Training Log Archive: Wyatt

Attempt to run right out of bed in the AM. Not happy. Turned around.

Tag on the beach with the kids, on tracks in the sand. Plus some running on the beach, barefoot. Unfortunately, at the end of tag, I sliced the bottom of my foot on a shell. Just enough to draw a little blood, but that area that bled seems quite small, was washed clean within 15 minutes, and seems seated below the 1cm low incision in the callus... So far, minor issues (see later entries.)

Margate City, to Atlantic City, mostly on the boardwalk. Flat run seemed okay for the newly cut foot. Anything not flat, less so.

Event: Canadian Orienteering Championships
 

Same 7/20/10 set. Because my R-knee IT, and R-lower back connection point thereof, are still pretty sore this afternoon, esp. walking around slow at a party I just left (3 houses down, ~100 people..) briefly to do this workout

1st loop of 20 in 24 race in Philly, with Gene, Lida, Andi and other FastTracks runner. They were embarking on an attempt at many, many of the 8.4 mile loops in 24 hours. Lisa was aiming for 12 of them, to do 100 miles... Gene for 6+. Last year's winner was aiming for ~17-18 of them.

Seeing all the aid stations, where you'd be greeted by volunteers that begin to recognize you, and camping next to the Art Museum, it don't actually see it as boring as before. Certainly the 1st loop was kinda fun...

Later in the day, I came back and rode on bikes around there with the kids, saying hi to Lisa @ 21 and 31 miles (on pace for ~115 miles), and Gene @ 18 & 23 miles (on pace for ~80 miles). While the last 18 hours will be much cooler, I suspect the pace may slow :)

Two loops over Misery & Joy, surging on the uphills. Didn't push very well though, hard time keeping level 2, and the total uphill surge time was over 20 minutes, which was supposed to be L4, but HR only hit L4 for 5 minutes... Feeling a little beat for some reason.

My first run of the Misery Vandal's loop. May become a time trial loop.

(revised entry to included only the warmup/cooldown)

Background:
Surveyors have been streamering and staking out the edge of VF Park for more than a year now, so occasional glaring orange or pink in the otherwise natural woods of VF park has become staple of regular runs.
So it wasn't until about a week ago, that I realized that some of the new 'surveyors' marks I had seen about 2 weeks prior to that (say, new as of ~6/20?) weren't really following the park boundary. At first I had thought they were maybe directions from one surveyor to another, about how to get somewhere, but I followed them a bit, and found the trail pointed off into the woods at some point, nowhere near a park boundary or trail. So I realized something was up.

I then followed them for a bit - orange spray paint dots and/or arrows on trees, spaced about 10-20m apart, and found they formed an elaborate, on & off-trail adventure run, including some really rugged parts of the park that I had never ventured into. And, in some cases, rather elegant looping back to within a few meters of a previous section of the trail, but with the spray paint dots and the sides of trees so as to never have been seen when on the previous segment of the path.

Last Tuesday, I followed about 30 minutes of the Vandal's trail, and then chanced across a few more segments on the way home. This Tuesday, I managed to follow it back to what appear to be the start - an orange arrow on a rock, tucked under a bush, right near the start of the trail near the small parking lot just SW of the Covered Bridge - and the arrow points up the creek of course, not the trail...

Overall, quite rugged. The Vandal's loop portion took me 66:07 to go 6.79 km, at level 2 pace (AHR 133.) Going above level 3 pace would be somewhat treacherous in parts...

If you're going to attempt it, 2 notes of caution:
1) at the 0.5 km mark, there's a loop with a visibility mistake, where dots from a later segment are visible. Follow the arrow to turn back down the hill to avoid skipping a section of the trail.
2) at the 6km mark there's a very long gap by this trail's standard - 100m - without another mark. Just keep going south on the gravel trail. (I'll go scout that area again at some point, just to make triply sure I didn't skip a loop in that area.)

Any finally, if anyone has a clue who set this, I'm curious. Googling has gotten me nowhere.

C • sounds like a tough loop! 4

C • GPS track please? 2

7/20/10 set - R-IT was pinchy again after the intervals, which inspired the resumption of this, at least for a day...

8x600, 2x200 - compare to Daniel's goal paces of 2:13 (I) and 40 (R)

2:18, 2:16, 2:15, 2:12, 2:11, 2:12, 2:10, 2:12
40, 37

Last week's range was 2:14 to 2:06, so I was a bit slower this week, but I did have 2 more? I think my fueling was poorly too. Light lunch, followed by a bit too much OJ & Mt. Dew in the 20 minutes before starting this workout caused a bit of bloating

Wt. after run, before lunch - same as last wk.

Got a new computer at work, which is where I download the Garmin stuff most directly. Update coming soon.