Training Log Archive: bishop22

It was non-stop today, after watching the Bills game until 3am (how could Dick decline that penalty???), but the legs could use a break after yesterday, so it's all good.

Event: Blue Hills Traverse
 

Blue Hills Traverse

It was probably really dumb to do this a week before the marathon, but I couldn't resist the excuse to visit Chelsea.

Got off to a terrible start, with too much rocky footing. Should have been a trail / road run, but I fell back because of the rocks and got distracted by the wrong people. By the time I got out to the road, I was way back. Took the left trail option to C2, and found clean running near the highway to C3.

I spiked 5, 6 and 7 and just about caught JJ on the way to 8. Went past the staties' place to 9. Strayed too far right to 10 (on the trail too long), so went thru the marsh and did extra climbing. Someone was behind me, so instead of going out the easy way, I tried going straight and got hung up a bit.

Leaving 11 was not fun, since I had already done the climb once. The rest of the way was pretty straightforward, until 18, which I had to really hunt for.

Traverse - Splits

Running around during 7 of the 10 State Meet races. Just watched Boys C from one spot, sat out Girls D to get dry clothes on, and only watched the start of Girls C.

Nico ran AA, which was the second race, so we only had one race to scout out the best viewing strategy. The officials were relatively lenient with the spectating, so moving around was not a problem. Nico had a nice race, finishing 47th.

Section V was outstanding in Boys A and Boys B (where the young EA team got smoked) - that was a good indicator of just how strong the Monroe County league is, and makes me quite proud of the boys for racking up a 19-4 record this year (which required defeating 5 state-ranked teams).

F-M girls were unreal - sweeping the top 5 spots of the AA race is simply incredible, especially considering the #3 team in the country was also in the race!

The EA girls looked quite good in winning the B race again.

Ran this loop with nate, looking for the XC course at SUNY Plattsburgh for tomorrow's State Meet.

Then we found the XC course:

2009 NY State XC Champs Course

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and ran it with the East Aurora teams. We saw Nico partway thru, so he ran with us for a bit.

C • 26.2 4

Ran around Plattsburgh for a bit, while nate ordered a pizza for us. I came across a street called Couch St, which sounded familiar, so I ran the length of it. Tim confirmed that was the street we lived on until I was about 4. I still have this vague memory of playing with trains on the sidewalk in front of a yellow house next to a small hill. Not sure if the house is still yellow, though.

Stopped at Black Creek for a run on the way to the Sabres game. I had printed off a 1:10 version of the map, which meant 4 separate pages, but I could read it. It looks like the map attempted to be accurate many years ago, but now most of the rough open is now all overgrown and the patches of woods that are usable are different than they were at mapping time.

I had thought that there might be enough interesting white-ish woods to have a nice Long course, but that doesn't seem to be true after having a chance to visit the eastern and southern parts of the map. There are sections that are fun to run, but there is a whole lot of trail running with no route choice to get between the sections.

Anyway, it is still a fun place to run (since we are way past FDF season).

C • FDF 2

Nearly 13 hour workday meant it was easy to take a day off in the name of tapering - the marathon is just 12 days away.