Training Log Archive: TimGood

At Capitol Squares practice. 7:30 - 10pm. I will be missing the all of our next performances which will be held the weekend of the Boulder Dash.

Relay champs. On the QOC team with Dave Onkst, Nadim, Ted. As the slow old man of the group I got the short orange leg. Dave had some problems with his contacts and finished well off the pace in 12th so there was no pressure on me. I looked ok but actually had a poor run. No one really noticed since I was alone instead of in a pack. Had to walk most of the uphill to 1 and so tired when I got there that 2 was slow as well. Lori Huberman just behind me at 1 but I had dropped her by 3 when I started to feel better. So I proceeded to miss 4. Could not find a 3m boulder coming from a bend in the trail. Eventually did and then was hesitant to 5 and Lori caught back up again. Then she passed me on the uphill and was ahead at the spectator control. Rest of the course was easy field stuff. I was just slow and should have read the clue descriptions so I would be on the correct side of the thickets. Passed Lori back and handed off in 11th but only because a team ahead of us had mispunched. My time was over 10 minutes off the pace of the leaders on the orange legs.

Warm up on the road before the relay. Includes a run to the bathrooms near the park entrance.

Event: Sprint Series Final & US Relay Champs
 

Warm up in the fields before the start of the sprints. A few laps around the edge then some across from the bathroom to the starts and back. Feeling sluggish but it should go away once I start racing.

Sprint series finals, Sprint A, course RB. Cranbury Park Norwalk CT.
Messed up right from the start. Thought the meet notes had said the route to the first control was streamered. (They did but only for the 3rd sprint) so dashed off down the trail without planning anything. When I reached the trail bend and the green and no obvious route to follow, wasted a lot of time before going to the left of the green. Hesitant to 2 and back on track by 3, except I did not see the bag and Clem caught me (from 90s back) . Totally missed 6 when I overran the scale and came out near 14. Would not have been so bad except I did not realize it was 14 until after trying to relocate. Overall a pretty bad day for a sprint. Lots of mistakes and I was being outrun even when clean. Finished way way back in the results. Perhaps I should do a bit of training, some speed work specifically.
Splits are posted.

C • Training 1

Sprint series finals, Sprint B, course RB. Cranbury Park. This one went a little better but I still made a big mistake. Catching Dylan who started 30s ahead at #1, but was also being caught from behind by Clint (30s) and Ross (60s). Ross motored away crossing the rocks, dragging Dylan with him and leaving Clint and I to mess up. Again forgetting the scale I overshot and was well past the marsh before looking for it. Followed Ross backwards into 3 and from there to 2. Rest was mostly clean with Clint slowly pulling away, Pia nearby and I think Mark Everett passing thru. 8 was a bit slow as I could not stick with a strategy, probably should have taken the trail to the left. Time was much faster that sprint A but almost everyone else was faster as well so I did not move up any significant amount.

After all the races were done, did a round of Disc Golf with Ted and Dave Onkst. A lot of hard par 3s. Finished 18 over but only 3 strokes behind Ted.

Sprint A Course 3 (R/B) - Splits

Sprint B Course 3 (R/B) - Splits

At B and B. 8-9:30pm. Now that Bev has stopped going to B&Bs, I have gotten lazy about getting there on time.

Maybe it was not the walk on Sunday that was making me feel bad. Got another horrible sinus headache yesterday as well. Decongestant did not seem to help or else took so long to help I could not see the cause/effect relationship. Functioning again today with decongestant and allergy medicine.

4pm Burke Lake. Normal loop. 9:35, 8:54, 9:15, 9:07, (4:25) Legs were tired and there was some right knee pain at the start. Same pain as when walking last week. Looked like a HS XC meet was being held there. There were school buses and runners all over. Womens race passed me as I was finishing up. Only the top 2 passed me and they did not seem to be running much faster than I was.
6 holes of disc golf but I was not into it today. Stopped counting my score when I missed the dogleg on #5 and I was already 3 over.