Training Log Archive: jtorranc

Commute.

Warmup/cooldown getting to and from the trailhead.

Trail run in Rock Creek Park. This time went up Western Ridge to the equestrian center then back downhill to the pedestrian bridge to come back south on the Valley Trail.

Commute.

Wrmup/cooldown.

Trail run in Rock Creek Park, out along Valley Trail past Pulpit Rock to the stone bridge then crossed and came back.

Another search for wavyleaf basketgrass and unfortunately I found a lot of it on the slopes along the east side of Rock Creek, south of the Lake Frank dam. A fair bit of it actually along the edges of the paved, mixed-use trail, which makes me very surprised that apparently it hadn't already been reported - you'd think at least one person who knows wavyleaf to look at it would be in the habit of walking or riding along that path regularly (not that plants are more than a green blur most of the time when riding). Not confident there's any point in trying to remove it when it's as well-established as it has become but I'll report it up the chain of command and see what they think.

Riding home from Union Station, stopping at Trader Joe's on the way to resupply the household with steel cut oats.

Warmup/cooldown.

SIlly walks and six uphill sprints.

Cycling to Union Station to pick up rental car.

Commute plus other utilitarian cycling.

Normal intensity parts of cycling to work, to PCRM then home.

CCT time trial on the way to PCRM. At least felt better than the last two but will be alarmed if these don't get substantially faster over the next month or so - I shouldn't slow down by more than a minute on something this short in just one year.

Commute plus dropping in on aquatic center on the way home.

Not quite a sustained 4 effort. Listened to two of David Levine's podcasts - Otakon sounds rather fun - lots of Tsui Hark films, among others. I didn't realise the otaku concept stretched to kung fu film fandom - maybe in Japan it doesn't but more things get lumped in with the core interest in manga and anime over here to reach critical mass for holding conventions.

Edit: actually, it seems the term in Japanese also applies to any obsessive interest, with manga and anime only being the most common combination (maybe far the most common). That's what I get for relying on manga to learn the meaning of Japanese slang.

Commute.

Commute.

Jog in Rock Creek Park starting at 8pm, still pretty oppressive. Welcome to summer in DC (though this was nothing to what we expect on Wednesday).

Home from the airport after dropping off rental car.

Non-Metro parts of getting to and from Lake Needwood and then going to the airport to pick up rental car.

Hunting for wavyleaf basketgrass at Lake Needwood. Sadly, my hunt was successful - in fact, I stumbled across the first patch in less than a minute perhaps 30 meters from where I first started into the woods. Fortunately, I didn't continue to find my prey at such a torrid pace but I found enough, in two clusters, to make the prospect of trying to get it all (including the patches I didn't find but that likely, extrapolating from this search, exist) pulled before it goes to seed daunting.

Commute.

Normal intensity parts of commute and getting to and from PCRM.

Untimed time trial on CCT on the way to PCRM.

Commute plus getting to and from A meet planning meeting slightly outside the Beltway.

Commute.

Commute.

Same short route as last run in RCP, at a slightly higher effort level.

Home from National after dropping off rental car.

Ride to National Airport.

DC Front Runners Pride Run 5K - Online registration closes Thursday, June 5, 11:59 pm. - note for future, the race was sold out by June 2 (no idea how much earlier - June 2 is when I checked)

Commute and visit to aquatic center.

Easy pool running session.

Commute plus most of trip to PCRM then home.

Ugh, very slow ride up the CCT - no power in legs.

Commute.

Early evening jog in Rock Creek Park.

Commute.

Commute.

Event: QOC Jug Bay
 

QOC Beer Chase Blue - made it around first loop mostly just a little behind Ken and Dan Quinn and just ahead of Mike Berry, Eddie having missed slightly to the left on the first control and not caught up thereafter. Lost sight of Ken just before the end of the loop and never saw him again while Dan, doing Red, split off and I apparently lost Mike around the 3rd control on the second loop - presumably I pulled away just enough on the long leg to 3 that he was able to completely independently make a big mistake on the short leg to 4. Saw Eddie on his way to the 2nd loop go control as I started on my third loop so figured I was in serious danger of being run down but he was apparently, as a protest of sorts, taking a 3 minute penalty each loop rather than do the rather tame/lame obstacle that had been inserted at the end of each loop just before the drinking. Maybe best to keep the event purely orienteering and drinking, though it might have been fun to insert some test of skill analogous to making a basketball three-pointer (say something with a bushel basket and tennis balls - or a long put at a disc golf target) that would have been hard enough to do just after running while affected by alcohol (or not) to make it at least possible the penalty would be quicker (particularly if you were allowed to study the map during the penalty).

Blue - Splits