Training Log Archive: bishop22

Ran along Lake Ontario from Ontario Place west a little past where the trail ended, trying to time my turnaround to catch Chelsea - after running nearly 2 miles with her, I went ahead. I noticed measured kms on the path and went 4:44 near the turnaround, then 4:34, 4:39 and 4:36 on the way back (about 7:25 pace). I spotted Chelsea about a minute ahead with under a mile to go, and caught her just after she started walking in the parking lot.

I needed about 2.2 more miles, so I went out and back the other way.

Ran real easy with Chelsea, since we had to run before lunch, according to the vacation nazis.

Did a loop up Lundy's Lane, left, then back mostly side streets.

GTA run - nice turnout again: 11, including Michelle, in the main group plus 4 in the ladies aux. Here's our route. I was OK on the first surge, just dropped back a bit - the timed and measured section was 1.1 miles at 6:29 pace. That wore me out, but I was able to hang on pretty well for the second surge - the next 0.9 miles was at 7:00 pace. Then I started feeling it, plus I had some waves of intestinal discomfort, so the next 1.3 was at 8:00 pace and the last 2.2 were at 7:45, even though I did 5 x 1:15 of quick turnover (never making it much above 200, or 160/min) to try to keep myself going, since I was on my own at this point.

Took Scott out to PCC after the run - he missed it so Michelle could go. The tight hamstrings affected my game early and the heavy rain affected my game late, so I shot a lame 92, to lose by 10 strokes.

Nate made his European orienteering debut in Sweden today, at the JWOC spectator race. It was baptism by fire, as his mean old dad made him run H21. He actually had a pretty decent race, other than the nearly 15 minute error on the 4th control. He actually won the final split!

The results are here. Winsplits are here.

Tomorrow he gets to run H16, so we'll see how he stacks up against the young European studs. Andrew held his own against them today, placing 11th out of 24. There are 56 entered in H16 tomorrow, a 3.37K Middle race.

C • results 1

Went out for another run just before 11pm, so that Chelsea could get her run done. We ran from our hotel in Niagara Falls (ON) and paused a couple of times to check out the falls at night, with all the lights. I'm not sure when I last saw the nighttime version.

It was nice to be able to enjoy the mist. The last 2-3 times I ran here were during Zach's hockey tournaments, and it was cold!

4:09/8:14
1:30,33,31,28,31,30
3:25,23,26

Went a little longer today, after watching the Trials last night. The fast guy was a couple of lanes over and passed me on the 4th 100, pulling me to a quicker time.

Not bad at all - played the front and shot 40, despite 3-putting for bogeys on 1 and 7 and taking a double on 8, from the sand (twice). New handicap index came out today, and I dropped to a record low 11.5 (down from 12.3 two weeks ago). Goal is still single digits by the end of the year.

Easy run around Grace & Truth Park and the adjoining land, including looping around the massive church that I think owns the park and surrounding land. It looks like they also have some shooting galleries set up. Perhaps that is why the church is so popular?

I got Zach to the park a little late (I forgot the LOP bridge over Dewey has been removed, resulting in a sizable detour), so I only had about 20 minutes to run before his game started, but he didn't start, so I did another 10 minute loop. They lost 2-0 to their nemesis, the Bucs. I'm not sure why the coach had the best scorer play goalie in the second half, when they were already down, 1-0, since he is good in goal, but not exceptional.

We put Nate on the plane (well, saw him thru the security checkpoint) a little before lunch, so I didn't have time to run during lunch. He should arrive in Gotenburg late tomorrow AM to begin his orienteering adventure: JWOC, training camp, Fin 5 and O-RIngen over the next four weeks.

I was at work until just past 7, but I was able to exercise some discipline and get out the door. I ran over to the Bayview Y and down the trails to the bay, wandered around a bit more than planned (the trails looked quite different with the summer weeds growing up and out), and popped out onto Empire at Daytona. I did 4 x 1 min quick turnover (162, 172, 168, 165) on the way out and 4 more on the way back (164, 170, 172, 176).

Event: ROC - 2nd Annual Adventure Run
 

No chance for a run today. Our little valedictorian had to give a speech at graduation, and we had plenty of last minute things to do before heading down there. It was straight from graduation (3 hours long - almost an hour just giving out the diplomas) to Olive Garden for lunch (per Chelsea's request) to a graduation party, leaving me too full to think about running.

Chelsea's speech went quite well, especially considering this is not something she ever does (well, I guess she did give a brief speech at the basketball banquet, which had about 1/40th of the audience - the Eastman Theater was pretty much packed for this). Her friend gave a very nice speech also, including Marv Levy's "where would you rather be that right here, right now" quote.