Training Log Archive: LittleMonkey

A very fun sprint at Roberts near Joaquin Miller. Much quick thinking, changes of direction and sprinting required. I had a good race, although around 10 I had to cut my pace back because I just couldn't keep it up. I was navigating well though, not stopping, and going straight to the control. Russell started a minute back and caught me around 11. We took a stupid route to 13 and I lost maybe 20 seconds there. Otherwise it was a good race.

still hurting from the goat.

Golden Goat at Briones. Jason ran with me for the first 15 controls but then decided to just do the Kid so stopped there and won. I was 13th on the Goat at that point. We had kept up a really good pace until then with only one real mistake at 5 and a couple of suboptimal routes. So then I had to slow down but I was still running fine until about 21 when I started to cramp badly, first in my left quad and then essentially everywhere. I was then basically reduced to walking and occasionally sitting down to massage my legs so I got to watch everyone pass me. Frustrating.
It is clear that I am in worse shape than a year ago.
I did the B fork, which was about equivalent, and skipped 9. Afterwards, Penny pointed out that 1 was clearly the best skip but I don't think anyone did it.