Training Log Archive: GlenT

Event: West Point A-meet
 

Green X on Bull Hill map at West Point (accessed from Lake Frederick). Typical West Point terrain with a reasonably well designed course, which limited necessary climb. Using 18 controls was a bit much, giving it a Middle feel, especially for the first and last thirds. There was only one significant route choice leg, but the trail and road network on the map does make good choice legs tough to find. Good weather with temps near 60F and mostly sunny.

Run was OK, but I kept making errors in or near the circle. Something to work on. Chased a couple of bags, wasn't careful on my direction from the attack point, misread features, and stuff like that. Probably lost a total of about 6 minutes on 6 controls, but the range was from ~20 senonds to ~3 minutes. About 10th overall on Green X, 1st in M60. SL distance 5.5 km with 132m of climb advertised.

Saturday Classic, Green X - Splits

Substitute instructor. Meh.

C • Too soft on you? 2

Easy run. Low 60's, sunny and quite breezy - nice enough to run outside.

Around the 'hood.

Went 1-2 versus Soupbone for the weekend, bringing the Flying Pig lifetime total to 14-13. I'm still in the lead but if the trend of the last two years continues, that could change (as long as neither of us breaks). For what it's worth, on total time for the weekend, I was ahead by 49 seconds. Lifetime I'm up by about 18 minutes, but 15 min of that is from one race. Looks like a pretty even match.

Flying Pig Day 3. Green "middle" distance course at Mounds State Recreation Area. Similar terrain to yesterday with the footing improving as it dries out but still with plenty of sharp vegetation. No stream crossings or lake wading options today since we were mostly on the top or sides of a large peninsula. Course was good technically but again suffered from "give 'em their money's worth" syndrome so winning times on Green, Red and Blue were well beyond those specified in the Rules for middle distance.

A sloppy run, partly due to both brain and body being tired from two previous days. Lost time on 4 by trying to find the feature in the nearby circle for control 11. Fortunately, I overshot 11, saw the obvious spur just before 4, and easily found 4 when I looked at the right circle on my map. Lost about 3 minutes on control 8 by stopping short and then going up to the trail to relocate. Overshot 13 for a minute lost and then was just sloppy the rest of the way in rather than focusing and pushing the pace. Six or so minutes faster was doable. 7th on Green, 4th in M60. SL 4.9km, 180m climb.

Weather was quite nice with temperatures in the low 50's and mostly sunny.

To the Sunday Start from Parking.

OCIN_FP2014_Mounds_Sunday_Middle_8 Green - Splits