Training Log Archive: Nadim

Prince William Forest, VA. I set a bag and a streamer for controls #5 & #6 from the 2002 US Champs Day 1 Blue course. I didn't feel very good. It was around 40 F.

Tom Carr was visiting and suggested doing some training. We setup the 2002 US Champs Day 1 Blue course in Prince William Forest and ran it. I had troubles early. I suspect that conditions were better today than the actual US Champs. I felt out of shape and didn't run very clean. My time was in the middle of the pack of those who ran the race and put in splits in Attack Point in 2002. It was a fun outing.

I picked up controls #7 & #8 that Tom Carr had set out earlier. Coming from Liming Rd. it was much harder to get to #8. I missed and saw a coyotte around here--this might have been the first one I'd seen in the DC area. I went on to #7 and then got #8 pretty easily. The ball of my right ankle was hurting. I think it was the shoe pushing up at the rim. My right side started hurting a bit more too.

Blue - Splits

Ken Gar Park, Rock Creek Park, MD. I got there late (8:05am) and without the club went northward on and along the Rock Creek Trail. Using the dirt side trails where available, I went to past the 10 mile mark and into the memorial gardens to the left. I felt a bit unsure if running was allowed there but I know people run through Arlington Cemetary so figured if I stayed on the road it would be okay--I saw no one. It was sunny, still below freezing and very pretty--like a golf course. Instead of rows and columns of graves, they were mostly in clusters. It would have been great for a sprint-O. Let alone the rock features, there were nice contours and tree groups. I wouldn't mind if someone hung a control on my grave stone; not that I'd have one. Oh well. Coming back I ran on the paved Rock Creek Trail and passed a group of marathon trainers. I next passed Leo, Bill and Paz who had gone north too. As I was finishing, I passed a race clock and a start line. Then I saw a sunshine silhouetted runner coming at me and recognized it before I could see the face--it was Tim Good rushing late to the start of the race. Splits returning on the Rock Creek Trail: 7:22 (hill), 7:03, 6:53.

From Mark Twain School Park, Peggy and I walked over to the John G. Hayes Forest Preserve just west of Rock Creek Park near Rte. 28. I just wanted to see the the woods for usefulness training or for a Summer Short Series or even a local meet. They were very nice. We found some blazed trails and various point features along with knolls and stream valley.

From Rosedale Ave. the Two Mile Loop plus a continuation to a neighbors house to check-on and play with their cats. I did this a bit before midnight and had to get something in before I completely blew off a week of training.

45 situps.

45 situps. The day got away from me.

From Rosedale Ave. to the Georgetown Branch Trail via Kentbury Rd., to the Rock Creek Trail headed north, right to Ireland La., to Linden La. to Brookeville Rd. to the Georgetown Branch Trail to Kentbury Rd. to Rosedale Ave. It was again icky out but with less drizzle. It somehow seems more hospitiable and enjoyable to run in such conditions at night when the gloom is normal. My side hurt starting out so I tried not to push. This was the first time running up Ireland La. at night. The overcast sky reflected back enough light from the Mormon Temple and the Walter Reed facility through leafless trees to make the path adequately visible for climbing it. I passed a bicycle commuter on the dark Georgetown Branch Trail east of Rock Creek and later passed by some dangerous looking loiterers near Grubb Rd. Available half mile splits: 3:45, 3:43.

45 situps. Icky out and I used the time to try to clean out the house.