Training Log Archive: jtorranc

Ran-it Granite Long. Fell and bashed my left thigh on a log while gradually dropping downhill leaving 10. Was somewhat halt for the next control or three - guessed that slowed me down by a minute or two over the rest of the course but it might have been somewhat more, though hardly enough to move me up by more than one position. Since I stupidly failed to bring enough packets of gel to get me through the weekend, the effects of the injury would be hard to entirely disentangle from the effects of running a little low on fuel in the late stages of the course.

Spent the balance of the afternoon limping around with my GPS getting most of the rest of the trail network and as many of the features in the perhaps slightly more than a square kilometer of nice woods as I could find while sweeping quickly through the area with very little, if any, overlap between what I could see in one pass and what I could see on the next one coming back in the opposite depression. May have missed some pits and cup depressions but there didn't seem to be much in that vein. Fortunately, mappable rock, of which there was a lot more than I'd realised on Friday, generally sticks out of the ground.

Blue Day 2 - Splits

Ran-it Granite Middle

Came back to the same terrain as the day before, this time with my GPS. Took tracks on much of the trail network.

First leg of victorious sprint relay team with Eric and Emily. Fun having that many people ahead of me in the woods to chase down or ignore as circumstances dictated.

Blue Day 1 - Splits

Event: Ran-it Granite
 

First sprint.

Second sprint.

After the sprints, went to have a quick look at some terrain on the way back to DC. Initially looked as though the whole area was a sea of Japanese barberry cut up by trails but I was both undaunted and fortunate - when I continued to the portion of the area above the floodplain that looked most interesting topographically, I found almost entirely open woods, largely trackless and with a sprinkling of rootstocks and even mappable rock features. It appeared this nice terrain amounted to approximately a square kilometer.

Cycling commute including PCRM on the way home.

Got rear ended at extremely low speed on the Beltway late in the afternoon on the way back to the office from a meeting. No more than a fenderbender and I think and hope I'll get out of it with just a slightly sore neck when I wake up tomorrow but we shall see. My colleague who was driving will, regrettably, probably have an extremely sore neck or perhaps worse - I think she was more affected largely due to having her neck twisted a little bit to one side, since she reported not being able to twist her head to the right afterwards, in addition to the pain.

Actually took me 25:18 (subtracted time stopped at one light) and that was from the first corner after leaving my front door since I was obstructed by Sacred Heart students clogging the sidewalk until then. Probably means unobstructed time door to door, red-lined, after my body has had all morning to wake up, hitting all the lights perfectly and in the absence of rush hour pedestrian traffic, is currently about 25:10. I think this is slightly faster than the similar occasion last fall but the effort level may have been slightly higher.

Cycling home by way of the aquatic center.

More of The Rest is Noise then about 80% of Histoire du Soldat (the English version conducted by Stokowski - I wish the French version he did was available somewhere).

Cycling to work. Then home plus a round trip to the Kennedy Center to see the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company.

Commute including going by TPSS and the aquatic center on the way home.

Listened to more of The Rest is Noise - finishing up Berg, and covering Stravinsky's early successes and contemporaneous developments.