Training Log Archive: iansmith

Event: 2014 US Nationals
 

Easy run to wake up the legs around Rochester with Giacomo and French visitors Teo and Robin. Good times.

Jog to the start followed by some drills. I felt a bit sluggish.

US Sprint Champs, Genesee Valley Park, Rochester. My training has been laughable over the past few weeks as a combination of injury, illness, work, and poor life organization. I'm very disappointed with what I have done, but these are still the biggest two weekends of 2014.

Today's course was not particularly technical - it was a runners' course, with not much climb, in a wide open park not unlike Boston Park-O parks. I felt ok at the start after a good warmup, and I pushed hard with confidence the whole race. I caught Sergei Fedorov at control I had a few small mistakes:
- at 3, I unnecessarily took the left stairs for 5s,
- Some small hesitation at 6
- 15: an uncrossable fence transitioned to a crossable fence, but the crossable fence wasn't on the map. I looked at my map, saw double hash marks, and ran perhaps an unnecessary 100m around the edge when I could have hopped it. I'd guess I lost 20s.
- 20: route choice; I didn't think to punch through the green, 10s.

Overall, a good effort, but lackluster physical conditioning meant that I was too slow to contend. I'm happy to have been only a minute behind Eric and Ethan, but we were all shellacked by the Canadians today.

C • Nice run! 2

Cool down.

Sprint Blue - Splits

BAOC Calero State Park A-meet Day 2, Blue course.

C • Nice race! 1

Blue Day 2 - Splits

Event: BAOC: O in the Oaks - 2014 Western States Championships
 

Blue Day 1 - Splits