Training Log Archive: KFish

Flying Pig Day 3
Middle - Voice of America MetroPark
Blue - 5.5 km, 55 m


Another fast metropark of mostly fields of various difficulty to run through. According to AP this was my best day, but I was definitely feeling the previous two days and lost my oomph about halfway through. Only a few small errors in the one green section - I think I got so in the groove of running the past two days I forgot what to do in the woods! The good news is I held off Tom by 11 sec, the bad news is he had me on the weekend by about 70 sec.

Mistakes:

8 - Failed to hold my bearing in thick saplings, and then tried to reattack from a hill only to realize it was the wrong hill.
10 - Same story
17 - Failed to realize the 4 tall square things where the boulders I was looking for so I spent way too long staring at the map.

C • did anybody go to #8 throug... 2

OCIN_Sunday_Middle_VOA_Park_7 Blue - Splits

Event: Crooked Compass Adventure Trek
 

Flying Pig Classic - Elk Creek Park
Blue
10.2 km, 200 m climb

This park was a former golf course, so it was incredibly fast with generally flat grassy fields and a network of paved cart paths. I pretty much gave it my all, but didn't have the speed to hold my own against the other runners. While the nav was generally pretty easy, I was able to appreciate the route choice challenges the course setter designed, with my favorite being those that required getting from one side of a large water feature to the other. With how muddy the fields were it was also interesting trying to decide between straight on fields and slightly farther on the paved cart path, but the cart paths were also distracting as they were so easy but sometimes definitely not the right choice. After the first few controls I think I got better at only taking them when it actually made sense to take them.

A few small bobbles that normally I would be fine with, but on such a fast course they will certainly show up in the results. One bigger stupid mistake.

Mistakes:
5 - hesitated one erosion gully to early
11- headed to a false corner in the field
12 - Big mistake one what should have been pretty easy. Let the light green get in my head and ended up not quite sure where I was on the trail, so I backtracked a bit to make sure I wouldn't pass the control when I got there.
15 - slightly overshot
16- hesitated and checked a flag that wasn't even on the right feature
18 - failed to see there was a trail south of the pond, so I crashed through some thick green and the pond itself

Overall pretty happy with how I did, just not fast enough to keep up. Eric flew by me between 5 and 6, and was able to keep sight of him in the distance through 8 before he was gone.

C • Great job! 1

OCIN_Saturday_Classic_Elk_Creek_7 Blue - Splits

Event: OCIN Flying Pig XXII
 

Flying Pig
Middle Blue
Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park
4.6 km, 200 m climb

Went pretty well for me. Lots of small bobbles on the first 7 or so, but got cleaner and faster as I went and the second half I am really happy with.

Mistakes:
1 - took off down the wrong trail right from the start! Realized it pretty quickly and corrected.
2 & 3 & 4 inefficient route choice and some hesitation
6 - went over instead of around which was only marginally farther. Hill training has been paying off
7- Headed to 10, luckily it was right on the way, but may have gone more around the spur than over if I had realized

Kept glancing over my shoulder for Tom, who started 4 min behind me, but I stayed ahead :). Fun, very fast course. Felt more like a long sprint. Hill training has paid off and I was able to keep up a run almost the entire time.

OCIN_Friday_Middle_Pyramid_Hill_Apr_2018_7 Blue - Splits

Not overly successful, kept getting scared of falling and twisting my ankle before pig

Brought trail shows and planned to run the trail, but it rained all day and would have been a muddy mess. Stuck to the paved loop instead.

4x5 min at threshold with 3 min rest in btw