Training Log Archive: jtorranc

Jog to start/warmup on Day 2 of Al Smith Memorial.

Day 2 Blue - less satisfactory day, mostly down to biggish parallel errors on controls 4 and 7. Managed to either overhear the finish people discussing someone's finish time from four minutes before or simply hear my time and totally fail, in my fatigued state, to do simple arithmetic, resulting in a belief that I'd run four minutes faster and they'd simply failed to adjust my start time for my being borderline late and personnel kindly allowing me to delay my start rather than head directly to the triangle and sacrifice my last minute fussing with shoelaces rituals. Still not a horrible time but I felt fairly good physically so I feel I ought to have at least run as fast as the day before, knowing what to expect from the map.

Still, third for the weekend is a decent first outing for the spring season and it's nice to know that my recent speed in Quantico terrain isn't overly dependent on familiarity with the terrain.

Blue: Day 2 - Splits

Warmup and jog to start at Al Smith Memorial.

Blue course - respectable though by no means error-free run, climb number is dubious - haven't measured climb on my route but Syd Reader said, IIRC, that he'd measured his as 280m (perhaps there was some confusion caused by liberal use of formlines).

Blue Day 1 - Splits

Commute - dropped in on cycling shop and learned that the shift lever brake lever assembly wasn't fixable and needed to be replaced. Slight sticker shock but at least I'm back on the road without further ado. Feels like the three speed period has done my left knee no good but everything is still functional. I just hope I don't have to interrupt training during the competitive season to make it feel normal again.

Commute. Very vexatiously, my rear derailleur decided a hundred meters into the trip home to stop downshifting, leaving me stranded at the small end of the freewheel. At least the triple chainring up front made it less than disastrous but it does make me nostalgic for the good old days when I understood precisely how shift levers worked.