Training Log Archive: TomN

Event: QOC Little Bennett Day-O
 

QOC Little Bennett Green. Yikes, I ran off without my brain. I was confused and error-prone the whole way through. The conditions were somewhat difficult -- 22 degrees with some wind, a drift of light snow on frozen ground -- but after the first few controls I felt comfortable enough. But for whatever reason I couldn't focus on the map and couldn't keep a plan in my head. Let's hope for better performance in Georgia next week.

Back out again to pick up controls. I cleaned up the water stop near the trail and left the trash bag and extra water at the trail junction, to grab and run back in after I had picked up the 8 controls on the other side of the trail. Came back out with the 8 controls, but there was no trash bag. Did I really leave it here? Is there another trail junction? WTF? It turned out Vido had come through a few minutes before me, seen it there, and carried it back in.

Green - Splits

Daily Challenge. Just before dinner. Not feeling it.

Core strength plus legs.

Noontime run at Goddard. Perimeter road plus antenna range. Some time during the run my Garmin figured out what day and time it is.

Morning run this time. My watch still hasn't turned up yet, so I got out my Garmin 210 and charged it up. I had stopped using it a couple of years ago because it was basically useless as a GPS tracker. It still can't locate satellites, and it has no idea what time or day it is, but you can use it as a stopwatch (I figured that out accidentally, by pressing random buttons while it has the "locating satellites" screen up, as it always does when you try to enter training mode). So I have an accurate time for the run now.

Callenge + abs.

Challenge+abs.

Noontime run at Goddard. Perimeter road plus antenna range.

Challenge plus.