Training Log Archive: JanetT

Focus on abdominal area. Did some extra hip stretching at the end (because we didn't get there). Other class members learned what the psoas is...(we already know).

Observed by another yoga teacher who will sub for Deanna in a few weeks.

Event: Billygoat 2017
 

To start of the Billygoat

39th Billygoat, 4th? Pygmy
Held at Pound Ridge Reservation, home of the 1997 BG (my 2nd; I have the shirt). Temps stayed steady in the low-mid 50s, not windy, no rain until after all was cleaned up after the race. Congrats to the winners, Jordan Laughlin and Alex Jospe! And special thanks to Rick DeWitt (head goat) and his team of helpers from WCOC and HVO. 1:10000, 5m contours

This year's version of the shortened Billygoat race, the Pygmy, was 7.5 km with 290m of climb...perhaps calculated on the full course of 11 controls. But we (like the BGers) were allowed to skip a control.

Pygmy course was this subset of BG controls:
1-2-3-6-7-9-11-12-13-15-25

Skipping the first control was a possibility, but not one I really considered even though it included a 12-contour climb because legs were still fresh and I hadn't had the opportunity to look for other options. So I plugged on up the hill far enough behind Anne Billman and others to have to navigate on my own once I hit the hilltop, but it was an easy find. Some controls were set up so you could see competing ahead/behind you (sometimes called a Saeger loop for a course-setting technique Jeff has used), and I took the opportunity on 2 to swing close to 3 to see the stream of folks (okay, maybe 5 or so by that time) coming from 2 for an easy approach.

Then back to 3 and trail run most of the way to 4 (BG #6). From 3 the BGers were headed elsewhere and I didn't see any again until Ed Despard coming into 5 (BG #7) (and later, another batch near the 7-8-9 loop on my course, 11-12-13 on thr BG). I never saw the (male) leaders, though I did see Alex J on the second Saeger loop.

On the way to 5 I considered skipping 6 to save a bit of distance but it was an easy control with not too much climb so I decided on 10 (BG #15), a long leg cutting across the map, which allowed a fairly flat trail run a large part of the way. I'm happy with my decision, and my legs are happy I didn't attempt the longer version with 13.3 SL distance and almost 500m of climb.

Pygmy Goat - Splits

Event: Pre Billygoat Training
 

Pre-Billygoat training at Mountain Lakes planned and set by Becks and Niels Lyng-Olsen, including epunching. Short course, SL 3.1km. Delightful conditions with temps in the mid 60s, and sunny. A few blackflies emerging but not biting, but I managed to swallow one anyway.

I didn't do the planned exercise (there were only three of us starting when I went out and the two others were Glen and Steve T) which involved two people of similar speed going together with each taking one of two route choices and comparing times. I *did* take a look at the map for the morning exercise where folks did the same single leg on Tarrywile using three different routes to compare times.

That encouraged me to take a closer look at multiple routes for my legs but I didn't re-do any for comparison purposes, though I would be interested in seeing how long the wide right trail route from 5-6 might have taken.

Thanks again to Becky and Niels for setting this up (especially when Becky had a hectic week ending in a flight over the pond!).

Mostly stretching...needed this.

In the neighborhood across Hopewell. Overcast and low 60s with some breeze.

I set HR zones in AP based on read-outs that Garmin was giving me (I suspect I set up a max HR in Garmin Connect but don't remember what that was; otherwise it's probably based on my age).

This was mostly at a walk but I jogged some of the downhills (and a short bit of uphill on Brookridge).

In addition to seeing robins and trees/shrubs in bloom, saw a robin egg (oops), male cardinal, and male bluebird.

Sunny, breezy, and about 66F. Less hilly 2-miler than if I'd gone south into that development.

At MSP, where we arrived two hours before flight time, so lots of time for a shake-out walk, since no exercise yesterday. End of F concourse to end of G, and back.

Yesterday was rainy and not warmer than about 40F, so we drove to Iowa and back to get feet on the ground in another state (two to go for both of us: Mississippi and Alaska). Granted, we didn't get much farther than the welcome center, but north-central Iowa looks a lot like southern Minnesota.
;-)

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