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Wednesday Sep 14, 2011 #
10 AM
track 9:50 2.0 km (4:55 / km) +3ft 4:54 / km
ahr:136 max:147 shoes: pegasus #2
Didn't make it out yesterday, so today had to be it, and the morning the time.
Warm-up.
Warm-up.
track race 12:25 3.0 km (4:08 / km) +3ft 4:08 / km
ahr:159 max:170 shoes: x-talon 212 #2
3K time trial. Quite strange. My original thinking was that 12:30 ought to be possible, but then I ran a couple of faster bits in the warm-up and they seemed to be a struggle, so I didn't know what to expect.
Started off therefore not wanting to be too slow, and of course was too fast. Slowly slowed down. And debated more than once cutting it short, or mixing in a couple of slower 200s just for a break. But then just kept at it. And reasonably pleased with the outcome, 12:25.
1:37.6
1:38.9
1:39.9
1:40.9
1:40.5
3:20.4
0:47.1
Started off therefore not wanting to be too slow, and of course was too fast. Slowly slowed down. And debated more than once cutting it short, or mixing in a couple of slower 200s just for a break. But then just kept at it. And reasonably pleased with the outcome, 12:25.
1:37.6
1:38.9
1:39.9
1:40.9
1:40.5
3:20.4
0:47.1
track 4:43 0.8 km (5:54 / km) +3ft 5:52 / km
ahr:132 max:140 shoes: x-talon 212 #2
Tuesday Sep 13, 2011 #
Event: 3000m time trial
Note
Eddie is producing a basemap of Earl's Trails. What I've seen so far looks excellent. So will have to dig out my mapping gear and try to resurrect my mapping skills. Should be interesting. And maybe I can get Ali and Alex to do a little, just as a form of precision training for the mind and the eye.
As for the use of the map, who knows. Maybe just renegade O', maybe something more substantial. Not the best terrain in the world but far far from the worst.
As for the use of the map, who knows. Maybe just renegade O', maybe something more substantial. Not the best terrain in the world but far far from the worst.
Note
Just for a change of pace, time for a blow-by-blow of today's "orienteering." Well, it's just like orienteering. Although the only time I've really orienteered much like this -- so many mistakes -- was last month in France.
1. (380) Two thirds of the leg (i.e the drive) went perfect, then botched the approach, and botched it again, double bogey (not good).
2. (140) Spiked, par.
3. (420) Long tough leg. Moving well, just slightly right at the end, corrected OK, bogey.
4. (380) Bad start, and then it got worse, including two tries form the same attack point when the first one got lost. Quadruple bogey (really bad). Time to start paying attention.
5. (130) Spiked, par.
6. (550) Pretty good all the way, par.
7. (290) Took safe route, then blew the approach, bogey.
8. (465) Good speed slightly left of the line, lost no time in the circle, birdie.
9. (360) Some seasonal marshes thanks to Irene, but my line was good and I stayed dry, par.
10. (360) A little right of the line, left a tough approach over a big tree, spiked it, par.
11. (180) Spiked, par.
12. (475) Real good speed, no time lost, birdie.
13. (280) Right at it, just a little sloppy at the end, par.
14. (560) Long leg but a slight tailwind helped, fast and solid, par.
15. (150) All good things come to an end. Straight uphill, stopped a little short, then went past it, took a while before I finally got it, triple-bogey.
16. (320) A little left of the line but very sharp on the approach, par.
17. (385) A little left to start, then tried to go over a green area and didn't make it, eventually another double-bogey.
18. (320) On the line all the way, birdie.
Conclusions about my technique: Need to do better at dealing with the inevitable times I get off my planned route, take a moment and make up a plan B rather than just bulling ahead.
That regardless, it still is fun to go as fast as possible (i.e. swing as hard as I can). Wish I could still do that in orienteering.
1. (380) Two thirds of the leg (i.e the drive) went perfect, then botched the approach, and botched it again, double bogey (not good).
2. (140) Spiked, par.
3. (420) Long tough leg. Moving well, just slightly right at the end, corrected OK, bogey.
4. (380) Bad start, and then it got worse, including two tries form the same attack point when the first one got lost. Quadruple bogey (really bad). Time to start paying attention.
5. (130) Spiked, par.
6. (550) Pretty good all the way, par.
7. (290) Took safe route, then blew the approach, bogey.
8. (465) Good speed slightly left of the line, lost no time in the circle, birdie.
9. (360) Some seasonal marshes thanks to Irene, but my line was good and I stayed dry, par.
10. (360) A little right of the line, left a tough approach over a big tree, spiked it, par.
11. (180) Spiked, par.
12. (475) Real good speed, no time lost, birdie.
13. (280) Right at it, just a little sloppy at the end, par.
14. (560) Long leg but a slight tailwind helped, fast and solid, par.
15. (150) All good things come to an end. Straight uphill, stopped a little short, then went past it, took a while before I finally got it, triple-bogey.
