Training Log Archive: andyd

West Point, day 2. 9.8 km, 83 mins, 7th. A very fun course, and a good run, spiking pretty much everything, except for a stupid 5 minute confusion on an easy control (#4). It seems like everyone got faster today, so finished lower down than day 1. Again, a completely solo run in beautiful woods.

Blue - Splits

Event: West Point
 

West Point, day 1. Blue 9.3 km, 90 mins, 5th. As first starter on a misty day, it was eerily quiet in the forest. Felt slow through the terrain, and made quite a few errors for 1-2 minutes each, then ran off the map on 10, hitting a road and getting very confused (7 minutes). Still, very enjoyable. It seems like everyone else struggled too - finished 5th, 11 minutes down on Mike W.

Sprint-O around Camp Buckner. A fun and varied course, partly around the buildings, then some real, technical forest-O and a brutal hill towards the end. A stupid bobble for 1 minute on #3 (ran at the right featue, but didn't see the flag tucked away, and went walkabout for a while). That's too much time to lose on a sprint. 2.9 km/22 min/ 9th, about 2 mins down.

Trail-O champs. A pretty good run. Didn't seem like anyone else was running, though :).

blue - Splits

Sprint - Splits

Chip Ross with the ORCA pod (Larry, Ben, George, Tim). Larry showed us all that the best way to get fit is not to run for 6 months. He put the pedal to the metal going up Lower Horse. Ben and George barely kept up, Tim huffed and puffed, and I was thoroughly dropped. Got revenge later by taking them prancing through the poison oak. He he! Came across 5 vultures gorging on a deer at the end of the run. It was probably some sort of an omen.

C • Vultures 1

Met the bikers at Oak Creek, planning to do a terrain run through the woods. Soon realised the folly of that, as I picked my way through the glistening poison oak! Still, ran the trails in O-shoes, then home to soak in a vat of technu ;).