Training Log Archive: JanetT

Event: EMPO - Woods Hollow (includes Club Championships)
 

Event: WCOC Pond Mountain Meet
 

Red course map

Contours a bit flaky in some areas; and my FR track shows 9 isn't as far W from 8 as shown. (Had to do a lot of pushing and pulling to get QR.)

EMPO club champs on a new map at Woods Hollow south of Saratoga Springs, NY. 1:7500/3m and the map was only about 1 km or so square. Course by Bob L and map by Bob and Bill J.

Janet F. said that she would run the longest course which was Red at 5.7km so I did too. Knew there'd be lots of trails so I figured she had the advantage (faster runner) and she had mostly faster splits. But I managed to pull off the win with a margin of about a minute over a 30+ adventure runner and two minutes ahead of Janet. (Shows the depth of the EMPO club's members, doesn't it? Actually, they made errors in the 5-8 minute range; cleaner runs by either would have put them ahead of me. So I earned it with a clean run.)

Bob did the best he could with such a small map and I did enjoy the course, which Glen and I think is much like a blue-middle. Making sure you were on the right trail was one key skill today but nothing was too technical (I thought the leg to 11 was most "difficult.") Soft footing helped too; mostly hard packed sand trails and largely open pine woods. Temps in mid-40s and sunny at start.

EDIT: added FR track
Winsplits

C • Map 2

Red - Splits

No tools. Good class; needed it after no class Tuesday. Signed up for email closure alerts [though it sounds like I'll get Y-junk-mail too]. Of course that only works if I have electricity.

Hill interval L3. 1.73 mi
My softest socks made this tolerable. I'll have to see if I can get more like them. Don't know if the shoes are too stiff, but these foot problems are annoying.

Adductors, pulldowns, and some RDLs for my sore hamstring. They've helped before; just have to remember to do them.

Halloween version exercise class, complete with Monster Mash and Thriller music to exercise to. Instructor dressed for the occasion, but the rest of us fuddy duddies didn't. :-)

Didn't have any news that the schools were closed in East Greenbush so didn't think to call the Y to see if they were open.

Turns out they closed Monday afternoon intending to be closed today too. Ooops. Did some errands in East Greenbush anyway while I was there, then drove down to the Hudson River to look at the whitecaps. It didn't look like the water level was much higher than a normal high tide (yes, tides come up to Troy and the first Erie Canal/Champlain Canal lock), though it was probably pretty high during last night's high tide.

Glad that the storm's impact isn't as bad as they predicted it could have been, at least in our area. The MD/DE/NJ/NY coasts, on the other hand...

C • tides 3

New session; big class. Just enough room to move around, though I keep ending up next to ladies who like to expand their "spot" my way (watch those flying hands, ladies!).

C • Crowded 1

Event: NEOC: Townsend
 

Event: WCOC Fall orienteering weekend - Sunday classic
 

"Classic" Brown on Huntington SP map, set by Becks (and family :-)). Lots of opportunity for steep climbs (#6) which I took advantage of. Took the trail route around from 6 to 7, including the one by the N-S large marsh. Think I would've been a bit faster 5-6 dropping SE to the large trail instead of NE to the pipeline (for the first hill), but that looked less interesting. ;-) Managed to stay on track pretty much the whole way; counted #7 as non-spike because I had other people around leading the way in; not sure that I wouldn't have spent more time here otherwise. (AP shows a time loss 7-8, but my shoe pulled off on a stick and I had to take some time to untie it, fit it back on, and retie it.)

EDIT: Added FR track. Straight line distance 4.8 km.

Thanks to WCOC for some good races this weekend.

Jogging to the remote start. Didn't time myself but did look at the watch and estimated the time I took.

Brown - Splits