Training Log Archive: Nadim

From Ken-Gar Park, down the Rock Creek Trail to the fountain at Spring Rd. and back with MCRRC. I started easy--level 2 with Leo and Alex. It felt much cooler than San Antonio did. Leo and Alex were going further so I came back alone and quicker--level 4. I started feeling hot before turning around. On the way back an 8K race was going on along Beach Dr. I paralleled their path around their 2-mile mark as the timer called out 14:15. I was passing people. Splits on the trail: 7:46, 7:54, 7:55, 7:57 (32:39 at the turnaround), 6:51, 6:48, 6:51, 6:37.

San Antonio, TX. From Commerce St. near the Rivercenter Mall. Out and back through the Riverwalk before flying back home. It was hot and more humid than the night before with record heat expected.

San Antonio, TX. From Commerce St. near Rivercenter Mall, westward mostly on Commerce Street and W. Martin St. to N. Hamilton St. and back. I started sometime after 6:30pm which was fortunate due to light traffic through the city blocks. I thought to hit the river north of the city and ran without a map. If I had gotten lucky there would have been a trail along it worth exploring but leaving the downtown area and upon crossing the more than proverbial train tracks, I hit the river. It didn't look very runnable and the neighborhood deteriated too. I knew thing were getting bad when I saw more stray dogs and passed by not one but four bail bond businesses in a row. Police cars crossing back and forth were both raising and reassuring my nerve. I turned around at sunset. All was well, though very hot and humid in the low 90's F. Back in the nicer Riverwalk area, I had a nice dinner in a quieter spot with live jazz (Dolores Del Rio). A belly dancer had just finished when I got there.

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San Antonio, TX. 45 situps in my hotel room after a long day of meetings.

San Antonio, TX. From the Rivercenter Mall area, down and up the San Antonio River on the Riverwalk and and some roads parallel to the river. Once the Riverwalk ran out, I got past the Blue Star St. warehouses and was turned around in a lonely area at dusk by 2 loose dogs with a 3rd one barking and getting closer. The nicer Riverwalk was runnable especially after getting past the restaraunt areas. It was somewhat hot and humid but I felt okay even on the stonework and concrete walkways.

20 pushups.

After flying home Sunday night and flying right back out Monday morning to San Antonio, TX, I had a full day of meetings to 10pm. I wanted to do more but settled on 45 situps.

The Mega at Pawtuckaway State Park, NH. I went out on this world record course (for the most number of controls in a single race) behind Ted Good. Dave Onkst, Peggy, Samantha Saeger, and Suzanne Armstrong started shortly behind me. Since my watch didn't hold enough splits, I intended on taking every 5th control split and trying to remember by counting the number of blue striped controls. Flubbing #4 by trying to rely too much on memory got me right away behind Dave, Suzanne and Samantha. I mostly felt on top of things through the first 64 controls, often running with Suzanne. Clem and a Canadian passed somewhere in this. I didn't realize the map extension overlapped and messed up a leg 65 putting Samantha and Suzanne ahead just when I thought I might be able to pull away. I spent the next couple of controls recovering and losing my place on the map a lot. Next Will Hawkins and Wyatt Riley came through. I got on their train a while. I lost them somewhere after The Slot but soon caught Suzanne and Samantha again. At #112 where everyone was searching for Will's glasses, I only had to wait about a minute before Phil Bricker found them. The crowd was slow to go after this but I got in behind Jon Torrance and Will for a while. After the beaver dam crossing on the way to #120, I lost Suzanne. Eventually I started feeling like I couldn't keep up and know where I was at so at #136, I paused and reorganized my control codes. The water stop at #138 brought me back in contact but by around #153 I needed to let Jon go again. On the "long leg" to #158, I was right on line but pulled-up short. John Frederickson came through but he had somehow already been to the 8m pillar, #159-161. When I got there, Jon Torrance was still there. I ended-up chasing him more but I was slowing down. At #176, I misread the map (ignoring the control codes) and presumed the control was on a boulder so I pulled-up short. Samantha and Suzanne had been steadily gaining and caught me there. Together, we caught Jon around #181. On the last loop, the running was faster and more open; we lost Suzanne somewhere around the parking lot with the "fodderack" on J.J.'s car. Somewhere around #200, when I first stopped at the recreation course control, Samantha and I lost Jon but soon gained Ernst Linder. Samantha lead in to the finish. This mind numbing exercise was still fun in a wierd way. It would have been a bit more satisfying to run more by myself but I wanted to run fast too. The many 100m legs were conducive to it too. I didn't keep track of splits the way I wanted nor did it register to me much when I got to a blue striped control--I had no idea how many there were at the end as I lost count by around control #75. I kept losing place of which control I was on and sometimes went with the crowd. If I do something like this next time, I'll prepare a punch card system.

THE MEGA - Splits