Training Log Archive: RLShadow

Event: ROC - Highland Park Score-O Event
 

Highland Park Sprint. My GPS seemed to be working OK during the race, but now it won't turn on, download, or re-charge, so no GPS track nor actual distance covered.

I think I did OK. I had a bobble at #5, and then a decidedly sub-optimum route choice from 5 to 6. Otherwise, no major issues.
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To my shock, I wound up coming in first. Pretty light field though, only 8 participants in the Sprint.

C • Nice job ! 3

Highland Park Score-O. A quick glance at the map suggested that it shouldn't be too hard to get all 24 controls in the 1 hour time limit. I went for the NW controls (in the Highland Bowl part of the park) first, then basically clockwise from there. When I finished I was the 2nd one in, with Chad Borden beating me by a good 3-4 minutes. I was pretty pleased. Then I looked at my split printout and saw that I had only gone to 23 controls. I asked Chad how many he had done, and he said 23. Zak finished soon after me; I asked him, and he had gotten 23 also. Hmmm .... we all finally figured out that we had each missed #17 (very close to South Avenue, near the school), because the number was pretty well camouflaged, as was the circle itself. It would have been about a 1.5 mile round trip to get that control now that we had finished, which didn't interest me at all. Chad, and I think Zak, both went back to get it.

Again, no GPS trace, but as I was getting close to the finish, it looked like I had covered just over 3 miles.
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I finished 10th out of 29, coming in after the 8 people who got all 24 controls, and also behind Tyler who got 23 like I did, but he beat me by about 2.5 minutes.

If I had seen #17 on the map, I suspect it would have taken me around 3 extra minutes to get it, which would have put me close to Carl P. who took first. So it was a costly mistake to miss seeing #17, took me from a probable 2nd place down to 10th. If I had been energetic and had run out to get 17 after finishing and discovering I had missed it, it probably would have taken me 14 minutes or so to get it, plus the few minutes it took to discover I had missed it. So that might have moved me up to 7th place or so -- not worth it given how un-energetic I was feeling at that time!

Sprint - Splits

Long-ish run on the HJ trail and other paths, including the path around North Ponds Park, the bird sanctuary trail, and the Rt. 104 path, plus a bit on Rt 250.

They're getting set up for the Webster waterfront festival (waterfront being the main pond at North Ponds Park, as opposed to Lake Ontario).

A recent goal of mine, which trailsnail scoffs at, is to have my time spent running roughly match the time I spend playing pickleball. This week, so far so good! I just need to do more running, as my pickleball time this week has been abnormally low for various reasons.

C • Hmmm 2

Fitness room workout.

Outdoors, at Webster Park.

Actually, dog walks, plural, one around 5 pm, the other at 9 pm, both of them just a bit over a mile each.

"Long"-ish run on the HJ trail with trailsnail. She originally wanted to do 6 miles which I agreed to, however, I was feeling a little creaky (lower back issues, plus feeling some effects from running a fairly fast (for me) 5 miles yesterday). After a couple of miles, I managed to talk her into shortening today's run to 5 miles.

I had a routine appt with my wrist surgeon in Henrietta; I brought running stuff so I could stop in the city on the way home for an urban run. Nice day for it.

Indoors at the Rec Center. Pretty humid, which caused my hands to sweat after about 2 games. But ironically, the first two games I played terribly, when I wasn't sweating too much in my hands and had no real trouble gripping the paddle. The 3rd game I actually played better but by the end of the game I was having major trouble hanging onto the paddle, so I made that my last game.

Cheryl and I spent the whole afternoon working pretty hard at the rental house we own, and the dogs were acting like they felt short-changed in the walk department today (and in fact, they were short-changed, relative to what they're used to). So I took them on a longer than usual late-evening walk, out to the Rt 104 path, to Maple, and then back.