Training Log Archive: TimGood

WRE Event Reedy Creek Umstead SP. NC. Blew the first control and a lot of trouble in the circle on the rest of the course. Training had been going well until the last 2 weeks and I did not feel very fast. A mediocre day. Splits are posted.

Nothing like a trail-O to take your mind off of a bad run. Promised myself I would not take this to seriously and spend forever on it. Still took took too long. Was doing ok but then got the last 3 wrong to finish with 9/14. Do not have the map here and forgot the distance so just made up a distance and put in a time to jog that distance. (I did jog between the controls). Includes the jog back in from the finish.

M21 WRE Blue - Splits

Event: BOK/US Team Umstead 007
 

Jog to the start of sprint, then back to rest rooms when I found the starts were delayed, then back to start again.

Long sprint at Umstead. A good run with some time lost on 7 until I choked the last control and lost another 2 1/2 minutes. Splits and comments are posted.

Long Sprint - Splits

2:30pm Burke Lake. Trail a lot better than yesterday. Still wet, but a lot less mud and only occasional patches of snow or slush.

3pm. Burke Lake. Roads were clear but trail was still wet, muddy and slushy. Temps back in the 50Fs, wore shorts and short sleeves.
AOWN report: 6 holes of disc golf to warm down (3 over par) Kept hearing someone banging on a tree. Eventually saw a woodpecker in a tree above me pecking away.

At Boomerangs. 7:30-9:30.

Another unintentional rest day. Nice weather during the day but I was to busy at work to get out, then stayed late to get some stuff done for next week. Because of the NC meet I will be out friday. Hoped to hop on the bike after getting home but went to sleep instead. Only 2 hours sleep last night as I was up doing taxes in order to meet a financial aid deadline for Io and college.

C • Staying Up 2

At Capitol Square practice. 7:30-10pm. I did not dance much since I will probably not be performing at WASCA in March since I have to pick up Io from PA that afternoon and may not be back in time. Spent most of the practice on the stage critiqueing the styling.

RRCA Challange 10mi. Howard CC 8am
Got up at 5:50am so I would have plenty of warmup time. Checked the website before leaving to be sure the race was not canceled because of pending bad weather. A little sleet at my house but roads were clear. Drove 45 miles to Columbia MD where the weather was clear and dry and 34F only to find the race had been cancelled. Considered running the course anyway, many others who had showed up were about to start. Started to warm up then decided it would be better to go home and run. The 10 mile course has no restrooms so I would still have to have a long warm up and then I would have to drive home tired and cold.

Still sleeting when I got home so I put off running for awhile. A short while turned into a long while and when I thought about running again was surprised to see it was snowing heavily and there were 4 inches on the ground. Weathermen were way off today. A wet snow like this was not going to last so I waxed up the skis and headed out the door. Wish I had a good place to ski without driving but the roads looked really bad for driving although some could be skied.
A bit around the apartment complex, then over to Pine Spring school and a couple of loops of the fields. Decided to risk some sidewalks along plowed roads so I could get to a bike path loop thru some woods about 1 mile away. Slow getting there but the loop was nice and someone else had skied part of it so I could use the existing tracks. In 2 hours I had hoped to get 8+ miles but I estimate I actually only went 6.5. I measured and it is even less 5.6

Stopped snowing before I finished sking and was starting to melt already. Wanted to get the shoveling done while I was still dressed for snow. Shoveled out my car and 2 1/2 others from the piles left by the plows. Used the big grain scoop shovel which can move a lot of snow. Shoveling last week must have built up some strength, not nearly as much strain on the back this time.