Training Log Archive: bgallup

Morning lap around fresh pond. planned on a second, remembered, right at the end of the first, that i had a meeting in lowell at 10. made it, barely.

Event: CSU Park-O Finale: Pine Banks
 

Atlas Mandatory Corporate Fun Day at F1 Outdoors. 9HP Rima go karts, two 8 lap qualifiers and a 10 lap race. Second place to Eddie by ~15s over the whole course. Third was a ways back. HR tells an interesting story - the first and second races had some passing action and higher HR, third race had me and eddie break off the front early and just gradually settle into our grooves. my best lap was 58.575, eddie's was 58.230. course record is "a high 56". probably set by some 95 pound kid.


turn 1: NE hairpin, toughest turn on the track. one of two points requiring braking. lots of sliding, thus time lost
turns 2-5 N chicane, easy.
turn 6: right hander, late apex. i'd say i only did ok, but i made time on the others here
turn 7: left hander, easy
turn 8: left onto the straight - i lifted here, apparently eddie was gassing it.
turn 9: left at the end of the straight - again, i lifted a little where eddie gassed it.
turn 10: late apex left, good
turn 11: easy right
turn 12: my turn. early apex righthand hairpin. picked up most of my passes here.
turn 13-14: slight left, easy right, nothing much.

for the last race:
laps 1-2 were breaking away
laps 3-6 were real clean, but no moreso than eddie. uncanny how little the gap changed, even with solid driving
laps 7-10 lost maybe 15-25ft per lap to small mistakes as i tried more aggressive lines. bah.

also, eddie was in car 20 all day. and i came in second in two different cars. just sayin'. and i have 30+ lbs on him. also just sayin'.

Pine Banks Chase. Fourth best time overall, 9th overall chase finish. Matt Gardner-Spencer did a great job not letting me get him on the final uphill sprint. The jerk. Had the same exact start time as Ed.

1) Nailed it, following ed
2) Ugly exit but okay (5s), a few seconds behind ed, but navigating independently
3) Good, passed ed
4) Good, passed katia, dean, a few others
5) Took the marginally longer route, but good. caught up to mika, dave
6) good
7) good
8) hesitant leaving the yellow, confused. hesitant near the pin. (20s) still 5-10s up on ed. lead in by others.
9) went too low, too fight-y. in retrospect, making uphill for the trail would have been best. shit-ton of broken glass south/downslope of the control (hard to say, 20s?). solo
10) filleted my hand on a hard fall. was on-line, then followed giovanni because he's smarter, right? wrong. (25s), with giovanni and jim p.
11) again, followed giovanni, too far past the turnoff. lesson learned. (25s)
12) fine, soloish, 10s+ behind giovanni
13) fine, ditto, little further behind
14) fine, ditto
15) kind of on autopilot. took a bad route choice, and too the said bad trail a little too far. dropped the map vaulting the cemetary wall. biffed it at the end into the wrong marshy area (10s, 10s, 10s). 10s behind matt
16) dropped the hammer. not quite enough. gotta work on uphill fastitude. should've started hitting it earlier in hopes of wearing him out.

2:15 accumulated benalty time. you know, the penalty for being ben. good race, beat a lot of people i've been gunning for (ari, mgb, pia, katia), but i can't take too much credit. lot of community assists here, especially from ed. i'd like to thank the academy, basically. all-in-all, really tons of fun. i heart chases.

Advanced - Splits

I think I'm going to sign up for a 5k. Not that I can't find 5k of distance out my front door, I just think the experience would be, dare i say, a hoot. And the unending string of people to pass and be-passed-by-then-revenged will make for some serious go-fast. that, or serious bonkage.

Eyeballin' the plymouth run to the rock (september 8th) or the l street running club's one in dorchester (july 19th). no gun required!

also, extra-excited for the csu parko final tomorrow.

adequate bouldering, excellent slacklining. did the starting move of a lot of tough topropes. campused the start of that jug-haul 5.10 in the superwall. looks like it's going to get cleaned soon, which makes me sad. probably my favorite climb in the gym

boppin along in the rain. looked like too much for the garmin, but would've been fine. some fun mud-gility training on the lower loop

a quick exploratory venture to find (what i thought was) the biggest hill around.

not everything i had hoped for. i was hoping for a test piece that i could see improvement on - like any of my beloved hills from the Berkeley area. I really miss biking out there. The terrain, traffic, weather, and road conditions were so absurdly better out there. I could go on but... well, the scenery was better, too.

Also, the stop sign on the descent was a total buzzkill. jerks, killing my had-earned fun.. And speaking of fun, next blizzard, i'm bringing my rock skis to that hill. assuming we get a winter this time around.

also also, first time i've been biking since picking up running. it was news to me to realize how much harder it is to keep your HR up on a bike, what with all that pesky mechanical advantage and rolling. even cranking up the steepest parts wasn't redlining the ol' ticker. guess i have to big-ring it next time?

C • HR on bikes 5

C • Glorious steepness 2

Event: NEOC: Houghton's Pond
 

Setting a fistful of yellow and orange controls. Fun exercise to find where the control should be, as opposed to where it is. Broad re-entrants are tough.

I remember seeing someone's online-iphone-orienteering solution that graded you on how close you got to the control - i think it'd be more fun to drop a pin and be graded on exactly where you think it is. and i say this as someone that will, well, occasionally get near a control without knowing. bonus, if you're way off, you could get set straight. and penalized for the pleasure.

C • Training 3

Walking orange with the Mother, the Brother, and the honorary Sister, by law. Hacked up to compensate for bad watch management. Fun was had!

craptacular gong show. bah. and the damn model of inconsistency. second place through four controls, and then lost the plot. feh. somehow managed find time for two more decent splits in my busy, catastrophe-packed schedule.

found three tick nymphs after the shower. tiny little bastards, they are.

and my left IT band is jacked up. no pain throughout the range of motion when unloaded, unless i really twist my foot inwards. sharp pain for the last little bit of extension when under load. like holding up a motorcycle at a stoplight. that was friggin' delightful to discover. feels fine right now, but i'm high on vitamin I at the moment. gonna skip tomorrow's run.

Orange - Splits

Green - Splits