Training Log Archive: HGaston

Day 2!

A solid run in general; I hesitated a few times and started drifting toward disaster once but it didn't actually happen because I saw the park boundary, so overall pretty clean navigationally.

My biggest area for improvement from today's run is speed -- my legs were feeling pretty tired out there! This is usually not the biggest problem, so it's kind of exciting because it's very train-able. It's not just speed in general either, but hills. I really need to run more hills.

So I'm going to add in a must-run hills workout to a hopefully-to-become-more-regular training schedule. Saturdays sound good.

Incomplete general training schedule with lots of blanks for things I haven't defined yet:

Monday --- short-ish, doubling as grocery run
Tuesday --- ?
Wednesday --- ?
Thursday --- long-ish with Christina
Friday --- ?
Saturday --- hills (Hillsborough Street or repeats of Battle Park exit hill)

I'd like to add in regular time for mapping, long run, medium run, and some gym time especially for legs and maybe my nonexistent arm strength if inspiration strikes.

C • Nice job 2

Red Day 2 - Splits

Event: Georgia Navigator Cup
 

Day 1!

Great fun and a lot of controls went well, with the exception of two major errors that were frustrating:

#3: I saw the control, didn't check it, ran in circles for 8 minutes, and then found it again and punched it. Very annoying! -8 minutes.

#12: I convinced myself that the control must be at the top of a reentrant near a rootstock even though the map said it was in the next reentrant over. I stared at the map for a very long time here, too, then bailed to the road and attacked the same incorrect location again. Bizarre! Then I came to my senses and realized it was over there. -3 minutes.

Red Day 1 - Splits

I went for a run with Christina after the history lecture. Through Battle Park and along Bolin Creek and then across MLK through a short trail system I hadn't explored before.

...maybe they're the trails that supposedly link the hopefully-to-be-next year's-house with the Bolin Creek trail. That would be awesome :).

We came back via the enormous hill at Hillsborough St, which I found quite difficult but we managed to run up the whole thing. Success!

Distance is approximate; my watch has 4.46 but took awhile to locate. I should probably start leaving it under a bush for ~10 mins before going out to run.

Absolutely beautiful day out, and t-shirt weather!

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Super excited for Georgia tomorrow!!

Morning run #1.

Battle Park. Clear and cold; nice for running but I was glad I had a hat.

The time includes stopping briefly to chat with a friend I ran into in the woods, but that can't really account for much of the speed issue here. Looks like it was a sloww morning run.

But on the bright side, I feel much less sick than yesterday!

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Eric gave me some mapping tips (thanks!), so hopefully that project will be underway soon :).

Quick run around campus in the evening. I'm going to start running in the mornings instead since class doesn't start till 9 or 9.30 this semester. I think it'll be more efficient and more consistent.

Bio #1: seems good so far
Spanish: professor is awesome
Chem: professor is nice but apparently really difficult.

Bio #2, history, & modes of inquiry tomorrow.