Training Log Archive: ebuckley

Warmup. A little rushed because I had to finish both courses and get home by 10AM. No biggie because David & I agreed that we'd waive the Death Match today so we'd be in prime form tomorrow.

"Sprint" at Cliff Cave (1:7500). Really more of a middle course as the terrain was super complex, there wasn't much route choice, and the woods were too thick to run fast. Tons of fun though. A couple misses in the low visibility stuff. Not sure how the time will stand up as nobody else had even gone out before I left. I certainly wasn't pushing, but I'm not sure I'd go too much faster in this stuff even if I was.

C • Correct Finish Time? 4

Second course. This one felt more like a sprint with several around routes on trail. Ran at roughly tempo pace.

Sprint #1 - Splits

Sprint #2 - Splits

Checked out how much the trails had degraded at Castlewood. Things were still in pretty good shape although this evening's storm may have been the tipping point. I don't expect to get back there before Sunday, but I'm guessing that slicks will be a really bad idea.

Legs were super toast today - I guess Tuesday came as a bit of a surprise to them. Anyway, an hour easy spinning in the 60 was all I was up for.

5x3:00 at threshold 3:00R on the elliptical. Includes warmup/dn.

Checking some upstream lines on the Meremac for Sunday. David in the back. Found one that's about 10 seconds faster than the two obvious choices (which were equal to the second!) Probably won't matter, but the year we didn't pay attention to such details was the year we got beat by 12 seconds, so I'm glad we scoped it out.

And no, I'm not going to tell any locals what we found. Do your own research.

C • paddling lines 2

Pretty much the whole trail network at Castlewood. Only omission was the ridgetop portion of Grotpeter (in favor of Love, Ranger, and Rollercoaster). Had time to go up and hit that, but decided to do the Lone Wolf loop over again since that's part of the race Sunday.

Sat in the parking lot a looooong time before getting up the gumption for this one, but once I got going I felt fine.

Finished the install of the new oven and cooktop around noon and then we had freinds over for dinner. Not sure what we would have done if I had run into one more snag, but I'm guessing it would have involved me on the receiving end of some pretty harsh words. Anyway, it all came together great and that's one huge item off the domestic chores list.

I suppose I should start training again. I had planned on backing off after Team Trials, but this is getting ridiculous. Ah, well, no races I care about until August and the break has had some medicinal value on many fronts.