Training Log Archive: bishop22

ROC Score-O at Genesee Valley Park

Quick warm-up before the Sprint, after working registration and starting the early score-o group.

Feeling a little sluggish - it was probably a mistake to stay up until 1am playing Nate's new full version of Catching Features last night.

ROC Sprint at Genesee Valley Park. Ended up being more Middle than Sprint. The course was advertised as 2.5K, but the map was printed as 1:15, instead of 1:10, so the measurement was off. First time I've ever done a sprint on a 1:15 map (OK< so it was only about my 7th sprint ever). The course was basically a single loop - I think that a 1:5 map with more direction changes would have been more fun. The park has a nice series of bridges that can make for interesting route choices.

As far as my race, it was dreadful. The first 2 controls were in the middle of some light and medium green stuff, making for tough visibility, coupled with subtle 2.5m contour lines on the 1:15 map for slow approaches for me. C5 was also in some green, and I cut my legs up nicely, but only because I made the poor choice of running the length of the green, rather than the width (which, Nate tells me, also had a beaten path to the control area). C7 was in some green, and I ended up running a little ways past before I could find a reasonable place to cut in (getting out was much easier). C8-9 went fine, but then the race fell apart. C10 was easy - on a bridge, but I picked the wrong bridge, spent just about 2 minutes searching (including checking a different score-o control), then figured the bag was gone, so I hit C11 and went in (at 26:16), then figured out I was on the wrong bridge and went back out to C10, then C11 again and in (at 32:04). So, I got totally smoked by Tim, Gil and Rob (and others).

Nate was about 34 minutes. Chelsea followed Zach around, and they took over 80 minutes - just in time to leave for Zach's second soccer game (where he scored twice during a brief offensive stint).

It doesn't seem that anyone else got their splits, so I won't add this as a Race in AP. Here are my splits:
1 - 3:09
2 - 6:53 (3:44)
3 - 8:01 (1:08)
4 - 9:31 (1:30)
5 - 11:13 (1:42)
6 - 12:43 (1:30)
7 - 15:29 (2:46)
8 - 17:03 (1:34)
9 - 21:05 (4:02)
10 - ~29:10? (~8:05?)
11 - 30:48 (~1:38?)
F - 32:04 (1:16)

C • splits 1

ROC Score-O at GVP. Very hot and tired from the Sprint - they did give us a 20-minute delay for the score-o start because the sprint took longer than expected. I tried to drink a fair amount between the races, but I new the running would be tough. I took the first 2 controls in the wrong order and was immediately over a minute behind Gil. I was quite clean on the early controls, most of which were repeats from the sprint, then I crossed E River Rd and ran into some difficulty. The first control was on a trail, but the mapping was weak and it wasn't easy to figure out which trails were mapped and which weren't - I ended up mostly ignoring the trails and ran off a swamp to get close. Oh, and as it turns out, I should have skipped this control and gone in the south part of the map from the road across from sprint C7, but I had hopes of making it over to the far side of the golf course for the other 3 controls, but that was not to be, today. For the next one, I should have jumped right out of the woods and cut back in, since I ended up losing the trail and bailing to the golf course anyway. The next one was easy, then I ran around to get my final southern control, since the creek looked too difficult to follow.

Then it was a long run all the way back to sprint C6. Gil popped out of the woods onto the golf course access trail a bit ahead of me. I closed the gap a bit on him, but then we hit a (small) uphill on E River Road, and I lost what I had gained and then some. I was pretty dehydrated and drained, and couldn't even run in the woods leaving the next control, but it was mostly road and trail the rest of the way, so I was able to scramble in, picking up 4 more sprint controls on the way in.

Gil grabbed 19 of the 20 controls. Tim had 17, but was most of a minute OT, so he lost one. Nate grabbed 13, though he was only out for about 45 minutes.

C • Score-O 1

Drove over to E River Rd and picked up 2 controls that I had not gone after on the far side of the golf course. Nate picked up the 3rd.

Sprint - Splits

Coasted thru the swim today ahead of tomorrow's races.
4:07/8:14
1:30,2,5,2,3
3:25,23

GTA returns to the track. Erik was away (staying in Brockport for the Empire Games cycling races), but Frank, Lawrence, Vinnie and Leo showed up. Went the long way around to the track.

2x400m, 2x800m, 2x400m (1/2 distance recovery)

87, 85
2:59, 2:55
84, 83

Didn't feel too bad, given this was the first time on the track since ????. Left something in the tank, given the double O race on Saturday.

Recovery after intervals

Back from track - a longer way than I wanted to go...

Ugly 47 - included two of the worst kinds of holes: 3-putts for bogey, after being on in regulation. I've been playing poorly in the league. I think it is because I do the 6am run on Thursdays, and often (like today) miss lunch so I can leave work early - that seems to add up to poor concentration on the course.

Ran up the river trail to the UR and back - picked it up a bit on the way back because there were a few joggers to catch. A little more traffic on the trail today, since the temp was below 90. Trail tally:
Walkers - 13
Joggers - 12
Bikers - 2
Old Men - 1 (with only water today, or at least it was a water bottle)

Splits Out Back
25:09 23:13

Trail 5:15 4:39
Beg Mi. 9:09 8:22
End Mi. 8:17 7:44
Turn 2:27 2:27

43 - missed a lot of par opportunities.

Checking Webster Park for hill training potential (doesn't really exist).

Webster XC Camp - ran with Coach K behind the "fast intermediate" group that included Nate and the Thomas freshman sensation, Brianna.

4:05/8:11
1:29,30,0,0,29,8 (on 1:55)
3:26,21

81 - opened with 3 bogeys, but then had a bird and 6 pars on the next 7 holes (meaning a PR 37 on the front). Ran into trouble with doubles on 14 and 15 (ouch!), which meant I needed a bird on one of the last 3 holes to break 80 for the first time. I had birdie putts on all 3 holes, and just missed on 18, but no.

Hashed with Buffalo in East Aurora. Nice trail from East Main that included a couple trips in Tannery Brook, a stop at the train wreck, and a margaritaville jello shot stop.

Had to leave before the late circle formed (the non-FRBs had made an extra stop at Wally's) to get back to Webster for Chelsea's final (???) career soccer game. They came from behind for a 4-3 victory over previously unbeaten Greece, which gives them the U16 title, unless they had too many players get their 3rd yellow cards of the season (3=red card and fine and -1 point in the standings) - two girls may have picked up their third.