Training Log Archive: TomN

Drumm loop. http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=5236884

GSFC perimeter road.

Butterflies this run:
American Lady (Vanessa virginiensis)
Pearl Crescent (Phyciodes tharos)
Orange Sulphur (Colias eurytheme)
E. Tailed-blue (Cupido comyntas)
several duskywings

The Pine Elfins seem to have disappeared. Short season for them.

GSFC perimeter road. Legs feel good, but I sure was low on blood sugar.

Butterflies this run:
blackish swallowtail (unidentified)
Eastern Comma (Polygonia comma)
Zabulon Skipper (Poanes zabulon)

This was the first appearance of grass skippers (but I haven't been out here in a week). They're pretty hard for me to identify in the field, but this one I think is right. Likewise the Comma -- I didn't see the eponymous marking on the underside, but it had dark hindwings like summer form Commas.

Warm-up. Medium jog, 3 strides, then about a half-mile at race pace. About 5 min rest at the starting line.

GSFC Spring 2-mile. The race clock was facing the wrong way at the finish, so I'll have to wait for results to get my time, but it was almost certainly my fastest 2-mile in the last 5 years. And Vdot 47. (Edit: nope, 46.7, darn it.) In any event, it was right in line with my expectations, and confirmation that training has been going well this spring. One-mile split was 6:33, and I dogged it a little after that, picked up the pace again on the hill. (Edit: obviously not enough.)

Unfortunately, can't make the 10K next week, going out of town.

Race tomorrow.

Georgia U.S. Championships M60 Green Middle. Well, I'm pretty disappointed in my performance. Two terrible controls, probably 15 minutes lost between them, and for no real reason that I can tell. A loss of concentration, a couple of minutes go by, and suddenly I can't account for where I've been or what I'm seeing. Relocation was hard in this terrain, so after a few minutes I bailed out each time, on #1 back to the start, and on #16 back to the finish. No problems on the re-do, and not doing anything obviously different, either.

Aside from those lapses, a pretty good run in enjoyable terrain. From 2-15 I was having a fine time, staying in contact and moving well, making safe route choices while keeping a tight line. Too bad about the endpoints.

This was a fine meet, and well organized. The start crew on both days could have been a little more forceful about announcing times and names. I nearly missed my starts each day although I was standing right there, just didn't know I was called up. The maps were good and courses challenging, and remarkably different on the two days, especially considering that they were in the same park.

C • Tough Day 2

Middle - Green X - Splits