Training Log Archive: bishop22

Stopped off for a run at Black Creek Park on the way to the Sabres season finale (a nice, 6-1 win over the Bruins that eliminated the Bruins from President's Cup contention.

The trails were sloppy to flooded in places, but had some real nice sections, especially on a yellow-blazed trail that I had never noticed before. I lost that trail for awhile and did some terrain running, but eventually the wet sections forced me back to the trail.

Ran with Zach at Lincoln Park. We parked at the one-room schoolhouse to avoid two miles of road running (round-trip). We headed into the park from Empire and went south until the eagle nesting area barriers forced us west, then we wandered mostly north out thru the Y to Bay-Creek and the car.

I forgot Zach had a soccer game at 9 tonight, or I would have cut it a bit shorter for him. I think the hills in the park take even more out of him than they do out of me.

ATTENTION Webster Orienteering Team.

I wanted to clarify some points about the change in direction that I proposed after the track meet tonight.

Since it looks like we are not quite ready to run Orange (especially at West Point, where the maps/courses are usually especially challenging), I am proposing that we make our team debut at the Buffalo A-Meet. It will be held on May 16th and 17th, a weekend we do not have a track meet. The travel arrangements are much simpler - I can give everyone interested a ride there and back. The lodging arrangements are much simpler (and free) - I have several houses where we can spend the night on Saturday. And, it gives us a few more weeks to prepare.

Those extra weeks include two local Rochester Orienteering Club meets: May 2nd at Letchworth - a very nice map (and we have no track meet), and May 9th at good old Webster Park (we do have a meet, but it is the His/Hers invitational which usually has very limited entry allowances per team). I will also figure out a way to fit in one or two training sessions.

Finally, if anyone is still interested in West Point, we can still make the arrangements, but I would recommend running the Yellow course.

Ran around a bit before the track meet at Fairport. We lost 72-69, giving up a few points here and there, while Fairport gave up nothing. Our top miler had to work today (only because the meet was rescheduled from Tuesday), and that was very costly. We had to use Nate in the mile, and he wasn't able to bounce back and win the two mile. And we had to use AJ in the mile, and he DNF'd in the 800, which cost us at least a point.

The exciting news was that we had enough distance runners to enter 4, count them, 4, 4 x 800 relay teams (with Whitty, Nate, Vanzo and AJ taking the victory over Fariport).

4:03/8:11
1:30,31,32,32,20,29 (on 1:55)
3:25,21

I thought Monday was slow because of the weekend's efforts. Today's swim indicates that I'm slow because I had too few swims in the previous 3 weeks. I need to find time to run and swim in the same day.

Ellison Wetlands

I couldn't pull myself away from my desk at lunch, while I awaited the latest rankings, to see how Nate fared. It's looking good, but not he waits for the official selection stuff to happen.

Anyway, I didn't get out of work until almost 7, so I didn't start running until around 7:15. I decided I would run out the old main trail until it got halfway dark and then turn around. But it didn't get halfway dark, so I made it all the way to Old Browncroft, up the hill and left on Parkview to #22 before 25 minutes seemed like a good turnaround time. On the way back, I was almost run over by feet flying down the switchback section of the trail, but it was getting too dark to chat or try to keep up with him, going the wrong way.

On the way out, I had taken a couple of slightly bad turns, which I avoided on the way back, plus I was to the lot from the brick gates in 3:37 (out in 4:51), so I had to run over to the outlet and back to make the run symmetrical (in time, if not in distance).

4:01/8:03
1:32,34,35,34,33 (on 1:50)
3:30,26

The weekend's efforts (yes, I still need to log those) left me pretty worn out today. I had enough time for a 300 w/dn, or 100 plus a 4-minute soak. I chose the latter; my legs thanked me.

Long Pig at Mt. Airy

My legs were fried from yesterday. Legs 1, 4 and 6 were long, and included plenty of trail, usually my strength, but I was molasses. I had trouble with the hills in the second half of the course.

Sunday Long Red - Splits