Training Log Archive: dave_k

us champs greenX, totally bombed first control, went straight, sort of along S side of swamp to road, then to road intersection, and thought i had a good line to control but botched it bad, made 2 tries at it, relocated back to road and ran E to linear reentrant and sort of N to control i think it was +/- 6 min error, just wasn't focused or concentrating, mind was wandering about songs, food, cheese, my calf, my hamstring, jumbo magnifiers, etc., got really pissed off and hauled ass to 2 and spiked it, 3 was fair, then bombed 4, since i couldn't run straight and had to curve a bit around swamp i ran right past the control, came back and still couldn't find it, ran till i could see 3 then walked to 4 and found it, probably 4+ min error. so once again i was super pissed off, so i was trying to run hard to make up for mucho lost time, got my act together and ran everything straight , which is all i can do, missed running N up to road from 10 to 11 (which was faster) i opted to run straight. overall was satisfied w/ result but seem to make 2 mistakes on each race that dooms me, only lost about 30 sec to joe b, from 4th to finish, so that was good. need to learn how to use dem der maps and that thing called a compass and figure out how this orienteering game works.

Long - Green X - Splits

us sprint champs green#4 course, i really don't like sprints at all, don't often do them, but this one was great, i had alot of fun. was slow into 5 went around the building and wasn't sure where i was for several seconds, but when running to 5 it sure looked like 6 was to the rt, or west so i ran to it, but the code was wrong.... the 6 was really a 9 on the map which i was looking at upside down, so i think it cost me 1.5 min or so, then later made a stupid blunder and tried to go from 15 to 16 thru the green, thought i could take a few giant steps thru but it was slow and lost time, so ended up 6th. overall i really liked this event.

Sprint - Green - Splits

3880m , pace 2:11/500m actually felt pretty good, would have been a bit faster, but was messing with ipod early on.

nearly all leg stuff. back to winter training, f-ing snowing today thanks cleveland, plus biggest client called late last week, needing emergency tile repairs, so yesterday was 15.5 hrs finishing a bathroom remodel and the grunt of demo/prep at the school. same today but not as long, but this's all i had time for. tomorrow is doubtful as well, ugh.

took n back to kent, stopped at virginia kendall, started at 5:40pm. easy pace bopping all around park, spent time in the small "floodplain" in northern part, there's stuff messed up on the map, boulders missing, boulders to be added, lines are retarded in a couple areas. too full to run fast, tired from previous couple days, probably visited +/- 45 spots.