Training Log Archive: jtorranc

Event: BATONA 500
 

Batona 500 Middle - good race excepting 5 through 7 - got confused by a small trail in the early bit of heading to 5 so ended up attacking it from 6 and then managed to overshoot 6 coming back. Left trail a bit too early on 7 and lost time while I decided the reentrant I could see was clearly not pointing in the right direction.

Batona 500 Sprint A - hard not to have an adequate race technically. Not at top speed after the main event earlier in the day.

Batona 500 Sprint B - another decent sprint, a bit shaky reading vegetation on 4 and shakier on 8 - both caused unnecessary hesitation - and almost missed seeing 7 on the map.

Day 1 Blue - Splits

Idiotic of me - I'd seen the signs earlier in the week saying the pool would be closed this Friday for the holiday. No swimming today, just a slightly longer bike ride than usual to no purpose.

Work commute in. Need to time myself a bit more often - my stock answer for how long it takes me to bike in to work may be a minute or so longer than it actually takes me on days the lights cooperate. Home by way of PCRM.

Rainy commute to work - fortunately shoes, etc. just about dried overnight. Home by way of the Hirshhorn Museum for an evening with a Danish maker of short films.

Commute in and home with grocery shopping and swimming en route.

Had to do something to avoid watching too much repetitive election coverage.

Cycling to work. Not feeling too wiped after the heavy volume but low intensity weekend. Home by way of the aquatic center.

Appears I can do butterfly again. Ribs still an issue for abdominal exercises but I think they're fine for just about everything else now.

C • Changing in Cars... 4

Or MMRF Race for Research 5K Run/Walk? - in DC along the Potomac so even easier to get to. Probable interference with Pocahontas but would I go to Richmond in any case?

From Greenbelt Metro out to Bowie then back in the dark. Saw bizarre addition to a sign warning about the road narrowing slightly to go over a bridge - three stickers with the words "GOOGLE AMNESTY TRAITORS" - not sure whether it's intended to be an imperative or a meaningless combination.

Streamering control locations at Bowie for training on the 18th. Actual time in woods an hour more than logged but subtracting some for inevitable standing still. Have never spent that much time in the northwesternmost detailed area and none at all at a walking pace - I've decided it's not all me, it's largely the map. Unless someone's been adding, removing and shifting knolls and reshaping small hills since the map was made, the mapper for that section and I see things differently. Perhaps I ought to try to fix it but I've got more mapping than I have time for already.