Training Log Archive: RJM

Cascade-chestnut. Cool clear day, coltsfoot, dandelion, and bloodroot in flower. Gorgeous day

drizzly

yesterday was a relaxing day with the family in pittsburgh (mostly warhol museum). At that time pretty much all of the soreness from the weekend was gone. Feel good today - just wish I had time to do more than the minimum to get to school and back. Crazy at work with multiple projects, exam given today, etc.

2" snow, but roads were clear...

Pretty sore and stiff, but spinning in helped.

Pig Long, Mt Airy Red. Gorgeous day, runner's course. I pretty much ran straight lines between controls most of the time. Might have saved a bit of time sometimes by going around, but it was fun, and often on trail as it was. I was able to push the pace on those trails, and really felt like I was racing for the first 6 controls. AFter that it was intermittent, mostly because of the break in rhythm at 6 (spiked it, but the code there didn't match that for '9', which was the control number visible on my folded and south-pointing map. Investigated several other nearby features to check my position before I realized the error. A couple of other small bobbles, and some route choice decisions that I may later learn were poor, but this was a good run, probably the best yet (next to the relay yesterday). Saw handrails and used them, terrain matched how I read the map, caught errors quickly. If i can do this a couple more times I may find myself at a new level. Later learned i came in just 3 seconds ahead of Jeff Shaw!
Later: i realized days later that unlike prior a meets, i didn't run out of gas at 40-60min, as I have lately. I think making sure to include longer runs this winter paid off.

Sunday Long Red - Splits