Training Log Archive: Sandy

Rest day - catching up at school. Actually my knees hurt more today after teaching than they did all weekend.

Interesting race. Started slowly, not really into it and did some climbs into and out of 1-4. For 5 I went around quite a bit but still had to go down then up. For 6, I had had enough and went way, way around to the right skirting all the reentrants. It seemed like it took forever at the time and I'll be curious to look at splits once they're posted (I left the event site really early to try and catch an earlier flight). The good thing about going around was that the attack into 6 was easy and I then knew that the light green was easy going so didn't try anything fancy on the rest of the course. Got sucked into taking the trail to the road from 9-10; should have stayed in the woods. Saw Peggy at 10 but she took off and I couldn't stay with her - legs were just dead. Drifted left on the way to 11 and didn't correct even though I had some clues. Sorted it out eventually and then nailed 12 where I saw Peggy again. Stumbled through the rest of the course just trying to keep moving.

All in all, a very fun weekend. A little too much celebrating for optimal racing but well worth it.

I'll just lump together all the warm-ups I did over the weekend.

Sprint course at the Flying Pig. OK run - one small bobble and a not so great route to #1 (went into the woods too early and had to do some ups and downs) and #7 (stayed left, probably should have gone right). Had a good rythmn going on 2-7 but then pulled up at 8 momentarily confused and couldn't get back into it to finish. Could have pushed harder but saving myself for the relay.

Second leg on the DVOA 8 pt. relay. Not sure of my exact time but it was about 28 minutes. This "yellow" course was a 2.9 red course. I pushed myself as hard as I could. Only "errors" were route choice decisions. Nothing I did was unreasonable, but maybe could have saved seconds here and there adding up to something significant. It was physically demanding enough though that just forcing myself to run was taking a lot of mental energy. But it was good enough as our team won the division. Very impressive run by Evalin Brautigam on the same course. Probably will get trounced by her in the very near future!

C • Congrats! 4

Sprint O/Br/Green - Splits

Event: Flying Pig X (OCIN)
 

Middle Distance course at the Flying Pig. Fun course - really enjoyed it. Wasn't pushing hard - saving myself for the all important relay! Some silly route choices (seem to be having a problem with that lately) going around when I could have gone straight. Made two errors: got down close to the buildings on #5 and took a while to sort out what I had done and went by my control #7, looked at the number and said nope not mine, hmm somehow must be at this other reentrant only to realize halfway to the next reentrant that it was in fact mine and had to backtrack. I'm not a good judge of time when I'm in a race but I'm guessing 1-2 minutes each at least. I'll attribute it to having to get up really early to catch my flight only to have my flight cancelled and having to scramble to make it all work. (It ended up working very well: got to fly to Cincinnati instead of Dayton and got a great car rental for the economy price.)

Course setting at Fair Hill for local event. Great day to play hookey from school!

TNT - Excellent workout tonight. Normal 5 miles on the drive with Anne and Dasha. Forgot to take a split after the jog down but that's usually 8 1/2 to 9 minutes and we finished the 5 miles at 55 minutes. So not too much over 9 minutes for the 5 miles. Set a good pace early and managed to keep it up. Jogged the second half of the hill home. Gourmet food again afterwards thanks to Anne.