Training Log Archive: JanetT

Event: WCOC Pond Mountain
 

Event: EMPO - Peebles Island
 

Event: CSU Harriman Training Camp
 

FR -- 7.78 km, 301 climb (but I don't think I did that much!). Advertised was 6 km, 185m climb.

WCOC Pond Mountain Meet was the choice of the day, despite the cold, rainy weather (mid-40s, light rain). Dressed just right and stayed warm enough until standing around after changing when my hands started to freeze. My Goretex OR rain hat was just right for today; kept my head plenty warm without being overly hot. Glasses were going to fog up anyway, and they did, on the long leg to 2 once I started climbing.

It was because of the glasses/magnifier/cold & wet situation that I dropped to Green today (was planning to do Red) so I could see the 1:10000 map. Route choice on long legs allowed me to do quite a bit of trail running, and I tried to keep running on them when I could, so that helped the min/km vs my speed in all-woods here. First split on my watch/track was from start area to the start triangle and then back to the start box (oops!).

Missed to the right (west) on # 1 and corrected at the stream/stone wall to the SW; and missed on # 7 (climbed the hill a bit too far east and saw a control from another course but figured out what I did). AP figures I had 5 minutes of error on the two; I think maybe closer to 6. 5 and 6 were just off trails.

FR -- 3.9 km, 150m climb (but probably not that much). Temp a little bit warmer and rain a little lighter.

Got to revisit 1 and 7 from the Green course on this middle, which stayed close in to the start/finish and used several butterfly-type forkings. My big mess-up to 3 was following the line from 2 towards 5, even though I had told myself on approaching 2 to head across the swamp to the hills SE. After that mess-up I made sure to align my compass with the line to the next control before I punched at a control.

Was slow contouring from 12 to 13 and then, once I identified the correct cliff, had to navigate bare rock with mud sliding off it to try to get to the punch!
Very slow climbing the hills.

Tired, but glad I did both courses to get in the distance/time I wanted to do today.

C • You're scarin' me! 5

Green - Splits

Middle 2 - Splits

With a different substitute. This one also concentrated a lot on back strengthening, but I'm not feeling any ill effects so it's all good. Tried to keep up with her breathing pace but had a hard time sometimes (too fast!). I'll be happy to have Mary back.

For a change of pace, used treadmill. Wanted to test out using the incline -- didn't have any problems with hamstring or left knee, so varied incline between 4 and 10% for the two miles.
Quarter mile cooldown followed at slower speed.

1000m
Lightbulb moment was when I grasped the ends of the handles more so than usual, and pace increased with no change in anything else.

Get Lost! sprint WRE sanctioned for November 19. Stage 1 of a 5-stage series in San Francisco.
Sprint Festival

OUSA Events

With a substitute, who brought 9" 'exercise balls' for most folks, but I got there too late. No problem; I modified when I could with either a ring or a weight held between my knees. More back work than in a typical class with Mary.

Program 1, level 3, HR between 120-130 usually.
'Distance' was 2.04 mi.

1000 m

Ten pulldowns, and stretching after.

My daughter-in-law (a teacher at a private school in NJ) has been writing a blog and today linked to an article about teachers and teaching that everyone should read. I may be preaching to the choir here, but please pass the link on.

http://loxofknowledge.wordpress.com/2011/04/18/r-e...

In Chatham. Quads still sore (as they were yesterday) from the 5km race. Stretched them 3 times during the class. Feeling less 'run over' than yesterday morning.

Event: WCOC Paugussett State Park
 

Green course at WCOC Paugussett meet. Advertised distance -- measured straight line -- didn't include the mandatory run across the bridge to cross the river, so I added about 500 m to the race distance. Saw several folks at or near most of the controls but they didn't help or hurt.

Mistakes on 2 and 5 I think were due to not paying enough attention to compass. Didn't relocate too well going to 2, either; I knew which trail I hit when I hit it, but wasn't quite sure where I was along the ridge and had to cross a ridge to see the marsh NW of control. For 5, when I left the trail I should have been paying a lot more attention to the compass than I was; I ended up relocating off a trail again. Total of about 6 minutes (4 + 2) lost on these two, I think. Sloppy.

Legs super tired on the climbs from racing yesterday. No way I could even think of jogging up those hills (except on the trail to 6, which was a very gradual climb).

FR distance -- 6.616 (and climb is FR reported, analyzed by AP)

QuickRoute track

C • control 1 3