Training Log Archive: jtorranc

Commute lengthened by dropping in on the Foggy Bottom Trader Joe's, where the checkout line once again stretched around 2/3 of the perimeter of the store on the way home.

Event: QOC Lake Needwood
 

QOC Lake Needwood Blue - got the QOC season, the part for orienteers new and old at least, off to a good start with a lovely day and big turnout. Personally, paid a bit of a price for the previous day's 5K (though nowhere near what I would have for a road race) and presumably a bit more for intentionally running without a compass - figure it may be good for me to see how well I can get through the season that way, though I'll have to revert for at least the local event before each A meet I do just to ensure I'm not rusty on compass use when it matters. Also in discovering that the shoes I wore don't mix well with extra heel padding - got some blisters on the back of the heel going as a result, which I may now have to pop. Can probably do without extra heel padding anyway- the apparent case of metatarsalgia I have in my left foot is now easily my leading foot complaint. In any case, all that may account for more than the time Ken (suffering from his own foot troubles at the moment, I believe) beat me by but Eddie was far faster than that - some work remains to be done to regain a respectable level of performance relative to applicable historic standards. Ryan Stasiowski, on a course most of which was quite runner friendly, provided the runner had decent even if not stellar navigation skills, was just over ten minutes back of me with a bit more than that in error time according to AP splits analysis - a fairly encouraging result, fourth overall and slightly ahead of both Ted and Nadim, which I'd have to check to see whether he's ever managed before.

Home from National after dropping off rental car.

Blue - Splits

Bulldog-Eagle 5K Cross Country Race?

Round trip to St Anselm Abbey School for cross country 5K race. Also a round trip to the National Gallery for Jiri Menzel films and a one way trip to National Airport to pick up a rental car.

Bulldog-Eagle Cross Country 5K - fourth, behind the host school's coach, a first year collegiate runner who was a alum of St Albans and other older high school or early college age runner. Won't know actual time until results are online in a day or so.

Other half commute - getting home from work by way of the Freer Gallery to see one of their current literary adaptation film series screenings.

Half commute - walked to Foggy Bottom in the evening to meet Dan and go to Kennedy Center modern dance performance.

Commute. No exercise in evening as I spent most of it sorting donated books at the local branch library to prepare for an upcoming book sale.

Commute.

Silly walks briefly then repeated uphill bounding passes with walking to the bottom recovery until it got dark enough I called it quits.