Training Log Archive: Wyatt

Event: DVOA Mt. Penn Antietam
 

It was pretty hot (DP >70?) so I kept my warmup to a minimum, incl. running part of the finish split w/Vadim.

Regained a bit of confidence in my orienteering abilities this weekend. Still behind Clem, and neither Ross nor Sergei Z. showed up, so not a perfect barometer, but I ran hard (headache later due to heat) and executed about as well as the map I got allowed.

I lost about 5.5 minutes out there, but all 3 'big' errors (constituting 4.5 minutes) were primarily due to local event quality imperfections that I don't expect to happen at the world champs.
# 7 - 1 minute - looking on the wrong cliff - all my circles were off by about 25m NW, which was important in this dense rocky area.
#11 - 1 minute - 10 was misplaced by ~75m, but my route nailed it, so no issue there, but my attack to 11 (short leg) missed
#13 - 2.5 minutes - a major legacy trail (rocky ledge, slightly overgrown by thin Mt. laurel) had a segment missing. I was right on line to nail the bag, but I couldn't believe they'd missed such a major trail segment so I corrected based upon a similar bend about 100m away, then realized the map was bad, and went back.

Clem's run

Easy run w/Angelica, who was pushing fairly hard at this pace - she really doesn't like the heat

Back to hot & humid, and pressed for time so did a short tempo run - planning to supplement in the late evening...?
Did a tempo-ish middle part, from the paved edge near the covered bridge, to the concrete square at the waterfall, and back, along Valley Stream trail.
5:18 + 5:21 = 10:39, for reference in case I do this again. GPS says 2.69km...

L-knee inside edge getting a bit sore again so did some hip squats. (55 R, 15 L)

Ran through the clouds today, from a clouded over Ed Levin Park, up the trails into the cloud/fog, then out into a dry sunny day in the golden dry grass fields of Mt. Allison* where only a few of the taller Bay Area peaks were visible in a sea of clouds. Even got up at 6am to do this, which isn't easy for me...

*(taller, and just S-of the more famous Mission Peak)

Spartans track. No one nearby or in front to push me, but the company and someone telling us what to run still helped.

800, 600, 600, 400, 400, 600, 600, 800, with ~4-6 minute cycles.
2:43, 2:03, 2:03, 82, 80, 2:02, 2:02, 2:41

A fairly good workout as my quads felt the last one, and I really felt I was pushing the last 4 harder than the first, but wasn't improving much at all.

Ed Levin state park after a few too many presses on snooze to get in a long run (so that shifted to Thu.) Still a beautiful run up through the clouds, just not quite as high. Rather freaky at times on the way up, as I took a road that ended, and just kept going up the grass hills. As the fog got thick, and visibility dropped to about 30m, it was easy to conceive of myself as rather lost, so I had to just keep going up as I knew there was a trail (and hopefully sun, which there was) if I got high enough. Various boulders would loom at the edge of the fog and come into view, and occasionally they would stare me down, as they'd be cows instead of boulders. And I'd chosen my solid red shirt - which quickly came off to be hidden from view as I edged my way around the clusters on some fairly steep slopes... Not fun to do this when downhill from the small herd, with only a dangerously steep slope (>50% grades abound) to escape toward.

44 minutes up (50% of distance, very near peak elevation), 27 minutes down

C • Red Shirt 3

Early AM flight to CA then drove to work, then after hours on email on the plane, I worked until it was almost dark, then ran just a bit, then went back and worked again. Performance reviews are coming up over the next month or so, and I'm supposedly being considered for a promotion, but the expectations are set so ridiculously high that they're basically impossible to meet even with 14 hour days. I'd probably be better off working normal hours, missing the work expectations by a wider margin, not worrying as much about pushing up my salary, and enjoying the rest of my life more.

C • Expectations 2