Training Log Archive: CleverSky

US Long Champs, Red M35, Morgan Territory, 8.4 km, 440m, 12th, 3rd US M35. Prerunner, so the temperature was nice when I was running. Not very proud of this one, but my placing wasn't too bad, and only two women got me (though they had the pointless handicap of a 1:15000 map). Over 10 minutes of errors. A little of that was on the first control, not sure if it was the delay in getting over the fence or the fact that I initially turned the wrong way when I got past the cattle at the top of the hill. On #9, I stupidly overran on the trail because I was concentrating on eating gel until I saw the road up ahead, that cost 2.5 minutes. Another couple of minutes was on a sloppy, wimpy route on #13, and a delay trying to figure what in the semi-open area was mapped as a distinct tree. But the big one, five minutes, was being really dumb on #3. I picked a fine route, but then instead of taking the indistinct trail that leads almost o the control, I took a different, unmapped one. The one I took stayed level and went through the woods, but the map showed I should be climbing through the open. It finally dead ended at a big reentrant where I had to pause to realize where I was, which was pretty close but about 10 lines too low. I know better than that, at least, I like to think I do. Less than a minute and a half out of silver, although the guy who edged me out lost over twice as much time on errors as I did.

US Middle Champs, Red M35, Morgan Territory, 4.4 km, 255m, 14th, 3rd US M35. Pretty clean, just overshot #1 by a bit, took a route on #16 that was probably not the fastest, and missed #17 a little bit low to the right, but knew I had gone the right distance, and turned around and saw it behind me. Other than that, my biggest problem was just that I wasn't able to keep up any decent speed in the second half of the course.

Travel day, no training.

15 ring pullups, 75 situps, 40 pushups.

Off to California tomorrow.

16 ring pullups, 75 situps, 40 pushups.

16 ring pullups, 75 situps, 35 pushups.

35 pushups, 75 situps.