Training Log Archive: Nadim

Event: Susquehanna Stumble
 

Pine Grove Furnace, PA. Warm-up walk/jog to the start of the Susquehanna Stumble on the Hammond Rocks map.

Susquhanna Stumble on the Hammond Rocks (1:10,000) and Pine Grove Furnace (1:15,000)maps. It was a tough course both physically and technically with 40 controls--sunny with temperatures between 45F and 55F. I started out feeling my workout from the day before but did okay through the first window. The rocks and graby underbrush wore me down as I continued the climb up to the top of the course and into the second window. The second and third windows with 6 and 3 controls each were back to back in hilly and rocky areas which made a difficult optimization problem. I screwed things up coming over the top of the hill into the second window and lost nearly all the lost time finding the first control there. Jon Torrance eventually came along and led me and Ted Good into one control which let us relocate and find the others. My route was suboptimal through both these windows losing 523m plus the time relocating. I finished the loop cleanly to the map exchange and made up lost ground. I ran the second loop on the Pine Grove Furnace map (an older and less precise map) all but alone after 3 controls. I had worried about this map the most and studied it the week before the race. It paid off as I hardly made any errors on it. I finished 5th well behind Vadim, Wyatt, Randy and Jon T. See the Split List.

C • Training? 7

Long - Splits

Prince William Forest National Park, VA. Francis Hogle, Kris Harrison, Jon Torrance, Greg Lennon and I split up and scouted areas of the park that QOC hadn't used for decades. Using 20 and 30 year old maps and sometimes none at all, we toured different parts of the park north and west of the maps used for the last time QOC hosted the US Championships. I found both not so nice woods and excellent woods. Hilltops in western areas tended to be thick from blowdown, laurel, holly and thorns but valleys were good. The further east I went the high and low ground were super fast. I took pictures along the way.

30 pushups after flying home. My abdomen hurt. It was a long week.

Overland Park, KS. From Mastin St. & College Blvd. to the Indian Creek Trail, to S. Pflumm Rd. and back. I got going after 8pm on a calm and much warmer 38F night. I could see my faint moonlit shadow and came across a full pointed buck just off trail. Splits on the trail: 3:30, 3:30, 3:33, 3:38 (33:39 turnaround), 7:11, 3:33, 3:30. My side hurt again.

After a long day working and a work group social evening Japanese steak house dinner in which I had to catch some flying shrimp and rice thrown to my mouth, I did 45 situps in my Overland Park, KS hotel room.

Overland Park, KS. From Mastin St. & College Blvd. I ran the Indian Creek Trail to Quiverra Ave. and 119th St. and back in the dark. I felt well rested. My side hurt starting out again. Splits on the trail (7:09, 3:35, 3:41, 6:57, 3:29, 3:27) reflect the flag whipping snow flurrying winds. The freezing temperature didn't feel that bad but I was glad I brought my gloves.

Overland Park, KS. I flew-in to a cool KC for a week of work. 45 situps.