Training Log Archive: mintore

evening run

family loop around Mystic

Event: OLOU Billy Goat Meet
 

2014 OLOU Goat at Cave Creek, 8.9k/365m/35C

A contrast to the previous race, much slower travel due to greener woods and more technical navigation, in part due to lower visibility.

The course was a bit odd due to park-imposed limits (all announced beforehand), using many controls on a largish 1:5000 map. To get the distance there was a map exchange at the halfway pt and there were 0 forks/2 skips per map. For me, map 1 was fine but I really struggled to find good routes to the controls. I made one egregious mistake at #6 confusing two roads and heading down a steep spur only to have to reverse myself (4 min). The ROWST on the longest leg to #7 was terrible running, some knee high mutant fern/juniper plants that obscured the footing. I compensated by staying in the slightly less annoying woods. #15 could have been taken more conservatively. It was a small cliff on the side of a reentrant and swinging safely low would have ensured hitting it the first time. Overall, I was in third.

The Map 2 was much better and I picked up the pace significantly and pushed up into second place. Only two distinct errors on this part, #5 intersecting a reentrant at a less well defined place and heading 10 steps down before reversing course (45 s) and #11 rolling too far across a green slope before being caught by #14 (1 min). The benefit was that I realized this was likely to happen so there was little loss of confidence and also the navigation back to #11 was very easy.

Open Goat 1 - Splits

Open - Goat 2 - Splits

Event: 2014 US Nationals
 

Jog with the rest of the hedge.

High knees, butt kicks and some walking to cool off.

Hard to get out this past week and some irritated wack-a-mole issues with my left leg have been slightly discouraging. Rolling and stretching are increasing again to suppress them.

Stretching, rolling, cool-down walk

lonely little plank