Training Log Archive: mikeminium

Event: OCIN Camp Friedlander NIGHT-O
 

Miami Univ. East Quad Natural Areas, 70% trail, 30% off. checking a couple map correction issues and possible control locations for a future event.

Night-O Green course at Camp Friedlander. A few easy road run legs, but cedarcreek set some challenging route choices. I actually stopped dead in my tracks for several seconds deciding which way to go from 8 to 9. Tough choice! The published course length was 5.9 km, but that included connection lines across uncrossable water features on 2 legs. Measuring the shortest legal straight line, I got 6.2.

Miami Univ. Natural Areas: East, Pine and Reinhart loops

Miami University Natural Areas - 2 circuits of Bachelor Preserve East and Pine loops. Started out strong, but not really pushing for anything special. Checked my time at half-way thru the first loop and saw it was the fastest, by far, in a long time. Pushed harder on the second half of the loop, and set my best single loop time since July 1, 2000 by over a minute. Eased off considerably for the second loop, but it was still a very good time (fastest 2nd loop since I began computerizing records in May, 2000), and my 2-loop total was over 3 minutes better than any 2-loop run since June 1, 2000. Really felt good. Temperature was perfect, about 14C. Trail was a little wet in places and I might have lost a few seconds to slight slips and caution; Icebugs might have been a better shoe choice.

Pitching and chasing whiffleball for a 7 year-old with a pretty good swing.

I had planned on doing the COO "Buckeye Billygoat" today, but one look at the weather and the radar, showing lots and lots of rain coming in, convinced me that 4 circuits of the steep hills of Alley Park would not be a good idea for today.