Training Log Archive: Gil

Breakfest: kwick-fill sausage bisquit and large coffee

Lunch: Dozen chicken wings (mild... bummer, they did not have hot wings), Teriyaki Beef Stick (220 cals).

While watching WH1 40 worst breakup songs. Some of the songs were sogs I like personally - like Ace of Base - Don't Turn Around, UB40 - Red, Red wine and other songs.

Waiting for treadmill

Dinner: fish with brown rice, salad and bread, glass of white wine.

First time Pamela made dinner for two and I had a good time with her last night. I think she likes me.

Miscellaneous Foods:
- 3 slices of bread with butter and jelly before workout.
- 3 units of ice-cold liquid carbs after workout (Yuengling).
- 5 Tangerines.

Event: CNYO Highland Forest
 

Warmup before CNYO Turkey run

Long. 7.4KM.

I considered this as an opportunity to run in different map then ROC maps.

First control was kind of tentitive. Had to change my route choice because there was too much undergrowth to fight with. Banks of the streem were deep as well.

I made a big burp on #6 circling on right side for a while then on left side together with Will.

Got together to #7 with Will where he decided to wait for some time to avoid shadowing. He was right behind me when punching in #7.

Going to #8 I decided to choose different trails not to run behind will. We emerged at the same time at the same trail junction. Will gave me some room to run again and I did not see him till #10 where I went from right side way too much to left.

Execution to #11 was not bad. I intentionally chose different route then Will. I did not spike the flag since I had to fight through the undergrowth a lot.

I somewhat did not care much about finishing strong after that.

Not great run but it is good to be in different map.

I did lot better at Sprint except #5. I punched in #11 of long first but I checked number and I realized it was not mine. Lost at least 30 seconds on that leg because of chekcing into wrong flag...

Cooldown after the race.

Long - Splits

Sprint - Splits

I met this wonderful girl by name Pamela couple weeks ago and she is partially responsible about this unplanned rest day. I have been "enjoying" being single and unattached for about year or so devoting my free time to training. It is going to be more challenging to balance quality training time and relationship with Pamela at the same time. However there is no way I will stop seeing Pamela to increase quality of training. I will have to do my best to re-arrange my daily schedule to have both - relationship with Pamela and quality training time.

Rest day

Reflecting on Batona-500

I knew that I am not ready to win A-meet before signing up for Batona-500 yet. My primary goal was to see if I am making any progress regarding my training. I ran four races this weekend with mixed results.

Physically I am on the right track. I was able to finish all races without having feeling that I am running out of gas at the end.

Technical performance could have been better, especially for Middle and Long courses. I could have been in top-10 easy if I was more consistent. I love my new compass but I have noticed that I tend to falter when taking bearings. Also I tend to misread contours – when I expect to see hilltop it is depression.

I did lot better on both sprints (except #7 on Sprint-A). Even I placed 4th in Sprint-B I loved the feeling I had during Sprint-A execution until #7… It was an easy course of course but flags were not visible from the directions I was coming from (except #3). But I could see location way ahead and I was planning my next leg even before seeing flag.

Since I messed up #7 on Sprint-A I think I was little bit more careful on Sprint-B, especially when going for #9, #10 and #11. I knew that this could be decent race for me and I did not wanted to mess it up.

Overall conclusion – I am on the right track. Sure I wanted to be higher then 20th in the Middle distance and 17th in the Long however maybe this is for the best in long term since I still have work cut out for me if I ever want to contend for top. Since it was not as successful as I hoped I feel highly motivated to practice even harder before next season starts.

ORD Tuesday sub-group at MCC

2 miles - 15:44 - Rob and I
2 miles - 13:56 - Rob and I, Mike joined at the end
2 miles - 13:24 - Mike and I
2 miles - 13:04 - Mike and I till about 0.8 miles to go - i finished ahead of Mike
1 mile - 8:17 - cooldown with Mike