Training Log Archive: GlenT

US Classic Champs Day 2 on Round Mountain map. Significant overlap with yesterday's map, including sharing a control location (approached from a different angle). I thought the course was rather uninspired, with 12 of the 14 legs being straight runs to a point feature (granted, you had to pay attention to stay on line and read small features). The course avoided the more technical rocky area which Green X and Brown X used. The one leg close to the rocks had the obvious route choice to run around the rocks through open area.

Another fail. Missed a little on the first control and then lost contact on the way to #2, losing 7 - 8 minutes. Saw several controls from the Trail-O still out (Apparently at least one of them was within the circle of a control on another course - not good. Did those who had done the Trail-O have an unfair familiarity with the terrain of the Day 2 courses?) Ran well the rest of the way except for drifting left going to 12 and hitting the fence (not literally). Running speed from #2 on was about the same as the leaders in M60, but I had already blown any chance to be competitive.

Straight line distance 6.7 km.

Green Y - Splits

Event: 2014 US Classic Championships
 

US Classic Champs Day 1 on Badger Gulch map near Lake George, CO. Very open and runnable with lots of small rocky point features, some of which were mapped, and a technical rocky area. Good course with several controls in the rocky area and a very fast second half in the flatter area.

Not my day. Big error on the first control, then some GI issues which made it so I had to do quite a bit of walking in the second half of the course (altitude may have also been a factor). Way down in the placings and about 13 minutes behind the fastest M60. 10 minutes of navigational error plus a few minutes lost walking. Straight line distance 7.5km.

Green Y - Splits

Phone-O at Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. Interesting exercise.

Model event at Round Mountain. Terrain looks to be a bit quicker than Whistler. :-)

Travel day. SEA - DEN. All the physical activity associated with air travel, walking in and around airports and schlepping luggage around. No issues, just the normal irritations of travel.

Walk from parking to relay arena and back afterward.

Relay Leg 3 on Lost Lake map at Whistler. SL distance 3.0km.