Training Log Archive: TomN

GNC Middle at Hard Labor Creek. Interesting course, fairly easy technically and physically, but the constant drizzle made things slick and I fell once. An error in map interpretation led to my only significant time loss (#8) but I relocated from another control not on my course and kept it to a minimum.

Brown Middle distance - Splits

With Addie, Glenn, and Jenna. Two 10b's, both completed but not without a fall. Repeat 9s until failure.

QOC Greenbelt Red. It was only about 15 degrees when I started, and there was enough snow on the ground to obscure the small stuff underfoot. That's in the way of an excuse for being slow. I made a couple of bad route choices (like going through dense woods instead of around) but I had good attacks, and where I had trouble was around the controls. In two places the circle obscured a ditch, which confused me both times. The rest of the time it was my fault. I figured it would take me 1.5 hours, and I was 15 minutes over that.

Having been running during this bitter cold snap, I knew how to dress, and once I got warmed up it felt great to be in the woods. Standing around afterwards was hard, even with a change of clothes.

Red - Splits

At the Rockville gym with Addie, Glenn and Rob. Solid on 10a. At the very end, Addie and I had a race on two side-by-side 5.9s. I was ahead for a while, but she topped out and I flamed out. That was fun.