Training Log Archive: bishop22

Event: 33rd West Point A Meet
 

West Point Middle from Bull Pond - Red Course

Walk / jog to the Middle start (lots of climb, so more walking than planned, and not much time to spare).

Red Sprint - Splits

Red Middle - Splits

Vetting the Trail Challenge courses at Mendon Ponds.

Went easy, but seemed tougher than it should have.

ROC TNT at Webster Park

I volunteered to host this training session, since it was at Webster Park. Unfortunately only 5 of us were there to take advantage of the session (luke was a no-show because of prepping for tomorrow night's solo, and Z couldn't attend with a track meet against good distance teams - RH, Victor and Irondequoit - tomorrow). This includes:
- making sure the terrain interval area was OK
- 2 x [almost] 200m in the terrain
- setting out a control for the memory-o
- visiting the 5 controls for the memory-o
- 4 x [almost] 200m in the terrain
- retrieving my control

I'm not sure I managed the split and start/stop buttons very accurately, but the general idea should show in the splits.

Heart was skipping beats frequently when I got home. Was a little slow on the intervals - not sure if it is leftover Billygoat or the heart or both. I'll have to hit the track next week after West Point for some quantitative data.

After swinging by track practice at Thomas, then going to the JV meet at Irondequoit, I forced myself out for a run at Durand Eastman. Due to our depleted roster we had no 3000/3200 runners and I had the boys do 4 200m intervals after their first event, instead of making them (and the coaches who had to go back on the bus) stick around for the 4x8, so I was able to leave early and ran before the rain came back.

Legs were very heavy from yesterday. And the skipped heart beat issue may be back. Not like before because I don't seem to have any problem on uphills, but it's still disconcerting having a couple of skipped beats every minute.

Billygoat with Luke. We started out conservatively (in terms of pace), doing a fair amount of walking to make sure Luke could make the 3+ hours, but it was me that was cramping at the end.

We were alone much of the time from our approach to C3 to the end. Some mistakes were made:
C3 - there was a group ahead of us, but they were too far left, so we aimed right, but lost sight of them and we didn't go right enough, so we hit the trail right by the stream and had to come back.
C7 - came around in the wrong reentrant and lost some time, but corrected a little ahead of Sandy and someone else.
C14 - we went to far right out of C13 and got slightly confused by hitting the stream early, so we followed it for an easy attack from the trail crossing.
C16 - running well on the trail and we took the smaller trail from the bend of the bigger trail, until it ended, then missed the control to the left and went past the other cliff to the trail before recovering up the reentrant.
C18 - took the main trail up the hill and got distracted and never noticed that we had turned east, so when we got to the second trail on the left, we thought it was the first one - even though we had been on the trail a while, we thought it was just because we were slow on the uphill. So, we started down the trail and hit some zig-zags. I noticed they seemed similar to the area around the second trail, but some stuff didn't seem to match, so we decided to run back UP to the main trail and verify - sure enough, we were right, so we ran back down and got the control without a problem. The Garmin seems to indicate we lost 9 minutes.
C20 - we angled over to the trail, but then cut back in too soon and lost some time.

We skipped C10 in order to take the northern trail from C9 to C11. Great view from one spot on the trail!

Going to C20, I thought we were going to be OVT, but then we saw it was a lot of trail running at the end, so we were 9 minutes under.

C • Luke 4

C • Zach 2

Billygoat - Splits