Training Log Archive: Nadim

East Fork State Park, OH. Warm-up from the meet HQ to the start. I was one of the last to get to the start having walked the parking lot playing and watching Max while Peggy ran.

Flying Pig Classic Distance, East Fork State Park, OH. It was an interesting Red course. Most of the climb was in the first third. Most legs had good route choices. After the climbing there were treks across flat bland former farmland remincent of the recent Fair Hill meets in Maryland but with many more saplings, marsh and some thorns in the way to keep you from running fast. I planned a good route to #5, the crucial leg of the course but using memory rather than reading the map, I cut away in the wrong valley. I recovered from this without as great a loss of time as in the relay yesterday but made other slight bobbles at #8, #10, and #12. For #10, I had executed a route to a pond well then didn't take a good bearing to the control 70-80m away. For #12, I lost confidence in my correct bearing and let myself be drawn-off to another rootstock well short of the control. I finished second in +M45 again, behind the ever young Peter Gagarin. I think Pavalina had the fastest time on the course, almost 5 minutes ahead of my third fastest.

Classic-Red - Splits

East Fork State Park, OH. Warm-up for both the
Flying Pig US Sprint Course Championships. I ran with the model map reading vegetation, reentrants and manmade features to see how the mapper interpreted these.

Flying Pig US Sprint Course Championships, East Fork State Park, OH. I ran the Red/Blue Course 3 and got my April Fool's joke in early. I ran confidently toward the first control and somehow ran over top of it losing 30 seconds. Next, I flubbed an attack to #2 by attacking from the correct reentrant, but then crossing the next thinking it was a ditch. After at least a 1:45 minute loss there, fatigue from the hills or the general weakness I've been feeling kept me from doing much better. I had no leg speed, however, it was reasonably fun. The 1:5,000 scale map was nice to read. Despite my travails, I got second again to Peter Gagarin in +M45.

East Fork State Park, OH. Warm-up for the 2006 US Relay Championships. Some of this was to jog over to some food in between races and well before my run.

Flying Pig US Relay Championships, East Fork State Park, OH. I ran on QOC's 4pt. team with Dave Onkst leading (Green), Tim Good running second (Orange), and Ted Good (Red) running anchor. I ran a longish Green course. I really felt like I let my teamates down making a sophomorish mistake of almost 20 minutes in error on the way to #4. I had just passed other competitors when the crucial leg came up. I picked a sub-optimal route, executed it horrifically by going down the wrong giant reentrant, couldn't figure out what had happened for a long time (hunting for the control on the wrong ridge), then once I did, I still couldn't get to the control cleanly. I had just started feeling a little calmer when I wanted to put some distance between myself and a pursuer. The pressure of teamates depending on me to get back blew my focus even more after the mistake as things kept compounding. We were fortunate in that there weren't a lot of other strong 4pt. teams and the fact that my other teammates ran much better than I did. One good thing to come out of this besides our third place was that I was able to run much harder trying to make up for things than I had in the last month. Afterwards, I felt sore after the race very quickly.

Sprint-Blue - Splits

GreenB-4pt-BA - Splits

Event: Flying Pig X (OCIN)
 

East Fork State Park, OH. I jogged the soggy trail from meet HQ to the start of the Flying Pig Middle Distance event.

Flying Pig Middle Distance, East Fork State Park, OH. I ran the Red course. It had been raining only an hour earlier on an already soaked course. The steep reentrants were tough to get out of. I felt weak either from the morning drive across the state or getting over being sick still. Except for some less than optimal route choices, I navigated reasonably well except later in the race when I started trying to keep ahead of, then with, then behind Spike. I got second place to Peter Gagarin for my first +M45 A-Meet race.

Red Middle Distance - Splits

St. Claire, OH. With working in the morning and driving toward the Flying Pig in the afternoon, I didn't have a lot of time. I used the hotel fitness room starting slowly and finishing moderately with a 7:03 last mile. It still feels a bit awkward to use a treadmill but it's getting easier.

From Rosedale Ave. to the Capital Crescent Trail to Georgetown (under Key Bridge), back to Bethesda and Rosedale Ave. via Kentbury Way. As I was finishing working at home and Peggy and Max were out enjoying the pool, Bob Angell called me up for a ride. It being 64 F and sunny, I saw no reason to refuse. I could feel my lack or cycling on hills and on my bottom. I still have some residual soreness in my legs from Sunday.

45 situps. I got busy watching Max and doing other things. I felt some residual soreness in my legs from Sunday.

45 situps. I felt much better today and even thought about going for a short run but thought the rest would do me good.