Training Log Archive: bbrooke

Snowy LoCO FIT breakfast run on the Coal Creek Trail -- easy pace due to possible Snowshoe-O tomorrow.

Prep work for Eldora Ski-O:

- Added late entries to pre-regstration database.
- Checked in with Doug about meet status; posted updated to RMOC's website & Facebook page.
- Data entry for annual waivers and two family membership renewals.
- Located old Eldora photos; drafted an HTML email update.
- Created the Classes & Entries files for OE2010.
- Created start cards; fought with my printer...
- Miscellaneous email follow-ups.

Met some friends for happy hour beers at Gravity / Gastronauts...and then walked home.

Walked to & from the rec center -- scenic route, since it's not very cold outside.

Strength Training for Runners class -- final session!

Partial Roost run (late start).

Walked to & from the rec center.

Strength Training for Runners class.

I'm out of the loop -- somehow I missed that our running group sessions start next week. Wow! That means DST is coming soon, too. Yay.

- Snow Mountain Ranch: cropped photos & created Facebook album; uploaded overall results to RMOC database; uploaded splits to Attackpoint; posted Doug's meet report; posted volunteer list.

- Eldora: Located old photos and created event pages on Attackpoint & Facebook. Tweaked some details on the meet page.

- Located photo & results for "member news".

- Located photos & links for upcoming national events and Anna's junior training camp.

- Summarized all of the above in an HTML email with photos.

Short & slow recovery run. I saw a pair of coyotes trotting around looking for dinner in the Daughenbaugh / Warembourg area -- but all prairie dogs seemed to be hunkered down in their burrows.

Red Classic course at GPHXO's First Water map.

I had considered doing Blue...but I quickly felt happy to be on Red, when I realized how slowly I would be moving on the steep, rocky terrain. Finishing Blue probably would have taken me four hours.

I got really lost in a few places on this map last year, and this is another GPHXO map with lots of relief and detail not shown by the 20-foot contour interval, so I had planned to be very conservative.

I spent many minutes standing totally still, looking around 360 degrees (since it was so open), trying to figure out where I was. But I didn't have any totally disastrous mistakes. And, after looking at the results, I guess I'm glad just to have finished -- 13 of the 31 Red runners DNF'd and one MP'd. And I wasn't even dead-last among the Red runners who finished -- 11th of 17.

I tried to use trails as much as possible -- easier to run. Mostly, that didn't take me too far out of the way. From #8 to #9, I had planned to leave the trail and head northeast when I saw the distinct saguaro that's mapped just north of the trail (green X); but, I never saw it and I ended up going about 200 meters too far along the trail. Nailing #9 felt like a miracle (and was mostly due to luck -- I wasn't even remotely sure of where I was when I saw the flag).

My other dumb mistake was not knowing where I was (or which direction to turn) when I hit the wash near #12 -- I think I aimed off from the wrong mine-claim post. I figured it out and turned around when I saw the fence...

I ate my favorite GPHXO snacks at the finish (Cheetos and a canned Arnold Palmer -- they always have this stuff), headed to the Freestone Rec Center for a shower, and then made my way back to the airport to fly back to cold reality (work, freezing air, etc.). :-P

Jeff from TSN on the Red course:

Red Day 9: First Water Classics - Splits