Training Log Archive: Wyatt

AM run, with the kids on bikes, on the 5-mile loop at VF park. In shorts and nearly 60 degree weather. Felt quite hot a times, esp. pushing Oriana uphill.

PM run to McHugh Ln and back - past two women and their dog on the non-park private section near the top - so in addition to occasional footprints, I've now seen other people going on that section, so it's not just me passing through that section of private property. Despite wearing spikes, I fell once, on a mud/stick covered section of wooden bridge.

Short time window before AJ's 1st of two birthday parties today... He's 8 now...

From the lower lot, to drink, to start of 5 mile loop.

Had a hard time getting in gear - felt tried driving there, and on warmup, but by the end, I was moving well. 3rd fastest time on this time trial loop, but given how crappy I felt in the 1st half, and the few patches of snow & ice left that slowed me a few times, it's not bad.

BTW, to get to '5 miles', I'm now adding the small section from the visitor center corner on the loop, to the edge of the visitor center upper parking lot - to make up for the distance they cut from the loop in the SW & NW corners, since the last time I ran this.

Valley Forge 5 mile loop - Splits

Trying to get some climb in, all in Chesterbrook. It's not as steep as Misery & Joy for sure...

Some clock squats and some ankle work. No immediate issues, just had some time to do this preventative stuff.

Sunny day with some residual snow. Felt great and ran to Phoenixville's pretzel factory for a hot soft pretzel, and then the bev. place for a Mt. Dew, and ran back home. Just barely didn't miss a meeting by the end, which helped keep me moving.

It would be nice if the USOF rankings had links like this: 2008 end of year Blue
I'm not quite sure why the numbers aren't the same.

I used the non-drifting formula (where the sum of the individual-scores of all the finishers in a race are simply distributed as race-scores in direct proportion to speed) - same as Attackpoint has used for the last few years, but I think USOF is still on the older slightly-drifting formula. If that's the only change, it makes a bit more difference than I'd expect - it's not much difference, but it flips a few places - so there might be more bugs there. If anyone notices someone who is significantly higher or lower (e.g. >3 points) in my ranking list than in the USOF Blue list, that may help point to a discrepancy I can track down.

Oh, I just found one discrepancy - USOF uses my smooth "1/2 of races over 4 count" math, and I didn't implement that yet. (This is produced via a Perl script run on a text version of the USOF rankings site's Blue Race results page.)

Twice up Joy.

Angelica's hill loop. Snowy in most places..