Training Log Archive: vlin

Event: QOC Patapsco-Rockburn Branch
 

Group ride at Rockburn and Patapsco. Skills park was crazy difficult to ride the advanced rocks and dirt jumps. Stuck to the pump track and easy trail with small dirt jumps, but practiced some boulder garden skills. Then rode trails at Rockburn and Patapsco - really nice. Haven't ridden there in over 5 years.

Blue course at Rockburn. Didn't feel like I was moving particularly fast. One big mistake where it seems like I was wandering in a small area for almost 10 minutes. The flag was tucked in deep and very hard to see from most angles. Dave saw me standing right near it while I was reading the map, just looking the wrong direction. So my initial navigation to the control was accurate, just did not notice the control, and started wandering and relocating and reattcked but still missed. Eventually found it by luck while following another runner who showed up later and also initially missed. Other early mistake was a few minutes lost on a badly mapped feature. Everything else was clean with only minor corrections. Then really slowed down on the last several controls, very slow jog with no energy and bonking. Sat down right away at the finish and laid in the grass, ate Clif bloks in 30 seconds. Was tired from the biking earlier and not eating enough before the o course. Bonk training may help for ultrarunning.

Blue - Splits

Fountainhead loop, taking the bypass that cuts off some of the far loop beyond picnic tables.

Difficult run loop, with a bit of extra singletrack at Lake Fairfax. Went fast to practice technical handling on easy singletrack, and pushed hard on W&OD.

W&OD medium effort, still testing out legs

Lake Fairfax singletrack. Ran into meetup group riders throughout. Figured out a good sequence of loops for future training rides.

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Wakefield to Accotink and neighborhood trails and powerline near the school.
Easy effort to test legs.