Training Log Archive: AliC

Part of A meet Blue course @ Baldwin Hill

Oh my gosh, did I turn into a cold cookie out there! I stopped when I couldn't hold the map anymore at control #11. Apparently 34 degrees and raining (pretty much my least fav weather) requires more than 1 polypro + o top. Or at least a warmer polypro, I was just getting colder and colder and running wasn't warming me up.

1- good
2- hard to take a bearing here, because the northlines are much less noticeable than the stonewalls, which are probably real north, not magnetic north
3- boo. I went to 15 (on the way) instead. whoops, but at least it was on the way.
4- ok, but feels like cheating to use stonewalls!
5- wasn't really happy about the depression south of the knoll. ran around the area a bit trying to make sure everything added up, and think everything did but that depression is very minor
6- stonewall til one boulder on the left, then reentrant, flat top of spur and then down, but came down too far west to start with, better judgement of distance from the rockly cliff I saw higher might have helped?
7- I messed up in this area on the red, and I didn't mess up as baddly this time, but still no good. I was intending to come down to the left of the line, into the reentrant and then up, but somehow ended up at the top of the ride pretty far to the right of the line. the green pushes me that way in that area.
7->9 ( I forgot to draw 8 on in my map, made this a very long leg!)
went pretty well, across marsh on hill just underline, then up to marsh on the hill and down the backdise, looking for the sea of rocks in a reentrant, but judged I came to it to early. not a prob, because the stone walls helped when I actually got far enough, but would have liked to process this better.
10- really quite cold now. pushed to the left of the lake by the green, or a downed tree.
11- decided to go up the west side of the marsh for somewhat unknown reasons, almost tried to keep heading west instead of north, in retrospect, the cold or the pain of cold hands was probably distracting me from orienteering well.

806/2000

C • Hardcore 4

Cool down back to the car on trails. When I got there, was a major production to extract car key from back pocket and press the unlock button. Ok, definitely more layers next time!!

Woke up to snow in Amherst, woo!

CSU double pole time trial with Alex in Concord. Wonderfully warm out actually. It was different (more painful) than other dp time trials, because you have to go up the darn hill 4 times!! I was pretty consistent, even slightly negative:
3:20, 3:22, 3:16, 3:18
So that's a total of 13:16. Is a good hill for it, definitely need to sharpen the pole tips more though.

Pine Hill A meet Green Qual course

Did a switch-leads training with Meg, where we switched who actually orienteered to each control every other time. Good to see how she orienteers and hopefully I was a good example at least some of the time, although I totally messed up #6. Not that this should have thrown me as it did, but there was a knoll hidden under the #6 circle. The knoll was rocky, so I put it and the small boulder together as being the feature in the circle. Meg pointed out the giant marsh right off to our right, which I then realized must be the yellow depression and figured things out. But it took til then. Jeez!

Also a hidden knoll under the control circle for #7, next A meet, we should try to be careful with control-circle cutting!

786/2000

C • great to meet you 4

Not great. My goal was to really have a clue where I was headed next before getting to each control. That rarely happened. It was just taking all of my focus to get to each control, I didn't have much down time for route-planning ahead.

Definitely slow route to #2, little unsure about #7, didn't have a good place to turn of trail to #9. There were some good things, and for having so many trails, it's a pretty difficult area to orienteer in!!

797/2000

Little evening joggeroo so I could get in the drills! Knee, or rather, upper tibia pain happened on warm down, which is not cool.

Core core!

Oooh, and cold! Glad I was bundled up, but toes still real unhappy at the end.

We did a double pole out and back on River Rd., a bit more double pole on the ups of the double bump this time, just no-poles skating on the very steepest bits. Higher avg. HR than last double pole, maybe we were working harder...

Oh, but wimped out on the map boards because of the cold. Not that that makes much sense, but was nice just to double pole without the distraction...

C • Double poling while running ?? 3

Short Emily Dickinson loop. Just easy, making sure my body still is ok with this whole running thing! Does seem ok, hamstring + knee under control, woo!

C • snow at Prospect! 6

12 min circuits, 10 min abs, 12 min circuits. Put butternut squash in oven while circuiting, yum yum!

Morning specific strength with Alex. Chilly, but not as cold as it could be. Had map holders and I did ok with the Ånn map (yay for marshes), but then not so good with Orsa Grönklitt- at least partly because of clarity of printing. Working on finding my way back to where I was looking on the map after looking up, a skill recommended by Alex.

Body feels much better than yesterday. Quads are still sore, but everything else reasonable.

C • Hmm 8

And still super-sore from super-starring + 3k + Sunday's Oing. Day completely and 100% off! Hopefully some more recovery happens overnight or specific strength is going to be painful... maybe should be arm-focused...

C • Ditto 5