Training Log Archive: Wyatt

Event: The Attackpoint 1600m Time Trial Challenge
 

1600m Attackpoint time trial, + 9 extra meters. Only 6 seconds faster than 2 of my intervals last week. Alone on a cold track on a day with a Migraine + Excedrin didn't help. AHR/MHR quite low.

All the way up to the nice Conestoga track & back.

- Splits

Misery Joy hill loop, w/extra to the top of Joy, back over the Rt. 252 bridge over the Turnpike, which is closing for about a year on March 2nd. I hope they keep Wilson Rd. open (my most common park entrance route, which is pedestrian/city-vehicle only) during the 252 reconstruction. I also hope they add a sidewalk to the new bridge, as it's pretty hairy currently...

Event: Ugly Mudder 7.2mi trail run
 

Having stayed in CA an extra day for the Pinole Sprints, the Ugly Mudder was out so I could spend more time with the family. Did a 3 hill loop in the park instead (I think I'm lagging way behind on my 5km climb target for Feb.)

Event: BAOC Pinole Sprint & Chase
 

Two short warmups, and a longer cooldown

BAOC Pt. Pinole Sprint Prologue. Pretty clean run & HR shows a reasonable effort. 2nd in 14:02 nearly a minute clear of Mikkel Conradi in 3rd. Francois Leonard was 12:42.

Francois is a French Canadian who showed up in BAOC about 5 years ago, typically running Blue about 10-30% behind where I'd be. However, about a year ago, he apparently decided he cared about his orienteering results, and started training - 65km a week currently, with appropriate mix of intervals, etc. And it has paid off well for him, in that he's beating not only me, but also Eric Bone & others at the recent BAOC A-meet. I wonder if he's going to try for WOC for Canada. He's got a shot physically, although I'm not sure how broad his nav. experience is.

This is a relatively easy park, but in some ways, I have forgotten how trivial some BAOC navigation can be - esp. with such a nice 1:5000 map, and very open forest & fields...

More PO than expected (maybe a dozen patches seen of ~5-15m in diameter with sparse, up to 2-ft high sprigs) I managed to jump/dodge/go-around most of it and wash the rest off, I think, as 5 days later I'm still PO free.

BAOC Pt. Pinole Sprint Chase. 100% handicap from the AM, so I started 2nd to last, with Francois starting 80 seconds behind me.

For the first 5 minutes or so, in the forest, I worked hard to gain on 4th & 3rd with them in sight much of the time. At about minute 10, we had a right hand turn in a very large field and 'the line' of ~50 or so people stretched way out in front of me, and I could see Francois exitting the previous control, gaining on me... At that point I had passed 1 person.

Over the next leg, I pushed hard, just barely passing Mikkel (3rd) and the guy in 4th, as well as about 10 others. Next leg was quite short, but passing a crowd at the end I ended up doing three hard leaps in a row - between people, over some veg., then over a stream. Exitting that hard (to justify my leaps through a crowd) I quickly redlined (hitting my max HR of the past 12 months at 185) and then settled back a bit, trying to pass a few more people. Of the next dozen or so people I passed, Dennis Wildfogel proved the hardest as he gave a very strong push up the finish chute, not allowing me to pass until the very end.

Another treadmill late

Silicone Valley HHH run that conveniently went through the parking lot of my hotel, as well as an In & Out drivethrough, and a Yahoo! highrise courtyard, as well as a random greenway and creek berm. Several nice running ideas for next time I'm staying at that hotel. Had maybe 2 pints afterwards and happily walked back to the On On, then maybe had a down down or two, or three, and walked to the On On On. And despite no beer there, a lot of food, and a least an hour elapsed, the 1km drive back to the hotel wasn't up to my usual sobriety standards...

3x1600 intervals, with the Spartan track club in San Jose. About 8 people doing intervals on a dark track, including 2 that were much faster than me (incl. an M46 who'd run a 34min 10k the previous weekend...)
5:43 = 2:53+2:50
5:43 = 2:50+2:53
6:01 = 3:10+2:51 (chatting on the 1st 800 until I saw my bad split...)