Training Log Archive: Nadim

Event: CNYO A meet
 

CYNO: Red Sprint. I was late getting started due to watching Max and getting him into the daycare. I didn't have time to get my control descriptions into the holder which I ran with empty. There was no warm-up. Once started (about 8 minutes past my scheduled start), I slowly got into the map. I stopped early on the way to the first control, drawn by one on a tree. Going to #2 things didn't make much sense until I got over the berm. I saw Vadim pass and didn't try to push too hard. I was fairly clean up until #5 where I was off just a bit. A couple people converged at this point so I was on a train with Alan, J. Goodman and another junior. I was mostly at the tail end and stopped at each control to unfold my map and check controls. However on the second to last control, the end was so near and I'd just broken contact so I didn't stop to check the control number. Things didn't quite look right and I went on anyway. Had I checked, I could have noticed that I was at the wrong control. I think the mispunch may have cost me first place in +M45.

CNYO. I had an early start due to my mispunch on the sprint. I ran fairly clean until #9. Leaving the trail at a bend, I must have just ran over the top of the control. I then got distracted by another control and even went past that when I found out it wasn't mine. I fumbled a bit at #10 then caught-up to Jim Rayburn and another guy. Our troop exchanged leadse together most of the rest of the way back. I fumbled a few finishing-up. See the Split List.

Red - Splits

From Rosedale Ave. Maple Ave to Kentucky Ave. to Rosedale Ave. to Kentbury Dr. to the Georgetown Branch Trail to the bridge overlook immediately above Rock Creek, back to Newdale Rd. via Kentbury Way, to Maple Ave. via Sleaford Pl. to Maryland Ave. to Rosedale Ave. I got home a bit early from an off-site meeting so I was able to take Max out for a spin. He was a bit cranky; perhaps he got hungry and a little cold from the change to fall weather. We stopped over Rock Creek for him to get out and look down the 100ft. or so below. More crankyness ensued getting back to the playground. I felt a bit slow but steady.

C • Max wants to run 3

From Rosedale Ave. Rockville Pike to Cedar Ln., to Elmhirst Ln. to the Rock Creek Trail, to the Kensington Pkwy. to Jones Bridge Rd. to Chestnut Ave. to Rosedale Ave. Half-mile split on the trail: 3:48. My legs were tired from yesterday. I got a second wind after climbing the Kensington Pkwy.

Mark Twain School & Park. In the morning, I checked and added to the areas north of Rte 28. It was a nice morning though a little damp. I wanted to see and map things in the daytime that I had drafted from night-time excursions. I saw much more and was able to add point features and verify things. Most of the previous mapping was okay.

QOC at Hemlock Overlook Park, VA. While Peggy did her course, Max and I did the streamer course. I think he was tired to begin with because his nap was short. He got distracted a lot too. I don't think it had anything to do with the bump he got above between the eyes when he fell off the picnic bench onto the next bench. He did like getting stickers for his control card but more than once he'd look at them and then toss away the card. Sometimes he would stop, grab my leg and have me pick him up with the expectation that I would carry him forward. Rather than do that, I'd pick him up and wait until he was ready to get down. Sometimes he'd sprint. He finished the whole distance under his own power but I had to keep him on the course and interested.

QOC at Hemlock Overlook Regional Park, VA. I ran the Blue course. The first control was fine. I was moving well to #2 but managed to overshoot it to the next big spur. Fumbling in the green with very parallel features even down to dot knolls, I lost a bunch of time having to relocate from a field 400m away. I made a wierd error going to #4 and got better after that. Mostly, I ran slowish. It was nice to get out and get some competition practice in. The course was pretty good. See the Split List.

Blue - Splits