Training Log Archive: jtorranc

Pig Classic - second behind quite an impressive race for someone complaining of a "general lack of fitness" from feet. Tentative on first control, sloppy on second, hit some surprisingly nasty vegetation and noticed I'd neglected to finish tieing my shoelaces properly once I arrived at the start on the way to third. Things improved after that though I got muddled on the way to the fifth control after crossing the road- in my defense, the course setter says the area would have been his top priority for additional map updating. Can't blame that for not planning ahead better to not have to run an unnecessary hundred meters or so to find a dry crossing of a stream on the long leg. Didn't quite feel like as good a race physically as the long at Umstead two weeks before but still a pretty good effort. Happy to not have blown up on any of 16 through 18. Enjoyed this and wish some QOC maps had as much negative topography per unit area in our ridge and valley terrain as was featured in parts of this course.

Had one hard fall that brought me within about six inches of looking like Peter Gagarin after his face's trail race accident. Also, a Dan sighting I wasn't too focused to realise at the time was a Dan sighting about two thirds of the way through the long leg.

Blue - Splits

Pig French Park Sprint - third despite really spectacularly bad (from posted splits ~1:50 or slightly more) blowup on first control and on the order of 15 seconds lost on eighth control by not aiming off far enough right heading to the ditch through the green.

Pig Burnet Woods sprint - first in a race with easier navigation and what felt, despite only 10 more meters according to the clue sheet, like a lot more climb. Won by enough to take the day overall with some questionable route choices but no major nav errors. Silliest mistake was not going to the trail or road just uphill of 5 to head towards 6 but instead heading off directly through the woods. Not that they weren't really nice woods for the first stretch but I'm sure my route was at least 20 seconds worse. Came close to making a big parallel error on 11 after crossing the road. Headed to the left to get to the go control, not initially certain whether to go around just the first wooded area and through the second or around both of them. Ended up going around both but it looks to me as though it would have been better to have backtracked to the road west of the lake and run along it most of the way - need to be more open to seeing doglegs that make sense while running.

Dan and I went to the Cincinnati Ballet performance downtown in the evening - three pleasant enough pieces, two by the artistic director and one by Balanchine, then a quite good reconstruction of a piece by Leonide Massine, a flat-out terrific piece to music by Shostakovich based on two ethnically divided lovers in Sarajevo during the Balkan conflicts, and a better than feared/actually quite good premiere to Bolero by the artistic director.

Sprint 3 (Blue/Red) - Splits

Sprint 3 (Blue/Red) - Splits

Event: Flying Pig XI
 

Pig Middle - second, with many small to medium sized failures to spike various controls and one massive parallel error (from splits currently posted, at least 3.5 minutes) on 17.

Blue - Splits

Commute in loaded with the remainder of my clothes, etc. for the weekend in Indiana and Ohio.

Commute in with the first bag of stuff to take to the Pig with me when I head to the airport lashed to my rear rack. Home by way of the Avalon to see Rok Dabla (Year of the Devil), a very bemusing film. With cooler music than I had appreciated just from Dan playing the soundtrack album.

Work commute.

Warmup/cooldown.

Time to revive silly walks, etc. - them, 6x100m strides and two passes of bounding up a gentle slope. Have decided, given the recent and soon to come frequency of sprint races and vetting that I should perhaps hold off on intervals for a bit longer but it does seem time to mix in something besides LSD, DWR and O races.

Work commute in and home by way of the pool.

Mostly kicking to begin the workout.

Then deep water running until it was time to head home before 24 started.

Abdominal exercises while watching 24.

The hamstring exercises again.