Training Log Archive: maprunner

at PNS for a nice change of pace. Twenty degrees, but it felt warmer due to the abundant sunshine. Felt good to move without looking at my watch, and very good just to be outside in the fresh air.

trying to increase the weight training, to avoid those nagging old age aches and pains

C • Good for you 6

Ordered a Forerunner 405 today. I had some Christmas money, and a $100 fitness "credit" from work, so I figured I'd join the QuickRoute generation.

Valerie is so amazing. She knows that a numbers geek like myself has a waiting period of about 24 hours :). When I wrote to her to see if she could possibly put the GA numbers in WinSplits, she said was working on it at just that moment. She got everything loaded there, and added AP for good measure. Thank you so much! (log entries below have been updated with Winsplits data).

C • Results 1

a clean run
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Now that we're home (by 6:30 pm, yeah! I have to work tomorrow :( ), I can add more details.

Goals today:
1. no mistakes
2. ignore Clare

We had to change our start times (earlier) and I was starting two minutes ahead of Clare. It was hard for me to ignore that. Didn't help that I missed my call-up and had to run to the start line. Bad start. Took me a while to settle down; I almost walked right past 1; chose a bad route choice to 2. After that, I said to myself: assume that Clare has already passed you. For some reason that calmed my mind.

Of course, I saw Clare as she was approaching 3 and I was leaving. Fortunately for me, I never saw her again.

Still, I had a a very hard time concentrating today, mostly because I was tired. I resorted to my old trick of talking out loud. Every time my mind wandered, I would say "stop! look at your compass!". Anyone around me must have thought I was nuts :)

I saw Mike again today on the way to 5, and told myself to ignore him. But that was a mistake. Because I suddenly heard another runner asking Mike if he was OK. So I immediately turned around and walked up to Mike to discover that he had just turned his ankle. Of course I was concerned, and offered to help him in. But he told me to go on. I did, but it was hard to stop thinking about him.

I was very tired towards the end, but I kept saying out loud "no mistakes". I managed pretty well. Minor (30 second) bobbles at 5 and 9, but that's it. So I'm very pleased with today's race; I give myself an A-.

Waited for Clare at the finish; turns out that I beat her by a few minutes today, and just a few minutes overall. Great competition. This could be a fun year. Don't know the other results yet, since we had to dash off to the airport.

consistency 9.5, time lost 0

C • results 2

Green Day 2 - Splits