Training Log Archive: JanetT

Long - Green at the Flying Pig XIII, Mt AiryForest map. Beautiful weather (low 50's) and sunny - perfect.

Hard to decide on a "good" route to the 1st control, so I tried to go straight as much as possible (though I'm not sure my Forerunner track shows that) until the last spur where I decided just to go around. There was a good attack that way too which influenced my decision. Slogged up the steep, well-ditched hillside (lots of runoff ditches!) to 2, then a couple controls off the side of the road (just keep track of which parking lot you're near). Leg 4-5 took us back through a lot of the area I'd been on in the relay, and I decided the much longer though flat route around on the road would take longer so went mostly straight (down and up). After 8 I think my brain wandered and I made a not-optimal decision not to take my first route choice (down at least 2-3 contours and then up 5 contours on the hill to the road). Part of me was saying "adventure time!" but it wasn't as clear-running as I expected (it WAS mapped as light green) and I eventually attacked off the wrong reentrant (parallel error). Comparing my splits to someone close on the other legs (Rob Wilkison) I probably lost 3-3:30 minutes to 9.

However, I was very pleased with the fact that I took the up and down route choices and didn't avoid climb for the most part (until after 8) and even felt fine (until 8). But maybe I'll go back to Brown. My Green ranking points won't fare well this weekend. As Sandy says, "I like Brown."

Perhaps it was the coffee I had in the morning, or perhaps it was because I was running hard and sucking a lot of dry air (or a combination), but I had some nasty acid reflux for the rest of the day. Good thing Glen travels with Rolaids. :-)

FR - 7.03 km, ST - 8.23

I enjoyed several cultural features in this park (at least on the routes I took): a neat wall remnant in a wooded glen (someone said the low ground cover there -- though pretty -- was an invasive plant) which was one of our control points; and a "tree house" built on stilts with a deck surrounding a tree, which was also viewable from the road to parking.

And Mt. Airy (not in the forest, but nearby) has a set of water storage tanks that have been decoratively disguised by adding castle-like turrets between them. There's a sign saying they were built in the 1920's.

Super setting for the Long; many thanks to OCIN for a great weekend.

Sunday Long Green - Splits

Sprint 2 (orange/brown/green) in Burnet Woods, an urban park in Cincinnati, meaning lots of cultural features (ponds, buildings, sculptures, etc). We stayed mostly in the wooded section on this course, with a few route choices involving roads, trails. I'm not counting # 1 as a spike because I could have approached it better, though I did find it okay (it was just a bear to get to because I left the trail too early and got caught by downed logs/debris) -- 1:42 on the leg when it should have been a minute or less.

In the Pig results/splits, # 3 is not shown because the SI box wasn't working. My splits (I think I took them out of habit; perhaps prescience? not that it matters...):
1 - 1:43
2 - 3:32
3 - 1:06
4 - 2:25
5 - 4:12
6 - 0:55
7 - 2:03
8 - 2:51
9 - 2:09
10 - 1:21
11 - 1:34
12 - 0:40
F - 0:15

Third leg (Brown course) on a 12 pt unofficial relay team with 2 Houston/Channelview JROTC girls ('Channeling EMPO'). Taylor started us out well with a quick run on Orange in the mass start; Claudia found all her controls on Yellow; I managed not to mess up any controls this time, and was pleased with my time for the most part, but hated the uphill finish. Glen finished well on Green and pulled us ahead of a couple of teams that had done better on the 2nd and 3rd legs, so we finished 2nd overall (out of 6 teams). Yay team!

Saturday Brown_12pt - Splits

Event: OCIN 25th Anniversary / Flying Pig XIII / Relay Champs
 

Middle - Green at the Flying Pig XIII, McFarlan Woods map (Mt. Airy Forest). Cool weather (40's) but the rain had stopped earlier in the day.

A very fun course with lots of direction changes in the middle of it (4-11) back and forth across a trail, and in some intricate reentrant/depression areas as well which I enjoyed and mostly did well on (except for 11, see later).

A brainfreeze at 3 cost me about 5 min. (eternity on a middle course) when I got into the area, actually saw a bag, but took forever to decide to check it (from where I saw it I thought the bag was for the reentrant/ditch just beyond the mapped rootstock...turns out there was a remnant tree stump there that I didn't notice). Odd description -- "ruined rootstock" -- I suppose to differentiate its appearance from all the fresh rootstocks (unmapped) also on that hillside... Anyway, my error for inattention to more details.

Lost a little time on 4 -- not because I couldn't find it, but because I took a roundabout route when straight would have sufficed (there was a little dark green mapped that I was avoiding, but it was probably passable). Lost a little time on 11 when I stood on the opposite side of a large downed tree and couldn't see the depression on the other side of it -- about 20 m away, or less. :-P Silly me.

Coughing and hacking before the start irritated my throat. I don't know if it was the wet woods or something I had eaten not too long before which caused it, but the irritation came and went through the weekend.

FR - 3.57 km, ST - 5.1

Friday Middle Green - Splits

MB to church and back.

Running, with some walking near the end. Treadmill set on "cross country 2" program, with speed varying between 3.5 (first 5 min to warm up) to 4.4, and incline from 0 to 9%, down to 3.8/walking for the last 7 or 8 min. When I tested my HR a couple of times during the steeper sections it was in the 135-145 range.