Stopped by Vasquez Rocks on the way to my parents' place for Easter. I did part of the Red middle course from December's A-meet. I was running behind schedule and didn't have time for the entire course so I skipped from #8 to #13. The time also includes jogging from the parking lot to the start triangle and using the car as the finish instead of the finish circle. Felt very tentative in the terrain, although it got better later in the race. I've been doing too much flat training and not enough terrain work. A little worried about the Pig coming up. I don't always get along with Ohio terrain.
Running race 36:00 [4] 3.47 mi (10:23 / mi) +15m10:14 / mi
Santa Clarita Prediction Run. This was a fun run for a nearby running club. The course was unknown until race day. When you got there you could see the course map and distance and then had to predict your time. They had a start clock running backwards and it was a chase start with each person starting at the time that they predicted. The winner was whoever crossed the finish line closest to their prediction. Thanks to my recent 3K time trial I had a good idea of what pace I was likely to do. I predicted 36:25 and came in about 25 seconds early in a pack of folks who were just a little too fast. The winner was 2 seconds late from her prediction. The course was almost flat with a few minor hills and a combination of dirt trail and park concrete trails. It was fun.
Swam a little harder today then usual. Even did some flip turns, but I was kind of rusty on them. A combination of crawl, backstroke, and breaststroke.
HDR track interval workout. We did these 6 minute things where you go hard for 3, then easy for 1, then hard for 2. 3 reps. 3 minute recovery between reps. I brought a map of some Ohio terrain with me and ran with that to add some technical aspect to the workout. Practiced measuring and counting while I ran. I found myself using a different technique than usual and I wonder how it would actually work. Instead of measuring a specific distance between two map points and then counting until I hit it, instead I measured 100meters at a time on the map and then thumbed up when I hit the 100m count. Any thoughts on the merits of such a technique?
WU/CD warm up/down 15:00 [2]
Didn't really get in much warm-up. This is mostly cool-down and recovery between intervals.