Training Log Archive: BorisGr

My first attempt at track work in a while. I joined a Cardozo Crawlers training at Cardozo track. They were doing "hammer 400's", where you run 400's at regular interval pace, but run every 4th one much faster. The group was doing 12. I decided 8 was enough for me. My plan was to gradually get faster throughout the workout, if my body cooperated. I think it worked ok, though I certainly felt very slow and out of shape, having a hard time remembering how to run fast.

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Lunchtime run from work. Started with Charlie, but he had to stop after five minutes due to Achilles pain. I ran the rest by myself: down the mall, around Lincoln Memorial and back to capitol hill. Definitely not used to running!

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Taking it pretty easy today on the elliptical after the biggest week of training I've had in a few months, sadly.

Abs, glutes, thighs, and PT exercises.

Event: QOC Rosaryville - Mid Atlantic Championships
 

QOC Local Event and Mid-Atlantic Champs at Rosaryville on a beautiful, sunny day.

I somehow never got into this map and made some disastrous errors along the way. This was pretty different terrain from the places we usually run, in the sense that the woods were very thick, and so a lot of the best routes strung together series of trails. I was not good enough at being flexible and adapting to this approach, and I struggled with the mapping of the trails and vegetation the entire race.

I made a huge error on the way to #2, losing over 4 minutes. That definitely took some steam out, and I ran the rest of the race in a cruisey pace, though still got plenty tired and managed to make another big mistake at #12, losing 2 more minutes.

In the end, Jon T was very impressive, dominating the race. Wyatt showed good form too, and handed me a massive clobbering. I ended up 4th, with Kevin in 3rd.

Mid-Atlantic Relay Champs!

Really, really nice to have a relay. We have so few of them in the US, and they are so much fun.

I thought the format was genius for our orienteering community: a single category, with just one champion. Teams are made up of 3 people, and can be either 3, 6, or 9 points, based on sex and age. The 9 point teams start at time 0, the 6 point teams start 7 minutes later, and the 3 point teams another 7 minutes later. First team back wins.

If we ever have a US Relay Champs again, I think we could adopt similar rules for a more exciting competition, with more teams competing in the same category. What I would envision is something like this:

- 3 legs, orange (3.5km), yellow (2.5km), green (5km)
- A team can have any number of points
- The teams with the highest number of points start first
- After that, teams start 2 minutes after the first team for every point they have (so a 12 point team would have a 24 minute head start on a 3 point team)

What do you think?

Oh, the race itself: my teammates (Kevin and Hannah) did great, and reeled in 12 of the 14 minutes that we started behind the Riley Family Juggernaut from DVOA. But I had nothing and, despite pushing very hard right from the start, never caught sight of Wyatt, and gained a whopping 2 seconds on him over the entire race. I thought we had a really fun team, and would love to team up with those guys again next year to see if we can get revenge, especially if all three of us are actually healthy.

Thanks to everyone involved in putting on this meet, and a special thanks to Anna C for taking Barney around for a whole hour before the relay. He is a happy and tired beagle right now.

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Blue - Splits

Relay Leg 3 - Splits

Elliptical

Annika was named Orienteering of the Year in Sweden today: http://www.orientering.se/grenar/orientering/nyhet...

Well deserved! Congratulations!

My work schedule has me off every other Friday, so I had the rare luxury of getting out into the woods on a weekday today! It was a beautiful day, and JonT joined me for Kenny's control picking loop at GFMD: http://attackpoint.org/route.jsp/route_793

I felt very slow and struggled to keep up with Jon, especially on the uphills, but it was a really fun training, and just a pleasure to run through these woods.

Pilates for abs, thighs, glutes, etc after returning from a long walk in Rock Creek Park with Mr. Barnacle B. Beagleson.

C • Mr. Barnacle B. Beagleson 2

Some stationary biking in the morning. Was going to do some strength/pilates, but ran out of time.