Training Log Archive: jtorranc

Event: QOC: Fountainhead
 

CSU A meet - classic distance. 415 m of climb? Really? Even with the heat, significant even with me being one of the earliest starters, I can't say it felt like I climbed anything like that much. A very good day technically and a good day physically as well resulted in easily the best race relative to my peers I can remember having in rocky glacial terrain. Not sure why this was so much better than West Point, though better recovery between races, better acclimation to heat, and being able to relax somewhat on the many parts of legs on which it made sense to use the trail network rather than having to maintain continuous focus from start to end of long legs are some candidate explanations. The results are quite reminescent of the long at last fall's Ontario Champs - me in the mid 80s, second around 90 and the rest of the field starting another four or five minutes back of that - but it's much easier to be happy now since the results look like that because I ran a good race rather than because I underperformed what should have been possible by much less than the rest of the field. Though it is hard to say just how much of an advantage my relatively early start may have been on this occasion. I tend to think it might account for a few minutes compared to later starters on purely physical grounds but the extent to which heat stress may have induced technical errors strikes me as unknowable.

Sunday Blue (raw) - Splits

Sunday Blue - Splits

Event: CSU Pine Hill A-meet
 

CSU A meet - middle preliminary. Not bad aside from 3 controls. I believe clean would have been fast enough for second but not even close to Boris' winning time.

CSU A meet - middle final. Fumbled about somewhat on 3 and 4 and then enormously on 5, getting caught by both Clem and Ken so we could fumble a bit more together. Just had Clem in sight as I left 6 and chased him down en route to 7. Tried to run away from him for the rest of the race. Might have finally succeeded in getting out of sight if I hadn't been a bit low on control 14, first looking at the foot of the larger cliff below the control feature, though I had no chance of getting further ahead of him than he'd started behind me unless I both got away and he then made a big mistake. Still, managed to navigate well enough and run well enough despite the heat to manage third place.

Saturday Blue Semi - Splits

Saturday Blue Final - Splits

Cycling to work.

Cycling to work and back.

Round trip to aquatic center.

Hungarian lesson 15 and finishing up with Prokofiev and Shostakovich in The Rest is Noise before my battery got too low as a survey of the American classical music scene under FDR began. Had to finish the workout without entertainment.

Interesting - the built-in Chrome spell checker is fine with "Prokofiev" but has a problem with "Shostakovich". I wonder what spelling of his name it considers standard.