Training Log Archive: blegg

Easy run down to dairy barns and then out to walnut park for a little trail running.

My sore left ankle, left torso, and right knee limited the pace. Argghh. No more tripping.

Good hard workout running from Dixon to the top of Bald Hill. I ran a tough interval to catch nick and brett after streching, then kept going sraight to the top. The way down was super fast.

Took a nosedive when I reached the sidewalk. Second time in 2 days. Now my knees match. Last time I fell this hard was over 2 years ago. I hope this isn't a problem for the relay on sunday.

Nighttime Dimple Hill with Andy and Jessica. It was really nice out, I wish I did this more often.
The pace downhill was slow with poor visibility. I got one good skinned knee out of it.

Ran to the base of bald hill and back from Dixon

Put in 15 minuts rowing, around 10 bouldering, and a little bit of weight lifting (including some quads).

OSU Campus. No excuse to miss this one, the start line is just 100m from my office where I'm typing this now.

I finished less than 10s back from Andy, making me regret the 6 second mistake overshooting #8, and a poor route choice to the finish which probably cost 3 or 4s. :-)

But, I guess it worked out, because the chase happend to be different than expected.

This was a reverse chase, with people starting as pairs every minute, the slowest starting first. This was fun, since we got some rare head to head racing. Based on seeding, I started second to last, which meant Andy would be hot on my tail.

I helped him with a ~20s mistake on control #1 when I stupidly trusted my memory instead of the map. By #4 I'd pushed into the lead but Andy was only 100-200m back. Leaving #6 I lost my place on the map. This cost a few seconds plus a mediocre route choice. Coming into #7 the flying Mr dale had taken the lead and I was playing catchup. And he was booking! There goes my 1 minute head start!!! I unabashedly followed to #8, hoping to I'd have enough speed to pull ahead, or at least keep up. In a stroke of luck though I got ahead at number #9 by cutting through a high fence with an open gate. This however, felt somewhat unethical :-(

From there out it was simply fast running with a goal not to loose ground. I managed to finish first, but by a margin of less than 1min, which puts me at #2 as far as I'm concerned. Next time that guy runs a trail race he should carry a map, and no one else will stand a chance!!!

Picking up controls afterward