Training Log Archive: JanetT

Event: WCOC / US Team A-Meet/WRE
 

Running F50 at the WCOC meet (distance training for Billygoat, two weeks away). Found them all without much problem (if I wasn't right on the line to them, I was in the circle, tho on 3 I was high but realized it). I took extra special care in the loop from 5-8 because I've had trouble in this area before at WCOC local meets. Those parallel rocky ridges can be tricky. I went slow enough where I had to, to keep track of where I was.

Oh, except for leaving #2, where I misread the line entering and thought I needed to turn left instead of right... probably (I hope, anyway) less than a minute lost on the "there and back again" detour.

[Edit: No, it was more like 1.:45 of stupidity. D'oh!]

3rd/8? behind Peggy and Eileen.

FR=3.6 km (62m climb)

Green Y Day 1: Middle - Splits

Don't need to have a US Champs T-shirt.

Too many words?

I seem to have that same trouble with the fellow (in my club) who's doing the EMPO US Champs design too. For some reason I think I like a nice picture (think RMOC / RM1000day T-shirts by Libbie Ellis) better.

Using bands.

In Chatham. Cooler than Monday, but still on the warm side, but all the windows were open.

I didn't get to run yesterday so plan to run/hike today. On the way home from grocery shopping, I had to detour because of a tree down in the road (the road I live on, ~4 miles away, so I know all the available detours), which was being taken care of but still blocking the road. Weather front came through quickly with some lightning and wind gusts which took down trees and branches that had missed the last similar storm. At least we didn't have 12-13" of rain, like Nashville a few days ago. I can't imagine what it must be like there.

Went to Hand Hollow because I hadn't been there in awhile and wanted to run trails. First quarter mile or so is pretty flat so I considered that my warmup, but it wasn't easy, any of it (at least on the up, which is the first half +/-) -- thighs and knees felt tired.

Western part of conservation area. 1.68 mi / 26:36 on the up; 1.84 mi / 24:07 on the down which did the other half of two loops.

Hiked up hill on east side of Hand Hollow to the pond, and back.

Discoveries today: purple trillium and jack-in-the-pulpit on trail near creek on HH-west, and some star flowers on HH-east. And a tick crawling up my leg as I drove away -- I took care of him quickly (a dog tick, I think; relatively large).

At the Y; started a bit late as some exercisers were chatting excessively (is that too harsh? ;-) ) at the beginning. Used weights. Only had trouble (as usual) with "corkscrew" move. Oh, and anything requiring I spend much time on my knees or propped sideways on arm or forearm (hurts rt shoulder -- bleh).

Plan is to run outside if it doesn't storm, after I finish grocery shopping.

In Chatham. Felt good to stretch, but noticed slight but new soreness in back of left leg (where hamstring attaches to glutes? -- in any case, whatever is activated when you do an "arabesque"). Will have to watch so as not to overdo it this week.

:-)

No disaster like on the sprint, though I did manage to be not clean on the control after the biggest climb (to no. 3, 10 contours) but only a few minutes lost there. Another 3-5 lost on no. 5 when I didn't check my compass going down a hill and was too far left. I was lucky there was a good catching feature but I had a climb of a contour or two back up to my cliff. Temp in 70s at start, in 80s by finish, and reached 92 afterward. Hot!

In F55 I was in second behind Lena Perrson who was fastest on the course in 61 minutes! There were a couple of M60s at 65 and George H. of HVO beat me by a minute.

[added FR track; 5.59 km on watch]

Maps from the weekend / my routes

Brown middle
Brown/orange/green sprint
Brown long

Brown Long Distance - Splits