Training Log Archive: TomN

Same as Thursday. Also the same GPS deviation in the same place. GPS says 3.9, but I'm putting in 4.0. 33 degrees, sunny with a little breeze.

If I cross over at the end of the field and run down Leslie St. past Glenn's house, I bring this route back up to 4 miles, and add a pretty good hill on the way back up. But there's still one place where the GPS got off, on Homewood Pkwy.

Midday, 32 degrees. According to my watch, this run used to be 3.9 miles, now it's down to 3.8. What's up with that?

C • Could be... 4

Mid-morning, 41 degrees, cloudy. There was enough of a breeze that I was sweaty running with it and chilly running into it.

PWNF (Pine Grove area) Red. I did a lot of walking after the 4th control. Nothing left in the legs, given yesterday's effort.

I was a little disappointed in the course setting. There's a lot of nice technical terrain here, but the course didn't take advantage of it.

#1 and 2 were good legs and good placements (the leg from start to 1 was the best leg on the course). #5 and 6 were good, but repetitive: run along the road and attack to the big reentrant. The area around 8 was underutilized. I would rather have skipped 6 and had some nice changes of direction in the wild area away from the big stream basin. As it was, we could ignore the subtle features and take a bearing to the big ones.

#3 (stream junction), #9 (deep reentrant), #10 (marsh) and #11 (ditch) were all orange-level controls. Having to run long legs to get to those controls was not very inspiring.

Red - Splits