Training Log Archive: TomN

QOC Lake Accotink Green. A nice course by Gary Smith with some good legs and not too much crazy back-and-forth. Almost all of my route was trail running, but even that required a lot of attention because the place is just lousy with trails. Anyway, pretty happy with my performance, but there were places where I could have picked up some time here and there. And places where I conveniently found a need to slow down and study the map when I was breathing hard.

C • lousy 2

Green - Splits

Kensington 8k, my home town race. Over 600 runners this year. I had a disappointing race, and I knew it at the first mile. Even so, I was in the lead among the 60-year-olds until just after the hill, early in the 5th mile. That's the really disappointing part of it. The hill is usually my strength, but I blew up completely and couldn't pick up any speed afterwards. So I just watched helplessly as he pulled ahead. I know the 3rd place guy, too. We work at the same place, and his son knows my daughter.

Two years ago, still in my 60s, I ran this race in 35:29. This year, almost 3 minutes slower. Not for lack of trying. It's just not working for me.

=== MALE AGE GROUP: 60 - 69 (NET TIME) | Showing up to 3, Awarding Top 3 ===
Place O'All Bib Name Age S City St Gun Net
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1 79 687 Kenyon Erickson 60 M Vienna VA 38:28 37:47
2 86 183 Tom Nolan 62 M Kensington MD 38:15 38:09
3 133 110 Bill Teng 61 M Burtonsville MD 40:40 40:27

Met with the A-meet planning group to walk through the logistics on-site. Then went out and worked on White and Yellow all afternoon. Somewhere in the floodplain at the far north end of the map I lost my compass. It fell out of my pocket. It's awkward carrying a compass with attached magnifier in your pocket, so the magnifier was hanging out, and it must have snagged on something. I retraced my steps for about an hour, but no luck.

Same run as before, with a half-dozen strides at various places.

Morning run around the neighborhood. Very fine weather for a few days.