Training Log Archive: levitin

Event: Canal Cities Challenge
 

After a week of crappy sleep, I managed 12 hours of sleep at the Sprague Brook Campground. Unfortunately, when I awoke, I had slept through my start time. Groggily, I dressed, threw some stuff together, and made my way to the starting area. By the time I had all the right pieces together, the last start had been given out and they had closed the starts.

Nevertheless, I did start under the proviso that they would be removing the controls starting at 1:15 (last start + 2 hours). So I got a few legs in, but deliberately skipped the middle of the course. The first water stop was control 9, which would have killed me had I actually started at the right time.

I will have to rescue the HR data for this race. The intensity was at 5K level or higher. I made a couple of bobbles, but generally I was running at about the fastest level I could safely run. (I have as an ideal case the image of a piece of continuous surveyor's tape or string along the fastest possible route (for my strength/speed), and I don't think I deviated too far.)

I was still in the bottom 1/5th or so of the M45+'s on Course 3. Clint won the Class with 14:xx, and one of the Lyons kids won the course with 12:xx.

Lazily noodling around Sprague Brook Park on the MTB.

Sprint - Course 3 - Splits