Training Log Archive: kensr

Planned on doing hills today if yesterday's climb was less than 500 m. Exceeded that by a bit, plus went to sleep last night with stone bruise on the ball of my R foot, so gave it a pass. Did some more sculpting at the bottom of Stairway to Heaven ski trail to create a swale to check speed, or to take flight if so inclined.

Event: EMPO - O-Ringen (Five Maps! Five Races! One Day!)
 

First of five o-races for the day. Pretty flat area and open fields, although the trails through the fields have not been mowed this year. So plunging through thigh-high growth, but no briars.

C • Thanks fo making the trek to Berne 2

Then on to Camp Pinnacle, hardest part of this was finding the staging area. Then off on trails through some pretty green terrain. Tried to short cut to #2 and got caught in slow green. Then wandered the trails to #3 past a portable radar dish and paint ball zone. Down and up some embankments, but all okay.

Next to Cole Hill after some wandering on the roads. Some straight up climb at the beginning. Open enough for a fair amount off trail.

Mostly running through the open forest with a little bit on trails. Nice venue working around and over the top of the big hill. Fields were tall grass, woods good running.

Finally, the last race at the local middle/high school. Shorter and should have been quick. But finally getting woozey and wobbley and misread the map right from the start. Looked for the first control on a tree when it was on a power box, and then hesitated on #2 as well. Totally clueless on a 400 m leg to #4, but followed the only herd path through chest high weeds and stumbled on the control well after I thought I had gone past. Remarkably ended up with a good split on the leg. A couple more through varying degrees of green until the go control, which was buried in thick undergrowth right off the end of the school track. Ended up in search mode here and wasted 5 min straggling through the junk. Actually easy to get to from the exit direction, but no clue to this on the map.

Overall a fun and tiring day on a variety of terrain. Good organization by Phil and Sue H-T and a great group of runners.

Slacking, letting body recover some for the 5 EMPO races tomorrow. Also had to work today and pick up more pints of gooey ice cream.

Hours off a little last month due to hip tendon snap. Gave it a rest from longer runs. Will stretch and see if that resolves. Cut track sessions to 4 for coming month, but will substitute 4 interval workouts in the woods.
Extending Stairway to Heaven slightly on distance and climb.
For June, weekly trail races and a half marathon at Craftsbury, that one's all climb. An 8 hour evening rogaine down at Fahnestock, NY end of month.

Tired so took this at moderate pace, around 9 min/miles.
2 x 400, 2 x 800, 200
Tendon popping over R hip joint causing stride problems.

Short 5k at Hosmer Point on single track course. Lots of work on this one.

Danny Max visiting this weekend, so low intensity stuff going on. Have sandbox inside in the sunroom, all is good despite rain. Danny's having fun, too.