Training Log Archive: jtorranc

My Sunday morning block vetting assignment.

Felt up to this and I want to do it consistently so a session of one-legged squats to inaugurate my post-US Champs/winter base training phase.

Block vetting my self-assigned seven controls north of and inside the scenic loop road and then part of the block I'd given another vetter in the tricky area north of the advanced start since they had run into serious difficulties with one control. Made it to the download about ten minutes before the first start and waited to breath a sigh of relief until all the other vetters made it in, including the ones covering controls that wouldn't come into play until after 10am.

My personal apologies to all affected runners for failing to imagine that anyone would accidentally place water at the wrong control and therefore failing to explicitly instruct all vetters to verify the accuracy of that specific aspect of the control descriptions. I can't say what proportion of the time I would have been lucky and the vetter checking the controls in question would have noticed the problem but the individual in question was, AFAIK, vetting an A event for the first time (first time in a couple of decades, for sure) and I can't justify blaming them for not focusing on the last column in the control description sheet absent explicit instructions to do so.

Placing ten controls for Sunday's courses in and near the area in which Saturday and Sunday terrain overlapped - a partial exception to my not logging walking pace stuff since the technical complexity was high and I jogged when feasible.

Event: US Champs
 

US Sprint Champs vetting. First checking control placements as we waited for it to be time to wake up the SI units, then a quick tour of roughly a third of the controls to give them their wakeup punches. Am not going to bother logging the walking speed pickup afterwards, on this or any of the next two days.

Picking up more or less the first half of the Saturday white and yellow courses plus a few advanced and intermediate controls.

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

Yet another 10K simulation.

Cycling to work. Home by way of the pool. Some eggs got thrown at me on the way home from the pool while cycling along Georgia Avenue - apparently, Halloween revellers in NE DC love all their neighbours so much they can't find any buildings they're willing to egg. Or they're hooligans with generously, no appreciation of mortality, or, ungenerously, no respect for human life.

Once more without any warmup as I needed to get home and update the vetting plan for the weekend.

One-legged squats with backpack.

Cycling to work. Cool enough I broke out the light winter gloves and the headband I use to prevent my ears freezing while cycling, though still nothing too impressive in the way of cold. Home by way of the aquatic center.

Another 10K rehearsal. No flutterkicking since I wanted to get to a library in time to pick up some items on which my holds were about to expire. Just made it, though I had to knock piteously on the window to get them to let me in since they'd locked the front door somewhat ahead of closing time.

One-legged squats with backpack.

Abdominal exercises.