Training Log Archive: coach

Run with Jude and Hill, detour at the end to pick up garbage.

The race went badly for the first part. Jogging in place at the start as they handed out the maps, F12 next to me dropped her map, blew away quickly in the windy field, my attempt to grab it resulted in my map getting loose, butI snagged it with a well place pole plant, which unfortunately made a nice tear across the web of ski trails.
Started at the back and after some slow gliding out of the start I spotted the the first control. Not a great route to it, then back up hill to #2 then ....where the heck is 3.... uh oh, I just came from three, which I had thought was one....Ah that control I just passed is 1.!
Feeling decidedly stupid but pressing on as it was too cold to stand around I went back to one, and navigated quickly through. 2 and 3 again.
Saw all my competitor mates going this way and that, could they actually still be nearby?
Managed to miss the common butterfly control on the third go round, blowing off another .2-3 minutes.
Saw no one as I climbed into the last part of the course, then spotted Larry Berman coming out of 9. Could he be the lead?
Downhill all the way to 10, and there is Larry buried off to the side of the control mumbling about the women who had blocked his way and sent him flying.
Missed a bit too high going to 11, but held the lead to the finish.
Kinda wish we had been on a long course though.

Post race ride down the mountain, past the oxen, and back up on nice virgin snow.

Long Course 1A - Splits

Warm today, around 0C at the start, cloudy.

Steady, no big mistakes, but got handily beaten by an old lady running down to F40. Poor route choices to 6 and 13, again probably because of no magnification.

Middle Course 2 - Splits

Event: US Ski-O Championships
 

Most important part of weekend accomplished, pick up 12 cans of the coveted Heady Topper beer. Only sold in selected outlets in Stowe on Fridays, it was first priority upon arrival in Stowe.

First starter, glided out trying to figure out where I was in relation to the start.
Not going faster than I could navigate, but my map reading was a bit slow as I was not using magnifying glasses.

Ontothe model area, in really bad shape from blowing snow, and then down the hill, and back up.

Sprint Course 2 - Splits

Snow covered,1-10", trails. Test run of the TARC 25mile trail loop for the June 50/100 trail race. From field reports from the Blue Hills I had heard that trails were runnable. Not at Hale/Noanet.
Quite a bit of map reading involved staying on the twisty course.
Several times I was on unbroken trail, and quite awhile in the first 30 minutes I couldn't find the trail at all!
Cut some corners but got a good idea of a lot of the course.
Going to be slow going in many places on race day.

Around the big block just to get out.