Training Log Archive: jtorranc

West Point Blue Classic - 6th, well back of the Ross/Will/Wil cluster with Brian and Eddie in between. Again not a terrible race technically but not good and this time I had a disaster, an even bigger tenth control blowup - almost six minutes going by Winsplits - plus a few smaller bobbles and an apparently quite slow route on the longish, often thick, downhill leg to 14. Felt at the time and afterwards as though I wasn't running very well physically but the evidence of the splits doesn't seem to bear this out. Pity something seems to be bollixed about the Winsplits for legs 6 and 7 but my without mistakes time compared to Wil and Ross, who also seem not to be affected by the problem, appears to suggest I can't have been much below par physically.

Regarding the tenth control, damned if I know quite what went wrong during my initial attack. I started over the saddle and past the marsh heading pretty much due east. I thought I then checked off two cliffs north of my route but after than the terrain suddenly stopped making sense to me. It appears I was initially too far north when I stopped because I knew I'd gone far enough so maybe I was offline early and spotted different clifflike things than I thought. In any case, I then went uphill to the small open hill slightly north of the control to try to get a better view of my surroundings as an aid to relocation. I might have pulled the fat out of the fire then if it hadn't appeared to me that there was a mappable boulder there, though in retrospect it must have been just shy of 1 meter high. In any case, I gave up on relocating in situ and headed off to eventually do so based on the major landforms north of the control.

Event: West Point A-Meet
 

West Point Middle Blue - 6th, not, in the absence of any single major disaster, a terrible race but not a good one either with trouble getting into the map on the first control and too many medium sized errors or at least tentative attacks - Winsplits says six controls out of 15 on which I lost on the order or a minute to a minute and a half.

West Point Sprint Blue - 2nd with quite a good race other than the tenth control, which was a major blowup by sprint standards. However, I seem to have had a lot of company in finding that section of the map confusing.

Cycling to work with the remainder of my necessities for the weekend.

11.2 - almost certainly not a real substantial decrease but just the consequence of introducing concurrent weigh-ins.

Cycling to work with most of my O necessities for the weekend. Home by way of PCRM.

Abdominal stuff plus a few back extensions.

Cycling to work on the new bike. Have now transferred my rack, fenders and lights from the old one. Still need to switch to more roadworthy tires and transfer my bar ends.

Home with a stop at Safeway en route.

Warmup/cooldown/rests.

4x1217 m intervals in 4:24, 4:22, 4:22 and 4:27 - evenly paced by my standards.

Sidewalks looked dry from the bedroom window so I skated to work. Then from work to the bike shop.

Riding home on new bike. Should have let some air out of tires before starting - what is it with bike shops and inflating the tires on mountain bikes so much? Or do I routinely cycle around with my tires seriously underinflated. Certainly would explain why full suspension is desired by so many if it's the latter.

C • What PSI? 4

Warmup/cooldown/rests.

4x1217m intervals in 4:24, 4:21, 4:24 and 4:26 - reassuring in the way of possible signs of overtraining that these aren't getting steadily slower.

12.0

Warmup/cooldown/rests.

4x1217m intervals in 4:40, 4:33, 4:37 and 4:38 - seems, based on the time for the first one, that a little bit more warmup is required when I haven't just biked or skated home.