Training Log Archive: jtorranc

Cycling to work.

Event: QOC Patuxent
 

QOC Patuxent Blue - sloppy first couple of controls then okay technically, though route choice through the vegetation was a bit of a crapshoot on a few legs - to controls 4 and 5 I found routes through at least slightly less thick vegetation that weren't hinted at by the map. Felt not quite fully recovered from the previous day or two - hamstrings, in particular, felt slightly pre-fatigued. Therefore not surprised Eddie, who certainly appeared to be running hard to the finish, ran this in 5.5 minutes less and a sick Ken in only a few minutes more than my time.

Blue - Splits

Cycling to the aquatic center, TPSS and Safeway.

Long easy "run" in the pool.

Cycling to work plus one round trip back into town running errands plus a trip to the Freer Gallery to see an Indonesian film then home.

Since expected rain showers overnight seemed to have held off, skated to work.

Cycling home by way of PCRM.

Cycling to work.

Run home through Rock Creek Park.

Cycling to work. Home by way of the aquatic center.

Flutterkicking recovery workout.

Skated to work. Nothing feeling too bad, at least not anything crucial to inline skating. Probably means cycling home will also feel fine. Won't do anything running-ish before tomorrow evening.

Cycled home by way of TPSS and Safeway.

US Ultra-long Champs - easily best race of the weekend, never missed any controls though I was hesitant/inefficient on some number (not that finding the controls was very difficult, in general). Tried to push hard on the trail runs but wasn't feeling as wasted physically as has usually been the case after this event (downhill finish helps, I suppose) so may not have pushed quite hard enough. Winsplits says one identifiable mistake worth about 3.5 minutes which I'll blame on what I perceived as the undermapping of some ferociously thorny vegetation fringing one of the clearings athwart a relatively direct route towards 9 - I ended up going well around to the left and it apparently would have been faster to have gone around the clearings through the light green to the right of the clearings, which option I had rejected in my initial route choice and didn't think to consider when it became clear I wasn't going to get through the vegetation where I'd intended (though I might have been too far north by then for the right hand route to have been viable anyway). I also lost some time to sloppy rough compass, in particular from control 5 towards the track I attacked 6 from - went too directly south and ended up running around the edge of a pond/marsh that I should have passed safely to the west of. Went straight at first from 13 towards 14 through the area that wasn't field checked - no doubt the road would have been faster but I felt committed by the time that was clear and continuing until I reached the shallow reentrant east of the control, to be only briefly confused by what struck me as being an unmapped marsh, succeeded without a major time loss.

C • Winner 1

UltraLong: Blue - Splits

Event: US Sprint & UltraLong champs
 

US Sprint Champs - non-disastrous but not very good.

ROC A meet middle - moderately good/better race than sprint certainly, though not free of significant errors, two of which were quite silly and hard to excuse. Still, was much more in control of my orienteering.

Sprint: M/F21 - Splits

Middle: Blue - Splits

Silly walks and strides.

Cycling to work.

Cycling to work. Home by way of PCRM.

Cycling to work. Home by way of the aquatic center.

Flutterkicking., partly because of swimmers training and waterpolo and partly because of volume problems with headphones - set to maximum and could only just hear in one ear even underwater. May have to order new ones.

C • bluetooth ?? 8

Skating to work.

Cycling home from work via the AFI (saw The Spirit of the Beehive with Dan) and also to and from the neighbourhood Safeway.

Cycling to work.

Trail run home through Rock Creek Park. I think I may be happier in a month or so when I need a headlamp for the duration of these rather than doing without until things feel dangerous than having to fish it out. Had to turn my light off late in the run at a horsewoman's request, so as not to risk her horse bolting to escape the apparently approaching cyclops. A little later, a toad chose to cross my path at the perfect moment to be caught in the spotlight.

Event: QOC Hemlock Overlook
 

QOC Hemlock long score-O course - distance is what the course setter claims it took to visit them all. I haven't measured the distance for the sequence I took them in - basically a counterclockwise loop of the map starting by heading northeast.

Easy jog to the south end of the map mostly on the Bull Run Occoquan Trail then picking up 9 controls on the way back to the start/finish.

Round trip to aquatic center and TPSS.

LSD in the pool. Pretty quiet on a Saturday morning though maybe that won't be the case as the outside weather gets less pleasant later in the fall and winter.

C • LSD 7

Cycling to work in the wet. Fortunately, I'm well equipped for it fender and neoprene booty-wise.

Home as well.

Cycling to work and home by way of PCRM.

Cycling home from work - picked up my once more rideable bike from the shop early in the afternoon after morning meeting downtown.

Silly walks and 10 cycles of Billat intervals.

Abdominal exercises.

Silly walks, strides and hill sprints.

Skated to work.

Run home through Rock Creek Park.

Potomac Valley Games - one, two or all three of 3000m, mile, 800m?

Track mile at PVTC meet - 5:00:25 officially. Trying to get under 5 minutes will have to wait until next year, unless I think my physical condition improves enough to take a stab at it in a solo time trial rather than in a race.

Miscellaneous skating getting to and from track meet.

Evening jog in Rock Creek Park with Dan.

Arlington 9-11 Memorial 5K Run - QOC team again?

9-11 Memorial 5K on QOC team with Tom and Nadim - 4 seconds faster than last year on same course is a mild surprise to me. Tougher field than last year even allowing for some of the Pacer's team people running unofficially in 2008. Tom improved on last year by 37 seconds and Nadim also exceeded his stated expectations by going under 20 minutes. All told, it was good enough for third in the Open Team category.

Skated to work and back.

Skated to work and from work to PCRM.

Easy jog home through Rock Creek Park.