Training Log Archive: TomN

QOC Patapsco Hilton Red. A nice course by Victor Lin, good woods for the most part, and a pretty area. I didn't have any problems with the navigation, and the controls were hung high, but I felt slow in places. Part of it was certainly due to the footing, with a lot of leaf-covered stony ground making for treacherous running. The USMA team dominated the course, with about 10 of them finishing ahead of me.

Red - Splits

Trail run at Greenbelt Park. Sunny and 50s, and the wind was less of a problem in the woods.

I had company on the ride home this evening. A science team colleague who works out of his house in North Carolina and visits the lab every few weeks brought his bike with him, as he sometimes does, and I think it was Florence who proposed that he ride home with me and she drive his car with the rest of our gear.

We were going to leave around 4 p.m. but we both had things that dragged on, then had to change and pack the car, and it was about 4:45 before we got started. Thoroughly dark about 45 minutes later, and it was a little bit hard to follow the twisty Sligo Creek trail but a lot of fun barreling through the darkness.

He's an expert mountain biker, and I keep trying to get him to one of our MTBO events, including this coming weekend, but it hasn't worked out.

A morning run in intermittent rain. It was 58 degrees, and the rain was not unpleasant.

Biking to work. I dawdled at home waiting for the temperature to go up, but it didn't, so I left home at 9 a.m. still at 36 deg. F.

I'm going to have to augment the clothing system. I was good down to 39, but those extra 3 degrees were killer. Warmer gloves, socks, and hat to start with, and I think I have to do something to get my legs a little warmer. Seems like an extra layer just over the front of the thighs would do it, but I don't know exactly how to make that happen.