Training Log Archive: JanetT

Event: EMPO - Cole Hill
 

Found this stunning photograph on Facebook that someone took in Grand Teton.

Green course at Cole Hill in East Berne, 5 km SL. Temps in the mid to upper 50s with threats of showers but not really much action until we were done and about to leave.

Silly error to 2 where I should've known I hadn't gone far enough (to hit the stone wall!) and turned right instead of left when the hill started to drop off.... (I "lost" the race there, as 1st place was less than a minute ahead of me.) Good though slow to 2 (uphill), fine to 3, and then tentative to four as I wasn't sure of trails, or which stonewall I was on, but it worked out. Out to road and off stonewall corner to 5 where it wasn't obvious what was mapped as a thicket; then I angled across the road and followed another stonewall toward the marshy area intending to head south to bit the big trail to cross at a bridge. But I must have been angling more SW than I thought because it took much longer than I expected to hit the trail, having found an unmapped stone wall and losing confidence. I did eventually find the trail I wanted, but I'm sure if I had just gone up the road to the trail jct and down from there I would have been minutes faster. Good from there on in, choosing near the end to cut straight across some iffy light green rather than run way around on the trail...in the end I took about the same time as Janet F who ran the trail (and is a faster runner). Sluggish on the uphill run in.

I wish hills were my friends....

Map with route

Green - Splits

Spent the day at the quilting hall (actually a VFW hall that we use often, for meetings and quilt weekends and such), sitting on my butt at the sewing machine.

O (local) tomorrow, so I don't feel like too much of a slacker.

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Stretchy bands (Mary's favorite Pilates tool).

8 pulldowns after

Alb Tpk to community center and back. Temps around 70 but breezy which kept the humidity at bay.

Slept late the morning so only enough time for banana and part of a cup of coffee this morning before I had to leave. We actually did some stepping today! Good class. Skipped push-ups since I'd done a few yesterday and my shoulder is achy; did bench presses with 10 lb free weights instead.

Warm (mid 60s) and humid outside so room was on the humid side too. I sweated quite a bit which I normally don't do in Pilates! We used the large balls today, and hamstring curls from bridge were torture! Attempted some side planks/mermaids (I guess a side plank is on the elbow, where the same move on extended arm is mermaid, at least according to Mary. Another instructor says mermaid is when you keep hips down and just use obliques to move arms up and over alternating sides). Back of right hip is achy from the V sits and boat pose holds...

After, I did a few pulldowns and adductors, just to get that PT in.

Jogged and walked along the trail along the Madawaska River to start overlooking the dam, picking up a warm-up map and checking out some of the mapping for the sprint.

Sprint in downtown Arnprior. SL 2.3 km, 20 m climb
50s to low 60s, breezy

Our course moved out of the residential section fairly quickly, with just two controls in the woods (Gillie's Grove) before heading back to Simpson Park where the arena was.

Passed by eventual F55 winner Jane Rowland (FWOC) going to number 4, the first in the woods; and Marion on the way to 9 after I had bobbled 6 (went beyond, got stopped by the trail, doubled back, losing a minute). Passed Candice on the way to 3 and Nancy somewhere (never saw her after she started a couple minutes ahead of me...maybe she took a different route to 3?). I went to the right of the line around the houses, cut in on the small trail to the parking lot and yellow then around the building and into the tennis court, having read that it was on the inside corner of the fence.

Very nice sprint course with a tricky detailed area near the finish where you really had to pay attention to know which controls were on your own course.

Afterwards we stayed to watch the sprint relay which was super exciting and fun, especially with USA taking both the BK and FC Cups. :-D

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Sprint - Course 2 - Splits

Around field and through the woods to start, much closer to the arena/parking today.

NOTE: Track includes some extra 10 minutes after I finished, hanging out around the arena. I've adjusted the total time and distance.

SL 2.9, 65m climb ... Really? I figured the woods would be atrocious if they expected a 45-50 minute winning time on a 2.9 km course. But they weren't bad, and there were a lot of trail running routes to take, and Natalia won F55 in under 35 minutes. Course setting fail; guess they were too focused on the elite courses. I was prepared for about a 60 minute run, so it could probably have been closer to 4.2 km or so.

Missed a turn on the way from 1-2 and stood puzzled for a bit on top of a bare rock hill with a cliff on the side (and a flag), but quickly figured out where I needed to go, through the lovely white woods. On the long leg I went back out toward the marshy stream crossing and found trails near the leg line that took me very close to 5.

I caught Nancy (who had started 2 minutes ahead) at #2 and couldn't shake her the rest of the way (and there weren't really any distinct routes choice options that might have separated us), so she kept me running as much as I could. Thanks, Nancy! ;-)

6th F55 of 30+

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Long - Course 5 - Splits