Training Log Archive: hamlet

My pace was under 10 minutes per km :D The course was 5km long, so if I use the course distance, I ran around 10:30/km, which is really good for me. I mean, I'm not surprised I was that fast, it is Mason Neck after all, so there's no hills so I can actually run most of it.
I only made one big mistake. At 4, I saw my mom, and I kind of got distracted I guess, since I was planning too far ahead, so I thought I was at 5 instead and I tried to take a bearing of what I thought I was going to 6. I ended up at 7, where I realized my mistake, so I ran over to 5 and then ran cleanly for the rest of the course.

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oh how i've missed running in the rain with my glasses

felt like crap today (not sick, i doubt it was symptoms of covid-) so I ended up just eating and chilling all day. whoops. might still do some strength, idk

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turns out a person who visited last thursday has covid. I was barely in contact with her since I was in my room mostly, but my mom was with her the whole hour or two (idk I wasn't paying attention to how long she was there).
Pretty concerning, so far I don't have any symptoms though, and the only shortness of breath I've had was because of running (which is very very normal for me-)
Still, I'm concerned and I don't want to spread it if I'm asymptomatic, and I hope I can get a test done asap. At least I'm at my dad's house where I don't see anyone other than my dad, so I won't endanger anyone this week.

AAAAAAA

some much needed intervals, and they went better than last time. I expected to only do 8, but I ended up doing 12 so pretty glad about that.

On my 1 min on I typically ran ~200m, and when I ran less than that it was because hills came into play. For the most part my pace for each leg was around 5min/k, with only two legs being about 30sec/k slower because they were uphill and I was dying. Other than that I was pretty consistent, with the exception of my second interval where I ran a 4:30/km pace. But yeah, not bad. ]

Also I actually jogged most of the rests- after the 4th interval I walked that whole rest minute (uphill), and then after the 5th interval I tended to walk the first 30 seconds and jog the next 30 seconds, so pretty glad about that.

there was no way I was gonna run my cooldown. Also I think my HR was so high because I started my cooldown almost immediately after my last interval, so my heart was still recovering a bit from that. Looking at my HR graph that's definitely what it was.

finally got a rest day in

Event: QOC Patapsco McKeldin
 

I did pretty well, just made some small mistakes on 3, 8, 14, 15, and to the finish.

3 was a relatively small mistake- I only lost about 30 seconds there because I didn't fully look at what the features are in the circle and didn't try to visualize it properly, so I got to the edge of the circle and got confused.

8 was also a relatively small mistake- especially compared to others. Probably also only cost me 30 seconds - 1 minute. I was running with 3 other people since control 4, and I was getting pretty psyched out about it and just wanted to lose them. At 8 I went to the wrong cliff, and it took me a bit to notice where it was on the map because it was exactly on the line of the circle. The others were a little further off and seemed just lost in the terrain which only had about 2 contours, and then those 2 cliffs, so I got lucky to have at least found that wrong one which I could use as an attackpoint. I then proceeded to completely lose them on my way to 9, which I think I executed really well, and I saw that one of the three people, the one that was up till then just in front of me, was way off so I was pretty proud of myself.

14, well, ignoring the fact that it was a really long leg and getting up the first hill onto the field took me too long because, well, ouch, I only made a mistake at the end where I started barreling down the wrong trail (which was at first parallel to the one I wanted to be on, just on the other side of the ridge). I noticed my mistake fairly quickly, but instead of smoothly crossing over the little bit of terrain between the two trails, I instinctively started running back on the trail before crossing over. Not the best mistake recovery, but oh well. I don't think I lost much more than about 30 seconds.

15 was definitely my biggest mistake. I was around a bunch of other people again, and after we left the trail and crossed the stream to go around the hill, I was thinking that they were wayyyy too high. I even thought I was too high, but since they were higher up I thought I was probably fine. Nope, I was about 1 contour too high which got me to a spot which really confused me. It looked like it was the right spot, just the control wasn't there. Even looking at my GPS track, I don't think I could've found where I was out there, it felt like it didn't match. So I decided to try going back to the trail, until I looked over and saw the control, so that was good. Now it makes sense that those other people were trying to hit the bend in the trail as an attack point, which was probably better than my strategy of contouring over and hoping I was on the right contour (especially given that the other times I contoured on the course I was always a little off).

And to the finish, well, I wanted to cut through the light green to the road instead of taking the trail, but I got sidetracked going on the rough open under the powerlines, and I noticed a little late and should've just stuck with the rough open but oh well. I was tired and i forgot to take a drink beforehand so that wasn't exactly the best-

Other than that I'm pretty satisfied with my course. Of course I could've run more, I always can, but I don't think I did too bad, especially looking at my past week of training. I do need to practice contouring more, but other than that I just need to pay attention. Also I need to stop getting so psyched out about other people if I want to stand a chance in competitions. Looking at my pace it looks miserable, but it is McKeldin after all so I can't be too frustrated.

It was a really fun course, probably the first course I ran at McKeldin that didn't just feel like a repeat of the course from the year before. It was nice that there was more of a focus on contouring, especially on that one steep hillside, rather than just sending the runners up and down over and over as I feel like usually happens. It's a hard park to set up a course that is more technical than physical, and I think this course definitely did the job.

Ran the yellow course because someone lost their phone and I figured I might as well go look for it. I didn't find the phone, (someone else did), but I found some car keys instead soooo....

I really need to start wearing my O-socks when I go out on these second, easier courses. I thought it was gonna be mostly on trails, but the person told me that they went mostly straight for every control, so no trails for meee

also I know I was slow for the fact it was a yellow course, but I was tired and when I wasn't on a trail (which was most of the time), I was walking so I could look more carefully for the phone.

and I thought I wasn't gonna run that much today

also just a note if I actually had my epunch i would've won yellow so yay :) at least I can still win against 10 year olds and families with kids

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