Training Log Archive: bishop22

Easy run thru some pastures adjoining the KOA outside West Yellowstone. Ran with Nate, John, Andrew, Ethan, Amos and Emily (I think that's everyone). I couldn't keep up on the uphills, since my legs were quite hungover from yesterday plus about 9 hours of driving today.

Cut off early with Andrew as darkness set in. Doesn't stay light past 10pm like in Saskatoon.

COC Long Champs at Mr. Eb's, northwest of Saskatoon. I'll try to add more when I have the map and it's not 1AM, but the short story is DNF, and I would have been OVT. I punched control 22 just under 3 hours, then couldn't find 23. The open and white and open with scattered trees blended too much for me to decipher, and there was no place to relocate. I gave up at about 3.5 hours and jogged back the long way (if I had found 23, I could have gotten back quicker thru the terrain.

The heat was tough. I drank as much as I could at each water control, and it was still not enough. The terrain was tough. I could feel cramps coming on each time I jumped (/stepped) over deadfall in the latter parts of the course. The navigation was tough. The visibility was limited in many places and there were many subtle depressions that I need more practice to determine which are on the map.

It was certainly a challenge. I've never DNF'd in a running race, and I think my only DNF was in a ski-o, when I ran out of time (although the blisters would have been a good excuse, too). I almost went back into the terrain when I got to the road and quickly figured out where I was. Am I a wimp for packing it in? If the time limit had not been 3 hours, I would have gone on.

C • yes... 2

I wasn't going to do much of a warm-up, but I jogged out to catch Zach on the way to the start, then I sat down and was attacked by bugs, so I hustled back to the assembly area for bug spray, then back out to see Zach off.

Event: ROC - Score-O & Sprint
 

COC Middle Champs at Mr. Eb's trails, northwest of Saskatoon. More to come when I have my map.

Poor effort on my part. Each time that I started to get comfortable with my navigation, I was thrown a curve that I whiffed on. The contours were too subtle for my untrained eye, so I had problems with several controls.

Nate had a real rough go, but Zach flew thru his course for the win.

Mostly walked around some of the warm-up controls with Zach. I could tell it was going to be difficult to move thru this terrain.

More warm-up than I bargained for. We were told that it was a 500m walk to the start from the porta-potties, so Zach and I left the assembly area about 15 minutes before his start. We jogged once we got to the porta-potties, but that turned out to be not quite enough. It must have been over 1200m, and Zach just missed his start. I was 3 minutes after Zach, so by the time I got him a new start time, I had missed my call-up, and they were about to move me to the maps, and I hadn't yet cleared, so it was a flurry of activity to get to the line just in time.

C • Arghhh;-) 1

10 - Splits

COC Sprint at U of Saskatoon. Had trouble getting into the map early on, so Mike Smith made up a minute just after C3. Lost contact with him when he beat a couple of cars to a road crossing on the way to 4, and I had to wait for one of them. The heat was tough and I was a bit tired from a late night and traveling, so I didn't run particularly fast, but it was not a bad performance overall.

It actually turned out that Zach ran a faster per km time than I did. He won his age group in 11:40-ish, 2nd was over 17. Nate was 3rd - had a couple of poor route choices that put him over a minute behind Andrew, who was slightly behind the winner. They'll have their work cut out for them tomorrow.

8 minutes before the race, 6 minutes after.

5 - Splits

As usual, the last day of work before vacation was quite busy, so I had to go get fingerprinted at lunchtime, instead of getting an easy run in.

89, but with stretches of solid play (highlight - bird on #3).

Off today, real easy tomorrow, and off to Saskatoon on Friday. Someone should be at the airport to pick me up at 1:42pm, so I can make it to my 4:06pm start, right Walt?

Oh - the results from the Night-O that Nate and Zach did (quite well) are here:
http://www.coc2007.ca/coc2007_results.html

Went off the first tee at 5:35, behind 4 slow women, so I was just going to play 9 holes, but they let me thru on 5, I birdied 6 to go 1-under, another group let me thru on 7 (gave the stroke back), and it was clear sailing ahead, I made par on 8, bogey on 9 for a 36, so I had to go on.

I was sure I had my first sub-80 round coming, thru 14 holes, but I had an epic choke - put up a snowman on 15 and 4-putted on 16, and wound up with an 83. Very disappointing, but my play is very promising. I only had 1 drive shorter than 245 and hit 8 of 12 fairways (missed both fairways when I used my 4-wood), only 13 putts on the front (but 20 on the back).

4:09/8:22
1:31,33,32,31,31
3:28,26

Probably last swim until I return from my western swing.

XC camp at Webster Park. Ran with the advanced girls plus Dan. We did 20 minutes, then each of the 7 led for a 3 min fartlek session, then back.

Up the river to the 2.5 mile mark (UR X-walk), turned around and at 24 minutes (a little before McLean), I started 8 x (1 minute hard/1 easy). Did this up McLean-Mt Hope-Linden-Goodman-Clinton, then easy Alexander-Monroe-around back of Strong Museum-cut thru streets to Gibbs and in.

Ran the hard stretches at 400m Rep pace or better.

Birdied #4 to get back to even, but was +4 after 8, then the wheels came off. Tripled 9, 10, 11, and never regained focus - 92.

Event: Canadian Championships 2007 Saskatchewan
 

ODR: Kreag-Ayrault-End-31-Victor-Bluhm-Thayer-Steele-across Turk-Garnsey & in. Found Jane lost in the housing development across from Steele, and showed her one correct right turn, but followed her past the next right turn to a dead end, so I added about 1/2 mile to the published route. Popped out onto Garnsey just as Vinny was coming by, having gone around the development, and ran in with him. Nice after being alone from mile 2 to 10+. I fell off the lead pack on the way to 22:46 at 3 miles (they were close to 22). I was 46:12 at 6 (23:26), then about 72:29 (26:16) at 9, which included Bluhm hill. 40:37 for the last 5.1.

Walt & Nate called from Deadwood, SD last night at 11:30, where they were camping on the way to Saskatoon. Sounds like the trip started off fine.

C • Nate's O Event 2

Course was closed for Couples Invitational - poor planning on my part - so I spent 55 minutes on the range: 64 shots, then about 50 chips.

Did a good, old-fashioned out 3 miles easy and back harder. Made me reminisce about the days in Henrietta where that meant out in 21 and back under 18. Today I ran up the river for 24:48 and turned around and came back in 20:40.

Out Back
5:23 4:11 to/from river path
8:41 7:30 start of mile
8:13 6:54 end of mile
2:31 2:05 turnaround

Achilles still a little sore, but didn't notice it while running hard. Toe is nicely discolored from where I stubbed it and tripped while running with the youngsters on Tuesday (yeah, real funny Nate). Blisters on both feet from lack of socks on Tuesday - not too bad. And of course the chronic butt pain kicked in when I got out of my chair this afternoon.

And I'm not even old yet.