Training Log Archive: jjcote

Classic at CNYO A-meet, Blue. Errors basically pretty tiny, a few routes could have been somewhat better. Rain started partway though, but I had enough Rain-X left on my glasses, and a hat on, so it didn't bother me (other than my clothes starting to get heavy as they got wet!), and I was making pretty good time at the end, partly motivated by the desire to get the hell out of the woods. And I felt great!

C • Rain-X 2

C • Rain-X 1

Classic - Blue - Splits

Event: CNYO A meet
 

Sprint at CNYO A-meet, ran as M40, even though it was the same course as M21 (which I'm running for the other two races). Some confusion on the way to #5, probably due in part to the scale, although I figured it out without any real time loss. Pretty clean the rest of the way, and I caught up to Clint and then managed to get away from him. Felt great!

C • Strategy 2

Middle distance course at CNYO A-meet, Blue. The misses were mostly pretty minor, the one exception being #18, where I found a nearby control (which I had had on the sprint) on a similar feature, and that got me pretty confused. Turns out that the feature it was on was hidden by the control number. Slight disadvantage due to having an early start, which meant that I had to bash through a lot of untrampled goldenrod in the rough open areas. But I felt great!

Sprint - Strong Lungs - Splits

Middle - Blue - Splits

Carrying/pushing glider up to the 150' for four flights. (Rode ATV for two more, from the 250'.)

Morningside 450 x 2. On the second descent, Christopher was passing just over the 250' with a paraglider (having launched from the 450') when I got there, and I put the hammer down to see whether I could get to the bottom before him. He caught a little bit of lift, and that helped, but I had to really book it down the grass, and I was just a couple of steps behind him when he touched down. That was a hoot.

Pushing/carrying the glider up the hill for 10 flights (3x100', 7x150'), then I took the ATV up to the 250 for two flights. (I also walked up to the 250' without the glider to check out the wind before I rode up there, but I'm not counting that.) Don't actually know exactly how much time I spent on this, so I'm using a standard 6 minutes per trip, even though I know that some were longer (almost 15 minutes in one case!) because the wind was pretty rowdy in the morning, and I was wrestling with the glider to keep it under control (actually, the reason that one took so long is that I spent a lot of time standing still because it was too breezy to actually move it). Things got much more civilized in the afternoon, and those last two flights were quite fine. On the last one, I flew back and forth a couple of times, catching some ridge lift, before I got low enough to land. Sweet!

Lane-Horse-Seaver loop, wearing Valerie's Garmin 205 on my left wrist (which I found distinctly uncomfortable).

Well!

This was a workout for the ages! Just 45 minutes, but I was totally hauling ass out there. 34.88 km, with a top speed of 2288.5 km/hr (although that was probably on a downhill). I was apparently moving so fast that I didn't notice things going by. According to the GPS track, I was cruising along in a plausible-looking manner at a little over 15 km/hr for a while, and somehow crossed some paved roads without noticing, until I was vaguely near my parents' house. Then I took off like a rocket and ran for a bit somewhere in West Townsend for a short stretch. Then I really took off and touched down briefly in New Hampshire, and then shot back to near my parents' house, and then it lost track of where I was. Damn! If it had recorded the last 7 km or so that I ran to get home, I'm sure I would have had a world record for the marathon.

Or maybe I just collapsed when I got back to my parents' place. After all, I had burned 15790 calories by that point. It's pretty tiring when you're running at close to Mach 2.

It's also an interesting coincidence that it took exactly as long to run this loop (to the second) as it did last week (and there's no funny business with the time measurement). At least I'm consistent!

C • LMAO!!!! 3

Aaaaaand... the weather forecast for tomorrow looks excellent!