Training Log Archive: bishop22

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.

4:09/8:23
1:29,32,30,32,31
3:27,25

Felt a little smoother in the water today.

42 - only one double (one of 2 3-putts).

Did a pre-run of the sprint course for the meet at Black Creek on the 28th. Ran fairly easy - only slowed down once.

WARNING: FDFs are SWARMING in Black Creek Park. I probably had 50 of them following me as I ran from the main parking lot along the main trail to the west side of the park. They were flying into my mouth, nose, eyes and ears. I recommend a hat and good bug spray before heading there. Most of them didn't want to follow me onto the sprint course, so that was a relief.

I ran easy an 13:14 over to the west side and 12:57 back. The blisters I picked up by not having socks yesterday (even though I had old shoes) were plenty annoying. And today I didn't have running shorts, so I had to run in the old pair of shorts I had in the car.

Fairly easy run with the "Advanced" group at day one of the Webster Summer XC Camp. Only Nate and a Thomas 9th grader were able to keep up with John for the first 5+ mile loop. We only had time to add about 10 minutes, so didn't make a full 7 miles.

6 strides

Event: TheWaterStop Summer Trip 2007
 

East-Culver-Park, allowing myself to go as easy as I wanted, after a tough weekend.

I noted today, while running, that the local butts are much like the Hyundai dealer's slogan. And this was based on a biased sample, since I just saw people who were out at lunchtime, making an effort (well, perhaps the effort was just to find more food).

Event: ROC - Score-O at Irondequoit Bay Park East (changed)
 

89 thanks to several poor holes, including finishing with 3 straight doubles (on 3 easy holes).

Worst shot of the year on #8 - a par 3. Shanked it right, it hit a tree and bounced back past me, into the rough behind the tee box.

ROC Score-O at Irondequoit Bay East. Low expectations after hitting the OD yesterday, and the course setter said he didn't think all the flags could be had, but I started out OK. I thought I would be starting to the south, but when I got a look at the map, it looked best to pick off the northern controls first. Rob, Gil and Nate got a jump on me to the first control (1), but we were taking different routes to the next few controls (22-10-19) which mixed things up a bit. Nate stayed ahead of me for a few controls (7-11-16), but I got ahead of him to 9. We were close to 18-8, but then I took the long trail route to 20, while Nate tried to go straight, so I didn't see him again.

I did 14-15-3-17-13-5-24 mostly cleanly. I was quite proud of running around on the trails from 20-14, to avoid going down and back up about 4 contours. I passed Vince on the road to 23, which gave me incentive to really pick it up. I did 23-26, out and back to 12, then tried to figure out whether I could get the rest. I passed Zach on the main trail towards 4, giving me another boost. I should have gone to 2 at this point, but I grabbed 21, then decided I had enough time to get 2, which ended up being the only control I struggled with. I thought I made it to the second trail, but it must have been the first, so I went west to the junction and came back east on what I thought was the second trail, but it turned out to be the third, as I saw the downhill to my right. Gil popped up from the right and was going to continue thru, so I decided to follow rather than running around. It was brutal going and Gil fell in some thick stuff, so I had to wait for him to get back up. We got to the flag, and I took off for the finish. I knew it was going to be close and thought I had it by almost 5 seconds, but then there was a chute I had to go to instead of the table, so I adjusted and made it with 1 second to spare.

C • Congratulations! 3

Picked up some flags after the event - drove out to the southern part of the map to grab 6 controls, then drove to the circle for 2 and ran in from there. Also includes my whopping 3 minutes of warm-up time - we were very disorganized leaving home and getting ready.