Training Log Archive: JanetT

Event: EMPO club champs at Moreau
 

EMPO club champs at Moreau. Decided to run up on Red just for fun, despite the fact that Tori B. was there. She beat me by 23-24 minutes. :-) A couple of errors on controls in the "easy" stuff -- too high on a short leg, 2-3, cost about 4-5 minutes; and off-line cutting through the woods (kept getting pushed by pine saplings, mapped as light green) to 5, another several minutes lost. Probably could have done closer to 1:15 to 1:17. Pleased with my route from 6-7 (the 1.5 km leg) despite the fact that it took almost 20 minutes -- 10 minutes to get to the main trail corner and another 10 to climb the hill (largely on trail) once I left the mostly flat terrain; 6 minutes once I left the trail into the control.

My route (QR) --

From Track jpg files

FR = 7.026km, 262m climb

Results will be on the EMPO site with a few days.

Control pickup

Red - Splits

Using bands. Some teens thought they could use he strongest ones, but only the guy stuck with it--the girls switched to medium. ;-)

After, legs felt trashed so decided not to do elliptical or treadmill. Lunch @ Starbucks instead. Maybe a walk at home later if the sun keeps warming things up.

On roads, 66 south.

In Chatham, start of a new session (okay, it started Monday, but I wasn't there). Having trouble with right shoulder doing flys (flies?) even using 3 lb weight instead of 5 lb. Not lasting trouble, just troubling. :/

No tools today -- just body weight.

Warm up 7:10 (1/2 mi) then incline 4-5.5 %; cooldown 5 min.

Anyone who didn't take the trail route from 2-3 paid dearly, anywhere from 5-35 minutes (through the laurel/rhododendron). Everyone I spoke to who raced relatively fast on the brown course took the trail.

A bit low on 6, so after I had gone far enough I had the sense to try to relocate off the trail above (or the reentrant I'd been to at 2), but saw the flag as I headed uphill, A bit to the west on 8 (took off the trail too early) but recovered better than the two older fellows I saw who left the trail even earlier and searched in the flat.

Fell after crossing the parking area west of 9; rolled over my right side, so a few bruises and aches there. Feel much better as I post this on Tuesday, than I did Sunday evening.

1 -- Trail run, ~500m, cut off at clearing -- control just beyond day 1 #1
2 -- S through rhody to trail and around to trail bend. Probably a bit faster around N side of marsh.
3 -- Angled downhill to main (Shades of Death) trail, ran trail (~600m) then up from corner off 3rd stream
4 -- compass
5 -- back to trail and up at white woods. Dogleg back to trail
6 -- trail for about 250m then angled uphill in white woods. When I hit the first large trail I verified I was at the bend and then compassed, but I was just a bit low and misread a form line wiggle for a reentrant (I think it was a form line ending in a 'u' depression...). Started to relocate heading uphill and saw a flag and checked it
7 -- compass
8 -- to trail, on trail to where it started to go uphill; looked in a depression along the way that looked to be about the right distance but it wasn't there so I kept going. Subtle depression, barely a dip below the surrounding area.
9 -- back to trail, ~550m run this time

So, almost 2km dead trail running

FR: 5.279 km, 148m climb (because I dropped down to the trail to 3 and then again back to 6)

I should have run Green X so I could experience the blandness of the other side of Hickory Run. Or maybe avoid this area next time.

Brown Long - Splits