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Monday May 28, 2018 #
9 AM
Orienteering race 2:33:53 [4] *** 9.93 mi (15:30 / mi) +603m 13:02 / mi
26c shoes: Salomon Speedcross 4 - GRAY
Westchester A meet
Blue Long 11.8km, 465m
I'm pretty happy with this race, especially because of the amount of rebound after the middle. The weather was much cooler at ~70F. I made a lot of errors, but no major blow ups, just a few minutes here and there. and I even won one split! I started off at a pretty good jogging pace, which held out through 7. Then 7-14 I got kind of discouraged and did a lot of walking, even though it was going mostly well. I think the series of long legs close to each other got in my head. I perked up again after 15 with a bunch of short legs and was able to keep up a good pace through the end of the course. I think stopping for water helped too, i stopped 4 times.
A few take aways from this weekend:
1) I need to work on my mental fortitude. I CAN run this far at a good pace, but I convince myself I cant or that I'll get lost if I do. I think the poor perforamce at middle is what got in my head this time around.
2) I should bring ecaps to A meets. The heat the first two days definitely had my electrolytes imbalanced.
3) I should do more long runs. I've gotten lazy and not done many runs over 6 miles in a while. Blue longs/classics are almost always over 6 miles.
4) DVOA puts on a great event. Thanks to all involved!
Blue Long 11.8km, 465m
I'm pretty happy with this race, especially because of the amount of rebound after the middle. The weather was much cooler at ~70F. I made a lot of errors, but no major blow ups, just a few minutes here and there. and I even won one split! I started off at a pretty good jogging pace, which held out through 7. Then 7-14 I got kind of discouraged and did a lot of walking, even though it was going mostly well. I think the series of long legs close to each other got in my head. I perked up again after 15 with a bunch of short legs and was able to keep up a good pace through the end of the course. I think stopping for water helped too, i stopped 4 times.
A few take aways from this weekend:
1) I need to work on my mental fortitude. I CAN run this far at a good pace, but I convince myself I cant or that I'll get lost if I do. I think the poor perforamce at middle is what got in my head this time around.
2) I should bring ecaps to A meets. The heat the first two days definitely had my electrolytes imbalanced.
3) I should do more long runs. I've gotten lazy and not done many runs over 6 miles in a while. Blue longs/classics are almost always over 6 miles.
4) DVOA puts on a great event. Thanks to all involved!