Training Log Archive: BigWillyStyle

Rock Creek Ramble. Ramble, Ramble, Ramble. I was hoping to do 20 miles, but fell ~3.3 short of that (albeit with 12 minutes to spare). I was very close to 5 mph after two hours, but then the long uphill run from 102 to 63, followed by a long road slog to 49 and a steep climb up to 66, dropped my pace down to 3-4 mph for the remainder. So yeah, turns out that two hours is indeed my limit for moving at speed before the wheels start falling off.

Course: 46-61-28-105-48-33-56-47-102-63-49-66-32-45-57-103-22-44-35-24

Miles:
1. 12:31
2. 12:56
3. 11:50
4. 10:42
5. 10:06
6. 12:39
7. 13:03
8. 13:04
9. 10:18
10. 15:08 (122:17 at the ten-mile mark)
11. 17:09
12. 15:15
13. 15:03
14. 16:09
15. 14:35
16. 18:41
17. 8:48 (0.78)

C • Original Plan? 2

Event: Rock Creek Ramble
 

Rock Creek Ramble practice course. That's a real sexy min/k for 8+ kilometers, but the terrain was actually faster than Frenchman Coulee due to a lot less rock underfoot. Also, the course only had 12 controls. I treated it like a race and kept my own time and splits, but without anyone to compare with it's hard to take anything from them. I navigated well, with just a couple small bobbles on 4 and 8.

1. 3:15
2. 6:25
3. 6:56
4. 7:34
5. 3:41
6. 1:58
7. 3:01
8. 6:23
9. 1:18
10. 2:29
11. 4:40
12. 3:21
F. 2:52

Miles:
1. 3:58
2. 2:35
3. 3:15
4. 3:54
5. 3:30
6. 3:09
7. 2:43 (0.79)

Miles:
1. 3:22
2. 3:20
3. 4:58
4. 4:44
5. 4:01
6. 4:10
7. 4:08
8. 0:53 (0.26)

I think I passed Greg Barnes on the overpass over 405 today.

Miles:
1. 4:06
2. 2:34
3. 3:52
4. 3:46
5. 3:22
6. 3:06
7. 2:49 (0.79)

Miles:
1. 3:43
2. 3:13
3. 4:54
4. 5:29
5. 5:07
6. 4:03
7. 4:04
8. 0:52 (0.25)

Now that course lengths and notes are published, Cascade's team is officially discussing our relay strategery. It will likely involve elaborate political maskirovka and to some extent be based on the theme "run as fast as you can and find all the controls." ...Or will it?

Also, new most delicious treat possible: refrigerated mint chocolate Milano cookies, dipped in chocolate milk. Oh My God.

I wonder when our uniforms will come. Hopefully soon, because once I put that shirt on I'll be giddy as a schoolboy on Christmas morning and I'll pretty much never not be wearing it.

C • Riddle? 2

Rest day.

In order to practice my sprintyness, I am issuing a call for course designers. I will send you the map of my local college campus, and you can draw up a course/courses, and I will run it/them and report back on how excellent it was and how many times you tricked me, you sly dog. Said map is decidedly lacking in ISSOM detail, because I'm lacking in motivation, but it's good enough right now for these purposes.

To be clear - you don't have to actually set the courses in real life, or do anything other than click your mouse some times! Yay course designing with no consequences! Everyone loves course designing. This is also your chance to get back at me for all the mean things I habitually do. I promise to run your course at full effort no matter how dastardly it is.

C • Sprinty course designs 24