Training Log Archive: JanetT

Except for having to drop my step down from one rise to none (making it about 2-3" high instead of twice that), I made it through the class today and enjoyed the stretching afterwards. Quads are somewhat sore from the unexpected climb this weekend, but I seem to be in good shape otherwise.

I used my Active Ankle on the left side both days, and took prophylactic ibuprofen to minimize soreness in both knees, knowing the terrain would be brutal.

Route Gadget for the weekend:

Day 1 (GPS track upload)

Day 2 (hand drawn track for me)

Quick Route Day 2 - I put my Garmin track on Quick Route, exported the image file, and then edited that file with a photo editor to add the approximate route (red line) from Start to #3 that was missing.

From Track jpg files

Trail to start of Day 2, mostly on jeep roads but the last bit up the hill (to get to the top, of course). Temps in the 70s today, mostly sunny.

Brown X day 2 on western portion of Black Rock Forest map. Nominally 4.0 km, 90m climb (but of course it was really more; first count got me to 140).

Another slogfest, with a bit less blueberry and a few more of the awakening blackflies. And plenty of boulders and rocks to scramble around, but that's West Point. We climbed to the top of the hill west of Wilkins Pond (NW of Round Pond) to start, and then the first leg took us through (or around) mountain laurel, down 3-4 contours and then back up at least five to a huge bare rock spur that could be seen from a good distance. Punched about the same time as Geof Connor who started two minutes ahead and who I would see often around the course (though I thought M75 was on the other Brown); he said he'd made an error there. Having him and Bill Shannon approaching 2 might have been an advantage as the saplings made visibility difficult.

Down 9 contours to 3 avoiding the steeper rockier hillside; then down another 10 before contouring north of the vertical green (barberry) on the way to 4. 6 was another uphill slog to a knoll between two hilltops. Missed left on 7 and relocated off the trail to the south that I saw runners from other courses walking up... Probably a few minutes lost. 8 okay, 9 looked scary (either contour on shelves through a steep rocky hillside, or drop below into the marsh and then climb several contours close to the control--I chose option 1 and did just fine), 10 okay, attacking through the reentrant instead of going around the big cliff. I was a bit low to 11, less than a minute lost, though. Downhill scramble to 12 and into the finish.

Mary Jo had a bad day and Janet F didn't go out so I ended up winning F60. I was 7 minutes behind MJ and less than a minute ahead of Janet after Saturday. Prizes this year were fancy black ribbons with gold ruffles. Not very many people hung around until 2 PM; some had picked theirs up ahead of the awards.

FR track will be incomplete; I turned it off accidentally at the start box (after tuning it on at the whistle) instead of pushing the lap button, and didn't realize it was stopped until I was at 3, I think.

Brown X day 2 - Splits

Event: West Point A-Meet
 

I counted 205m climb (if I counted correctly) on the route I took on the course today. We'll see what the Garmin/AP interface comes up with tomorrow (or the next day) when I download the watch.

Quick Route Day 1

From Track jpg files

West Point Classic day 1. Took bus from registration back to the drop off along the road to cut some distance. This is from the road to the Brown start (collocated with White and Yellow).

Black Rock Forest map, starting from NE of Round Pond. Long for a Brown course, nominally 5km and supposedly 105m of climb.

"White" woods were really almost entirely covered in blueberry bushes, ranging from shin to knee high (or higher) and so it was slow going all around. AP shows me with mistakes on more than #7 which I overshot, but I think the others are smaller and likely due to slowness on climbs.

EDIT: (added) Went north of the swamp to #4 but then misidentified the mapped long rock face in the terrain causing me to be too low on the hill and having to loop around a bit. Probably lost a couple minutes vs doing it correctly.

Number 7 was a silly error because I was relying on the green to be mapped correctly and it wasn't. From 6 I headed out to the road and took it and then the trails. Saw a control on the large boulder S of the trail just ESE of 7, and should have just attacked from there, but I figured "just take the trail through the green and then use the white corridor." Green was mtn laurel and there was no white corridor, so went too far and was S of the next large cliff (SSW of 7) before turning back.

Yes, Eagle's Nest (#8) was a nice viewpoint, but getting up on top of it to punch was more arduous (for us Brown competitors, anyway) than necessary. Unless that was the course designer up top offering water, I hereby apologize to the cadet to whom I made a comment about "did they really need to make Brown course climb up here?"

Brown X Day 1 - Splits

Runaway greenhouse effect

South on 66. Temp about 60F and very comfortable.

Adductors and pulldowns after class.

Left bicep sore from yesterday's curls so didn't do as many on that side when we did bicep curls today. She's been adding more balance stuff in too (mostly lifting weights while standing on one foot) so that's good.

Another good class, though we did that really hard move again that's almost impossible to describe. Easier on one side than the other; my right hip doesn't work the same as my left. Adductor work with weights, so no machine afterwards.

12 pulldowns

Investigative walk, looking for more old cemeteries. Didn't find one where I went looking first, but discovered one I'd never noticed before despite living here almost 35 years. Wonder if I'll get a chance to explore it (behind private property).