Training Log Archive: jtorranc

Event: QOC Quantico Hangman
 

QOC Hangman Tree Blue - happier with this result - winning will do that - though my time lost in the split analysis is greater. Legitimately messed up being insufficiently cautious on 5, then on 6 there was enormously more and thicker deadfall obstructing my chosen route than the map indicated. Also had a stab at making a parallel error attacking 13, losing time going all the way down to the west end of the gully because the 'ditch' above that was incredibly shallow and, somehow not having seen the control at its west end, I couldn't bring myself to believe it was the mapped ditch until I'd gone and looked at the actually ditch-like thing I could see further east/downhill. I see, looking at the splits for the whole field, that AJ would have had me by a minute or so if not for his encounter with concertina wire somewhere on the way to 13. And, for perspective, the best American in the same terrain last November did a 1.3 km longer course about 10 minutes faster.

Woods equally lovely and weather equally glorious as the day before. Only slightly more than half the climb as well, which does wonders for making one feel like one is mostly flying through the woods.

A bit disappointed in one aspect of the course design - the family of near-optimal routes on the first leg clearly all involved more than a kilometer of nearly mindless running along a road when it would have been easy to set a much more interesting leg through the awesome woods

Blue - Splits

Event: QOC Fountainhead Central
 

QOC Fountainhead Blue - a glorious fall day in the beautiful woods, steep though they may often be. Not sure why I was as far back of AJ in particular as I was - I wasn't perfectly clean but neither was I making big mistakes. Route choices on a couple of the longer legs may have been suboptimal enough to matter, even if not enough to show up as errors in AP split analysis. No matter - not worth obsessing over.

Blue - Splits

Warmup/cooldown.

Silly walks and uphill sprints.

Warmup/running to Cardozo track.

Running intervals - 8,6,8,4 minutes, selected by drawing cards from a deck. Some cards selected calisthenic exercises on various sorts, of which we had three.

Carolyn's last Crawlers workout as she's moving to Tucson next week. Will have to finally send he a friend request in Facebook so I can see what adventures she gets up to out there.

C • Caroline 1

Cooldown lap with the group plus slowly jogging home.