Training Log Archive: ccsteve

Event: ROC - Webster Park [2012 Series #2]
 

Red at Webster Park, fails left and right...

Not sure how I missed 2 - but am glad to have been witnessed going right by it... I've always wondered how that happened. In hind sight, I think I had a good plan to pass through the area of the control, but no plan to get to the exact location of the control. So when I was there, I wasn't confident I was there - and kept going because if I didn't see the control, I must not be in the right location... [Which means I had a poor attack point...]

Think a similar thing happened again at 10 - I was right at the corner of the electric fence and dialed in. All I had to do was go the last bit. Again I didn't see the control. When spotted headed S, that was because if the control wasn't where it should have been, I was moving along the ridge to find it. I was definitely scanning along the edge of the vegetation line.

The failure at 15 was again the last 100m. I was on a trail, took the cutoff and crossed at an indicated point - perhaps that was not the actual indicated point... I crossed left of where I thought and ended up wasting a lot of time sorting it out.

My troubles at 17 came from confusing an early trail Y with the Y at the control - and the terrain happened to line up with a dry stream bed in about the right position relative to the actual. Again it took much to long to sort it out and get back on track. I think I was frazzled by this point.

On 18 I was fatigued and slow in the heat and wasn't moving at the same speed. I jumped to the right early and wasted time before continuing on.

Definitely not my best outing - and biking over to the park has got to figure in on the fatigued thinking. (but no other choice in the matter)

Red - Splits

An hour before darkness fell...

Recovery for Rachael, just a light outing for me.

Warmup at the track.

2 mile workout for Rachael. I was able to give her a couple comments as we went through it, this is her race pace for the 20k coming this weekend.

2:11.9, 2:10.5, 2:09.8, 2:09.6, 2:07.5, 2:08.9, 2:09.5, 2:06.5.

Recovery walk for Rachael, slow run for me. (but better recovery for me;-)

Discovered I have some referred pain. I was dealing with a pain in my big toe yesterday - sensitive to the light touch, as if it were swollen. Found a web site that indicated two points on the shin that if sore cause that sort of pain - and guess what - pressing around there was painful. (and not on the other leg)

Going to look for a book on that topic;-)

Recovery run with Rachael. 9:16, 9:12, 9:13, 8:36

Since we didn't really speed up, perhaps that last mile is slightly shorter in addition to being mostly downhill...