Training Log Archive: j-man

With Dasha along the river.

My calves are killing me today. Especially my right one. I'll know tomorrow whether it is extreme soreness or a real injury.

Hill intervals with Wyatt at McKaig. I got my but kicked, relatively and absolutely. It's funny that I used to be relatively good at hills.

Lap Lap Time HR Max Avg Min
1. 0:04:22.5 92 129 116 78
2. 0:02:45.6 157 159 148 91
3. 0:03:36.7 129 158 136 125
4. 0:02:37.4 161 165 157 130
5. 0:03:05.3 135 165 147 133
6. 0:02:53.8 166 166 160 135
7. 0:03:20.9 131 164 145 123
8. 0:03:11.3 165 165 160 131
9. 0:03:18.6 133 165 144 131
10. 0:03:22.2 160 166 159 133
11. 0:03:24.1 131 162 143 130
12. 0:03:36.4 163 164 158 132
13. 0:03:36.4 122 163 139 122
14. 0:02:59.9 142 143 132 118

Ran with Wyatt to Mt. Joy. Did some hill intervals in the stiltgrass.

Walking around 18 holes at the US Amateur at Merion. Took about 3.5 to 4 hours.

Down along river. To stretch around the bend before last bridge in front of the museum.

20:00 out
18:36 back

Ran after going to Monks. Really sluggish...

Event: 2005 PNWOF and 2005 USA Champs
 

Hanging and looking for WW.

VF Misery rerun

Red - Splits

The most I could squeeze in.

five loops
6:34 (to Chester and 43rd)
4:12
8:19
4:01
4:07

To the junction of Water Works and Kelly Drive.

Outbound in 23:00 (2.94 miles)
Back in:
9:54 (to Walnut) +
:30 (up stairs) +
11:24 (Walnut to home) =
21:48

Didn't have a whole lot of spring but just concetrated on running light and turning legs over quickly.

Actual elapsed time was 44:51 but since I timed the ascent of the vertical stair (30 seconds) I netted out 2*30. (I'll time the descent next time.)

Down along the river. Watch didn't work on the way out so I just doubled the return trip time and took a little off the average HR.

First 31:20 with Dasha. Down to river along Walnut, back Chestnut, but squaring corners.
(3.45 miles)

Final loop in the park.
(1.64 miles)

FCE Blue

Blue - Splits

Around campus and environs. Found a noodle shop, steep hills, and some cliffs.

I got caught in a dead-end section but considered cutting throught the woods to another. Then I noticed I was at the psych ward and though better of it.

level 12 hills on an old school machine.
385 calories

level 12 hills

Just some free weights.

(Distance approximate.)

OK - hear me now, believe me later: Emory University is a GREAT place for a sprint. The best viable location I have personally seen in the US, although that's hardly saying much.

It's virtues: principally, a 3-dimensional experience. It is a campus and a map will suggest something quite ordinary, but it is hilly, and features multiple planes and variegated prisms and areas with varying density.

By this I mean that the roads and passages connecting the building network is like a Chutes and Ladders sort of thing, with paved areas, and fields of differing shapes and orientations, much unlike the coordinate grid of many campuses.

Additionally, there is forest. Some real, real forest.

Just really fine venue.

Has this occurred to anyone else?

Trying to slow the dripping before rejoining civilized society.

OK. So I got to Atlanta (after a disconerting, last-second aborted landing, but I digress.) My luggage did not. Who knows where it went.

As my last shower was last Friday and I was wearing the same shorts/sweater combo I had most of the time in CO, and I had no other clothes, and I was at a work conference/training for five days, I thought the situation majorly naskied. Big time.

But, I had my trusty computer, and with Google's help, I located a target 2.5 miles one way. I suppose I could have run there, but then I would have been sweaty, and who wants to shop when sweaty? So, I walked, getting to destination in ~30 minutes. Looked around and found no Target - anywhere. Well, that sucked, but at least I could pick up some toothpaste.

