Training Log Archive: DWildfogel

Jeep trail next door. Walk in clockwise direction while L is running.

Legs, especially quads, are pretty tired from yesterday's hard run at Pt Pinole.

Event: BAOC: Point Pinole
 

Pt. Pinole. Relay event. 3-person teams on a forked course.

My team (Marie-Josee, me, Sairgey Pisarchik) came in second in the Senior (ages add up to at least 150) category, due to a sensational anchor leg by Sairgey. We would've won the mixed division (for which we were also eligible). Third overall, well behind the Open winning team (Wayne Starts, Erin Schirm, Francois) and 45 secs behind the Senior winning team (Tapio, Misha K, Tapio again).

Relatively easy navigation, but physically hard. Managed to make two 15 sec errors.

Fine through #6, though a bit too cautious on 5 and 6. Might've gone out a little too fast as I was already quite tired at that point, though that might have had more to do with getting little sleep over the last several days.

7. Came to the SE dot knoll first, made an immediate left. Lost maybe 5 secs.

8. Left of the hill was the shorter route, but I took the safer and less taxing route to the right.

10. Long run on a bearing, with someone well ahead in the distance. Really didn't have any landmarks to check off (should've aimed a little left to see the drainage), but when I got across the road, saw the guy ahead of me (I'd made up a lot of ground as, I guess, he wandered) heading off to my left, looked that way and saw the bag. Lost about :15.

14. I see now that the contour line forming the W side of the wide ditch that the trail was in was obscured by the line connecting 13 to 14, so I didn't realize that that trail would be extremely easy to identify in the terrain. I'd started off a little too far to the right, judged by the vegetation that I needed to be further left, so angled left and came to the trail. Lost maybe :15.

Overall, I was at least a minute and more like two slower than I should have been. Never felt like I was flying through the terrain, which is what I usually feel at Pt. Pinole. Just didn't have it today.

NOTE: Part of my feeling that my result was subpar was comparison with some people I run against often. However, I realized after seeing RouteGadget more than a week later that there were two factors that made my time seem artificially slow:

(1) For lead-off runners (e.g., Chuck, Penny), their time started when they were in the start triangle; for subsequent legs, their time started when the previous runner punched the Finish. It took roughly 32 seconds for people to get from the Finish to the hand-off in the start triangle.

(2) Some forking variations were shorter than others. Mine, for instance, was close to the maximum; in particular, it was about 125m longer than Chuck's, which would account for about a minute.

Results
RouteGadget

[Orienteering race]

Warm up, partly with Sairgey.

Got too involved in organizing, didn't focus enough on getting myself ready.

Cool down, mostly with Marie-Josee.

Jeep trail next door. One lap just to loosen up (since I didn't run yesterday).

The usual weekly accumulation of morning exercises.

At home. 3 sets of theraband (rotations, pull downs, punches) interleaved with two sets of core and adductors. 15 bar dips.Two sets of weights w/25 lbs: 12 reps for curls, 8 for presses.

[Strength exercises]

West Cliff Dr, Santa Cruz. From the half-mile mark (across from the Lighthouse Field restroom, and between the lighthouse and the surfer monument) to back 2 mile mark and back. Most splits (quarter-mile) around 240. Gorgeous, clear day. Ate lunch outside afterwards, gazing across Monterey Bay.

Ran with L the whole way, running quite easily. No desire to push today, so this was just fine.

[Easy distance minus]

Cool down

At home. Weights only, 3 sets of curls (10 reps) and of military presses (8 reps), 25 lb dumb bell.

Did these at the end of my usual morning exercises because didn't think I'd have time to do them later in the day.

[Strength exercises]

Oracle gym. Pull downs, both kinds, 3 sets each. Arm rotations. 13 bar dips. A little bit of core.

[Strength exercises]