Training Log Archive: Nadim

Event: QOC Pohick Bay
 

Pohick Bay Regional Park, VA. I warmed up going around the parking lot area near the start of QOC's meet. This was the first time I tried my new Vapro eyeglasses. These made-in-Sweeden glasses are open at the top and show a +1 diopter along the bottom. In the past when I tried some sports goggles, they had fogged-up. With the new eyeglasses, the open top lets me see normally through no glass for nearby and far away objects but looking down at my map, I get the magnification needed (I didn't study the map on this warm-up). I was getting used to stepping over branches and other obstacles. The glasses have a band keeping them snug on my head and they didn't bounce. I quickly got to where I hardly knew they were on.

QOC: Pohick Bay Regional Park, VA. Karla Hulett debuted as a course setter today and did alright. All the controls were where they were expected to be. It is always difficult to keep the climb within standards here. The Blue course was therefore steep. However we got to some places where we hadn't been in a long while. Route planning was important on most of the legs but the controls were in relatively easy places. I was happy about feeling much better than I had the day before, and about not making stupid easy mistakes like I had at Greenbelt. I was a little sloppy making a choice to go to #1. I also got slightly off course dog-legging back towards #10. The worst error was partly to blame on the existence of an unmapped trail on the way to #16. My speed was not so fast, even when I wasn't climbing/walking steep hills but I think that's because of the overall increase in training volume since January--I don't really expect my leg speed to return with this training volume much until another couple of months of getting used to it. Additional leg comments will be on the Split List.

Blue - Splits