Training Log Archive: Wyatt

Warmup, and again failed to do a cooldown. Had to change then drink, then do Trials scores... I'm glad I parked close to the finish/results area, and OCIN had easy printer use and was willing to share.

I knew I had to have a great race to have a shot at making the team, so I went out trying to push at near-Sprint/Short pace for the whole course. Also tried very hard to maintain that concentration and push hard. It worked pretty darn well, with me passing the 3, 6, and 9 minute ahead starters and holding off Boris. Late in the run though, with brain and body tired, I made a few navigational errors - some minor route choice issues. Then, and the way to the 2nd to last control, I started off with a parallel error and then had a map-jump issue (thinking I was already at the next feature), and then made another poor route choice, all combining for a 2 minute plus loss, which also allowed Boris to catch up.

Still the rest of the course was pretty good and I'm happy with my time and result (in the top 'group' from 82-94 minutes, next result being 99 minutes...), esp. in a long course where I've often been much further back from the top in the past.

Not quite a good enough performance to make the team, and the people ahead of me all outran me, one way or another. Dan Stoll, for example, edged me just slightly on Friday and Saturday, and a bit more on what I felt was my best run, on Sunday, where he ran more or less alone (as I did I for ~85% of the course.) Plus, I think he and Sergei V. in particular are in (or can be in) significantly better physical shape that I, and can thus benefit a lot more than I could by the presense of other runners at WOC.

Blue - Splits