Training Log Archive: Russell

Briones Golden Goat. This was much easier than last year's goat, but still a physical course. I was pretty disappointed despite only making a couple of misakes. The start went very well and I managed to get to 4 before almost everyone, but lost ~2min going to 6 by going down to the trail instead of contouring around. I guess I was still pretty confused by the fact that I couldn't see anyone around me (pesumably the two leaders were far ahead by then). I then ran well to 10, with most of the people in front of me still in sight on the uphils, but overshot 11 and lost ~5min. I think this time I was focusing too much on catching the people in front of me and not enough on navigating. The rest was mostly clean, although I did take it easy on the downhill to the finish as my knee was hurting a little from all the downhill running.

At the track. 5x1680m, 2 min rest, 4 laps warmup, 2 laps cooldown.

6:24, 6:24, 6:23, 6:25, 6:21.

Sawyer Camp trail.