Training Log Archive: CleverSky

Got out in the evening, nice running conditions. Ran without the ActiveAnkle (took it easy), and had no discomfort despite a couple of footfalls that would likely have been problematic before, so I think I'm mended. This seems to be a very dry Spring -- normally this run woudl have a number of wet spots, and the power line section would be an obstacle course of mud puddles well into the summer, but now even though it's still early May, there are just a few patches of soft soil. But we could yet get lots of rain.

Highland St. loop. I wanted to get out and do something, and this was just right. Pretty sure this was the first time I've been on the unicycle since I fell off and hurt my wrist last year. Managed to mount on just teh second try, and made it around the loop with no stops.

12 pullups. At least it's something.

nuthin'

Woke up pretty early to change the snow tires on my former car back to summer tires, which turned out to be something of an ordeal because even though I could get the lug nuts off, the wheels were stuck. I eventually managed.

Then after work I dropped it off in Ayer and took the scenic route back to Nancy's house to retrieve my current car. Ancient bike shoes disintegrated in the process, and the sole basically fell off of one of them when I was done.

Yeah, a day off today.

So, I obviously need to do something differently with this Garmin watch. Over the course of the weekend, I missed 21 control splits. I don't think I've missed that many total since I started wearing a Casio back in 1990. I must be not pressing the button hard enough or something. It's hard to imagine that I'm just failing to press it, given my history. I do recall times when I've pressed it and I didn't hear it beep, but I was writing that off to my hearing getting bad.

West Point middle distance at West Point Post, M35 Red (4.5 km, 180m). The first part of the course was nice, and I proceeded to screw up several controls, notably #4 and #5. The rest wasn't bad (my navigation, that is -- the course was fairly awful), and it didn't hurt that I had Brian Graham and Anna Shafer-Skelton in my vicinity most of the time. Slightly better result.

West Point sprint at Trophy Point, M35 Red (2.4 km, 115m). Screwed up #2 and #3 by being lured off by nearby controls (on fairly similar-looking features. Picked a good route from #5 to what I thought was #6, and was almost to #7 before I noticed that there was another circle between them. The numeral 6 was reasonably close to the circle for #7, and the circle for #6 and the numeral 7 were both in busy areas that camouflaged them (and 5-6-7 were in a dead-straight line). Doubling back cost me a bit. I also lost time on #11, by picking the staircase route, which turned out to have a lot more flights of stairs than I was anticipating. Very difficult to assess that sort of thing, when the staircases are all stacked on top of one another, and the nearby contours all disappear into various buildings and walls. Whatever. Another shabby performance. Good thing I stepped down to M35, but it didn't really help all that much.