Training Log Archive: bgallup

doubled down on the fresh pondage this morning

Event: NEOC: Nobscot
 

I was real curious about how people did the longer leg of the first fork at the WM5D farsta. It was common to all three courses that day, and here's everybody who put up a GPX. If it was their second leg, they get a (*) next to their name.



I wasn't super happy with my route choice - it was a byproduct of trying to hard to get a jump out of the start. A few of the fast guys went that way too (biggins, Clem), but at the time I didn't know they had the same leg, and I peeled off at the trail where they went straight. While it definitely wasn't the best, I did pass the same point that the fast guys did, maybe a minute out. Certainly helped that there was a train of people on that line, though. Zacleipyr took the same route as I, just after a 4min map exchange break for water, I assume.

I kinda like the flash better, but here's the youtube one for phonies

Red at Nobscot

Decent run, and I'm happy with it. Nice day out in the woods, despite the foreboding morning weather. Realized that O could be in the cards at 10:30, in Gloucester, booked it to Cambridge to grab my stuff. and punched the start at 12:05ish.

Didn't really feel on point through much of this race, lot of little bobbles and didn't really ace too many controls. Wasted a lot of speed from 3-8 or so - was with a much smarter person moving more slowly at each control. Sure they got a great view of me doofusing my way to the next control, again and again. Felt pretty staccato throughout, and not particularly top-speedy.

Took a few object lessons to learn that navigating by faint trails in nobscot is a bad idea - they're under solid leaf cover and many are easy to cross or pass at a junction and not realize it.

In retrospect, kinda beat the crap out of myself today. Booted a leaf-covered rock midtrail and went down hard - and then had a lot of extra boulders on my map. Surprised it doesn't hurt more, which probably isn't a good sign. Chased by a pair of large angry offleash dogs on the way to 10. Managed to jab my achilles with something (same foot), - didn't know you could funnybone your feet. Found a tick pre-shower - smaller than most dog ticks, but not so small that I think it's a deer tick. Had bitten, but wasn't really embedded. Got the head out intract, and it didn't leave a mark. That, and my fingerstick elastic band was way too tight, and the tip of my finger was asleep most of the ride home.

Got one of those doofy GUTR sweat-troughs I saw at WM5D. Looks stupid, has a stupid name, works great.

reverse pickup of yellow. hope that guy on brown had actually hit four before i harvested it!

Red - Splits

A better test. 720p is at least an option, but I haven't figured out how to force it. Did manage to kill the titlebar and the recommended videos, though. And I bet it comes out heinously letterboxed on your favorite i-device.

This is a leg from Day 2 of the WM5D shared by Blue, Red, and GreenX. The two obvious choices were the Over The Top versus contouring to the right. I tend to favor brute force and ignorance, and went with the former - seems like most people did, including split victor z-man. I didn't have the confidence to execute on what speedy did, but that was what I considered. Bonus hazard includes a potentially deceptive vague trail on the contour route.

whee! running a little late (ha?) and didn't feel like pacing myself. Running and I are officially friends now.

23:10 5k pace, 2:40 recovery

Event: CSU Park-O 7: Franklin Park
 

Farsta QR. Red forks first, purple second. Click through to embiggen.


There's some red quickroutin' in them thar hills. Grizzled WM5D Farsta vet looking to cook up your own QR from those pesky separate maps? See this for a how-to.

some pretty craptacular bouldering, followed by top-notch slacklining, and then a decent job girdling the supercave and the north wall. legs were feeling the morning's run much more than i expected, but that's no excuse for the hands.

and the nipples were chafed. that sucked. didn't notice it all day, definitely noticed it climbing. yee-ouch. time for more fabric softener?

come to think of it, i have pretty a good tough-guy excuse for my hands. ak-47 burns. i heart NH. live free or die!

C • Chafing 4

felt good and was keeping the pace/HR honest, so i strung it out another mile. might try two laps in the near future. little faster than usual for the HR
27:14 5k pace, 1:50 recovery
if this were an actual easy/long pace, vdot's 48.3 and projected 5k is 20:32

C • Morning runs 2