Training Log Archive: R Anderson

oman, left leg is suuper sore. On th bright side, my right ankle, aside from a little stiffness, feels good.

Ankle still feeling very tender in the morning. Contemplated not running, or jogging the Red. But decided to give it a chance again, tape it up and see how far I could get on Blue.

Tape job looked pretty retarded but it worked. Also did quite the duct tape job on my right shoe which held it together nicely. Warmup was worrisome with a 12.8km 600m climb race looming and barely being able to run over the rocky trail to the start.

Very easy from the start, caught up and passed Giovanni at 5, then he passed me back on the rocky descent to 9. Tucked in behind him on the long rocky trail run to 10. Pretty much a Sunday morning jog up to this point. Stayed with Giovanni until 12 where I got ahead on the uphill. To my surprise, my ankle was starting to feel better, and so I started to push a bit on the uphills. Up to 15, despite the slow pace, I made many mistakes, which I blame partially on the fact that I was focusing more on my footing then on the map.

After the butterfly loop, things changed considerably. A swiss guy Michael, caught up to me at 18 or so, and I stuck with him throughout the next loop. My pace had definetly quickened, although I was still slow and very cautious on the downhills.

The highlight of this race for me was from 25 to the finish. On 25 and 27 I managed to lose Michael on the big climbs up to the controls, although he caught me back to 26 on the big discent down the road. To my surprise I had the fastest splits on 25 and 27 out of the B loop guys.

Even under the circumstances, I really enjoyed this race. Cruising along with the other runners was a lot of fun, and I take this to be good mental training for the crowded forests of Sweden. Physically I felt much better than West Point. I proved to myself that my shape is good, and I look forward to showing this at some point.

Blue B Long - Splits

Event: 2010 US Team Trials for WOC
 

Very surprised at how thick the woods were, and how hard the running was. Made small mistakes on the majority of controls, mainly close to or in the circle. A hard race to jump into after not running in harriman for a while.

Only the last string of controls from 17 onwards felt good. My shape felt great, but I couldnt really put it to use in the technical terrain. Right shoe totally fell apart by the end of the race...

EFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFf

...Since my Integraters were destroyed after the middle I had to run back to the campsite to get my backup pair of shoes. Unfortunately I'd only remembered to do this with 30min to my start, so I had to rush over. On my way I rolled my ankle on a rock. At the time I hoped it was one of those ones that you can just run off, but it was worse than that.

Got back to the start, and decided I'd give myself a chance in the hope that adrenaline or the advil would kick in and I could run normally. But that wasnt really the case. Was hobbling right off the start, and limped my way around the whole course, constantly feeling the ankle with every pronation on a rock. My left leg got quite the workout.

Was frustrating since I felt like I had so much in me and I just couldnt move any faster. Was running so slow that the navigation was easy, although made a mistake at the end by not looking at the map and thinking that everyone had to go around the far end of the fence.

Blue Middle - Splits

Blue Sprint - Splits

no time to go a bit longer. 10min warm up and cool down, and 5min of sprints. Hopefully tuned up for tomorrow...

40min + 20 plyo

Was up late last night so wasn't able to get up early enough this morning to go for my run. Jammed in the two sessions back to back, which wasn't ideal...

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Intensity this morning, so just took it really easy tonight. Stefan set really good courses though in the tricky path network area, so I had to be careful regardless of slow pace.