Training Log Archive: Sandy

Event: WCOC / US Team A-Meet/WRE
 

Brown Course - Excellent course, really fun, great footing, no silly climb just for the sake of climb, every leg required paying attention.

S-1 No problems but slow as I just was having trouble seeing the map and couldn't come up with a good plan so just ran on a compass bearing for a while until the map and terrain started making sense. (0:20)

1-2 Straight.

2-3 Drifted left out of the control and so the trail didn't make any sense when I crossed it. Went a little further and then decided better safe than sorry so cut back up the hill until I could see the trail and the swamp and then came back down right to the control. (1:00)

3-4 Straight. Was more careful than I needed to be. (0:10)

4-5 South to the trail, trail to the junction, small trail south to where it sort of vanished, started wondering and looking for the trail through the green but it was easy to get through so just went straight up. Down the other side just at the edge of the clearing and into the control. (0:10)

5-6 Through the green and across the stream and then up the ridge - dropped below the control instead of attacking from the top but don't think it cost me anything.

6-7 Headed a little too far to the right, but picked out the correct saddle to aim for as I crossed the reentrant, corrected and came right out at the control. (0:10)

7-8 Down the hill, across the swamp, picked up a trail (not sure if it was the mapped indistinct one or not), stayed on the trail until just past the loop junction, then climbed down the reentrant. Wasn't exactly sure where I was, but climbed back up the other side, passed a control on a cliff, got on top of the ridge and ran it down to the reentrant. May have climbed more than necessary, but it was safe. (0:10)

8-9 Couldn't read the detail on the map so just aimed for the control, found myself on a trail (elephant track I think), hit a trail I was expecting, checked and realized the last control was not on the trail just in time to look up and see it in the woods.

A very good race overall. I was afraid to push harder because I figured I'd start making errors but should have been able to go faster in that terrain.

C • Nice Run. 1

Brown Day 1: Middle - Splits

Went to run the trail loop with Valerie and rolled my ankle in the first few minutes. Thought it would loosen up after a bit so kept going. Walking was okay after a little but jogging wasn't so ended up walking the whole loop. Grrr. Will tape it this weekend and hope for the best.

Very ragged breathing right from the get-go.

Stretched a bit afterwards - I'm really tight in the lower back.

C • run 2

TNT hike with Sandy and Jim. A little extra distance as we explored whether the old trail had been put back in one of the logged areas. It hadn't and so we backtracked.

DVOA green course at French Creek. Hot and buggy. The woods seemed like a jungle after the open woods up at Hickory Run yesterday. Messed up #1 and #5. Didn't read the "trails" and open areas correctly for #1 (should have just gone on a compass bearing I guess) and got off line because of lots of downed trees to #5. There was a road run, back door option that probably would have been faster but I wanted woods time. Was able to read the rock features to eventually figure out where I was and where to go.

I used to love French Creek but with the rocks and ferns and lack of nice woods it's not so appealing anymore.

C • French Creek Buggy 1

Control pickup.