Training Log Archive: Russell

BAOC training run at Stanford. We run from Town and Country through campus to the DIsh and around the dish loop. The first part was very easy pace, then quite a bit faster around the Dish.

A few controls Rex had mapped on the way back from the Dish to Town and Country. Taking a lot of rest between controls, and taking turns navigating, but with some good sprints.

Tahoe 2-day Classic at Spooner Lake. This was a complete disaster. I made 3 almost 10 minute mistakes in the first 6 controls and then 3 more 2-4 minute mistakes the rest of the way. At least it was a good workout and I did much more than the stated distance and climb. I had a lot of trouble taking accurate compass bearings both today and yesterday, something that I normally don't try to do. I think I need to practice, although this was only really partially responsible for one of my big mistakes.

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Tahoe 2-day Middle at Spooner Lake. A pretty good run but I found the terrain very technically challenging so I was pretty careful. I think it paid off as my biggest mistake was only ~1.5 mins. If I had just avoided that I would have had a chance of winning since I was only 1:40 behind the winner in 4th place.

Menlo Park.

Rancho San Antonio with Charlotte. I tried a different route to try to avoid the big downhill at the end. This was slightly better but not a lot. I took Coyote to Rogue Valley to Mora to Lower Meadow to Permanente Creek to South Meadow.

El Corte de Madera.

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At the track. Good run. Ran the last mile in 6:05 and the last lap at 5:38 pace.

Blue at China Camp. A course I found technically pretty challenging, although maybe I just wasn't focussed. Physically I felt pretty good, despite a lot of crawling through vegetation. I made a colossal mistake going from 7 to 8. I think what happened was I confused controls 6 and 8, so thought I had approached 7 from the direction of 8, ~180 degrees from where I had really approached. This led to me leaving 7 180 degrees from the right direction. It should have been obvious since I was going down instead of up and north instead of south. After I didn't find the trail I was looking for I was getting worried and when I ran into the registration area I knew something was horribly wrong. Even then it took me a couple of minutes to relocate. Probably I lost maybe 5 minutes, but I was lucky it wasn't much more.

On closer inspection it looks like my 180 degree error was maybe a better route anyway. If I had relocated immediately after hitting registration I think I would have had an ok time for this leg.

Menlo Park. First run on the road for a long time. No problems.

At the track.

1600m.

El Corte de Madera. I tried to do what I thought was Peter's loop. I got confused at one point and ended up taking a closed trail. Probably this wasn't Peter's loop anyway since I think it was too short. Even so, I walked the last 0.9 miles or so since I didn't want to run more than 35 minutes.

At the track.