Training Log Archive: jtorranc

Event: QOC: Great Falls, MD
 

Complete mini-Japanese film series with Fine, Totally Fine at the Freer at 2pm. Tightish timing - will have to arrive early and won't be able to linger after the QOC Great Falls event.

Cycling along the C&O canal out to Great Falls, then back to town from there to see Fine, Totally Fine at the Freer Gallery (most utterly charming film I can remember seeing all year), plus home from there late in the evening after meeting up with my parents after the film.

Riding out to Great Falls was definitely somewhat higher effort than level 2 since there is no justice in the universe and I faced very strong headwinds heading out which subsided into much weaker tailwinds on the way home. Lest any think that was an illusion, I saw a lot of leaves being blown across ice on the canal surface on the way out but none on the way back.

QOC Great Falls Advanced course - I don't recall for certain whether I've ever won an O race by 1 second before. Just barely - Eddie apparently took six seconds out of my lead running in the 125 meters from the go control. Lovely terrain with great runnability and visibility and much lovely contour detail to run through and look at - so nice to get back into even something verging on half the mapped terrain after our exclusion these past few years. No big errors but off to the left twenty to thirty meters a couple of times (9,11) and had one near crisis of second guessing standing above a reentrant looking up and down the whole thing and not seeing the bag due to a tree in the way (5) - fortunately wasn't silly enough to actually leave and check out other reentrants without going down into it for a better look. I wonder if Sam intentionally used relatively faded bags.... not really plausible given that they were mostly in numerical sequence, unless he started swapping numbers between the available bags. Pretty sure none of them had any blue, at least - probably just as well to avoid making things too easy given the awesome visibility. Though Sam did about as good a job as possible of planning legs on which one couldn't simply see the bag from 200 meters away on the optimal route.

C • Great Falls 6

Advanced - Splits

Grave of the Fireflies, 2pm, also at the Freer Gallery. A very restful day physically.

The Mourning Forest at the Freer Gallery - not actually going to make it to this as it turns out :(

Cycling to work then home by way of the aquatic center.

Did Pimsleur Hungarian lesson two and the first part of lesson three again and the remainder of lesson three plus lesson four for the first time. Can now exchange pleasantries about nationality, what languages people speak and how well, the weather and where streets and squares happen to be in relation to myself and my interlocutors.

C • very good 2

Cycling commute.

Ran home through Rock Creek Park. This time I seem to have frightened all the deer away since I saw nary a one but it was a banner night for wildlife sightings as I came upon a beaver on land about 50 meters north of the district line (got within a couple of meters, it was that close to the path which was hugging the creek's edge pretty well at that point) and a little later, inside the District, a large owl flew across my path just over head height about 10 meters ahead of me.

Cycling to work and back.

Home by way of the Silver Spring TPSS.

Warmup/cooldown.

Silly walks and 8 hill sprints.

Abdominal stuff while watching Prison Break.