Training Log Archive: kissy

Middle Distance at the Team Trials. This was the best run I've had in a long time. I didn't really miss on any control, just cautious on a few when the contours started confusing me. And I felt good running the whole time. All in all, a good day.

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Forgot to note my AOWN experience...a sand hill crane flying over the finish area. Quite spectacular, but I wish I had heard its cry.

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Event: US Team Trials
 

Sprint at Team Trials. First let me say, I really don't enjoy sprints, at all. So, when I made a mistake out of the start triangle by going down the wrong trail, I thought this was not going to be my day. But, it actually turned out to be okay. I probably ran as fast as I could run for that day and only made one other mistake, on #8, and came in with a better time than I had predicted. So, I was happy with this result.

Just a little something on the trainer to say I did it.

Decided to take it easy on my knee. It wasn't very swollen this morning, and it didn't hurt too badly. I might try running tomorrow to see how it feels.

West Point Day 2 Green course on Long Mountain. I dropped to Green today because I woke up this morning with a swollen, stiff and very painful knee. At one point on yesterday's course, I was coming down off of a cliff and my left foot got stuck on a rock while I was stepping down, causing my left knee to bend way more than it's capable of, due to arthroscopic surgery many years ago. It hurt as soon as I did it, but then got better throughout the race, and felt fine all evening. But not when I woke up this morning, and I was actually quite surprised. I tried walking/jogging around Buckner a bit to see if it would loosen up, but it stayed pretty painful, so I decided the prudent thing to do was to drop to Green. I still managed to have quite a few problems navigating, too numerous to mention, so it doesn't go down as a particularly stellar day in my book.

The highlight of my weekend was the results for my son, Tanner. This weekend was his first time on Green since he just moved up to M-18. He has a tendency to DNF very easily, which he did on Saturday, declaring the map impossible to read. Well, we went over the part of his course that he did complete, talked about map simplification (ignoring the boulders sometimes to concentrate on the contours and general lay of the land), and then I explained the importance of relocating and practicing it so you get better and faster at it. Well, he went out about an hour before me today, and half way through the course, I decided there was no way he was going to finish today's course either. But when I came in, he told me he *had* finished and was only 3 minutes behind me! I was such a proud mom!!

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