Training Log Archive: bishop22

Red course at DVOA Fox Chaser / Interscholastic Champs at Fair Hill. Very fast terrain, but I made enough mistakes to wind up with a mediocre performance. Lost over a minute on the first control, even though a trail led me to within 30m of the flag. Another mental mistake cost me over 3 minutes on C7 when I didn't see the obvious and easy to use attack point that was 50m from the flag.

Started to run well, and picked up the fastest splits on 10 & 13, but then hit a rough patch where I overran controls 15 and 18. Did rally for a pretty strong finish: top 10 splits on Red for the last 4 controls (finished 22 of 58). Enough mistakes to finish 2:21 behind Rob.

Chelsea had a great first solo run, finishing right in the middle of the pack in the high school JV competition (16 of 30). She actually beat me by 3 seconds on the final sprint (even though I ran quite hard) and beat Nate by 6 seconds. Nate and Zach had strong performances.

Truly pathetic performance. Made an error of over 2 minutes on C4 - didn't check compass and only did "rough map reading" (not a good combination). Saw Wyatt just ahead for the next few controls, but lost sight of him leaving C8. Crossed a small trail and hit a large trail, as planned, but it wasn't the correct large trail, and I ran off the map just before I realized I wasn't in the right spot. Took quite some time to get back on the map and relocate (back near C8, in fact) and so I lost over 8 minutes on the leg. At least I was not inclined to run too hard, with another race tomorrow.

Mostly w/up before the main race, but a little jogging before and after the sprint.

Red - Day1 - Splits

Event: DVOA A-Meet (Interscholastics)
 

Just walked around the Princeton campus, including a tour, so Chelsea could check it out. My idea to go for a short jog while Chris and Chelsea looked for food and a sweatshirt was shot down.

Easy run around Wayne high school during Nate's track meet (a scrimmage). He ran the 400 IH, the 3200, and the 4 x 800 relay (with only the 4x400 to recover from the deuce).

Up the river to the UR X-walk and back. Nice, sunny day, but a chilly wind out of the north made the return trip a little less pleasant.

Did 6 x 3 riverwalk lights (20-25 secs) on the way back to try to loosen up my legs/groin after yesterday's speed session.

They have cleared the construction stuff out from under the east side of the new "Douglas-Anthony" bridge. Looking forward to having the thing open and not have to squeeze thru the narrow lanes.

Out Back
5:06 4:32
8:35 8:29
6:20 6:23

Track workout at the Thomas track with the Schroeder boys. Perfect running weather, so we went a little quicker than last time. Did 4x200, 2x400, 1x600, 1x400, 3x200. I let some of the kids out of a few of the reps, since they haven't all been running. I also kicked Nate's butt, since he developed cramps again.

Times:
38.3, 37.6, 36.9, 37.4
79.2, 79.8
2:00.6
79.5
38.6, 37.9, 36.6

w/up & w/dn to the track and back

Recovery jogs after intervals - 200m after 200m; 400m after others.

3:59/7:56
1:29,32,32,31,30,30,29,27 (on 1:45)
3:25,25

HR surprisingly low this AM, especially given the limited sleep (OK, so I was up playing CF until after 1AM), but I took it for a second minute to verify. Hopefully it is just a sign of getting somewhat fit.

Jumped on the bike at the downtown Y after swimming.
21 min of Random Hills-11 @ 91rpm
(2 min w/dn), then
7 min of Manual-11"ish" @ 90rpm

Nate placed our test flags at 5 old control locations at Chestnut Ridge Park, and I followed Chelsea around, since she has to go "From Zero to Orange" by Saturday for the Interscholastic meet.

She definitely has potential - the goal is to make sure she is capapble of finishing the courses both days.

Made my maiden voyage into the field. Spent about an hour at Plank South, working on the details of the area south of the school, as I try to develop my first "real" map (as real as a school map can be).

C • DVOA? 2