Training Log Archive: bleggIn the 30 days ending Sep 30, 2008:
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Monday Sep 29, 2008 #
Hiking 30:00 [1]
Sunday Sep 28, 2008 #
Orienteering race 1:52:17 [4] 12.8 km (8:46 / km) +230m 8:03 / km
shoes: Green Integrators
Running 15:00 [2] 1.0 mi (15:00 / mi)
shoes: Green Integrators
Saturday Sep 27, 2008 #
Orienteering race 53:00 [4] 6.2 km (8:33 / km) +160m 7:34 / km
shoes: Green Integrators
This was a fun fun day. Wet and muddy. Rained all morning, and if that wasn't enough, there were two pond crossings.
The map was rather detailed, and terrain fairly complex. My biggest confusions came from the many hill tops with depressions on top. You had to read very carefully, or you would overestimate hill size. Minor ankle twist, running on the road.
Navigation was cautious and slow, but relatively clean. I picked up the pace on a few of the later controls. I can still improve my times A LOT by picking cleaner lines through the woods, and drifting less from my route.
Running 30:00 [2] 2.0 mi (15:00 / mi)
shoes: Green Integrators
Friday Sep 26, 2008 #
Note
Orienteering race 11:13 [5] 2.1 km (5:20 / km)
shoes: Kainuu Integrators
First Race was pretty easy technically, I ran very clean and fast. A couple fastest splits. It is fun to compare against a field of 60 though, and see how much time can be lost on relatively minor bobbles.
Orienteering race 20:56 [4] 3.5 km (5:59 / km)
shoes: Kainuu Integrators
Biggest mistake was a 40 second error, when I ran straight past #10 to #11, before turning back. It took me some time to regain mental focus, and I had several ~5-10 second bobbles in the interim.
Thursday Sep 25, 2008 #
Hiking 2:00:00 [1] 8.0 mi (15:00 / mi)
shoes: Grid Cohesions
Orienteering 45:00 [1]
My headlamp was really dim, I could only see about 10m in front of me. It was more stumbling than running, but challenging from a navigational perspective.
Tuesday Sep 23, 2008 #
Running 55:00 [3] 6.0 mi (9:10 / mi)
Sunday Sep 21, 2008 #
Orienteering 1:00:00 [2] 3.0 mi (20:00 / mi)
A good success, I think.
Saturday Sep 20, 2008 #
Note
Running 1:40:00 [4] 10.5 mi (9:31 / mi)
shoes: Grid Cohesions
Friday Sep 19, 2008 #
Running 45:00 [3] 5.0 mi (9:00 / mi)
shoes: Brooks (White Yellow Black)
Thursday Sep 18, 2008 #
Running 30:00 [3] 3.5 mi (8:34 / mi)
shoes: Grid Cohesions
Running 21:30 [3] 3.5 mi (6:09 / mi)
shoes: Grid Cohesions
First Drill was 8 laps (2 miles) of 150m hard, 50m easy, no stops. Took about 12:20 total.
Second Drill was 800m interval pace repeats, with a 1 lap jog in between. The 800m paces were 3:03, 2:50, 2:48.
Wednesday Sep 17, 2008 #
Orienteering 50:00 [3] 5.5 mi (9:05 / mi)
shoes: Grid Cohesions
Tuesday Sep 16, 2008 #
Orienteering (Map Updates) 20:00 [1]
Orienteering 30:00 [4] 4.5 km (6:40 / km)
shoes: Grid Cohesions
Running 30:00 [3] 3.0 mi (10:00 / mi)
Sunday Sep 14, 2008 #
Note
Orienteering (Mapping) 25:00 [3]
Running 25:00 [3] 1.5 mi (16:40 / mi)
shoes: Brooks (White Yellow Black)
Strength 25:00 [3]
Saturday Sep 13, 2008 #
Note
Orienteering 17:19 [4] 2.8 km (6:11 / km)
shoes: Kainuu Integrators
Nice courses though. Very runnable and flat considering the steepness of terrain. Very technical, sometimes pushing the edge of the map's limits.
Orienteering 5:00 [2]
shoes: Grid Cohesions
Friday Sep 12, 2008 #
Running race 38:57 [4] 10.0 km (3:54 / km)
shoes: Grid Cohesions
Kimberly talked me into doing this, and I'm glad she did. It was a very fun run, and tasty blueberry cake afterwards too. In addition to Kimberly and Grandpa, I saw a couple other BAOC runners there, as well as an OSU grad.
The run was very flat, out along the Bay. It was really nice running in the dark - you couldn't tell how badly you were being beaten ;-) I feel like I paced myself pretty well. I was able to target runners, catch up, and then draft to recover. My legs feel remarkably fresh afterwards, and I even beat somebody on the kick! Perhaps the pace is a little less stressful than the 5km, or perhaps the new ways I've been tinkering with my form are effective. But, my Vdot says I should be able to run this faster, so maybe I just ran slow. For my next 10 km, I will probably run slightly more aggressively.
Oh yeah, and I won a medal ;-) 3rd place in my age group.
Thursday Sep 11, 2008 #
Running 20:00 [3] 2.0 mi (10:00 / mi)
shoes: Grid Cohesions
Tuesday Sep 9, 2008 #
Running 35:00 [3] 4.0 mi (8:45 / mi)
shoes: Grid Cohesions
Sunday Sep 7, 2008 #
Orienteering race 23:00 [4] 3.7 km (6:13 / km)
shoes: Grid Cohesions
I took GPS tracks, and they lose a lot of accuracy when you are near a building.
Running 22:00 [2] 2.5 mi (8:48 / mi)
shoes: Grid Cohesions
Orienteering 10:00 [2] 1.0 km (10:00 / km)
shoes: Grid Cohesions
Saturday Sep 6, 2008 #
Note
Running 50:00 [3] 5.5 mi (9:05 / mi)
shoes: Grid Cohesions
I did one of my typical runs in reverse, but didn't really care for it this way. There was lots of sustained uphill, punctuated by hard packed steep downhill. I much prefer the opposite - long stretches of downhill with a few steep uphills.
Orienteering (Mapping) 30:00 [0]
Friday Sep 5, 2008 #
Running 52:00 [3] 6.5 mi (8:00 / mi)
shoes: Grid Cohesions
Wednesday Sep 3, 2008 #
Running 35:00 [3] 4.0 mi (8:45 / mi)
shoes: Grid Cohesions
Tuesday Sep 2, 2008 #
Climbing 40:00 [2]
Monday Sep 1, 2008 #
Orienteering 1:45:00 [3]
shoes: Kainuu Integrators
I got much better at reading vegetation up there, and I felt much more confident. My legs felt much better than Saturday, and I really enjoyed this run!