Training Log Archive: cmorse

Ran over to Horsebarn hill - combination of trail and terrain down to river, across on old jeep road picking up trails to the ski hill, then around S side of horsebarn hill and back across campus. windy in the open (headwind) but rain held off until last couple of minutes. distance is estimated, but it felt like a pretty brisk pace.

Helping out with Jackson's after school running/fitness club - some laps around soccer fields, jogging around school & on trails. Super easy effort as you can only run so fast with 6&7 year olds.

Event: WCOC Trout Brook Valley C meet
 

cloudy, cool - re-ran last weeks course

1, 2 - same
3 - trails, R @ split, across narrow marsh then straight - saved almost 5 minutes with cleaner attack
4 - R of marsh, thought would be faster, but a bit slower
6 - over top, save 30s?
7 - same route, but walking hill
8 - went N of marsh this time, better attack, very clean
9 - went straight - flag still in woods
rest used same routes with various micro choice variations

Red - Splits

climbed Mt Monadnonck in NH with Jackson & JonnyM. White Dot > Cascade Link > Spellman > Pumpelly. Return via Pumpelly > Red Spot > Cascade Link > White Dot

eastwood loop - stayed on grass where possible

crandalls loop from ballfields - didn't feel fast, but stronger than yesterday - good on hill - 160's, lively enough for a good finish sprint over hill @168.

late afternoon, sluggish, no zip, chest tight

Helping out with Jackson's afterschool running/fitness club. Very easy running with 1st graders around school and in woods/fields

nice weather but sweating like a pig on hills

nice course, probably rerun it a couple different ways in the next few weeks to see how low I can get time. I think 50min doable in more fall-like weather.

splits

Red - Splits

Event: WCOC Ansonia C-Meet & Sprint
 

Sprint - Splits

Red - Splits

Didn't post under racing since I short cut the full 203 control course. Also didn't take useful splits - I was using my splits to count the blue striped flags, but looking back I don't know which ones they were - only how many I punched.

Went out conservatively - first hour running about 135bpm, clean navigationally only a couple minor bobbles mostly due to incorrectly guessing the flag location from map (too cumbersome to keep referring to descriptions).

Stopped for about 5 minutes or so to assist Mikkel Coenradi who crashed hard right in front of me approaching #29 putting a big gash in his head. Was going to quit and walk out with him but Pat Dunlavey arrived and indicated he hadn't planned on going more than an hour or so anyway. Continued on with George W & Rick D for a while - took a few controls to get back into flow.

Near the top of the map I got a tear and the map started getting pretty nasty from repeated folding, wound up tearing the NE section of map off and jamming it in my pocket - followed George until I was back on a piece of map I could read - probably 6-7 controls past the tear. Stayed with George a little while longer, trading lead with him until the slot - somewhere shortly thereafter I think I got away from him - not really intentionally, just not looking over my shoulder and eventually realized I was running alone except for the occassional fast train to come by that I had no intention of trying to catch.

After that I slowed a bit - jogging slowly to make sure map contact was good and only picking up the pace to race pace when flag was in sight.

Still feeling pretty good around 2 hours nearing the 100 halfway point, but mental focus starting to drift slightly (though no nav problems yet). Hit the water control and drank a lot and looked at rest of course. Continued on through #105, slowly realizing that this was going to be fun for about another 20 controls or so, then it was going to start heading for the big suck... Decided I'd rather do less than the whole course and enjoy it, rather than beat myself up just to say I did the whole thing. Bailed to major trail, stopped off at #138 to grab my Mountain Dew stash, back to trail, road intending to cut back in and finish the final 25 or so. Everything looked good until I turned off the road - got about 20 paces into the woods and both legs cramped right up - hobbled back to finish and called it at 108 controls. Quite glad I opted to cut it short when I did - would not have wanted to cramp way down in the SW corner.

Event: 2005 Sprint Series Finals
 

Round 3 - The Finals! - Splits

Round 1 Men's Heat 1&2 - Splits

Round 2 Men's Heat 1&2 - Splits

random fartlek run around campus - hills, around athletic fields - moderate pace - total guess on distance/climb

there are worse things than running around a college campus on a warm sunny day...

still got a touch of the stomach bug though...

muscles a bit achy overnight. Have to work the holiday today, so will probably skip running for today..

Seem to have a bit of Hayden's stomach bug as well

moderate effort w/ 3x hale road repeats (slr to height of land) in middle

ran up & down hare road to height of land 3 times. Was originally going to drive to Gay City, but wound up just running local roads/trails. Legs quite dead toward end.

w/ Deb - sampler to moonlight, taking cutoff to Shenipsit Trail. Felt good, nice morning...

moderate run to shelter falls

forgot glasses, regular glasses a nuisance so took them off and ran blind - cautious & tentative. Nice day 80f, sunny - nothing special about the run other just getting out there.

didn't feel like running pavement so just walked back to campus - ran up woods behind dorms, but otherwise just walking