Training Log Archive: HGaston

No training today; need to catch up (no work done over the weekend!), and it's important because I need to re-submit a proposal today for the summer. July is free (yes!), but this will figure out May and June and therefore whether it's possible to go to team trials/WCOC meet, etc. Most of the sections are done, but I'm still midway through the detail in the budget section so there's a fair bit of researching left.

C • Summer Plans 8

C • A research proposal? 3

The seconds are made up, because I don't have the printout around. Will fix it later!

Long. All of our start times were quite close, so I ran into Hannah at control 2 and then it was an intense 5 kilometers to the finish!

We sometimes made different macroroute choices, but would often cross back into vision around the circle. Several controls like that and then we ran into Tori, and it became that much more competitive. Yikes! This really made me push toward my physical speed limit; I was exhausted by the end! Well, honestly before the end; I stopped at all the water stops ;).

Glad that seeing other people didn't cause me to do anything ridiculous like it has sometimes in the past (i.e. running straight past the spectator control in Rochester).

Great run, both of you! That was intense.

This was my version of picking up controls after the awards. I didn't have very many to pick up at all, but they were somewhat widely spaced (blue controls 8, 9, 11, and 12 from the classic) and far-ish from the assembly area.

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11 and 12 were alright, but then running to 9 I decided that the poles/controls were sort of unwieldy and that it would be nice to leave them by the road to pick up on the way back.

But then I decided that they might get stolen on the road (because obviously bikers and joggers have a great need for carrying around 3-foot sticks on their workouts). So I ran off vaguely toward control 9 and left them about 100m into the woods, next to a rootstock.

Unfortunately it turns out that I didn't cross the road where I thought I had, and so I missed control 9 and had to come out and re-attack. I guess I was sort of distracted, or maybe I was just not being careful enough. In any case it wasn't too bad in itself, as it was only control pick-up and cost maybe 5-10 minutes.

But then after getting 9 and 8 I couldn't find where I had left controls 11 and 12 (because I had not been in the place I thought I was when I left them there). So I ran all the way to the road bend at the north end of the map, looking off into the woods for the control pile. Didn't see them, left controls 8 and 9 by the side of the road anyway, ran all the way back, wondering how I was going to explain to the club that I had lost two controls because I'd imagined leaving them by a rootstock would be a good idea (there are literally thousands of mapped rootstocks at Umstead and probably that many unmapped ones).

But then they appeared! After some unfortunate extra distance, which was then doubled to get back up to the bend where I'd left the other controls.

I guess it was a good workout. And my knee wasn't so bad once I'd been out for fifteen minutes or so.

C • Long 2

Event: Sycamore Scramble
 

String-O!

Not so spectacular sprint around, but I've come to terms with this not being my forte :). Good fun.

Middle distance.

A hesitation on control 2 and a sort of departure from logical thought on control 3, but after that very solid; trying to make up time.

Control 2: I came off of the trail unsure of my exact position, so hesitated going in. Not too much time, but should have focused more on my bearing or planned to cross the trail at a distinctive area.

Control 3: Less than 100m from the previous control--dangerous. I ran off on a rough bearing, missed it to the left, got confused by a stream I'd jumped over when I thought there shouldn't be one there, turned around and went back to control 2 in an attempt to minimize a ridiculous error, missed again to the left, still confused about jumping the stream, looped around and got it from the road. -4minutes to Alison's time, which is the only split I compared it with. Apparently the stream is on the map, but I didn't look closely enough because it is under the control circle.

Good fun!

Ran to the remote middle start, and then partway back from the finish with Tori.

Sprint.

Fairly good run with a couple of mistakes due to not reading closely enough. I checked the wrong first control because I came up over the hill, saw a control on a building, decided it was mine, checked it and realized it wasn't. Not too costly in terms of time but sort of silly.

Also on control 10, came to the top of a hill, saw a control at the bottom of it, thought, "excellent! I'll just sprint down there and get it," punched the control, and just double-checked the control code to find it was the wrong one and mine was ~30 meters to the right. Yikes!

So I apparently need to read more carefully. Also, I was really feeling the hills. I guess greater attention to detail and more hillwork are the points to work on.

Through the woods and back via Hillsborough. A beautiful morning :).

*stressed*.

I think I'll get in a longer run tomorrow though, since I have to be up at the bagel shop early anyway to pick more things up for the CLP fundraiser. That should leave a fair amount of time before class.

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Ran around in the dark, pretty much in circles around campus.