Training Log Archive: TomN

Seneca Creek Green course. Track is from MapRunG. This is the first time I set it up right. It missed several controls that it should have gotten, and punched a couple of extras as I passed by. Not too impressive. Plus it makes the elapsed time hard to read. Second behind Max A, good going for him. I had seen the first part of the course before, when we ran Brown for practice a few months ago.

Florence was the meet director, and we were there all day, most of it rain.

Green - Splits

A little cooler, with a breeze, but still shorts weather. I was actually planning to do a shorter run but I wasn't really thinking and made my way across the Beltway into the National Seminary area, and saw no reason to back out.

55 and sunny! It was muddy and slippery on the trail up out of the creek, and I was pretty slow in there. Pushed the pace a little bit on the final hill coming up Jennings Road, and felt great.

Hey now, 48 degrees and sunny! Until I got ready to go out, when it clouded over. Still, a major change in the weather, and much appreciated. Supposed to be 60 tomorrow.

I slipped and fell yesterday walking the dog. The conditions were extraordinary -- snowmelt, followed by a quick hard freeze, followed by a tenth of an inch of tiny ball bearings of ice. I saw several people go down on the field where I take the dog, and then it was my turn on the way back home. I crushed my little finger on the left hand on the landing, and although it turned rainbow colors I'm sure it's not broken, just a bruise.

I got a covid vax appointment this morning, for March 12. This has been such a weird and distressing process.