Training Log Archive: jjcote

Paddling on the upper section of the Charles with Don Kelley, previewing the leg that we'll be doing in Sunday's relay race, and getting used to each other as partners. We went downstream through all of the tricky parts, then back against the current. I was really rusty, and I got some good pointers on my form from Don and Wes (who was in a C-1). This was a serious workout! Overall, it looks like I passed the audition — Don had no idea what to expect from me, and I think I was somewhat better than he had feared. Apparently this team has a habit of winning the race, and they seem to intend to do it again. Like, when we were previewing the course, we got a few hundred yards beyond the start, and they said, "Sometimes some other boats really sprint off the line, and they stay with us this far". It's a wave start, and if they get put into the last wave (six minutes after the first wave), they sometimes don't meet their goal of being in front at the end of the first leg, because sometimes there will be one boat they haven't caught yet. This year they're stooping to recruiting people like me, so we'll see how it goes.

US Relay Champs, Mendon Ponds. Nobody else from my club showed up, so I was a hired gun for an ineligible 12-pt team, running anchor leg after Thayer Raines, Betsy Hawes, and Candice Raines. Went out in the mass start (not surprising), and only one of my errors cost any significant time. Achieved some of my goals: ditch everybody else who was in the mass start, don't be the last one back from my team, etc.

C • Team 17

Event: US Middle Distance and Relay Champs
 

Middle-Distance Champs at Letchworth, fairly pathetic performance by this defending champion. Lost probably something like 4 minutes on my three errors, and If I had been 43 minutes and change, I would have felt a lot better about this, so that's a fairly narrow band between not bad and not good. It was also hot (and I had a late start). Letchworth had large flat areas separated by abruptly steep slopes, a series of terraces. The slopes were steep enough that I had to walk, and then when I got up on top, I'd have exerted enough that I had to keep walking for at least a bit to recover. All that made for not so much running.

Sprint at Letchworth. My only "error" was going the wrong direction around a building to get to the flag, which would count as an error only in a sprint. Still hot, but this elt a little better than the morning.

Red - Splits

Sprint 3 - Splits

To the post office, then around the Highland loop and down to the lake, did the Cliifview/Brookview hammerhead and back up the hill. Getting pretty jerky by the end, and finally lost it and hopped off while coming up the final steep pitch maybe 100 meters from the end of the driveway. Longest unicycle ride I've ever done (though with a brief stop). Still some snow piles down at the bottom of the hill. Totally gorgeous weather today.

Time is a guess for carrying equipment out to launch. One flight.

C • Gizmo data 8