Training Log Archive: jtorranc

Bristol-Myers Squibb Scope It Out 5K for Colon Cancer Awareness - now registered. Looks, from past two years of results, as though this will have a large and strong field though apparently not enough money to attract any of the area's East Africans or elite Russians - course record 14:43.

Scope It Out 5K - another slight lowering of my 5K PR, 6th overall, just fast enough to finish ahead of the Russian (or possibly other east Slavic with a name like Tatiana Chulakh) female winner who herself barely beat what I believe was an Ethiopian down from New York.

Jogs to and from parking spot to area of interest in PWFP.

This was US Champs vetting and mapping. Actually slightly over 7 hours in the terrain but severely discounted to allow for standing still a lot on top of the low intensity while moving.

- Splits

Work commute. No sign of the rain we're threatened with yet - hope it isn't all waiting for me to get out into the woods this weekend. Easy spin home by way of th eSilver Spring TPSS location since I want to take a reasonable shot at a fast 5K come morning.

Commute in by way of the aquatic center. Home with just some shopping en route since PCRM work party was cancelled.

Time limited and already feeling warmed up so nothing but running at perceived effort approximating O race pace.

Warmup/cooldown/rests between hills.

3 sets of 3 time up a hill that took me 57 to 59 paces - roughly 160m with 12 m climb according to a later check with Google Earth.

Excentric hamstring exercise again once I got home.

Some abdominal exercises after the post-hills eating .

Work commute in after another sybaritically drawn out waking and consequent failure to do more than the minimum of morning exercise - gettting ridiculous but I think I've run out of excuses for this evening. Colder again though nothing to get excited about.

Home by way of TPSS and the aquatic center.

Pool busy so long wait until I could get a deeper lane. Almost all kicking with 500 to 600 yards of breast stroke and crawl mixed in for variety.

Deep water running once deep water became available until the closing time for the pool.

Commute in after deciding I wanted to sleep more than I wanted to go to the pool. Unfortunately, I forgot about the library friends group meeting this evening so I can't go to the pool then either. Another day of relative rest, I guess. Though I may do something after the meeting.

To meeting after work. Didn't do anything thereafter other than attack the mess on my bedroom floor.

Just booked campsite 35 at Lums Pond State Park for Friday and Saturday nights. If anyone else wants to share it, it appears it's permissible to have another tent in addition to mine. Email or comment if interested.

Easy ride home. Not feeling too beat up after Flying Pig but no reason to push.

Abdominal exercises during Prison Break.

One-legged squats during 24.

Pig Classic - second behind quite an impressive race for someone complaining of a "general lack of fitness" from feet. Tentative on first control, sloppy on second, hit some surprisingly nasty vegetation and noticed I'd neglected to finish tieing my shoelaces properly once I arrived at the start on the way to third. Things improved after that though I got muddled on the way to the fifth control after crossing the road- in my defense, the course setter says the area would have been his top priority for additional map updating. Can't blame that for not planning ahead better to not have to run an unnecessary hundred meters or so to find a dry crossing of a stream on the long leg. Didn't quite feel like as good a race physically as the long at Umstead two weeks before but still a pretty good effort. Happy to not have blown up on any of 16 through 18. Enjoyed this and wish some QOC maps had as much negative topography per unit area in our ridge and valley terrain as was featured in parts of this course.

Had one hard fall that brought me within about six inches of looking like Peter Gagarin after his face's trail race accident. Also, a Dan sighting I wasn't too focused to realise at the time was a Dan sighting about two thirds of the way through the long leg.

Blue - Splits