Training Log Archive: AliC

Feeling not good because of allergies, I didn't motivate first thing, but then was able to after an hour of reading Carroll & Ostlie. Motivation unlikely related to the reading, actually.

10 min abs, 2 min back

Event: SMOC Highland Recreation Area
 

The Michigoat!

Oooh, and one second down to Nick D. Battled out throughout the race course. Great to have the pressure, can't report that I dealt with it at all well... Sooo, need to keep head more together, for sure!

A first: Tom beat me to the first control. At which point he told me I was welcome to follow him around the rest of the course. =)

A not-good-sign: Totally confused by trails at one point, I used the horse trail map and signpost to relocate. Hmmmm....

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#1 - Fine through the road run, just powering it along with Nick. I guess I didn't take a bearing to enter the woods in the right place, I was trying to go on distance estimation from the cleaning under the power line that's not there, and maybe that wasn't so reliable. In any case, many things that should have been warning signals (like going up way to many contours) didn't apparently work after the long road run, and I hung out in the depression about 170m SE of the control for awhile.
#2 - Fine, yay contours! R side of hill, skirting depression, over little nose, down longer nose to saddle.
#3 - Left of line, sensed open, came in through almost hourglass depression and then over little saddle. Surprised to see Nick already again, thought that would take awhile based on #1.
#4 - Just racing behind Nick across the hillside.
#5 - Lost more time here. I was on the left spur, mapped in green, but not so bad now, down and then up other side, oh I'm on this open hill, then on a bearing over to the correct hill. Was hoping to do the route Nick actually executed, staying more right, catching the indistinct trail. Starting on the wrong spur scrapped that, I guess.
#6 - A little bit on trail, not sure it was necessary though, then cut over before coming out in the open.
#7 - On bearing, tumble down giant slope, skirt around to the right when saddle appears and up to the small hill.
#8 - I went across the low instead of skirting on the side and caught back up to Nick.
#9 - Around the big 'hill' to the left, on a trail that's through unmarked open, which I think made both Nick and I nervous. I was running behind him at this point, but then found #9 first, when I realized where it lie due to the contours.
#11 - I had decided to skip #10 on the road run, figuring trails would make the #9-11 leg very easy. They would, if executed properly. But I took a right 1 junction and oh, 400m too early? Distance judgement out the window apparently? And then I knew I was going N but was totally confused where I might be... Open areas somehow didn't clue me in, but I distrusted due to map age anyways. Then relocated using the horse map, and got back into it. Finding the control was fine, from the trail junction to its NE.
#12 - Racing Nick again. Stopped for some horses, then in off the trail from the earth bank at the corner. A pretty weak saddle had me suspicious, but then control was right where I expected.
#13 - Whee! Another fun contour leg! Over nose, down, around left side of depression to scoot into back-side reentrant.
#14 - Out to trail, stormed down trail until horses again, had to go around this time, in order to pass them. Went in from second hill on E-W trail above control.
#15 - How I actually lost the race- didn't see the control in the depression I expected to! So continued on E not with any particular plan when I heard Nick bashing in, but then I turned around and saw him punch the control and leave! Eep! I approached off the big trail corner to the SW, but then didn't find the trails more local to 15 at all... not really sure why, maybe slightly to far right the whole time and just crossed over a little one without knowing?
#16- Racing, racing, racing to chase down Nick. Possibly left #15 inefficiently, based on not wanting to climb.
Finish sprint - I punched right after, and turned on everything, didn't really gain much. Tired, but that was oodles of fun, to have someone to race right around. And really. Have got to have head more calm when there is company!!

C • various 1

Two women were doing their circuit-like training on the track. So a huge tire was at 0, 2 x 15lb barbells at 100m, a weighted 15lb stick at 200m, and hm, maybe nothing at 300m? Or I forget. A guy was coaching, but there seemed to be a lot of sitting around.

Anyways, I did my normal running drills.

Track with Kevin. Perfect weather for running, nice and cool, maybe a little wind, but not much. The loud lawnmower throwing up cut grass onto the track just slightly disrupted paradise...

5 x 1ks. Kevin was fading at the end and my Achilles were pretty darn painful by then too... hmph, going to have to not run tomorrow and hopefully they'll be good for the Michigoat!!

Woo, Zumba after Joanna's core 15. Some new gals, and I liked the songs better the second time around. Lesley came, so astro was well reported out of ~9!

Run with Mark after giving a seminar on my research at MSU! A bit of some trail and woods, and then a bit of searching for a middle-school strings concert and then back to their place for some very scrumptious dinner. Including ideas about what to do with fresh sage!

C • vicious animals 9

10 min abs, 2 min back

Legs still sore. I blame racing the 5k in zero-drop shoes... I mostly just do Zumba in them, which is a good deal less poundy! It's the junction between achilles and calf that's enhobbling, but bet it'll calm on down tonight!

C • Is running in zero drop sho... 5