Training Log Archive: bishop22

No one else could answer the bell for a 9:15am run after last night's family reunion bender, so I was on my own. Ran along the boardwalk in Rehoboth to the S end then roads into Dewey Beach. On the way back, I ran 4 minutes in the sand, and that was enough. Picked it up to 7min pace for a measured 3/4 mile, then picked it up again for the return trip on the boardwalk, more than expected because I had to pass someone early on.

Family Reunion golf outing at a very nice course outside of Rehoboth. Rumor is they spent $2M on flowers, etc. and it looks like it. Probably the second-nicest course I've played (behind Crag Burn). I spent too much time on the beach and made other bad decisions due to lack of knowledge of the course, and put up a 96. John Foley led all players with a 79.

C • Short eanough? 2

Awesome run from the family reunion in Rehoboth. Went with Walt, Pat, Huntz, Samantha, PJ, Brig, Nate, and Sarah and Coop (on blades) for a while. Thru town to the canal where we did some impromptu O'ing thru various shades of green to a soon-to-be subdivision with the roads in various states of construction and back.

GTA - only Frank, Lawrence, DV and Leo today. Thought it might be a little easy today, especially with Frank coming off last weekend's 50K trail run in Ohio, but no. We went Winton - canal - Brighton Park and each time they picked up the pace, I was unable to answer the bell. Stomach distress set in after leaving the park and I lost a minute over the next mile.

C • 1000-day 1

Birdied 1, even after 4, but took a triple on 7 and wound up with a 43. I could feel the concentration fade as the round went on - need to play again on Thursday without running in the AM.

44

Another day of fire drills at work, so no chance to get out at lunch. Left work at 6 and had to decide between golf or an easy run.

Missed today's heat due to "fire drills" at work - didn't leave for home until almost 8pm. So, I just ran easy with Chelsea: Plank-5 mile-Beacon Hills. She did 3x2min pick-ups in the middle (uphill, flat, then downhill, so that got faster, yet easier) - then we did 4 strides on the way in, instead of afterwards.

Easy run in the evening, since I could not get out during the day. I had half a sub just before I started, and not enough to drink, and it was a warm evening. I ran a route I hadn't in a long time (Creek-Bunker Hill) and took a street that I usually don't, and it led to a young girl's kool-aid stand. Somehow, I actually had a dollar bill in my running shorts pocket, and since it wasn't Jonestown Grape flavored, I purchased a couple cups. Sweet!

Then I went to see Chelsea's last summer hoops doubleheader. They almost doubled-up on Brighton (48-25?), and then they knocked off Aquinas, helped by a clutch late basket by Chelsea to go up 35-31.

Special ROC training session at Mendon Ponds Park. Anders was in from Sweden - he did the original Mendon Ponds map back in 1982. Rick and/or Linda had streamered a course that may have been 3.8km, but it seemed longer - I'll have to measure it (once again, a map thought to be 1:10K was printed at 1:15K) when I have the map with me.

My legs were definitely hung over from yesterday and I had trouble getting started running - I should have done a warm-up before heading out. I was fairly pleased with my navigation early, but I guess I was running slower than I thought because just before a long running leg, I saw Rob going the other way, not too far ahead of me, but I never saw him again. I either miscounted trails, or counted an unmapped trail on the way to C8 (or was it 9?), and ended up attacking from a trail junction 50m+ before the one I wanted; however, I recongnized the problem on the run, and was able to correct without much time loss. I made an idiotic route choice going to C11, running a trail that had right angles, and was heading away from the control at times, instead of running the diagonal road, and backtracking just a bit to the flag (like Nate did). Finally, I never actually found the streamer for C13. I was at the feature in less than 2 minutes, then spent 5 minutes looking for the streamer, doing figure-8s around the water holes in the area, and re-attacking from 2 different, and very close, distinctive features. Chelsea and Nate were disgusted by my completely saturated sweatpants when I returned - it was quite hot, but the poison ivy alert forced me to forego shorts.

Nate ran quite well - beat me by a minute or so. He actually caught Anders and was able to stay with him for a couple of controls, then Rob caught Nate, and, despite taking different routes to the next 3 controls, Nate was able to hang with him, and ran hard in thru the last control to the finish. Perhaps he really will be competitive in another year, like Gil posited in his log.

C • Route choice 1