Training Log Archive: BigWillyStyle

My body is minimally functional at "just keeping the lights on" levels right now. Here is a list of current corporeal maladies after Sunday:

R ankle lingering soreness - not too bad though
L knee contused - disagreement w/rock
L heel pain - origin unknown
Split lip - fall 5min into the race
Shoulders/neck sore - probably more from sleeping on a weird bed Sunday night

A bicycle is a magical thing; it's amazing how when you get on it all your aches and pains go away and all you have to do is turn your legs in a circle and you can go lots of places at relatively high speed with relatively little effort. Then when you get off, all your aches and pains come back and you want to lay down and curl into a ball. But you can't, because the world is cruel.

This was the most eventful easy 20min ride I've ever had. I got blocked at a crossing in Sodo by a very long freight train, which then stopped. Being that there were no other crossings nearby and the train showed no signs of moving, I decided to jump it. What a nervy five seconds that was. Then at the next stoplight, I noticed someone sitting on the curb nearby, busy with a number of drug-related items laid out on the ground, so I got out of there as quick as I could.

C • Person on curb... 2

TT long. Tough race. Tough terrain, tough nav, tough course - but fun. Ran okay, just don't have the fitness to do really well on a course like this compared to the other guys. Started out probably too cautiously, because the first couple legs seemed scary and I didn't want to blow it early on. Had one major mistake, 5min on 7, when I went through the wrong saddle and down a completely wrong spur, not even close to the right one. Very unhappy with myself at that point. Also took bad routes to 8 and 9.

Like at the Junior Nationals long a couple weeks ago, started tiring about an hour in but then recovered some toward the end - I think I need to eat GUs earlier. Side note - I borrowed and consumed a couple of Eric's 10-year-old pineapple-flavored GUs; they were a weird rusty color, probably not the one they started out as, but they didn't make me sick.

C • Eric's GUs 4

Long - Blue Elite - Splits

Event: 40th Annual West Point National Meet
 

TT middle...wow. No idea where I pulled that from but I ran a very good race, really happy with it given current circumstances.

West Point sprint. Super fun, this blew away my expectations. Really well-set course with lots of tricky legs. Took me an inordinate amount of seconds to actually find the start and the first control on the map, and made one mistake, ~25s on 23 - but also won the tricky 18-19 leg with 13(!) seconds.

Middle - Blue - Splits

Sprint - Blue - Splits

Harriman! Mass start middle-ish distance race. Met up with Greg after the first butterfly and we were together most of the rest; I was generally able to keep up with him at half-speed pace - his, not mine ;) Awesome terrain, really fun stuff. Went fairly hard but tried not to push to the max.