Training Log Archive: WileyKyO-T

Two miles at a comfortable hard pace--about 85%. Purpose was to simulate what I know I can do on a "bad day" timewise for my APFT, which will be this Wednesday. I think I'm in good shape!

65 PU
1x 30's navy seal abs w/ 20 Perfect Pushups in the middle
50 PU
Total pushups this workout: 135

Event: BAOC: Joe Grant
 

Run on Los Gatos trail with Go Far group. I didn't go too far, since I was recovering from yesterday's NavX.

I wished I'd been able to go to the Joe Grant meet, but by the time I was ready I realized that I was just too tired, plus that hour of daylight savings time didn't help!

NavX Briones 4 hour Map Trek
I was concerned when I got to the staging area, because around this time last year this was the location of an ultralong O course, where I came in overtime after I literally fell asleep from exhaustion while crossing under a barbed wire fence for 15 minutes at about 3.5 hours in (and 200m from the aid station).

This year was different. This year I am better conditioned and I could hold it together for the four hours needed without my body needing a time out.

With the Score-O format, I got my map an hour before the start and plotted out what I thought was a reasonable outer loop to connect most (1800/2500) points (values ranged from 30 to 100 [of which there were three]). I then plotted in a different color an inner loop for however much time, if any, I had left after the first pass. As usual, I marked where I believed I should be at the end of each hour, and I picked three outer and three inner controls as bypass candidates if I wasn't meeting my time hacks.

My time estimates were pretty decent:
1hr mark: 1hr exactly
2hr mark: 1:53
3hr mark: 2:35
4hr mark: 3:05

With my outer loop complete, I did not return to the start but cut directly into the inner loop, picking up points alongside trails. With about 35 minutes left, I made the decision to continue on my marked inner loop path even though I realized I would not make it all the way through. In retrospect, if I had modified my plan I could have picked up a 70 point control without the steep down and up of the route I chose. However, it would have involved some of the steepest downhill of the course, so pros and cons. The hills out here are must-walks in many places, and while contouring was often my friend, on such hills the side slope took a toll on my feet and ankles. Navigationally the course was not very hard; I lost much more time from hesitation as I correctly approached controls than I did from lost map contact or having trouble finding the hung-to-be-visible points.

I collected 1800/1800 points from my primary (outer) loop and 340/700 points from my backup (inner) loop.

I ended up in 3rd place, 200 points behind the winner. I could envision how I could have run a more perfect course and come in first, and that might very well happen on the next map trek. Still, it's a comfort knowing that my strategic mistake late in the course to pursue a downhill 30 pointer instead of cutting right to a 70 pointer ultimately did not make a placing difference. This course was intense but rewarding!

Biking to Marguerite stop

Swim at Stanford Rec Center by Y2E2. 32 laps of a 25m pool broken up as follows:
6x laps pool jogging 4' 6" depth
6x laps elementary backstroke
6x laps sidestroke
6x laps breaststroke
6x laps freestyle
2x laps pool jogging cool down

Biking back from the Marguerite stop

Comfortable run to break in my new Merrill Moab shoes, which I'll debut at tomorrow's NavX Map Trek.

Standard Rancho San Antonio loop; my fastest time on it.
Time at the halfway lookout point was 28:30

Cooldown after fast trails to round out morning mileage to 8.

50 PU
1x 40's navy seal abs w/ 20 Perfect Pushups in the middle
50 PU
1x 40's navy seal abs w/ 20 Perfect Pushups in the middle
50 PU
Total PU this workout: 190

Warm up from apartment to MVARC meetup at Permanente Creek trailhead.
Paces:
1: 6:55
2: 6:51

MVARC Shoreline run. Nothing breathtaking, but a solid training run.
Paces:
1: 7:05
2: 7:07
3: 7:02
4: 7:13
0.4: 7:06

Started with jogging back out partway on Permanente Creek Trail to retrieve Chad, who as it turned out had just taken a wrong turn midway through the workout and was not too far from the trailhead. That was a little bit less then a mile out and back, and then I transitioned from that back to the usual cool down back to the apartment.
Paces:
1: 7:26
2: 7:29
3: 7:24

Worked on parrying drills, assisted with Jen getting her yellow belt, and practiced falling culminating in more techniques.
Also, 40 PU

Power Cleans looking for 1RM
1x45 (just bar)
1x95
1x115
1x135
1x145
1x155
1x165
Dozen+ of failed attempts at 175
Dozen+ of failed attempts at 170
Sucks that the workout ended where it did especially with so many of the failed reps being CLOSE...but I ultimately realized that it just wasn't happening tonight :(

Biking to campus pt 1: home to sweet shop

Biking to campus pt 2: sweet shop to Huang

Huang to Main Quad

Biking from main quad back home