Training Log Archive: TomN

Spent the week of June 3-9 in Maine. Renovations on the cabin basically finished, but nearly endless chores getting it habitable. No running, due to a variety of factors. No swimming either. Tried it one day, but the lake was too cold (66 F). I keep saying I'm going to get a wetsuit.

I got a couple of weird cracks in the skin on one foot. Deep and painful. I don't know what that was all about. At times I was hobbling, but they seem to be healing o.k.

QOC Beer Chase "Black" course. This was a lot of fun as usual. I took a more reasonable strategy than in previous chases, not trying to keep up with the fastest runners but going at a (relatively) easy pace with the next group. So I found I had plenty of kick left as the run progressed. I had pulled away towards the end of the second loop, but I found myself alone and couldn't believe there was no one chasing, wait a minute, something must be wrong! But it wasn't, and they caught up eventually due to my slowdown. The third loop was easy even in the beer haze, and I ran it pretty fast.

I fell for a couple of Ted's Black-course tricks, like not figuring out the "8" fork on the first control on the second loop, and not seeing the contours obscured by the circle and line on the next control, and stupidly, not getting the control number right on the one festooned with all the extra markers. But nothing was so out of whack that it couldn't be taken in stride. Certainly no complaints.

Black - Splits