Training Log Archive: TomN

Setting out the rest of the controls for Rosaryville tomorrow. It had been raining for about 12 hours, but it had stopped this afternoon, and it was kind of nice in the park, with hardly anyone else there. No mountain bikers, a couple of horseback riders, and a few dog walkers. Crossing the grassy fields was like wading a river -- 2 steps and my legs and shoes were saturated.

Symptoms developed yesterday. I bet I got it flying back from ABQ.

Warm-ups for the Goddard Spring 2-mile. Mei-An agreed to run, so we drove in together, getting there around 11, registered and warmed up. Saw Kim and Jan, among O-friends.

The 83rd running of the Goddard 2-mile "Fun Run" (which I've always thought of as a not-so-fun run). I've had a pretty good training season starting in January, averaging somewhere over 20 miles per week the whole time. But no speed work, other than some hill sessions.

I knew I was not as fast as last year. I predicted 14:20, but I was way off at 14:40. I felt good the first half, and saw a 7:10 split, which was right on. Second mile was slow, kind of questioning the training theory. And I don't see how the second mile could have been 7:30 so I'm also questioning the split timing clock.

Maybe 400+ runners today, and it was sunny and right around 70. Not too bad for running at noon in May.

Setting out controls for Rosaryville. I meant to print maps at work and leave from there (because it's already half-way to the park), but I forgot my computer, so I went back home and printed on my crap printer. Traffic on the Beltway was atrocious today and I had to drive 2.5 times as far. Got 4 bags of controls out, the non-obvious ones, with 5 more bags to be done Saturday or Sunday. A lot of them are easy and close in, but there are a few far-flung MTBO controls left. Plus the water.