Training Log Archive: PG

Warm-up. Legs felt lively!

A couple of weak moments (mentally), but overall pretty good run. Legs felt pretty good (nice cool weather). Missed about 2 minutes (including a minute at the first leg when I went to #6 instead of #1.

I thought it was an excellent course and really fine terrain, similar to some in Switzerland I've run on (and enjoyed). What I liked was the variety, of terrain, of the legs, of the tactics to use. Even the mapping was more like continental Europe in the sense that all the green was better running than green is on most of our maps (i.e. I equate white in the northeast U.S. with light green in central Europe). On this map you could make good time through the medium green.

Feet/ankles very sore by the time I got home....

Red - Splits

warm-up

Better than I've been doing, though that might have been due to the downhill course! Still left a lot of room for improvment, especially the failure to plan a good route to #10 while I had a couple hundred meters run on the pavement from 6 to 7. Simple lack of discipline.

Legs felt ok, not great.

No falls!

Green X - Splits

With Phil on Mt. Toby (race course up to hairpin, back via s curves and muck). Legs tired, wind ok, relaxed pace.

Warm-up/down.

Northampton 5K XC race, about what I expected (about 15-20 seconds slower than at this time last year). Still various aches and pains....