Training Log Archive: NotATac

Fabled West Point Half Marathon. Burned 1650 Calories and had a decent amount of climb (its West Point what do you expect). This was my first timed half marathon and I like it. Although these races seem to be somewhat expensive, I wouldn't mind doing two or three of these a year. I want to try a flatter course and get under 1:30. I didn't do any training for this one so I know I could do it faster next time. I felt pretty good during the whole thing, although at mile 10 I started to get a bad cramp for whatever reason and it lasted until about mile 12. After it went away some of these affects still lingered but I had so much adrenaline it didn't really matter. Good race overall.

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Did a little Arvin lift that I can say I am pretty sore from. Things ranged from lunges with weights, lateral Flies, Bench press, Rowers, Biceps, Abs. We did three minutes at each station then switched, Riley and I hit the abs and Rower station twice.

Just went out to check points with Jesson. The first point we found was in the correct place but the second was about 10m off. With the help of Ed we fixed it. Less snow today and less cold.

The O team is getting ready for our brigade land navigation training where we'll bring all the guys who branched infantry and any others who want out to Camp Shea. I was assisting in planting two points into the ground. Not super hard. Still A LOT of snow on the ground.

Did some Abs and chest. Warm up to lusk (1KM?). Then did 6 lusk loops, each one Km. One was fast then the next at a more relaxed pace. Snow had not been cleared so we were constantly running through 8+ inches of snow. Overall some good speed work.

The run to craigstown took 41:54 and was 5.4 miles. Ran with Luke and Matt. Felt really good considering I have not ran in 9 days. Afterwards I did about 10 minutes of abs and push ups to help me get ready for my Thursday APFT.