16. (320) A little left of the line but very sharp on the approach, par.
17. (385) A little left to start, then tried to go over a green area and didn't make it, eventually another double-bogey.
18. (320) On the line all the way, birdie.
Conclusions about my technique: Need to do better at dealing with the inevitable times I get off my planned route, take a moment and make up a plan B rather than just bulling ahead.
That regardless, it still is fun to go as fast as possible (i.e. swing as hard as I can). Wish I could still do that in orienteering.
Monday Sep 12, 2011 #
Note
One of the benefits of not having e-punching at Pawtuckaway is that it gives you a chance to enter your splits on AP, instead of having it done for you. Of course if no one does it....
So get with the program.
Had an Alex-type long weekend (Saturday morning to Monday evening), not in that I am broken, but rather doing my best to rack up lots of miles. I'm still not in her league, but it did seem like a lot of driving.
But Pawtuckaway needed to be done, and I needed to check in on mom who, it turns out, took another trip to NYC on Saturday, the second one I've not been involved in, just quickly down and back with Lina and Lina's daughter, no stops except for soup, the purpose apparently just to rekindle some memories. And then this morning I had a chance to play a round at the Plymouth CC, a very nice private course, so that couldn't be passed on, was out of mom's house before 6 to make that.
But no complaints, a fine long weekend in all regards except that Lina (my mom's primary caregiver) is convinced I am quite nuts, as every weekend I show up with new scars/scabs/lacerations. But then at one point she said that my mom was a tough old lady, and she guessed I was just the same and she had best get used to it. But I'm pretty sure she'd prefer it if I didn't croak anytime soon.
So get with the program.
Had an Alex-type long weekend (Saturday morning to Monday evening), not in that I am broken, but rather doing my best to rack up lots of miles. I'm still not in her league, but it did seem like a lot of driving.
But Pawtuckaway needed to be done, and I needed to check in on mom who, it turns out, took another trip to NYC on Saturday, the second one I've not been involved in, just quickly down and back with Lina and Lina's daughter, no stops except for soup, the purpose apparently just to rekindle some memories. And then this morning I had a chance to play a round at the Plymouth CC, a very nice private course, so that couldn't be passed on, was out of mom's house before 6 to make that.
But no complaints, a fine long weekend in all regards except that Lina (my mom's primary caregiver) is convinced I am quite nuts, as every weekend I show up with new scars/scabs/lacerations. But then at one point she said that my mom was a tough old lady, and she guessed I was just the same and she had best get used to it. But I'm pretty sure she'd prefer it if I didn't croak anytime soon.
Sunday Sep 11, 2011 #
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10 AM
orienteering 1:05:18 [3] 5.7 km (11:27 / km)
shoes: x-talon 212 #2
Green course. Wasn't even sure I was up for that, feling very tired. But it looked like a nice course and I thought I should at least give it a try. And I got around pretty well, ran a fair bit, only 2 or 3 minutes of errors, so quite pleased, and certainly glad I'd gone out.
No 305 track for this one. Guess I'll have to be old-fashioned and draw in my route. It's bound to be more accurate that way. :-)
Very pleasant weekend, good company, good orienteering, and I'm still upright. Though I remembered only at the end that I had forgotten about my general desire to try to meet someone new at O' weekends. Got to get back to that.
Also got a number of nice comments about the write-ups I was posting during WOC about how the Team was doing. Nice to se some were reading them. And maybe they helped in their purpose, to make people in the federation feel a little more connected to the Team.
And speaking of the Team, there is a need for a person with a special duty, which is to check Ali every time she is leaving wherever she is and make sure she isn't leaving anything behind. Because she seems to do that quite often (the worst example I heard was arriving at a ski race only to discover she had forgotten her skis). And because it seems to be a family trait. So it is hard-wired. Perhaps we need an intervention.... :-)
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No 305 track for this one. Guess I'll have to be old-fashioned and draw in my route. It's bound to be more accurate that way. :-)
Very pleasant weekend, good company, good orienteering, and I'm still upright. Though I remembered only at the end that I had forgotten about my general desire to try to meet someone new at O' weekends. Got to get back to that.
Also got a number of nice comments about the write-ups I was posting during WOC about how the Team was doing. Nice to se some were reading them. And maybe they helped in their purpose, to make people in the federation feel a little more connected to the Team.
And speaking of the Team, there is a need for a person with a special duty, which is to check Ali every time she is leaving wherever she is and make sure she isn't leaving anything behind. Because she seems to do that quite often (the worst example I heard was arriving at a ski race only to discover she had forgotten her skis). And because it seems to be a family trait. So it is hard-wired. Perhaps we need an intervention.... :-)
Saturday Sep 10, 2011 #
11 AM
orienteering 1:21:49 4.99 mi (16:24 / mi) +522ft 14:55 / mi
ahr:141 max:154 shoes: x-talon 212
Camping weekend at Pawtuckaway. (Short) Blue course.
