Training Log Archive: bishop22

After track practice, decided to watch our next door neighbor play lax, instead of heading out for a run. I was able to see 8 of her 11 goals before I had to take off for a looooong Pastoral Council meeting.

Event: ROC - Dryer Road Park [2011 Series #3]
 

ROC meet at Dryer Road Park - Red Course.

I was finally able to make an ROC meet, and it was already the 3rd Club Series race (last one until fall, as the Sprint Series takes over).

Rough outing. Couldn't read the bike trails (too many), nor the contours (too many trail obscured them for my failing eyes). Biggest errors:
C1 - should have just charged ahead aggressively, but was afraid of going OB and getting lost.
C4 - went farther right than I thought after leaving trail, but tried to correct before I got to the trail, so relocating was futile.
C5 - thought I knew where I left the trail, within 100m of control, but ended up climbing, which shouldn't have happened, then just wandered, unable to relocate off the contours or the trail that I hit.
C7 - trail to left fork to bend went quite well, but couldn't read trails or contours and my bearing let me down and I couldn't really see the green at first.
C8 - this was the worst of all - thought I could see the near "corner" of the second part of the field above me, but was wrong, so spent too much time looking for a sharp curve short of the true destination.
C10 - was headed down a reentrant from just below the field that seemed to be on the line, but no sign of a reentrant on the map, so I kept stopping to find something else. I think I do see a bit of a form line on the map, now, right on the line.
C12 - stupidly took the little trail from the start of the little field, wasting time on curves. Then it was thick "white" to get over to the next trail.

Control pickup (only had to do 4)

Since the world did not end at 6pm, I went out for a run. Easy run (8:48 pace first two miles), but picked it up a bit when I saw nate up ahead with a mile to go. It looked like he was loafing, but I ran 7:21 the last mile and lost about 40 seconds to him.

Legs were heavy from the full day at the County Champs, where we turned in some pretty good performances, all things considered, but we'll need to run better next weekend.

Run? Today? Are you kidding?

Orienteering (Emery Park Map Hike), as part of Walt's 70th birthday party celebration. Went around for 70 minutes with Walt, Chris, Tim, Bill and Brig. Different folks led different legs. We must have done about 12 of the controls, including all S of Emery.

Dirt Cheap Trail Race at Webster Park (distance is estimated).

Legs still heavy from the weekend, so I kept it comfortable. The mud was quite thick in places from all the rain, and I was just wearing the Pegasus, so it was slow going in those sections. For the last third of the race a guy kept catching me in the muddy sections and I'd pull away in the drier areas, so it kept me sort of honest. About a minute slower than last year, which was likely the time loss due to the mud.

Nearly 12 hours at work, with a meeting at lunchtime, but I did not want another goose egg. So, I stopped at Corbett's Glen on the way-ish home for an easy run. Checked out random trails, mostly off the beaten path, and wound up along Allen's Creek where the trail abruptly ended and I came within about an inch of being headfirst into the creek, when the spot my landed on turned out to be moss/grass suspended by a single tree root. I was able to stop my tumbling with my face just about touching the water.

Popped out of the park on Colonial Village, then tried to find the way back in on Park Ln, but could not see an obvious entrance.