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Hopefully some PIKANTO-building posts as well as new features and ideas for opencamlib (which nobody reads?) in store for July.
Stay tuned.
I was a bit too far back in the start, and had to criss-cross among slower starters for at least the first 3 km. A strong side/aft wind made the first few kilometers easy downwind 'sailing', and luckily the route took a more protected less windy road after the turn at 10 km. After around 13km when it was windy again, now a side/head-wind, I slipstreamed in tour-de-france-style in the wake of a group of runners to avoid the worst wind. This course is very flat and fast, and I caught up with the 2-hour pace-runners(dressed in black tuxedos!) somewhere between 19 and 20 km.
Results and info: http://www.suvi-ilta.fi
While driving home through Perniö I saw some serious long distance runners taking part in a 100 km race. These people do 20 laps on a 5 km course, some in under 8 hours...
This is certainly a very different way of running an 11k at an average pace of 6:28/km. All the training programs for half or full marathons recommend some form of intervals. Recommended distances range anywhere between 400 m to 1 mile (1600 m) with a few minutes of walking or easy jogging between repeats.
I'm not sure how/if the garmin 405cx can be set up for interval training, so I just did 1k of walking/jogging between my "fast" 1k's at ~5:00/km. Those slow resting km's took over 7 min, which is probably a little too much rest between repeats.
There are a lot of 4 hour-target-time marathon training programs out there. Finnish running-site "seppola" has these 1k at 5:00 pace intervals. I think Kuehls book talks about up to sixteen 400m repeats at 5:00 pace, while Galloway's program has 4-8x 1 mile repeats at 5:20 pace and Janne Holmen's program (see also here) has fewer long 3-4k repeats at 5:18/km or so.
There's a race in Forssa on Saturday(which I haven't signed up for...yet)
99mm diameter winch drum for arm-winch type sheeting with powerful (e.g. HiTec) digital servos. CNC-machined in aluminium. four M3 threaded holes, weight 21 grams, price 30 euro/pcs.
Jari has added fittings, radio-installation, bulb, and foils to PIKANTO hull nr 3. Note the aluminium cnc-machined winch-drum for the HiTec winch-servo.
While we have developed a good looking cnc-machined steel finmould, ruddermoulds, a bumper mould, etc. we are still not producing hulls in any larger numbers for sale due to various reasons. Stay tuned.
