Occassional thoughts about orienteering
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Saturday, May 22, 2004 More on climbMy watch tracks altitude as I run. The new software I'm using to download the watch data to my computer calculates, among other things, the percent of the time I was running uphill, flat or downhill.Here are the figures for the ten A-meet days I've run this spring (with percent of the time I was running uphill/flat/downhill). SLOC day 1 20/62/18 SLOC day 2 26/51/23 OCIN day 1 24/56/20 OCIN day 2 24/54/22 Badger day 1 24/54/22 Badger day 2 20/57/23 West Point 1 23/56/21 West Point 2 27/51/22 HVO day 1 23/55/22 HVO day 2 22/58/20 A few observations: I was surprised at how little difference there was in the percent of the time I was running uphill. If I'd had to guess, I'd have thought there would be more difference (keep in mind that except for the West Point and HVO days the terrain was different at each event). The easiest day, in terms of climb, was the second day at Badger. I'd have guessed that. We had a lot of climb to get to the start and then not much climb the rest of the course. It was the only race where the percent of time I ran downhill was greater than the percent of the time I ran uphill (which is what you'd expect when the start triangle was something like 15-20 lines higher than the finish). The toughest day, in terms of climb, was at West Point. I'd have guessed that, too. On the second day we started at a fairly low point and had two quite tough climbs. I think the finish was probably a good 5 lines higher than the start. Even though the West Point day was clearly the toughest climbing of the season, it only involved a little more climb than the second day of the SLOC meet. That surprises me (maybe the second day at SLOC was tough and I just don't remember it). posted by Michael | 8:03 PM 
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