Training Log Archive: ccsteve

Event: ROC - Mendon Ponds Park Regular Meet
 

Read at Mendon.

Think that the morning spent in the sun at the Niagara USATF Jr Olympic qualifier held at Penfield may have sapped more energy than I thought. I was sluggish from out of the gate and then missed very significantly on the second control. My "count" suggested that I had missed the side trail and was ready to cut in, but I was in the green and spent too long thrashing about before I got to the actual trail and realized what had happened. Then I approached the control from an off angle and ended on the hill on the east edge of the circle before correcting.

Jim and I met first on that control and kept bumping through 7, but I took a good line out and into 8, and he appeared to miss - I kept in front of him after that and never saw evidence of him after. [Splits show my best leg on 8 - where I gained 2 minutes on him - and another 2 minutes on my second best leg for 9 after that]

I was not excited to get to 1 - and ran around. I thought that would be a clear way to stay unencumbered with the green and plan. But that was perhaps the early (missed) indicator - 3 minutes out / nearly double time on that leg alone.

Then the debacle on 2. 3 was ok, but then I missed on the way to 4 as well. I needed to stay right, but got tangled up in the paddocks and climbing down, and up the ridges there, bleh. [Interesting place to be, just bad navigation on my part]

5 to 6 was good, but I simplified to the trail and made a good cutover.

From 9 in was accurate, just slower than the rest due to the extra distance I had given myself, and being worn out.

Flag pickup in the NE corner. Able to make it through control 2 again to see my error, and it was amazingly easier to do correctly... bleh.

Red - Splits

Nice easy run, 4 mile loop plus and extra around the block. 8:38, 8:27, 8:24, 7:40, 8:22