Training Log Archive: jtorranc

Jog/walk uphill to start of NAOC Day 2.

NAOC Day 2 Blue. Decent but not great day physically again. Biggest miss was 14 (right number?) which was supposed to be a short distance almost due north of one of the water controls on the trail on the way to it - I think the water was misplaced maybe 30 meters east of where it was drawn on the map.

M21/Blue Day 2 - Splits

Jog/walk uphill to start of NAOC Day 1.

NAOC Day 1 Blue. Felt fairly good though not great physically. Standout error was the control on the marsh in the vague area. Tried going in the right distance from the trail on a pace count and then turning right parallel to the trail to hit it. Failed, presumably by coming up short on the pace count. Muffed my rough compass to the next one as well but for nothing like the same amount of damage.

M21/Blue Day 1 - Splits

NAOC model event - totally guessing at time since my watch went AWOL in Algeria. Very steep and soft slopes and a vegetation mapping standard of either subtlety or inconsistency beyond my grasp.

Jogged about half of the model event in reverse to cool down and get a better look at things.

On getting home, a jogging warmup, cooldown and rests between a few opening and closing strides and a couple of moderately fast repeats of maybe 800m, all on grass. All intended to remind my legs there's such a thing as turnover after a couple of weeks without any fast running. Very humid.

Back from Algeria (10 days of much work, brief daily swims and all of two workouts involving light jogging and running form exercises on the beach so my body wouldn't forget it has legs); back to the usual commute and putting my metabolism back on a war footing.

I really need to do some running training again. Also, my left knee has been feeling worse and it emerged yesterday that work will be taking me to Algeria (fine) leaving on Day 1 of Back to Harriman (ferociously unfine). It being past any hope of refund, I guess I'll end up asking HVO to mail me the maps. Maybe buy some other maps and put together a personal training weekend sometime in June.

At least I'll get to test rest as a solution to my aching knee - if my other visit to Algeria was any guide, swimming will be the only available form of exercise.

West Point Blue 2 - wet, cooler. Felt better physically as speed was now limited more by terrain and navigation than by purely physical factors. Not that that didn't add up to a fairly severe limitation. Wandered a lot on the way to 1 and avoided major errors thereafter though I actually overran the trail junction west of 5 and nearly didn't catch myself and turn around in time before major damage was done.

Blue - Splits

West Point Blue 1 - felt awful physically but that was quite evenhanded. Missed 1 for maybe 40 seconds getting into the map and then was tentative and stupidly not making enough effort to minimise punching through green but clean until 10. Blew up on 10 for seven or eight minutes worth - should have followed the line of distinct cliffs to the right of the direct line and attacked from an unmistakable one of them rather than go up the rocky reentrant in which I soon lost map contact. Second relocation attempt succeeded. Then clean but tentative (and tiring) again to the end, though route choice to 14 was poor - should have gone directly south downhill to trail through white rather than staying high and heading west first.

Blue - Splits