Training Log Archive: bishop22

Ran with the team for the first part of track practice. With Chris out of town, taking Chelsea to Bulldog Days, I had to leave early to get Zach to hockey tryouts for next year.

10 min w/up
The team did 1600, 1200, 800, 600, 400, 200. I had to leave after the 800, but first I ran: 6:09, 4:31, 3:02. Not too bad, perhaps I can go sub-20 for 5K now. I have to figure out when I can run a road race.

Not much of a w/dn.

Various running around before and during the US Relay Champs at Mendon Ponds. Had to cut a hole around some fallen trees on a path near the model start, then put out some e-punch units, which took two trips, since I forgot to bring the extra units that went to the first controls and the road crossing control.

The race seemed to go quite well. Plenty of spectator opportunities kept things interesting. Nate had another MSP. I was too busy getting things ready to remind him to check the control codes, every time, and I don't think he read the meet notes.

Zach zipped around the Jr Jr relay course quite quickly, taking the lead when the first 2 kids ran the wrong way from the first control. I was nervous for a few seconds when he was going a different way, but the others corrected. Then it was Luke's turn. He held on for 3rd place, which seems to have been updated to second in the official results, since someone on the 2nd place team missed a control.

I'm not sure whether my biggest error of the weekend was not making sure the maps were collected at the end of the relay, or not realizing that all of the Jr Jr participants should get medals - a nice precedent was set last year. Of course, there are probably several other contending errors that I have repressed or something.

Other than not being able to compete, I was very happy with the weekend. Our club is quite lucky to have so many dedicated volunteers. We may not compete for relay medals (yet?), but we must be one of the best volunteering clubs, and many of the key folks have been doing it for years (dare I say decades?).

Event: US Middle Distance and Relay Champs
 

Various running around before, during and after the US Middle Champs at Letchworth. I did not have any course maps, so I couldn't try out one of the courses in the early AM, but folks seemed to enjoy them.

I did get to pick up a few controls at the end of the day, one of which took a second attempt, without a compass.

Nate had an OK race to get 3rd in M-20, about a minute behind Gabe, but 5 minutes behind Jordan. He edged out John G and Michael Norris.

Zach got drawn down the mandatory trail towards the Advanced start triangle before he was able to correct, and lost several minutes to the first control. Had a couple of other errors, but managed to be the first USOF finisher (2nd overall) up on M-14.

And Luke made his A-meet debut. He managed 2nd place in M-10, and that can still be his official category for 3 more years. Sadly, I didn't get a chance to see him finish (or start).

Ran with G2 at lunchtime. That made me go 7.5 minutes longer than planned and about 30 seconds/mile faster than I would have, so not a bad run.

We ran the river loop in the usual clockwise fashion, crossing at Elmwood. I've forgotten about dodeca-Tuesday in recent weeks; we'll have to start making another run at that.

The weather was fan-freakin'-tastic! I hope it doesn't warm up too early tomorrow. It looks like the 10am conditions could be nearly perfect.

50 minutes on the range.

Chelsea was in a photo, from yesterday's track meet, on the Rochester D&C web site this AM. I am trying to include it here:



Too bad she is getting edged out, but at least it's a Hilton runner.

RH3 in Scottsville. The opening loop was a short, 9-minute, jaunt thru some woods, a marsh and a farmer's field. Excellent terrain but I wasn't warmed up, so I couldn't run it that hard.

The next 45-50 minute section involved a lot of medium green, marshes, swamps, some light green and occasional patch of white forest. We were also nicely informed that we were on private property. The laborers were going around putting up some posted signs that would have warned us, had they already been up. Apparently the swampland neighborhood watch took over, because a couple of SUVs started to follow us around. There was a HH at a power line, and the final section (10-15 minutes) of trail paralleled a posted property boundary (but didn't cross it) until there was a spot parallel to some RR tracks to get back to the road. A bit down the road a woman, not so nicely, informed us that the police had been called. I wasn't really concerned, since I did not run past any posted signs, but we decided not to circle at the parking lot, just in case.

Ran during the Hilton Spring Breakout meet.

Nate opened with the steeplechase, and did OK, 11:29. He has to drop at least 12 seconds to have a shot at Sectionals. He has to go under 10:45 to qualify in the 3200.

Then I ran a little over 3 miles, into the village of Hilton, around and back out to the school, then around the school a bit. On the way back I picked it up (tempo-ish) for a bit over 5 minutes. 23:30 was the total elapsed time.

Then it was Chelsea's turn in the 800. She was back in 7th or 8th nearing the 400, got by a couple, then a couple more at the top of the back stretch, then took off with about 250 to go and moved clear of everyone except the 2:20 Mercy girl. One girl (Hilton, I think) came back and edged her at the wire in 2:32.

Then I went north from the school for just over 16 minutes and turned around. On the way back I did 2 x 3min hard (interval-ish), with a 3 min jog in between. It was into the wind, but I was still under 15 minutes on the way back.

Back to the track and Nate's heel was very sore (same as in Texas), so he sat out the 3200, so it was just Kenny and Afro Thunder. I decided I had run enough, so I just hung out until the 1600 (Nico, Chris and Alex N) and the 4x800 (slow - AB, Whitty, KDawg, Nico)

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4:12/8:31
1:33,36,37,36,36
3:34,34

It has been quite some time since I've been in the pool, so I was sloppy and slow.

21 min of Random Hills-13 @ 89rpm
2 min w/dn-12

Legs felt a little lethargic, but my tender calf didn't bother me at all, so, I decided to push my luck and make it a mini-triathlon.

Beautiful day outside, but I had just gotten off the bike inside, so I just jumped on the treadmill, instead of going out. Calf did not bother me at all; it must be a bruise or something, not a strain.

1/2 mile @ 7.0mph
1 going 7.1-8.0
1.5 at 8.0