Training Log Archive: bishop22

Event: 2011 US Classic Championships
 

Day 1 Red - Splits

Webster Park during XC Camp. The kids were doing 30 min of fartlek (all groups) - 50% harder; 50 easier, but I wound up without a group. I ran some hard-ish stretches, but mostly easy in deference to this weekend's races.

Some core and all the hip flexor exercises.

Couldn't get out at lunch when I was slapped with a 12:30 meeting, mid-morning. So, I stepped out at 4 and that gave me 40 minutes to run at Whiting Road before my tee time. Did Orange, clockwise to Red - White - Big Woods to just past the marsh turn and back to the lot - had to add 2 minutes.

Started out with an epic performance - even after 5 holes, including a bird on 10 which is quite long (almost made the water in 2). My 6th hole was #12 and I hit the green, but 3-putted for a bogey. 3-putted for a bogey on 13 as well. Then the wheels came off and I finished with 8-8 for a 46. Played 2 more holes with par-bogey, which would have been nice to have been the 8th and 9th holes.

Running with the second group at XC Camp. We did 3 x 5 min T in the middle. I chased Adam on the first two, but traded places with nate on the last one and led David, Alex the Swimmer and Brian. The second and third were doing the Blue/Red loop at Whiting.

C • How 3

8 strides

Some Core, but mostly hip stuff.

Short run in Greece before Luke's tournament championship game. They knocked off the other Penfield team, 7-4, for the title.

Tough going early because of the heat and heavy legs, but I picked it up to MP for about 0.9 miles up a slight incline along Latta.

Finished up with 6 strides (not mapped).

Zach and I drove down to Mendon Ponds, after Luke's "Champion Sundae" - "free" ice cream for sitting thru a couple of hours of Penfield Little League awards. Luke got a plaque for making all-stars and a medal for the "Coaches' Choice" award.

We saw feet crossing the small field by Hopkins Point as we drove in.

Zach ran the old Orange course from our A-Meet a couple of years ago, while I tried to run the Green course from May 2010. I say tried, since it was after 8pm when we started and the darkness settled in quickly, so I got about 5-6 controls in. I was trying out my new glasses that nate brought back from Finland. They are like bi-focals without the top half. They were great for reading the map on the run (until it got darkish), but no so great for running on the run. I didn't realize how much I used my bottom "peripheral" vision to avoid stuff on the forest floor and with the glasses on, that all becomes a blur, so I stumble if I don't look almost straight down.

It will be a difficult choice on whether to wear them this weekend - I am worried that if there is heavy fern coverage, as advertised, I may have trouble avoiding stuff hidden in the ferns. Actually, I guess it's not difficult: I just went and checked and the Red/Blue maps are 1:15, so I will absolutely need the glasses!

C • Zach's log? 7

C • Sorry feet didn't wave 1

This is the remainder of the run that was mostly trail running in the dark coming back from near the sanctuary or whatever.