Training Log Archive: GlenT

Event: Sprint Series Final & US Relay Champs
 

Sprint A on Course 2 (OBG). Probably lost about a total of a minute on small misses on three controls (4,5, and 8). Things sure come up fast at 1:4000. Tied with Dean Sturtevant for fastest M50. Fourth overall for the course. Lots of West Pointers out there running really fast and then trying to figure out where they were. :-)

Sprint B on Course 2 (OBG). A good run, helped somewhat by seeing other people at or near controls on most of them Spiked the first control unassisted. First M50, fourth on the course overall and first M50 for two sprint total. Fun courses by Joe B and great organization by WCOC (and by PG).

Sprint C - All Comers Race. Mass start with three loops done in different orders (I had variation 6). Good thing this race didn't count for rankings. Made several mental errors (started on wrong loop first, misread a control description, thought I was headed to #13 when I was going to #14). Probably could've been about two minutes faster. Didn't push too hard until I started the last loop about 10 seconds behind Charlie and Susie Dewitt was just behind me. Passed Charlie and then gave the lead back by making a mistake. Had to run him down in front of the heckling spectators. :-) A really fun and well designed course.

Sprint A Course 2 (OBG) - Splits

Sprint B Course 2 (OBG) - Splits

Syring Rd, Albany Turnpike to 13MF Albany milepost and back. Hilly. ~70F but muggy. ~18min out, ~16:30 back (much more downhill).

At Hand Hollow Preserve. Wonderful day for a run - 60's and sunny. Did most of the trails including a new one which has been de-vegetated (i.e. brush-hogged) but isn't marked as official yet. Much work has been done on the other trails since I was last here, removing rocks and roots (or filling in over them). They've even rerouted some trails where the roots were too numerous/difficult to remove. Someone has way too much time (and I believe some landscaping toys). The trails are nice to run on, but where's the challenge? I suppose most members of the Columbia Land Conservancy don't want to be too AOWN. At least nothing has been paved. :-)

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Hanging control flags in the morning before the NOD event at Five Rivers. Hung a total of 14 bags, which is included in the total time. Beautiful day - mostly sunny and low 60's - resulting in a pretty good turnout. Cooler when I was hanging the flags between 9 and 10am. The advanced course was a score-O/Poker-O (build a poker hand of five cards selected from the 20 which were out there, one at each control location). Some understood the concept better than others. :-)

An interesting coincidence that the distance measured by the Forerunner for the control hanging loop I did today was exactly the same as yesterdays. Completely different loops!

I appear to have a streak of running 4 days in a row - longest in a while. It'll probably end soon.