Training Log Archive: Ari-o

Event: Hudson Highlander
 

Highlander! Slept out at the AMC facility, where the manager was interested in orienteering (I owe him a map, or a link) and ate a bagel and pickle before the 10 minute drive to the start.

Shuffled up with Alex to the start and then started running. I took a road to 1 (didn't lose any time) and then made a mistake going over the mountain to 2; I should have gone back and around to the road, which I had thought about but didn't do. Saw Alex. Ran low along the stream (good running) and pretty good nav up to 3, so that felt good. 4 was a long leg and I got caught in laurel and lost about 3m, which I didn't make up until after the aid station (all the blue gatorade) but saw the rest of the field coming back on the trail run.

Trail run was nice and pretty flat, so jogged some easy miles, with Alex and another guy. Nav to 7 and 8, and then 9 and 10 were in the woods. Alex led to 9 and part way to 10, but then thought she'd messed up and went one direction, three of went the other, punch, and on to 11. That was a long leg and me and another guy sort of stumbled our way to a trail and ran that. I got ahead of him and spiked the control. There was a surprising amount of this given how rusty my nav skillz are.

A bit low to 12, to 13 I went too far right and hit mountain laurel but made it through. Nice route to 14, then a good run around to 15, skipping a stream and green to run a road. In navigated the first loop of the last leg really well, just talking through the terrain and finding the controls. To 22, a long, annoying leg, I didn't see the trail along the lake and went way left. Even missing the trail and going through a marsh (abandoned parking lot? Harriman is weird) I don't seem to have lost time per Strava. But then 23, I got sucked around the hill, ran into camp buildings, and stumbled around with lowlanders before finding it.

But finished well, navigated pretty well, had fun, ate lots of food, and a beautiful day in the woods.

Need to update this later with the map at hand. Navigated surprisingly well with one mistake just not seeing a trail along a lake near the end. Ran pretty well, only found some mountain laurel, and had fun on a beautiful day.

From the Strava, though, it looks like my take-the-road-around route to 22 didn't really cost me any time, and if I'd executed it, it might have worked better.

Highlander - Splits

Jogaroo before heading down to Highlander.

Went out to roll the bike path to "beat the rain."

It wound up not raining later in the day, but did pour right after I finished.

DP out, skate back (but getting a bit greasy with the leaves). One woman on a bike "wow that looks like a lot of work." If you only knew.

Had time to go from where I parked in Arlington out to 4/225 and back. There are some sections of 1992-era pavement that is really starting to show its age, but mostly nice.

Cool down.

100m at the end because why not.

6 seconds off world record pace.

4-6-8-6-4, then Smooth showed up so a 2, and then I did a 1. Perfectly happy with the short-ish distance. Even ran negative splits.

80
123
182 (slow, but I jogged around to take a picture of the sunrise)
120
72 (!)
34
15 (logged separately since I already stopped my watch.

Warm up

Interstitials

Then we did Nick abs with Scott spice and it was hard!

Another sticky day, yelling at a partner, then joining them when done. When I yelled she yelled back, like an echo. Then I joined for the last five sections.

Ran to Hubway with my new pack from John with a lot of weight (computer, clothes, water) and it was pretty good.

Run over to meet my sister, wearing John's run commute backpack. Pretty nice!

Stashed the pack and did a loop around the river.