Training Log Archive: Gswede

Piso Fedoboy to P. Pio. Then Villalba to Manza.

Control placement and pick up for the Multiaventura race in El Pardo. Man the detailed contours in El Pardo suck at 1:15.

Long course in Arganda del Rey. 9.6k 515m

3rd place behind Rorri (1:14:29) and Luis Nog (1:08:xx)
A very strong performance for me. Luis caught me at number ten and that increased our competitive pace but we never just followed each other. On several we took separate routes and arrived at the control at the same time. On 14 Luis made a 2 minute error and I navigated to it perfectly. But then I made a dumb route choice which brought us back together.

Things I did well:
A good warm up while I focused on the four things I had to do and how I would carry them out. They were: find the start triangle quickly but calmly, acquire and maintain map contact throughout the race, read the map, and make fast route choices "full speed, no mistakes" style. I executed this the whole course. I believe my good perfomance is due to this execution. When I did lose map contact I recovered it relatively quickly.

Total error time: 2:30
Errors:
-Losing map contact at important navigational points.
-Poor route choices

No routes.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B64jd3d3gSP7U2JUd...

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B64jd3d3gSP7T2dmO...

Manza to Colmenar then Nuevos Ministerios to La Blume.

Easy run up to Canto Cochino along the Manzanares, then back over Quebrantaherraduras, and then home. Testing out my new Merrel Trail Gloves. They feel really good. Light snow on the run today. So winter does exist in Spain... at least in the mountains.

Commuting

Workout A at the lake. Hills 4x (30 secs, 60 secs, 90 secs) 30 second jog between reps and jog back to start between sets. The jog back was between 4 and 5 minutes.

Commuting

Commuting to school.

Running back home.

Running to school

Running back to Manza.

Commute