Training Log Archive: BigWillyStyle

TT long. Tough race. Tough terrain, tough nav, tough course - but fun. Ran okay, just don't have the fitness to do really well on a course like this compared to the other guys. Started out probably too cautiously, because the first couple legs seemed scary and I didn't want to blow it early on. Had one major mistake, 5min on 7, when I went through the wrong saddle and down a completely wrong spur, not even close to the right one. Very unhappy with myself at that point. Also took bad routes to 8 and 9.

Like at the Junior Nationals long a couple weeks ago, started tiring about an hour in but then recovered some toward the end - I think I need to eat GUs earlier. Side note - I borrowed and consumed a couple of Eric's 10-year-old pineapple-flavored GUs; they were a weird rusty color, probably not the one they started out as, but they didn't make me sick.

C • Eric's GUs 4

Long - Blue Elite - Splits

Event: 40th Annual West Point National Meet
 

TT middle...wow. No idea where I pulled that from but I ran a very good race, really happy with it given current circumstances.

West Point sprint. Super fun, this blew away my expectations. Really well-set course with lots of tricky legs. Took me an inordinate amount of seconds to actually find the start and the first control on the map, and made one mistake, ~25s on 23 - but also won the tricky 18-19 leg with 13(!) seconds.

Middle - Blue - Splits

Sprint - Blue - Splits

Harriman! Mass start middle-ish distance race. Met up with Greg after the first butterfly and we were together most of the rest; I was generally able to keep up with him at half-speed pace - his, not mine ;) Awesome terrain, really fun stuff. Went fairly hard but tried not to push to the max.