Decent run. Tried a thumb compass. I think that I am going to find that I like having a little sharp end as a pointer, but not so much actually using the compass to determine direction. But will have to try it a few times before knowing for sure.
Got a good poke in the right eye about 10 minutes before the finish, in the white part of the eye. Vision was blurry/foggy, wiped my eye and it would clear up a little but then go foggy again, got better after a few minutes. I think it was just blood getting in the way, even though the world didn't have that nice rosy hue like it did when I became Cyclops for a week. Left a rather nasty looking bloody spot.
Dr Lex took a look and was inclined to send me off to the ER, since it seemed there was a tear in the iris and she was concerned that that the fluid inside the eye might be leaking out. I was (of course) inclined to do nothing. We compromised and agreed she would check it an hour later to see if it had changed.
An hour (or two?) later, and it seemed no worse, still looked quite bad but no fluid leaking to be seen, so no ER. Of course there was still a night-O' to be done, so that was just as good.
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Decent run. Tried a thumb compass. I think that I am going to find that I like having a little sharp end as a pointer, but not so much actually using the compass to determine direction. But will have to try it a few times before knowing for sure.
Got a good poke in the right eye about 10 minutes before the finish, in the white part of the eye. Vision was blurry/foggy, wiped my eye and it would clear up a little but then go foggy again, got better after a few minutes. I think it was just blood getting in the way, even though the world didn't have that nice rosy hue like it did when I became Cyclops for a week. Left a rather nasty looking bloody spot.
Dr Lex took a look and was inclined to send me off to the ER, since it seemed there was a tear in the iris and she was concerned that that the fluid inside the eye might be leaking out. I was (of course) inclined to do nothing. We compromised and agreed she would check it an hour later to see if it had changed.
An hour (or two?) later, and it seemed no worse, still looked quite bad but no fluid leaking to be seen, so no ER. Of course there was still a night-O' to be done, so that was just as good.
8 PM
orienteering (night) 2:15:38 4.58 mi (29:37 / mi) +548ft 26:36 / mi
ahr:130 max:149 shoes: x-talon 212
JJ's Wicked Hard Night O'. Not sure how many years he's had it, but I haven't missed one yet and wasn't intending to DNS this one. Though I must say that afterwards I was having thoughts along the line, You are getting too old and frail for this foolishness.
A decent walk, with a scattering of little bits of jogging in the first half, and then lots of stumbling in the last 45 minutes or so. One bad control, #4, guess 5 minutes lost, maybe a little more, GPS will say, and one a little bit bad, #5, a minute or two, wandering with Will, who had almost no light. A good pair, the blind and the lame. He hung with me until 9 (picked him up on the way to 5), but then he couldn't go slow enough and was soon gone.
Otherwise mostly by myself. Was thinking I was doing quite well and almost done when I got to 11, only three more to go, but then I took a look at the next couple and decided I had quite a long ways to go. Ended up right on my predicted time of 2:15. The only casualty was my 305, no permanent injury, just ran out of juice with about 20 minutes still to go.
Beautiful evening, clear, full moon (not that it helped), nice course. I didn't finish last, but not by much.
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A decent walk, with a scattering of little bits of jogging in the first half, and then lots of stumbling in the last 45 minutes or so. One bad control, #4, guess 5 minutes lost, maybe a little more, GPS will say, and one a little bit bad, #5, a minute or two, wandering with Will, who had almost no light. A good pair, the blind and the lame. He hung with me until 9 (picked him up on the way to 5), but then he couldn't go slow enough and was soon gone.
Otherwise mostly by myself. Was thinking I was doing quite well and almost done when I got to 11, only three more to go, but then I took a look at the next couple and decided I had quite a long ways to go. Ended up right on my predicted time of 2:15. The only casualty was my 305, no permanent injury, just ran out of juice with about 20 minutes still to go.
Beautiful evening, clear, full moon (not that it helped), nice course. I didn't finish last, but not by much.
Friday Sep 9, 2011 #
Note
Visited Mike's Maze today to check out the possibilities. Stay tuned....
Thursday Sep 8, 2011 #
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12 PM
trail running 51:03 4.12 mi (12:23 / mi) +932ft 10:12 / mi
ahr:134 max:161 rhr:51 weight:136lbs shoes: pegasus #2
At Earl's trails. First did a loop over the two main hills, then at the end 4 x 1 minute up the bottom part of the old lift line. Trails were in remarkably fine condition after all the rain we've had, just a few small puddles, no mud, no erosion.
Will any luck we'll have an O' map of the area by the end of the fall.
Also, detoured on the way home to check out a possible site for the USA Roller Ski Orienteering Champs. Not as good as I'd hoped, will have to go look at option B.
Will any luck we'll have an O' map of the area by the end of the fall.
Also, detoured on the way home to check out a possible site for the USA Roller Ski Orienteering Champs. Not as good as I'd hoped, will have to go look at option B.