Training Log Archive: RLShadow

Event: ROC - Mendon Ponds Park - Solo Series
 

This is "long" only by my current rather lame standards. It was the longest I've run in a while, and it included many walking breaks (5 min run / 1 min walk). Once again, the Garmin totally messed up the elevation gain. It said I had 277 feet of climb. I'm estimating it was actually around 100 feet.

Rt. 104 path (mainly), with trailsnail. Around 60, overcast, windy. In other words, very nice weather compared to what we've been having lately.

The elevation on my GPS for some reason goes haywire occasionally, not all the time, when I go from running to walking. Check out the trace for today's run. Around the 3.5 mile mark, it showed me going from 386 ft to 213 ft (which is below Lake Ontario level). It showed a total elevation gain of 235 feet. I corrected that to 55 feet which is a more reasonable estimate.

Mostly-trail run on Crescent Trail, from Lyndon Ave at the canal. I had a plan which was derailed due to an exceptionally muddy section of the trail, so I backtracked and bailed out to a road. I headed back to the starting point, crossed the canal, and ran a while on another section of the Crescent Trail I hadn't been on. There were a few muddy spots but not too bad. Warm (low 60's) and windy.

Canal path, from Winton Rd, with trailsnail. Nice afternoon, which resulted in a lot of people on the path -- walkers, bikers, runners. Most but not all kept a respectful distance. Took a few 1-minute walking breaks.

Urban run. Accidentally stopped my watch around Alexander on the way back, didn't discover it until Goodman. Estimated the time and distance lost.