okansas.blogspot.com Occassional thoughts about orienteering
Sunday, March 17, 2002
Road race
I ran a 4-mile road race today. The race began in the parking lot of a shopping area. We went through the parking lots, then did a big square around the shopping center and a bit north of it, then back into the parking lot. We covered 4-miles of pavement.
Running road races isn't much fun for me. I don't really like running on pavement. The scenery isn't much. I don't like being in crowds.
But, running races is probably a decent way to get in some good training. Some good orienteers -- like Dan and Peter -- seem to do a lot of running races. It is a lot easier to run hard in a race than in training. Once you've entered a race, you feel committed. So even if you don't feel like it, you show up and put in an honest effort.
Races are also good ways to gauge how you're doing. A time doesn't mean much on an orienteering course (where the courses and terrain are different each time). But, races are relatively comparable. A road race gives you a good measure of your running ability.
Maybe I'll do a few more races this year.
posted by Michael |
7:29 PM
