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Friday, November 11, 2005
Plan for the weekend races
I'll run two races this weekend. Saturday is a regular event and Sunday is the U.S. Long Champs. I'm running M40 both days.
Here are a few things I'm going to plan to do:
1. Include a good 10-15 of warming up without an active ankle. Then put on the active ankle for the races. I've found that running with the active ankle has a tendency to slightly change my stride. That may be one reason I work hard and move slow when I'm wearing the active ankle. It may also be one reason I got blisters last weekend. But, it I begin a run without the active ankle, it feels like I run normally even after I put the thing on.
2. Be extra careful leaving each control. That might seem like a strange thing to emphasize. But, I tend to run a leg well when I read the map carefully leaving a control. I think what happens is that if you read the map out of a control you start the right process for finishing a leg. On the other hand, if you leave a control roughly -- just head in the general direction and run hard -- you'll (or I should say "I will") have difficulty switching back to the kind of navigating that works well (for me at least).
If I do those two things, I think I'll have reasonable runs (though I'm not likely to move very fast).
posted by Michael |
12:26 PM
