Training Log Archive: Wyatt

NZ Long Champs. Aside from a logistical error (didn't epunch the map exchange/water-stop) I was happy with my run. 90 minutes vs. 76 for the winners (<20% back) and that including 1 error of ~2 minutes and a few other lesser issues. Really steep.

2 Excedrin at finish, 1 @ 3 & 6 hours later. Still a headache from 4-7 hours later, but with some Powerade at about Run-Finish+7-hours, it cleared up pretty quick.

Light warmup. Short cooldown.

NZ Middle Distance Champs - A bit sloppy - mostly, I think, due to my incompetence with the baseplate compass I was borrowing - I'm so used to getting my rough compass at a glance and then spending the rest of the time reading the map at a similar glance & go... After 2 45-degree errors costing a minute or so each, I slowed up a bit. Still was annoying as even quick bearings from attackpoints were difficult - still with my baseplate incompetence.

I think you just get into such a rhythm for how everything should go when you are aiming for <1-minute time lost as a goal, that any little thing that isn't working as expected can really muck the whole thing up...

I tried to use my Moscow N-hemi compass a bit on a trail walk yesterday morning, but it was a far better detector of down than of North. When totally flat, it did point North pretty quickly, but when tipped only about 5-10 degrees, the south-arrow whipped around to point toward the down-tilt of the compass, rendering the North arrow useless. I think the JWOCers coming to Australia will definitely be better off with a familar form-factor compass, in a Southern-hemisphere version, than they would trying to use their own...

Winner was 32 something (Carsten Jorg. was 33), but 43 was still good enough for 16th of ~30 in M21E

Long distance tomorrow, in steeper terrain.

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On a really bad internet connection today - will try again later...

Mostly warmup time - did very little cooldown. I wonder if that will hurt tomorrow? On a plus side, my hamstring isn't sore this evening (vs. the past few days...)

Saw Matt Scott today. He can run faster than I can at this point - and his Achilles issue is apparently improved. He & Lara seem pretty happy. :)

Event: New Zealand Champs
 

incl. cooldown w/AJ on his run of half the Sprint course

NZ Sprint Champs @ Auckland Botanical Gardens - The Gardened areas made for some nice mazes in many locations - had some trouble due to compass but I really didn't need it much.

Winners were ~14:xx. Matt Scott was low 16's. I had probably ~30+ sec. mistakes on very tricky Sprint course – lots of little trail sections and zig-zags through OOB planted areas. About 15th of 25 in M21E. Angelica then went out got to 5 before 1, and just before 2 when I began videotaping (it was near the car park), she totally blew up – turning right, coming back almost to the right spot, then running 500m away from the bag (she was 30m from), right off the map… Hopefully she’ll do better tomorrow…

Note: Tonight, at Wesley College, we found out that the dormitory style accommodations required you to bring your own sleeping bag/linens, which we did not have – there were mattresses, and we managed something with clothes-pillows a picnic blanket and a towel. But it was no picnic. We’ve just booked a hotel for tomorrow…

L-Hamstring (middle) was sore walking this morning, and after the race (okay after warmup & during) – not sure what set this off – perhaps still from last weekend’s no-warmup Sprint? Or the hills of the past two days? (4/5’s hills included a few hundred wooden stairs, so perhaps that (unusual) did the damage?

Hilly, grassy, 1st day in NZ

Two steep hill intervals were all I could muster given the travel, and the back-to-back racing weekends...

Total of several segments of up to 5 seconds each, in the aisles of the Air NZ 747, enroute after midnight, before crossing the international date line. Mostly done in the segment about 1500 miles SE to S of Hawaii... :)

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Very slow run with Angelica near Oceanside, CA (from Mike W's house) - her Quads were sore and my hamstring was a bit sore too (both probably due to the DVOA event/Sprint)