Training Log Archive: j-man

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10/21 this time. Clear progress. At this rate, assuming the field keeps shrinking, I'll converge on a medal again. Kind of like Zeno.

I was so much better in the last century. I wish I had some results prior to AP.

1996, Ohio, ?
1997, QOC, 3/39 US, 9/45 overall
1998, Teanaway Forks, ?
1999, Spooner Lake, ?
2000, course setter
2001: CNYO, 43/58 overall (injured, buck sucked anyway)
2006: RMOC, 14/25 overall (since I suck at the US Champs, incremental suckitude from altitude seems indiscernible.) ;)
2007: QOC, 15/27 overall
2009: BGR, 10/21 overall

Clearly, one of the big problems of this year's champs was no foreign competitors. Still, the overall numbers were too low notwithstanding.

This year's US Champs were great. Just a wonderful event.

And yet few people got to enjoy it. ~20 eligible finishers in M21? Way less than 10 in F21 and fewer yet in most of the <40 categories.

Not cool.

There were 45 in 2000 and 58 in 2001. Those were at least legitimate.

Clearly, if Ross didn't beat feet, no one else was likely to, so there is no doubt he was the US Champion. But, go a place or two down the list and it starts to get more equivocal.

People who missed this event missed a lot. But, where are these people? And who are they?

Rest day.

US Champs, Day 2, Blue

So, for some reason I thought my arrival time in Boston (~9:00PM) was in fact my departure time from Milwaukee. Therefore, getting to the ticket counter at ~7:00PM should have been fine. Unless, of course, my plane was supposed to leave then, which it was.

So, I missed it. And no other AirTran flights out that night, indeed not really much happening at Milwaukee at all after 7:00PM. I make a half-hearted effort to get another rental car to return to the house, but the only ones available were $45 before tax, so that didn't seem good. So, I resign myself to staying in the airport.

With some TVs showing the Yankees game, it could have been worse.

And then Ian came along, so I would have company.

It would get to be a long, bleary night, but I probably got an hour or two of sleep on the floor, bivouacked between some couches. Nocturnal airport experiences give you a lot of insights into the rhythms of a place.

I also was able to finish the book i purloined from Boris (The Outliers.) Needless to say, greatly disappointed. All these books--NNT's, Gladwell's, etc., are so trite.

The only redeeming thing was the puzzle on page 87, which occupied me for 30 minutes before I derived a satisfactory solution. Of course, with these pattern completion things, conceivably another answer might be derived (couldn't it?) Need to think about that one more.

Anyway, the fact that Malc can cobble an "acclaimed" book together out of these anecdotes (some I will concede are interesting) really makes me inclined to write my own.

Blue Day 2 - Splits

Event: Middlesex Fells Skyline Scramble
 

US Champs
Plymouth, WI

Skyline Scramble, 10AM

A very good warmup, including some active stretching and faster running.

US Champs, Day 1 Blue.

Blue Day 1 US Champs - Splits

Event: US Individual Champs 2009
 

Warmup event. Time is from the hut (start) to the finish (finish circle.)

Felt good running. Took it easy except for one leg after about 50% down.

Made a few mistakes, but found it possible to navigate there without too much trouble.

Did not sleep too much. Went to bed at after 1:30 and got up at 4:45.

Took a nap on the plane and later (about 1 hour) in the parking lot.

Easy run with 4 x 1 minute on (10.5), 1 minute off at around 20 minutes.

This was late in the evening (11ish?)

Easy bike.

Basic circuit.

To the track. Felt so-so. But, it was a nice day.

A nice plyometrics set. The grass was damp and very cold.

Strides. Random detritus on random lanes of the track. Mostly hurdles.

1600 @ 5K pace
1000 x 3 @ 5K/3K/5K pace (400/200/400, surge the middle 200)
600 x 2 @ 3K pace

400 rest after the 1600, 200 rest after that.

527
320

321
149

323
151

324
153

159
154

158

Average laps:
81.75
80.40
81.20
81.60
79.33
78.67

and (unweighted) average of 80.49.

I've signed up for winter track and am pretty excited about it.

Terry made the comment that older guys like him (and me too!) need to work to hold onto their speed. I wish I had some of his 44 year-old speed.

Home, but stopped by MIT and met up with the CSU crowd who were doing circuit training. Cool rendezvous. I'd log the break, but then I'd have to measure the distance for each segment, in my OC manner.