Training Log Archive: bishop22

A strange long run today - Chelsea and Nate were running a 5K right near our house (of course I had to drive in from EA - almost 1.5 hours, instead of 1.5 minutes). I did the following:
10 min warm-up with Chelsea and Nate
23 min during the 5K - some easy early, then 4.5 min with Chelsea, then hustled over to about 1.75 miles where I did 1/2 mile with Nate, then circled back and ran the last mile with Chelsea.
3:07 before the 10K
60:38 during / after the 10K - included some running on the course, cheering for randallxski and Tom L. I tried to take the shortcut from Scribner to 5 Mile Line, but I took a wrong turn and did an extra woods loop, then forgot where the easiest cut-thru was and ended up just running between a couple of houses, so I lost ground on the race. Took Embury back as a shortcut and saw 2nd place make the turn. Did a loop thru the neighborhood, back to Embury and down Creek to Bunker Hill and back. When I was on the race course, I was running near 7 min pace. Off, it was closer to 7:45.

I was doing some quick turnover stuff near the end (160 spm) and had a weird pain/numbness combination suddenly hit with 2 or 3 minutes left. It seemed to clear up by the time I stopped, but it was scary for a few minutes.

Brought running and swimming stuff to work today, since my calendar was pretty empty. Unfortunately, it filled up in the middle, and I had to leave at 4 to get home to grab Luke and then to the Bills game. So, I did nothing. And the Bills lost, but it was late in the game with the scrubs in.

46 (554665447). Started OK, but fell apart on 4-5 and went OB on 9. I need to get out a bunch before the Club Champs over Labor Day weekend.

Finished golf just in time to make it to the hash at Ellison Park. Started from the southern trail head, and went off trail for a ways on down to the flatlands. Did a loop around the fields to the first stop, then more or less followed yesterday's orienteering route over to the second stop at the Landing Road parking lot. It was on home from there - 18:45 is a bit extreme for on home. I went easy thru the park and up the trail, to help some others find their way back.

Nice to see a bunch of folks that I hadn't seen in a while - even Yoda, back for a visit from Tuscon.

Event: ROC - Score-O
 

ROC Score-O at Ellison Park

Legs were a little worn out from all of the racing lately, but the navigation in Ellison is pretty easy, so things balanced out OK. I don't have the map, but my order was something like 8 (get it out of the way while I look at the map)-23 (looked best to clear the north, then see what time was left for the south)-19-18(bobble, distracted by Vince)-17(bobble, tried to find the bridge from the short side, but got caught in the tall marsh weeds and had to bail and go around)-16-15-22-13-14-20-11-12 (bobble, mapped at end of stream, placed a little ways down - only 30m or so)-10 (last 3 might be wrong order but got the low one, then the one at the stream, then the one on the corner)-21-9-1-2-3 (bobble, saw shallow pit on the side of the hill, pondered, then went to the top of the ridge and saw the pit - not so shallow - on top).

I lost a couple of minutes navigating and a few minutes due to worn out legs and had 2 minutes left at the end, but I don't think I could have had all 23 controls in any case. Perhaps 22, definitely 21. feet would have gotten them all.

Scoring was tricky because Gil got a master map that had the White course on it, so he visited a ton of controls. I think he got credit for 21 controls minus 1 for being less than a minute late, to nip me 20-19. The next best was just 13 (a few people I think, including Nate). No feet or LJackson or Rob S or randallxski?, and Pavel must have had a problem somewhere.

C • Same throughts on 12 and 3 2

Easy run with the advanced girls at the XC camp. Only included Claire, Chelsea, Casey, 2 Thomas girls and Paige (partway).

We tried to make it over to Whiting Rd thru the park, but wound up taking a trail that wound too far north. Then we did the Orange loop at the new Whiting Rd park (via left on the blue trail). We returned to the park past a house that had given us permission to cross.

I missed the strides, due to having too many folks to talk to, after being out of town for so long.

The Junior Trip comes to a close. I think it was pretty successful. The kids seemed to have had a good time, and their performances in the races was even better than I expected. Plenty of future JWOC qualifiers were on the trip!

Had enough airport scrambling to do that I decided a day off was in order.

Sprint Relay to benefit the US O team that is starting to arrive in Kiev.

I joined Eric Buckley and Ted Good to form a team of M40+'s. I didn't object to leading off, so that's what I did. Got off to a good start towards the first control, but was distracted by the highly visible control that wasn't mine, but corrected fairly quickly. C2 was a bigger problem. I thought I was on line and Andrew Childs seemed to be heading for the same tree, so I ran hard to punch first, only to discover it was not my control 30+ seconds later (going away from C3), I punched. Then it was a matter of walking people down, which I did with a combination of decent running speed and straight lines. At C8 I punched just behind Holly K and ended up getting a minute in front of her at the finish. I went over the spurs to C9, others seemed to go around, and I got by a few people. Then I caught one last guy just after C10 and beat him in to finish 3rd on the first leg, behind the guy from Norway and John G. My time turned out to be the fastest of the day on "Variant A".

Ted went 2nd and caught John's father to put us in 2nd place, but with a couple of teams not too far back - Nate ran around 14:45 to close the gap, and one other team was looking strong. Eric ran well, especially considering yesterday's race, and held off Ed, despite a roundabout route to the last control, but he punched at the wrong flag and so we were MSP instead of 2nd (and first US). Definitely a fun event. Sprint Relays are so much more exciting than regular relays.

C • I can see that 5

Got a little over 10 minutes of jogging in before the Sprint, then a little under 10 minutes afterwards.

John set up another competitive String-O course near the relay finish line. Over 70 attempts were made, in various formats - individual, relay, 3-legged, 1-legged and blind (thanks, JJ).

The crowd made me start right after Nate and try to beat him, but it was not to be. Nate popped a 43, which was the fastest time of the day, other than the Norwegian's 42, then 41. My excuse was that Nate left each flag swinging, making it harder for me to punch.

C • swinging flags 1

Zach, Chelsea and Nate had put up the fastest relay time of the day (48, I think), but it was beaten by the Goodmans (John running first and last), so Nate, Chelsea and I took a shot and whipped off a 43. I almost fumbled the SID handoff from Chelsea, but was able to hold on.

Sprint A - Splits