Training Log Archive: Wyatt

Event: Philadelphia Marathon
 

Event: DVOA Hickory Run
 

Multiple bits of sloppiness at my least favorite local park, on a terrible weather day. Driving to the event the forest was beautifully white with wet snow clinging to everything turning almost every surface white. The fact that it was wet-snowing throughout the run would have been bad enough, but the wet snow was also falling off all the light and medium green you crashed through (of which there was plenty more in reality than mapped - sapplings, blow-down...) and it was so wet it melted instantly to ice water through your clothes. Plus there were about 6 stream crossings through knee deep water, that while admittedly was perhaps a few degrees above freezing, was still far from 98.6.

I'm really bad at orienteering well in bad weather. Thinking about not falling, and cursing about the bad conditions (I caught myself singing aloud at one point) isn't a great way to focus on a fast clean run. And I know I'm bad at it and I tried hard to not be bad at it by warming up well and trying to focus, and it didn't work. Running through 300m of unmapped medium green (mapped was white with perhaps 30m of medium green) on the way to # 1 didn't help start me off in a good mood. It's hard enough to focus on running well when you have significant doubts about the map in good weather conditions...

Clem got similarly really cold, but managed to have about 3x1-2 minute mistakes, instead of my 4x2-6 minute errors...

http://www.dvoa.org/sites/results/ev_show.php?even...

Good news is Clem hasn't passed me yet http://www.dvoa.org/sites/results/show_champs.php but he's awfully close, and one event he beat me by 10% at (3-4 weeks ago) still isn't posted.

Given how crappy the weather was, I did an excellent warmup & cooldown. Although the "cooldown" was a bit of a warm-back-up-in-dry-clothes affair.

Short loop just after noon - a short gap where Angelica could watch the kids.

Northern loop of marathon, writing down control descriptions and minor map fixes. Started at dusk, finished at quite dark (5:30 pm or so). R-IT sore this evening. Needs a stretch. Although that's been than the R-knee internal pain from last night...

The VF 5 mile loop. I've got to check if this a PR. I think I did beat speedy's PR by a few seconds. Update: I didn't. I tied according to AP, and he says that had some round-up error, so he's still faster. Next time I'll have to race Clem or someone.

C • Good, very good. NIce ti... 5

Hip/Ankle, plus Pineapple for L-ham (a little sore the past week or two), L-calf (minor), R-IT (currently minor)

C • Pineapple and ham 2

Valley Forge 5 mile loop - Splits

Some loop w/Angelica. Need to check my watch

So on Monday morning, attackpoint was down. Maybe for an hour. And I was on my way to update my event announcement for the VF Marathon. I'm not only using AP as training log/blog, and discussion/posting, but also now for my event announcement pages. And when AP was down, all I could do was ask KW, nicely, to please take a look. This isn't even a service we pay for, so it could all be gone... So I decided I should pay for it, to do a little bit to keep this worth KW's while in maintaining.

VF Marathon, 1st half, backwards, plus my house-to-# 5 and back. Only 2:22 on route, and I took some wimpy routes that I'd short cut in the race.

Trying to check-out/remember where the nice trail was below RiverCrest. I think I found it, but it needs another week of leaf shedding to be ideal (so you can see all the little waterfalls better.

On the track, lit by 4 of 6 lights. Could be worse.

5x1km:
3:48, 3:44, 3:48, 3:41, 3:39

then a 200 in 38

I did the last 2x1km partly with other people, which helped.

Slacking on my log a bit, sorry. Did run this weekend, but not as fast as my DVOA ranking hoped I would. I think the large amount of road & trail running wasn't quite as relatively-fast for me as the normal forest races.

Still, it was a very fun race with route choice galore, most of which I did okay. And I did one really strange mini-route, and didn't notice until after...

BTW, it sounds like Lacho & Iliana may come up to the VF Marathon