Training Log Archive: Kseniya

shake out the soreness run to verona park. hot and humid out.

stretching feels so good.

Event: 36th Annual Billygoat Run
 

Billygoat at Balwdin Hill, nice course, nice map, nice weather, yes, on a warmer side but surprisingly it felt Ok, and I drank water at every water stop.
Started out well, took the trail to 1, didn't push hard and tried to figure out the best skip for me. Nothing seemed as good as 1 so I decided on that and let my head rest. Actually, I had a hard time concentrating today, possibly due to sleep deprivation. It was nice running with other people and saved me from doubting myself too much. I saw Peter on the way to 3 and stayed with him for a good while. I was not intimidated running with him but the pressure was there. 4,5,6 good, Balter caught up to us but I lost him on 9. I made a mistake on 7 where I thought I was higher on the stone wall and veered right. Getting spacey after 8, almost overrun 10, if Peter hadn't been there I would have spent the same amount of time that Ian did on this control. Then I got pissed at myself and executed 11 and 12 well but faded at 13. This is when Alex caught up to me and I didn't try to fight to run with her. 14, 15, Ok. 16 was strange because I was coming in to it via the small reentrant above and was checking off boulders but the cluster appeared to me as large separate boulders so I thought I may have been left of the control and ran right but then realized, nope I was right and went back. bleh. So very tired on 18 and 19, just trying to finish. Rest Ok, slow.

This map seemed like a good place to practice not reading all the details and choose relatively large attack points. That was my plan for this course. Being somewhat spacey for a better part of it actually helped with this strategy because I naturally didn't pay enough attention to the map. Having people around helped but when I was on my own I had to force focus close to the control circles. Need to practice this more.

This year is first time I get points on Billygoat :) 11th place.

Billygoat map + route

C • Billygoat points 6

Billygoat - Splits

tempo run on west essex trail, moving it up a day, yeah! only could do it after half hour nap. warm-up was like running on sticks instead of legs, cool-down was like running on sore sticks. the tempo run itself was actually quite good. this time i did not pay any attention to my pace or HR, just focused on how I felt. extended it to 20 min.

C • sore sticks 3

20 x 100 m strides at the track. getting warm out, sunny, wind in one direction. first 10 seemed easy and second 10 tougher but not bad overall.
too many people.