Training Log Archive: Nadim

Event: QOC Summer Short Series Sprints
 

QOC Summer Series, Sprint 1 at Glendening Preserve near Bristol, MD. It's always fun to go to a new area. I like this kind of course with the flat open woods. It's very fast. Still one needs to keep a straight bearing and be able to read the trail. The contours actually did help too. I got there a bit late with Max. Peggy had gone there earlier w/Valarie to setup (controls and e-punch). As soon as I could get ready, I went out. I had hardly any warm-up but with the temperature pushing 90F, I probably didn't need much of one. I started okay then kept changing my mind on the way to #1. I had similar bobbles going to #2 and climbed much more than was necessary. After that it was fast and mostly straight. I saw Mark Mace who was trying to recover after an error going to #9. See the Split List for more. I was 3rd fastest for the course out of about 13 people. My cold has subsided though there's still some phlem in the sinuses.

QOC Summer Series, Sprint 2 at Glendening Preserve near Bristol, MD. I'm not sure how much time was in-between the races. I could have used a toilet and this bothered me later. I started this one in the middle of those who came. I had heard that Ted had troubles at #8 before going out. I was a bit slow to #1 mainly because I was reading the map incorrectly--I thought the control was on the same side of the large reentrant that I approached. The next few were fast. Dave Pruden messed it up worse and I almost caught him there. I missed a little at #2 mainly because the vegetation was closer together than the map showed the clearing to be. Eddie Bergeron caught me just before getting to #3 and I briefly passed Dave there. I was slow to orient my map and didn't bother trying to chase Eddie without getting my own route decided upon first. Dave got ahead of me either because he was quicker at the route decisions or because he was aiming to stay in contact with Eddie. We ran in the same order until #7 when I got to the control just ahead of Dave and then took off. Dave slowed after this. Either he had a good strategy of letting me make a mistake first, or he just needed time to plan this one. #8 was in a tricky area where pine vegetation and fields were the only features nearby. By this time, I'd forgotten hearing about Ted's trouble. I entered the area just at where I had entered when approaching #5, then emerged well past the control. I hunted for a while, seeing Dave run off at one point. Eventually I came in from 100m to the east where I could make more sense of the vegetation mapping. Kris Beecroft was just behind me briefly but she was going to #5. I hit #9 after passing #5 and went on to finish w/o further error. See the Split List. It was good to get a nice workout in, especially since I haven't been doing much lately. I actually ran harder and faster on this run but the error at #8 doesn't show it. I'm still having left hamstring issues but didn't feel it during this race.

Glendening Preserve, Bristol, MD. Control pickup of #3, #4, #7 and #6 from the second sprint.

Sprint 1 - Splits

Sprint 2 - Splits