Training Log Archive: fpb

Travel to Portland, OR

Event: EMPO - Tawasentha Park
 

Kind of a mediocre result. I could feel this week's blood donation in the first 2 minutes, and I discovered my minimal shoes can't handle wet clay slopes. I made things harder for myself by overrunning several controls - my route was over a mile longer than Glen's. But no back pain at all, and that's what counts.

Now that the results are in I see I was fastest on 5 controls, and had 4 bad controls adding up to 16 minutes lost:

#5, where I severely overran (I seem to always do this once). Positive note: there is a lot of park here that could be added to the map

#11, where I couldn't find a break in the dark green and went around the long way (I don't feel too bad about that one)

#15, a small pit that I know Gabor used previously. Had some trouble finding it but most of my time loss here might have been due to difficulties in traversing the ravines

#23, which again I overran. My route choice wasn't that good either, and I don't think the feature is well-mapped (earth bank continues below this point). And I was really tired at this point!

On my way to control #1, on one of the Adirondack chairs on the hillside I saw (and scared off) a pair of Eastern Bluebirds. First I have ever seen in Albany County!

Red - Splits

Neighborhood errands

Ran home from work successfully, 7 weeks to the day from injury. Slowish, but no problems.

C • good news 2

Bike to work. Lots of limbs down in Menands, nothing in Albany.

Blood donation - reached 9 gallons lifetime.

Bike to Buckingham Pond

Four quick laps around Buckingham Pond. Longest continuous run in 6+ weeks!