Training Log Archive: Wyatt

Event: Mid-Atlantic Championships - Rocky Ridge
 

Woke up with a stomach ache - indigestion or stomach flu coming on or something, but managed to eat breakfast and run a reasonable race given the stomach pain was getting worse by the end... No disasters, but many 0.5 - 2 minute errors. Stomach got worse through the day and evening - enough so I had trouble sleeping and was wondering if it kept up the trajectory if I'd be able to make it to a regular doctor visit in the morning, or if I'd have to go to an ER overnight. But it got a bit better by Monday morning. Still pretty uncomfortable and I can't eat w/o further aggravation, so it's tea and few nibbles of bread for now...

C • Great run! 5

Slacker warmup, no cooldown...

Mid Atlantic Relay - 1st leg w/Corrine & Clem. Angelica was out with a hurt back and we had Randy & Tom O' exit before the relay, so we put together 2 teams that weren't quite as fast as I'd originally hoped. Fortunately, even with Angelica & Alison unavailable, we had Corrine & Dasha, so we still had decent speed on the 'women's' leg of the course - nice to have that depth now.

As for the race itself, I wasn't well prepared as I was mostly trying to figure out how to fix my stomach, which wasn't working. It was only getting worse so I was thinking I'd just try to run it relatively slow. And then they said 'everyone come over here' so, w/o the right clothes, or a compass, I had to get to the start line. "Go" and everyone is off pretty fast. Chris is flying and I'm drifting right of most folks and since I don't have a compass, I expect I'll have to turn left at the reentrant. I do, but there's a bit of blowdown, so I end up jumping through a bit of stuff, and ~12 seconds after Chris, I'm 8th of 10...

Going to the next control, Chris has flown away, and I'm moving up the pack slowly. I do catch a flew glimpse of Chris's shirt so I know where to run. Punch in 3rd.

Swapping back & forth for 2nd/3rd halfway to # 3, I begin to pull away to # 3. Apparently most people have been really pushing way too hard, and I wasn't, so when we hit the hill to # 3 I started dropping people, but was still behind Chris. Over the top to # 4 I was gaining on Chris a bit, but wow did he take off along the fence through the S/F area to 5. I tried to pick it up a bit but he continued to pull away. But then he stopped. Very nicely done up until that point, but he'd pushed so hard he hadn't noticed # 5 & # 6 looping out the other side of the S/F area! So I got a bit ahead there. My route to # 5 was poor though, and I was a bit hesitant to # 6, so there I was 1st by only about 10 seconds. Up the hill to the finish I pulled away and handed off a ~30 second lead to Corrine.

Event: Delaware Open XC Champs 5k
 

5k, 115m climb race at Deleware State XC Champs. 27th in the M-Open category (of like 70). ~10 masters beat me too, but no women... Sam & Hill would've been fighting it out for the $200 women's first prize. Angelica took 5th F-Open in 23:05, and earned a $35 prize.

C • awww... 4

Pineapple DT of L-Ham & R-IT, then normal hip/ankle work. R-IT and lower back connector point are still pretty sore at times.

Wow it's colder than yesterday. Rest before a 2-race weekend. Clem the smooth talker convinced me to stick with my plan to run the Delaware 5k Champs on Saturday, before the next head-to-head DVOA ranking event (and mid-atlantic champs) on Sunday.

VF loop, including one 2km surge in 7:50, AHR 158

Some non-pineapple DT of R-IT, then normal hip/ankle work. L-ham has recovered, as has core of R-knee, but R-IT is really sore the end of this week.

VFM Fatlands control site checking. Felt good physically today - nice after two days a very light training.

Slacker day. I was supposed to do intervals, but Ratatouille DVD with the family was on offer at the same time the intervals normally are, so I went running by myself early. But then my L hamstring is especially sore today, so intervals went out the window, and then I didn't leave much time because I'm working too hard cleaning code, so I started quite late, and it got quite dark. Dumb.

C • Try a Shop Vac 1

L-hamstring pretty sore today. Sitting funny.

29-26-29 (VFM) tweaked map a bit upon return