Training Log Archive: boyle

I ran around the block for a FTF and ended up being 6TF.

Ziggy has been rejecting his adult kibbles the past few days but out in the woods he's taking those treats as usual.

The young adults put together another night-O for training. THANK YOU!

Except for two giant screw-ups, it was a straightforward course for me with little trail running. Compared to last Thursday, this was a much better outing for me. Was it the cool 16° temperature or the doublecheeseburger meal in the car enroute?

Aside from two controls, I averaged slower than 14min/km so I still could not have finished the full 7km before our agreed upon 22h30 cutoff.

I messed up the approach to 9, trouble again with that section of map just south of Timm Drive. I picked up controls after the race and I think I see what I have been doing wrong the past three attempts. I left S short of the control and ended up in the green SE of control 9. Interestingly, I screwed up my last leg, somehow missed crossing the trail home in the dark and headed NE through that same patch of green.

This would make a very nice permanent course but there is no way I could train on it without flags.

I picked up controls 9 through 18 immeidately after my run, while I still knew where they were. So I thought.

In the race, I struggled terribly seeking 9 until Robbie and Erice flew by. I grabbed on to their lamps to undercut 10 and 11. Therefore, I didn't really use my map for 10 and couldn't find that stupid little control during pick up.

I couldn't find 10 from 9. I gave up. I couldn't find 10 from 11. I gave up. After 16, I took the fields all the way north and hugged the cliffs as I headed for Timm Drive back to the car and there it was.

C • Thanks 2

COCs 2010 meeting

2, 1, 4, 3, 5, 8, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17

64.4%

24/57 68.8% w/ handicap

So many issues on this one. At first glance, it looked like a simple trail-running exercise. I decided that I would just leave out whichever two were more difficult to find at north end of the map. I didn't even get up there. Sure I came back with seven minutes to spare but at tonight's pokey pace, I wouldn't have got even one extra control.

There seemed to be too much out & back (4 - 3 - 4 & 6 - 7- 6). Hopefully, other route choices will be posted. I cussed myself for the 1k run out to control 107 but I couldn't have used that time for two controls anywhere else. It could have been worse: I heard of runners who didn't even notice 107 hiding in the corner of their map.

I didn't like going from 102 to 101 as I couldn't keep up with the others who ran the trails. However, I did get there long before the others who were at 102 with me. Even so, they all flew by me going to 104 and/or 103.

Coming off 108, I spent SO much time seeking trails and ended up dropping off cliff SW of 108 and never used trails. In hindsight, I shouldn't have been messing with other racers and should have read the map. I knew that I could walk up and down the reentrant to 112 but followed newbies on trail run instead. I knew about the double cliff hidden under the map target for 113 but I didn't even check the map or control sheet regarding depression above that double cliff. Instead I wandered in the same train of newbies.

After 113, I just ran and ran and ran (or I tried). So many people buzzed right by me and I even got comments about my knee [sigh].

Again the results show me with one less control than punched. I give up. I won't bother making another appeal.