Training Log Archive: TomN

Event: Mid-Atlantic Championships
 

SVO Mid-Atlantics Green. This park was a surprise. Open forest, big terrain features, great visibility -- just my kind of running. Execution was another matter. From 8 to 9 I fell to daydreaming, and didn't notice that I was running off-bearing and downhill until I began to see buildings. A little time reorienting, then a big climb back up. On #11, I was too high on the hill. I knew I was too high, but still reluctant to give up any elevation without thoroughly checking it out. That wasted a couple of minutes, and when I finally headed downhill there it was. No trouble on the infamous boulder control. Probably just dumb luck, but I saw the rootstocks first from some distance away, expected the boulders to be right behind them, and they were.

Relay, 3rd leg. A good run. Mainly I was able to keep up some speed on the uphills when everyone else was walking. Then some more daydreaming on the very last leg, finally hearing arena sounds from behind me, and making a U-turn back to the finish. A minute or so lost there. I was the first one back from the mass start of orphaned 3rd leg runners.

Green - Splits

Relay Leg 3 - Splits