Training Log Archive: bishop22

BFLO Meet at Camp Schoellkopf, assuming we can squeeze it in before heading to the Bills game.

BFLO Meet at Camp Schoellkopf

Legs were feeling a little heavy from yesterday's time trial, but I was able to maintain a reasonable pace thru much of the course. The slow time is primarily due to the bags that were on the ground. This happened at 2, 3, 6 and 7.

At C2, I didn't lose much more than a) some confidence as I climbed the spur with no flag in sight and b) the time to pick it up and tie it back on to a tree (probably quite visible for the rest of the runners).

But at C3, I lost at least 7 minutes. It did not occur to me that there could be 2 flags in a row on the ground, so when I got to the correct hilltop and didn't see it, I was thinking that it was perhaps misplaced, so I wandered a bit, then attacked from a specific point on the trail and came back to the same hill. Some more wandering in case I could spot it elsewhere, then another attack from the small clearing to the north. This time I stood on the top of the hill, and noticed the flag near my feet, partially obscured by leaves. So I hung that back up.

No problems with 4 & 5. 6 was on the ground, but it didn't matter, since the knoll was easily visible from a distance (just lost the 10-15 seconds to tie it back on a tree). C7 was a problem. The area was just green enough, and had enough undulation, that I wasn't 100% sure I had the correct hilltop, so I checked out the creek view to verify my location and went back and found it on the ground - lost at least 2 minutes there.

The rest of the controls were all still hanging, so the only problem I had was rushing things on the approach to C11. I was using Nate's thumb compass, for just the second time and managed to take the wrong trail towards the wrong building and blew what should have been an easy control. I took too long to recover because I kept myself convinced that I had been at the correct building, even though the contours didn't make sense.

So, Rob ended up completely smoking me, and my 3 excuses (flags on the ground, heavy legs and inexperience with the thumb compass) don't seem to add up to explaining it.

C • Thanks. 2

About 4 minutes down to the main road and 5 minutes back before registering. No time for a w/dn, since I was off to the Bills game (and they actually held on for the win this time).

Ran back to the car from the Ralph after the game, hoping to get to Nate's 6pm hockey game. Turned out to be smooth sailing - I think a lot of people stayed in the parking lots to savor the win and the mid-to-upper 70s sunshiny afternoon.

Red - Splits

Team two-mile Thomas track time trial. I was very disappointed with the turnout; a few kids had valid excuses with pre-notification (4 kids at PSATs, 1 girl visiting MIT and 1 girl had an important family commitment), but there were a whole batch of unexcused no-shows.

15:12 w/up

2-miles in 12:51

17:09 w/dn

Easy run from Schroeder - ran much of it with Clare and Casey.

Intervals on the course at Webster Park. We did 2 x 2000m, mostly at Tempo pace, but with a Kenyan Surge Drill tossed in - 3 x 30 seconds at Interval pace.

I was running behind today, so my warm-up was way too short (4 minutes), and the first interval was a little slow: 8:45, but I was 8:33 on the second.

About a 5 minute recovery, 3 minutes jogging, after the first; 2 minutes jogging after the second.

12:15 wdn

Split 4 games again. We beat them up pretty badly in the 4th game, with a decent lineup and some serious hustle. Some of the rust is coming off - I actually had a couple of hits where I could see the floor on the other side of the net.

Directed KDawg, Alex and Nico in laying trail for about 40 minutes, then let them finish on their own, while for the next 20 minutes I circled back and made sure the pack wasn't hopelessly lost and finished up with them.

I heard a lot of whining about thorns and stuff. But the best part was Arjun getting stuck in the muck. I guess Brianna lost her shoe in there also.

I felt bad that I didn't have time to arrange refreshments at the end, so maybe it wasn't really "hashing".

C • Sounds like PG-13 rated hashing to me 2

C • I think its natural 2

C • extended family 3

Had to run much of the trail backwards to look for the, uh, "directionally" challenged. But they must have wandered in shortly after I left.

Running around Seneca Park during the dual meet against Thomas, Sutherland and Odyssey.

20:33 w/up from the shelter out past the mile mark and along the rest of the course, then back to the shelter.

During each race, I ran hard from just after the start to the other end of the pond, then easy out into the woods, most of the way to the back loop, then back to the "1/2 mile to go" turn, then hard back most of the way to the finish.

Quite an outstanding performance by the team. I don't have the facts and figures with me, but the girls took a nice shot at Thomas and Sutherland, with Chelsea running an incredible 20:39, and her 3:01 improvement over three weeks ago on the same course wasn't the biggest improvement on the team!

Nate and Nico went out way too fast (5:22 and 5:19, respectively), but held on pretty well and KDawg went under 18. Our 15th boy was 20:00, which is unprecedented in the last several years at Schroeder. Last year we only put 10 kids under 20 minutes on this course. We did have 15 boys (and 1 girl) under 20 at McQuaid, but that is only 3 miles, not 5K.

C • Scary fast 1

Mostly easy run at Webster Park during XC practice, the last half with Coach Klehr.

Big meet tomorrow for the girls. They have a shot at Thomas and Sutherland if they run very well (Odyssey only seems to have 3 girls that can actually run). The boys meet should be a snoozer for us, since Thomas is 8th in the state in Class AA, and Sutherland is 4th in the state in Class A. Maybe next year we can make it interesting against one, or both, of those teams. Oh, and we had better put 7 in front of Odyssey's 4th.