Training Log Archive: Wyatt

Approx Hr/wk of training planned. Wk ending / Hours:
6/1 5 (not counting Long-Trials)
6/8 7
6/15 8
6/22 6
6/29 9 (last hard week, or maybe ramp to week ending 7/6 too, e.g. 8 this week, then 9 next?)
7/6 6
7/13 4

In the spirit of WOC training, I ran up and down parts of Mt. Joy to get some hills in my recovery run. Trying to keep HR consistent was the mental challenge.

13 years after my first attempt, I finally earned a place on the WOC team. Now if I can somehow get into my Nov. '07 shape in 6 more weeks, I'll have at least a very remote chance of making an A-final, if it's a really, really tricky qualifier, and I managed to navigate very, very well. I'll be doing what I can to make it possible.

My knees held up quite well this weekend too. Much better after the 3 days (no pain yet, as of 8pm), than my Friday rest day where it was annoying much of the day.

C • CONGRATULATIONS!!!! 5

Day 3 of the Team Trials
+ very happy that my knee held up - better even after the race than before (with the R-knee a tiny bit tweaked, but it's the good one so I'm okay with that.)
+ also happy with my time - given the loss of training while injured all winter, I wasn't expecting to be able to run within 10% of the winner, and I more or less did. I think a big part of that was nav., which was pretty clean - apparently picking the better routes most of the time too. Physically I held up okay (vs. the competition) in the 2nd half, but was getting beaten regularly in the 1st half, and was nowhere close to Erin's good legs - he flew by me like the European orienteers do...
- several sloppy attacks, and a timid route on 13 did cost 3-4 minutes I'd have liked to have back.
- L-foot outside edge, which I smashed (ankle twist the 2nd most common way) early in the Middle was giving me problems, esp. when I'd bang it again, which was often in the rocks. Ran on the toe of that foot in most of the rough terrain of the course. I think that kept me a bit slow in the forest, but maybe that made the knee happy??

Bits of jogging with AJ on White between my finish and the Team Trials results announcements - without straps and knee was okay. Kind of a cool-down for the race (for which I didn't really warmup.)

Plus another 2 miles in 21:20 with AJ in the evening. He loves looking at his Attackpoint totals so much he's running just to log it and see the miles go up.

Blue Long - Splits

Middle Trials. Kept it clean and careful, and had a decent result. Got showed up by the winners though that I was too careful to have a great result. I think some stronger compass work would have helped, as I was doing a lot of map reading which resulted in rather indirect, careful routes.

Warmup, and 'cooldown' on White with AJ, who runs half or more of the course these days.

Blue Middle - Splits

Event: US Team Trials
 

Warmup only. No cooldown. Worried about L-knee at hit it with ice a few times after. Clem used even more ice...

Team Trials Sprint. Much better result than expected (over 90 points) in part due to the relatively technical Sprint area and my fairly clean run in it (one 15 second route choice error was the worst...)

Very impressed with the map - flipping it over to see a massive, Euro-quality urban sprint map was really amazing.

Happy my knee held up okay - only two icings needed to mostly quell it afterwards.

Blue Sprint - Splits

Partially with Oriana, my taper's in full swing.

I wonder if Clem's "knee bruise" was just a clever bit of acting to disguise a 3-week pre-Trials taper? Sly...

C • Of course. 5

Fatlands with GPS. Took too long to get to the trails I wanted to map well, so I only did 2-passes (out and back) and the GPS was pretty biased between the two tracks so it's hard to use for mapping... Better than not having the trail on the map on June 9, but not up to my usual standard...