Training Log Archive: GlenT

Event: HVO - Lewis Morris Park
 

HVO event at Lewis Morris Park - Blue Course. Very open woods with great visibility, quite a bit of prickly stuff (mostly barberry), big hills, not much rock and a heavy trail network. Nice course set by Nadya Popova with lots of controls (20) which kept you off the trails and in the woods.

Had a decent run with several small errors adding to 4 or 5 minutes. Most of the mistakes were on short legs or from attack points where I wasn't careful enough with the compass direction. Was saved a few times by the good visibility and spotting the bag to correct. A good starter for the Spring season.

Temps in the low 40's with the sun out most of the time. Forerunner measured 9.25km actual distance covered.

Blue - Splits

66S and back. Where is Spring? It was 32F and breezy, but sunny. Missed running yesterday because a meeting ran late at work (plus it was even windier than today).

Road Intervals. 10 x 0.25mi @ 1:45 with 1:30 recovery (pushed a bit and actually averaged 1:42). Splits: 143, 143, 146 (uphill), 138 (slight down), 145, 141, 140, 140, 144, 144. Mostly out and back Shaker Museum Rd. with a brief out and back on 66 to the north. Legs getting a bit stiff and tired by the 10th one. 39F with snow flurries and some snow pellets as I finished. Spring starts Thursday?

Trails at Schenectady Museum Nature Preserve. Trails were covered with various depths of snow, slush, ice, mud, and water so were pretty tough to run on. Rarely got into a steady pace, but good HTFU training. Carried the o-map, but didn't read it very much since I'm familiar with the trails from running and course setting here. Trail running part was two segments with a road run in between (logged separately). Overcast and about 40F with some spritzes of rain and snow.

After about an hour of trail running, took a jaunt on the bike trail which runs through the area, mostly to take a break from the snow, slush and mud. Ran on the grass beside the paved part of the bike trail whenever I could. They must plow this part of the bike trail, since other parts of it were still snow covered. Straight, flat and boring except for the side trip I took on Ferry Rd. out to the Mohawk River (the ferry is long gone). Did another half hour on the trails to finish up.