaded with running. I have rarely run in any organized runs other than O but this is a repeat meet, a fundraiser for Aragorn's school district.
Managed to keep a very even effort level, improve my pace by 5 s/mi and hold my placing, in what seemed like a smaller field. Was supposed to run with A for the first two but he dropped me after about a third of a mile. I got to watch him slowly fade from view.
Got in the the car and headed to....
2 PM
Orienteering race 1:28:04 *** 9.08 km (9:42 / km) +300m 8:20 / km
ahr:148 max:167 spiked:17/22c shoes: X-Talon 212
the belated Return of the Otter, Otter Creek SP, KY Red, 7.3k/200m
Meet 10, Course 13
Ate in the car, rolled, hydrated, repeated this at least once and then got on the course with just enough time to finish.
This was super fun, great map, fresh and interesting terrain with some ridge/reentrant mixed with karst features and a sprinkling of man-made stuff like trails, roads, and buildings but not too much. Many interesting legs and for KY this was some really open forest with only a taste of green briers.
I will need to find my splits but the race was a bit slower than normal but much cleaner (aka exhaustion-induced sense). I made a parallel error on 4, waffling between the N and S gullies and choosing wrong. I was not so clean going to 6 but knew I had C7 to bounce off of and I did. C12 was a big descending compass leg to a depression that had a substantial pause in the circle but that was good for this type of leg. C14 was nicely set for an oxygen-deprived mind where my brain couldn't easily pick the correct spur. Still a bit goofy at 15 and then the remainder of the controls were pretty straight forward, with one caveat. C18 had been unexpectedly moved, but I knew I was in the correct place and after several minutes of convincing myself that I really really was in the correct place, I also realized that maybe I started a bit too late. Got to the next control pit, no bag but I saw it in Jim's hand walking across the forest, chased it, punched, and kept going with no other course issues. Rolled my ankle hard going into C21; I am starting to think that I have some OLOU ankle curse -- same as last time, glancing at the map while transitioning my pace going downhill. It was worse than normal but better than 3 yrs ago. Hobbled to the go and then slow ran to the finish.
(current time approximate; I will update it later)
Meet 10, Course 13
Ate in the car, rolled, hydrated, repeated this at least once and then got on the course with just enough time to finish.
This was super fun, great map, fresh and interesting terrain with some ridge/reentrant mixed with karst features and a sprinkling of man-made stuff like trails, roads, and buildings but not too much. Many interesting legs and for KY this was some really open forest with only a taste of green briers.
I will need to find my splits but the race was a bit slower than normal but much cleaner (aka exhaustion-induced sense). I made a parallel error on 4, waffling between the N and S gullies and choosing wrong. I was not so clean going to 6 but knew I had C7 to bounce off of and I did. C12 was a big descending compass leg to a depression that had a substantial pause in the circle but that was good for this type of leg. C14 was nicely set for an oxygen-deprived mind where my brain couldn't easily pick the correct spur. Still a bit goofy at 15 and then the remainder of the controls were pretty straight forward, with one caveat. C18 had been unexpectedly moved, but I knew I was in the correct place and after several minutes of convincing myself that I really really was in the correct place, I also realized that maybe I started a bit too late. Got to the next control pit, no bag but I saw it in Jim's hand walking across the forest, chased it, punched, and kept going with no other course issues. Rolled my ankle hard going into C21; I am starting to think that I have some OLOU ankle curse -- same as last time, glancing at the map while transitioning my pace going downhill. It was worse than normal but better than 3 yrs ago. Hobbled to the go and then slow ran to the finish.
(current time approximate; I will update it later)
5 PM
Note
(injured)
Using the note to self that I might not be a big teenager any more -- ice, ibuprophen, wrapping, elevation -- the works; try to get myself ready for tomorrow.
Wednesday Mar 11, 2015 #
Stretching 15:00 [1]
6 PM
Road running 56:00 7.0 mi (8:00 / mi) +23m 7:55 / mi
ahr:152 max:160 shoes: Saucony Progrid Wide 2
I seemed like everyone decided it was spring today. Busy trail and busy roads getting there.
NB The distance has been adjusted. Garmin was crazy for the first half but the trail distance markers made for an easy fix.
NB The distance has been adjusted. Garmin was crazy for the first half but the trail distance markers made for an easy fix.
Monday Mar 9, 2015 #
Cycling 9:30 [4] 5.0 km (31.6 kph)
Set at 11, hard pace
Weights 5:00 [3]
6 PM
Road running 24:33 [3] 3.04 mi (8:05 / mi) +16m 7:57 / mi
shoes: Saucony Progrid Wide 2
Shake out
Sunday Mar 8, 2015 #
Walk 16:00 [1] 1.0 mi (16:00 / mi)
stretching out after the car
Stretching 20:00 [1]
stretching and the stick
12 PM
Orienteering race 37:13 *** 4.19 km (8:53 / km) +60m 8:18 / km
ahr:152 max:171 spiked:8/10c shoes: X-Talon 212
Good bookends around a flawed route choice and an overshoot. I didn't want to cut around the green again via the road on leg 5, so I did trail and some cross-country. It didn't even seem like a great idea at the time but I couldn't bear doing the road a third time. Probably a bit harder course than the green.
Orienteering race 58:57 *** 7.04 km (8:23 / km) +66m 8:00 / km
ahr:144 max:164 spiked:8/12c shoes: Saucony Progrid Wide 2
Seven Hills, Green then Brown = Red 5.6 and 3.2 k
Meet 9, Course 12
I think this was Jim Benton's first go at setting; he made nice use of the park and there were some thought provoking legs so kudos.
This was a tired attempt at a run and mistakes happened. Several were not switching to yellow light (or not thinking at that state and carefully surveying the forest). One was a drift in the green and the finish leg was poorly executed. Within all of this, I felt good about big segments of the race. It will be nice to get at least one run in sometime soon with no bugaboos. I should save any luck for the Pig.
Meet 9, Course 12
I think this was Jim Benton's first go at setting; he made nice use of the park and there were some thought provoking legs so kudos.
This was a tired attempt at a run and mistakes happened. Several were not switching to yellow light (or not thinking at that state and carefully surveying the forest). One was a drift in the green and the finish leg was poorly executed. Within all of this, I felt good about big segments of the race. It will be nice to get at least one run in sometime soon with no bugaboos. I should save any luck for the Pig.