Training Log Archive: bishop22

COC Sprint at U of Saskatoon. Had trouble getting into the map early on, so Mike Smith made up a minute just after C3. Lost contact with him when he beat a couple of cars to a road crossing on the way to 4, and I had to wait for one of them. The heat was tough and I was a bit tired from a late night and traveling, so I didn't run particularly fast, but it was not a bad performance overall.

It actually turned out that Zach ran a faster per km time than I did. He won his age group in 11:40-ish, 2nd was over 17. Nate was 3rd - had a couple of poor route choices that put him over a minute behind Andrew, who was slightly behind the winner. They'll have their work cut out for them tomorrow.

8 minutes before the race, 6 minutes after.

5 - Splits

As usual, the last day of work before vacation was quite busy, so I had to go get fingerprinted at lunchtime, instead of getting an easy run in.

89, but with stretches of solid play (highlight - bird on #3).

Off today, real easy tomorrow, and off to Saskatoon on Friday. Someone should be at the airport to pick me up at 1:42pm, so I can make it to my 4:06pm start, right Walt?

Oh - the results from the Night-O that Nate and Zach did (quite well) are here:
http://www.coc2007.ca/coc2007_results.html

Went off the first tee at 5:35, behind 4 slow women, so I was just going to play 9 holes, but they let me thru on 5, I birdied 6 to go 1-under, another group let me thru on 7 (gave the stroke back), and it was clear sailing ahead, I made par on 8, bogey on 9 for a 36, so I had to go on.

I was sure I had my first sub-80 round coming, thru 14 holes, but I had an epic choke - put up a snowman on 15 and 4-putted on 16, and wound up with an 83. Very disappointing, but my play is very promising. I only had 1 drive shorter than 245 and hit 8 of 12 fairways (missed both fairways when I used my 4-wood), only 13 putts on the front (but 20 on the back).

4:09/8:22
1:31,33,32,31,31
3:28,26

Probably last swim until I return from my western swing.

XC camp at Webster Park. Ran with the advanced girls plus Dan. We did 20 minutes, then each of the 7 led for a 3 min fartlek session, then back.

Up the river to the 2.5 mile mark (UR X-walk), turned around and at 24 minutes (a little before McLean), I started 8 x (1 minute hard/1 easy). Did this up McLean-Mt Hope-Linden-Goodman-Clinton, then easy Alexander-Monroe-around back of Strong Museum-cut thru streets to Gibbs and in.

Ran the hard stretches at 400m Rep pace or better.

Birdied #4 to get back to even, but was +4 after 8, then the wheels came off. Tripled 9, 10, 11, and never regained focus - 92.

Event: Canadian Championships 2007 Saskatchewan
 

ODR: Kreag-Ayrault-End-31-Victor-Bluhm-Thayer-Steele-across Turk-Garnsey & in. Found Jane lost in the housing development across from Steele, and showed her one correct right turn, but followed her past the next right turn to a dead end, so I added about 1/2 mile to the published route. Popped out onto Garnsey just as Vinny was coming by, having gone around the development, and ran in with him. Nice after being alone from mile 2 to 10+. I fell off the lead pack on the way to 22:46 at 3 miles (they were close to 22). I was 46:12 at 6 (23:26), then about 72:29 (26:16) at 9, which included Bluhm hill. 40:37 for the last 5.1.

Walt & Nate called from Deadwood, SD last night at 11:30, where they were camping on the way to Saskatoon. Sounds like the trip started off fine.

C • Nate's O Event 2

Course was closed for Couples Invitational - poor planning on my part - so I spent 55 minutes on the range: 64 shots, then about 50 chips.