Training Log Archive: jtorranc

West Point Blue 2 - wet, cooler. Felt better physically as speed was now limited more by terrain and navigation than by purely physical factors. Not that that didn't add up to a fairly severe limitation. Wandered a lot on the way to 1 and avoided major errors thereafter though I actually overran the trail junction west of 5 and nearly didn't catch myself and turn around in time before major damage was done.

Blue - Splits

West Point Blue 1 - felt awful physically but that was quite evenhanded. Missed 1 for maybe 40 seconds getting into the map and then was tentative and stupidly not making enough effort to minimise punching through green but clean until 10. Blew up on 10 for seven or eight minutes worth - should have followed the line of distinct cliffs to the right of the direct line and attacked from an unmistakable one of them rather than go up the rocky reentrant in which I soon lost map contact. Second relocation attempt succeeded. Then clean but tentative (and tiring) again to the end, though route choice to 14 was poor - should have gone directly south downhill to trail through white rather than staying high and heading west first.

Blue - Splits

Commute - saw "Shaolin Soccer" in the evening. Fun but now I'll have to look up what was in the almost 30 minutes Miramax allegedly cut from the version released in Asia.

Commute - wimped out of doing an interval workout. Being outrun by piles of other Canadians is good motivation but apparently not quite good enough to overcome the level of fatigue I felt.

Morning commute. Pleasantly surprised at not being all that sore and at my knee feeling rather better than it did after Flying Pig.

Long and rainy commute home by way of the grocery store. Made longer though not rainier by overly casual practices in lashing things to my bike forcing me to backtrack about two miles looking for a bag full of my work clothing that had fallen off. At least I found it. And the experience may have heightened my appreciation of the film I then saw about Tuareg life in the Sahara.