Training Log Archive: kissy

Travel day from Athens, OH, after visiting with Mitch Bentley and his family. It was very nice to see him after about 15 years. He hadn't changed very much at all.

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Returned to F21 for this course, and was the pentultimate runner out on Red (Nadim was last and he caught me at #7). I messed up pretty badly on the first control. I found a control in another ditch and headed the wrong way to look for mine. Lost about 5 mins. The climb in the beginning was also tough, but I managed it better than I would have a year ago. Once I hit the flat bit, I felt fine. I messed up again on #6...got caught in thick green with no distinguishing features. However, I managed to relocate off of two bits of fencing a small ditch, so I was very proud of that. The rest of the course went well, except for a full face plant in the swamp between #11 and #12. A mouthful of swamp water is not pleasant! Ended up about where I would have expected in the results...towards the back but not last.

Classic-Red - Splits

Went with F40 today and ran the second of the Sprint courses. This was my first sprint ever and I thought it was alot of fun! Again, found everything well, with just a few slight veerings off course. I think the worst part was the run-in from the last control. It was very muddy, wet and bumpy. I was the third woman on this course, behind Peggy and Anna S-S, so I felt good about that.

Okay, I wasn't even supposed to be logging this right now. I was the last leg of the QOC-2 team, running the Red course. Well, after standing around for a while watching and waiting and listening to the feedback from everyone who had already been out, I had pretty much decided that if the last leg had to be mass-started, I wasn't going to go out. So, the last leg was mass-started around 4:40 (so late!), and I didn't go with them. Only to have my third-leg runner, Vic Culp, come in about 5 minutes later, looking so excited and happy to have done so well on his leg. I got caught up in the excitement, quickly took off my jacket, grabbed my compass and e-stick, and took off. Well, after about 4 controls, I realized I was not ready to run the entire course, so I ran through Control 6 and then headed back. I think the people who were waiting for me were very happy with that decision! Headed back to the hotel to watch George Mason lose, but happy with their final results.

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Sprint O/Br/Green - Splits

Event: Flying Pig X (OCIN)
 

Ran the Red Middle course at the Flying Pig. Everything went well...I found all of the controls just fine and felt I was moving probably as fast as I could have.

Jog to start.

Red Middle Distance - Splits

Just a little jog through the neighborhood. I have an iPod now (a birthday present to myself) and have been using it on my recent runs. I use the Shuffle mode which plays all of the songs in random order. It's funny how the songs that are playing seem to fit what I'm thinking or how I'm feeling at the time. For example, at the beginning of my run today I was thinking I should just turn around because I really didn't have time to be out there. Just then, the song "Up Around the Bend" by CCR came on my iPod. "There’s a place up ahead and I’m goin’ just as fast as my feet can fly. Come away, come away if you’re goin’, leave the sinkin’ ship behind." Well, of course I had to keep on going at that point. I guess it's like your horoscope...you can make it fit if you want to.

As of last night, a 2-day wildfire in Prince William Forest had been extinguished. It burned app. 300 acres in the western part of the park. I might add it was definitely the trashiest and thickest part of the park, so that might be the silver lining.

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