Training Log Archive: GlenT

Event: 2010 US Team Trials for WOC
 

Walk to the start and back from the finish for the middle distance. Track is just for the walk back (forgot to start the watch on the way out). Walked and jogged out, mostly walked back. Buggy in the woods.

Red Sprint at Team Trials. Off line a bit on controls 5 and 14 and dropped out of the field too soon on the way to 9 but otherwise a pretty clean race. Lost maybe 30 seconds total. Started a minute ahead of the kempster - she didn't catch me until #8. Sunny, breezy and in the 70's. Forerunner distance was 2.28. Straightline 2.1km.

Blue Middle - Splits

Red Sprint - Splits

Though about doing some speed work but was on my feet a lot at work so legs were tired. Just went running. Cool, upper 40's. 66N, Shaker Museum Rd., Howes, Albany Tpke south and back via the same route.

Classic course on Huntington map. Red Course (M45, also the women's WRE course). A good run on an excellent course and map. Mostly reading features well and maintaining contact. Got distracted by others on the way to 6 and lost a couple of minutes. I lost time on 3 legs late in the race to non-optimum route choices - I was tired and took the first route I saw rather than pick the best. About 5 or 6 minutes of errors overall (10 min/k was doable). Straightline distance was 7.9 km.

On the long leg (7 - 8) I took a route to the right of the line which included about 50% major trails( dirt roads). Most people went straighter, following various less-green corridors to get from trail to trail. I think I was about 1:30 faster than I would have been going straighter.

Quite a change in the weather from Saturday. In the 40's and very windy.

4th in M45 (both today and 2 day total). 20 out of 46 on classic course.

Red Day 2: Long - Splits