Training Log Archive: iansmith

Event: USA & Canada - WOC/JWOC Team Trials OUSA National 3 day meet
 

Warmup; I ran down to scope out the start before I started recording.

Team Trials sprint. The past year has been tumultuous for me - leaving my job at the Broad Institute to start graduate school at University of Toronto, moving from Boston to Toronto, and running for the Board of Directors. My training lately has been terrible - with only the occasional easy run and virtually no quality, and my fitness has suffered. I knew this coming in, and had no expectations for the weekend. I only hoped to put a good effort.

The sprint made good use of Como Park in St. Paul, but some technical networks of trails and small hills over the first eight controls quickly gave way to wide open running. It was very much a runner's course, and my legs simply didn't have the speed I needed today on wide open fields.

I made a route choice mistake running left around the building to 16; there was a truck in the way, and I had to hop down a wall - probably losing 10s to running right along the lake. On the easy long leg back (25), I simply couldn't muster the speed, and was caught by ebone who chirped some encouragement.

An unsurprising result, but nevertheless disappointing. This calls for some quality speedwork in the next 16 months.

Cool down job with WEnger, ebone, and Giacomo.

Long - Splits