But, luckily, I more or less remembered where another target was located, and as that one was 2.6 miles from point of origin, I thought the distance from my new point was arounf 2.5 miles (due to roughly triangular configuration) I decided to proceeed there.

Bad idea. My recollection wasn't entirely precise (I was rembering heuristically rather than purely spacially) and that proved to be a shortcoming. As 7:45 neared, I knew that my shopping pland would not be realized and furthermore, I was in a completely residential area with no Target in sight. So, I turned and it started to rain. Then rained really hard.

Luckily, I could stow my wallet and phone in my CVS bag. Everything else was soaked within 2 minutes. The other good thing was that my clothes got (slightly) rinsed. The bad thing is that wool sweaters don't respond to well to being inundated. Oh well.

Kept walking. 15 minutes later, reach an enclosed bus stop. Few minutes later, a domicile challenged individual joined me in my shelter. He looked better than felt, but I was hoping I still smelled better...

Say so long to my contubernal after rain slacked and eagerly proceeded to the happy Golden Arches for a 15 minute value meal stop.

Continued. Darkness falls, but I avoid stepping on the decomposing possum, being splashed by too many fetid puddles, and am not struck my any sideview mirrors while traversing miles of road devoid of sidewalk.

In the post-race analysis, I saw that Google had given me the location of a Target Convenience store, not the Tarzhay everyone loves. Although, I did make a turn about 300 feet from where the real Tarzhay was located (an intersection at which I saw one of their trucks, so I suspected something was up, but at the late hour, there was little to be done anyway.)

Relay Green.
So, my strategy was to try to catch up to Mihai and do my best to follow him around the course. I din't know if either would be possible, but it seemed like a good idea.

I actually did catch glimpses of him on 1, 2, 3. Then I took a straighter to route to 4 and got there first.

More or less even to 5.

Then 6. Major naski! I mean, seriously! I wasn't really Orienteering on that leg (after our divergent legs reconverged) and it was a bad idea. We hosed that control. I think it was a 10 minute mistake, but hard to tell.

I decided to find the control on my own after a while - another bad idea as I saw Mihai flying down the hill, although he classily let me know that he had gotten the control. (I may have had it first had the pit I was trying to relocate on not been obliterated on my map.)

Anyway, now I could do my own thing. Going out of 7 I saw Steve Gregg, who I guessed was on my course, indicating I was in third. Continued on, losing 1+ minutes on one control and a bit on the penultimate. Mihai finished 1.5 minutes ahead or so.

So, I guess the relative result wasn't bad, but both Mihai and I had bad times on the leg.

Towards the end of the course, I finally felt like I could run, for the first time in the week. My finish was really good, although I unfortunately don't have a good split...

All in all, despite bad orienteering in each race, I was pleased with the CO trip.

While running was a struggle, it seemed to get progressively better.

I had a bad headache in the afternoon/evening of day 1, but that was it.

I hope that the complete malaise I felt in WY last year was an aberation due to the flu I had most of the time rather than an inherent inability to run at altitude.

Still, the idea of flying out to do a high altitude meet for the weekend (eg. US Champs, etc.) seems like lunacy.

Green - Splits

Blue Mountain.
Generally a good race, but I mucked one control really badly.

Pushed hard, but as usual, average heart rate here low.

Night-O.
Naski! Venyaut!

Well, my floodlight and a quarter would have bought me nothing out there. Wow. Really bad.

Actually, first 3 controls were OK, but 2 was a little worse than 1, and 3 a little worse than 2, so there was a trend evident.

4 was a disaster. Tried to find 10 on way home, but could not.

At least I got the light to Wyatt in time to have him use it correctly in his great performance. Ergo, the light certainly was not an impediment to success.

My lack of brain, perhaps?

Buena Vista.
After 12 hours in CO. Head pounded, legs leaden, but still moved around OK, and downhill even quickly.

But, I messed up several controls badly, and very much did not like 3 placements.

Event: Colorado Five-Day
 

Out in 16:00, so back in 19:00.
Would have liked to have some more springiness today.