Training Log Archive: cmorse

Event: WCOC BBQ, Sprints, Meeting at DeWeese Farm
 

Started out by doing Sprint A shadowing Jackson. Decent job, but tended not to be looking for controls carefully enough and went by a few.

Then went out and ran the A sprint without compass. Doesn't really count since I had jogged it with Jackson, but nailed everything cleanly and felt pretty good all the way around. Pretty much just used the map to remind myself which control was next, then ran the leg on memory.

Ran before Jackson this time, so it counted. Clean all the way around except hesitated a little before #8 since I've messed up in this area before and it felt like I had run the correct distance, but I had to go a little further - but I was dead on. Only real route choice was on #13, went south around the enclosure and up through the white - a fine choice. JJ had warned me about the Urtica on #14, but I saw no reason to go over the knoll.

Since I haven't actually done any orienteering this season - it felt really nice to be running in the woods with a map in hand. Seeing as how the Sprint Champs are the same weekend as the 100 miler I'm signed up for, and don't really feel prepared to even complete, I think I may bow out of that endeavor and do the sprint/ultralong champs instead. Peter suggested that I was a smart guy - and this seems the smarter course of action at this point.

And then out to shadow Jackson on the B course - another decent outing, but still overrunning a couple - including following JJ on one, and then chasing Evalin near the end - he saw Evalin coming back out, but then wasn't paying attention to his control and ran past it to another one on the 'crutches' course. Figured it out ok.

Sprint A - Splits

Sprint B - Splits

Event: NEOC: Forest Park Sprints and Picnic
 

So Bruce called yesterday to see if I was interested in doing 22 miles this AM - same route we did about a month ago. I said fine, as long as he was willing to walk all the hills and run a moderate pace on the rest. He was fine with that, and since we were starting/finishing from his house, if my pace was too slow, he could just run ahead and finish up before me.

So off we went at 4:45, just getting light but raining (what else) and we set off walking up the hill from his house. Seemed odd to be walking from the start, but that was the plan and we stuck with it... So we walked all the hills, and tossed in a number of walking breaks on the rail trail between Andover and Bolton Notch (which trends very slightly up hill over a number of miles. Eating and drinking regularly, but by around mile 17 or so, I could tell my stomach was not emptying as it had that full, sloshy feel to it. When we got to Valley Falls, I told Bruce to run on since there was a lot of up to do on Hatch Hill.

I finished a little less than an hour slower than last time, my stomach didn't absorb food/drink any better and my body actually hurts a lot more - particularly my hips/pelvis are really achy - not sure what that's about - I'm going to assume lyme related - but basically I feel like a big breakfast of leftover pasta and, to take Peters cue, a nap. So that's just what I plan to do at this insane hour of 9:30 in the morning...

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Post nap review - definitely something odd going on. My whole pelvic area feeling very achy following run/nap - doesn't feel muscular, but deep in the joints. A dull ache was evident from early on in the run, but I've had something similar before, but it never became bothersome. And I can't see how changing things up and walking hills today could have been a part of it. I do a lot of walking (just not in races, at least early on) and have had no problem.

Other things that were different today - didn't eat before hand, but began using a new gel and water from the start - gel has electrolytes and amino acids, so it wasn't lack of those. Just plain water to wash it down with - didn't seem to be any issues there. Just by later in the run it didn't appear to be going into my system - just sitting in the stomach. No nausea or other complaints, but then I wasn't out long enough to overfill the stomach either.

got a pretty good headache going this afternoon as well. Maybe its some sort of arthritic condition exacerbated by all this crappy weather.... Oh well, enough ruminating, on to some more productive work.

Evening walk w/ Jackson - brisk pace - thermometer said 69, but felt chilly...

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