Training Log Archive: bl

w/ Diane at SPS on grass & trails ironing out kinks.

Team Trials classic - third good run in a row, quite unusual. Very rocky ground, very happy with trail shoes for cushioning. Unhappy w/ route choice on #2 since i did not do what I had decided to do (run around to left on phone line vs over top & deal with the myriad paths). Went to 4 before 3, did not realize I did so until I got to three, then back to four (reward is spiking more controls than there were). Lost less than I thought I suppose as 4 was enroute but RC to three was higher, on road - entire area was as rocky as it gets. Most pleased that left groin strain did not worsen, at all, & did not affect - could feel it driving down with pollen-induced coughing etc. Beat TIm P & Glen T by some seconds. All in all, excellent weekend, great maps, weather, effort by DVOA.

Episode of the flat tire, AAA taking nearly 3 hrs, well past bedtime to fix, getting caught by local police driving wrong way on 1 way to save seconds to get to bed sooner (lost some 12' there) - to bed by 1150, no ticket....

Green X Long - Splits

Middle Distance 3.72k, 150m climb. Perfect weather, good course in generally green woods, well-mapped. Good run, less than 1' mistakes on 1 & 6. Best green x time (9.57'/k) Parking in field very much reminded me of a European meet, all the sun as well. Visited boulder field after, incredible work of nature 15-20,000yrs ago.

warm-up etc 20' first 2 days

GreenX Middle - Splits

Event: US Team Trials
 

BrGrOr Sprint 2.54k, 19:01, 7.29?/k second to a M50 Norwegian visitor (per Eric Weyman). Very good run, only second to last control where I lost maybe 8 secs due to confusion - was looking at bldg corner when the control was higher up at end of hedge. Neat, busy map w/ many bldgs, very accurate. Left groin muscle did not bother me & still does not even tho I am aware of it.

382 mi, 7.25 hrs w/ maybe 40' stops. 202/9, Keene, Brattleboro, 91S, Ma tkpe to TSP to 84 to 209 thru DWG, Shroudsburg, 33S/22W to Bethlehem. Like all the pastorality of this route. Dorm room which is fine, window open, birds singing, people playing outside w/ frisbee on hardtop, a bit of tolerable city.

Green Sprint - Splits

Rest day, left groin muscle protesting. When I learned I might get $1000 for my old Volvo I went home at lunch hr & vacuumed & cleaned it a bit instead of running w/ Diane...likely $500 worth of cleaning in 40':)

Fall BD brown course at Nottingcook plus some k to & from. Walk/jog, 'not an easy course' to quote or to perceive... scratchy (like Pawtuckaway), thickish forest. Left groin pull fm last night, wait and see. Z&M satisfied for once.

Concord Hospital 5k - thought I'd be below 21:30 so disappointed there.
Stood in chilly air & then rain for a bit too long. 5200+ entrants, but incl walkers. 6:54 (felt faster), 7:17 (sl up), 7:09 (up & down), :40. Wanted maybe 6:40, 6:50, 7+. Good food, lots of freebies etc. 23:30+/- 2 yrs ago. I'd do well to go to track & remind myself of 6:30mi pace.

C • rest? 2