Training Log Archive: Nadim

From Northfield Rd to the Bethesda Metro Station. My hamstring was hurting a little and I took this ride easier than I would have.

From Bethesda Metro Station the Northfield Rd. My hamstring was hurting as I started but it felt better the further I went.

From Northfield Rd., to the Bethesda Metro Station.

Washington, D.C. From 12th & Independence Ave., SW, down The Mall along Independence Ave. and the Reflecting Pool to the Lincoln Memorial, to Ohio Dr. to the Rock Creek Trail, to Calvert St., to the Woodley Park/Zoo Metro Station. There was a cool headwind which felt good for a while. However, I didn't feel like I was running all that well and had to put more mental energy into it than expected. As has happened many times previously, once I got into the protected Rock Creek stream valley I started feeling better, even though that's where the gentle grade starts. 33:07 minutes and 3.6 miles into the run, on a fairly flat stretch of trail, I felt a sudden pain in my right hamstring. I slowed immediately and walked briefly before jogging more slowly. As long as I didn't extend my right leg, the one that's already weaker from my back issues, I could keep moving. I felt less pain going up the steep hill into Woodley Park and was glad to stop there. I'd been occasionally feeling tightness in both of my hamstrings, but more on the right side, on various occasions this fall. Though I've been stretching after runs, It doesn't seem to have been enough. It's an unfortunate setback just as the winter long run season is finally here. :( The area of pain is just above the knee on the back inside part of my right leg. From my past injury experiences I stopped quickly and probably prevented further damage so hopefully I can recover quickly, like I did from my calf problem last March.

From Bethesda Metro Station the Northfield Rd. I moved slowly since cycling was aggravating the hamstring pull.

From Northfield Rd., to the Bethesda Metro Station.

From the Bethesda Metro Station, Edgemoor Ln., to Denton Rd. to Hampden Ln. to Exeter Rd. to the Elm St. path, to Edgemoor Ln., to Mooreland Ln. to Wilson Ln. to Hampden Ln. to Charlcotte Rd., to Northfield Rd. I left work late and it was raining. Instead of bicycling in the rain, I chose to run home, which is much more pleasant. The rain stopped as I was running but I was feeling tired and slow. Later in the evening I went out to get groceries and to pickup my bicycle and clothes that I'd left in my locker at the station.

From Northfield Rd., to the Bethesda Metro Station.

From Bethesda Metro Station the Northfield Rd.

Event: QOC Mason Neck
 

QOC: Mason Neck State Park, VA. Blue. I felt faster today and ran pretty well overall. That however was not what was needed at this often tricky park.

S-1 - I ran down the road and cut in using the place where the foot trail on the south side of the road gets closest to the road, to attack the control on the north side. I got just a little to the right and had to come through some deadfall.

1-2 - out across the road, I used the paved trail bend to the left. I rounded the green in a broad curve, crossing the trail that was covered w/leaves, without noticing it. As I came back I saw the trail and used it for 100ft. I went straight next, emerging just on the west edge of the control circle.

2-3 - Straight all the way, making minor adjustments, and I spiked it. This probably got me a little overconfident, though I didn't think going straight was easy.

3-4 - I went straight, making early adjustments for deadfall. Across the fist broad reentrant, I hit a minor-ditch-like one almost perfectly so I thought all was well. I continued straight but ended up well past the control at the next reentrant system. I didn't see the marsh or the mapped deadfall for where I ended up, except for the deadfall right at the reentrant. I spiraled outward after exploring the reentrant slowly, due to the deadfall. Eventually I looped south of the control and came up the correct reentrant system from the SW. My GPS shows that if I'd have hit the control correctly, that I'd have taken 2:14. As it was, I lost 8:13 minutes. AP shows me losing more but that's because I made other errors.

4-5 - I ran down the reentrant and then on bearing, going straight. I must have been a little to the left. I dropped into the reentrant before the #5 and found a different control there. I rushed and punched. Though I'd been reading other control codes, I must not have checked this one. It was #132 and this one was #131.

5-6 - I'm surprised that I didn't see the correct control #5 on the way since I'd mispunched one reentrant early at #5. It was practically on the way. Continuing straight, I went over hills and deadfall to spike #6.

6-7 - I ran straight at #7, perhaps getting too high to the left along the way. I corrected and even thought things were good when I came up on the rootstock 200m away, and a little deadfall 100m away. Stopping just beyond the rim of the broad shallow reentrant, I didn't see the control. I did however see the NE side of the trail bridge that was beyond the control. I came back but still didn't see it. I circled back toward the bridge and took a better bearing. This time I went slightly farther and was on target. My GPS shows I had ran out and back the same way. My GPS track shows I lost 1:55 minutes.

7-8 - I tried to go straight but I arced there from left to right.

8-9 - Straight to the trail. I went to the trail bend before going straight again. This time I was a little left, and went past the correct spur, to the next. I crossed the reentrant to get back. I lost 41 seconds.

9-10 - I was a bit sloppy going too far to the left initially but I spiked the control.

10-11 - Straight but it seemed like I was off to the left a little.

11-12 - Straight to the marsh, checking things off along the way. I was closer to the left (east) side of the marsh so I went around it on the left side. That was a pretty good attack point but I used the reentrant near the end.

12-13 - Straight, and I spiked it, but I adjusted along the way.

13-14 - Straight, noting the edge of the green. I didn't discern the scattered rough open just past it. I kept straight and spiked it.

14-15 - I pulled to the left and stopped at the rim. Not seeing a reentrant, I went on. This would have been execution of aiming off, but I hadn't been trying to do it. I lost about 15 seconds.

15-16 - I ran a little right of straight, planning to hit the paved trail. Mostly, I ran to avoid green. I adjusted left and right. I hit the trail SE and beyond the bridge, then used the paved trail.

16-17 - I ran down the road, cutting in just before the parking lot. Just past the parking lot, I cut in again, having to cross the reentrant to get to the control. It was higher up than I'd expected it, but I saw if from far away.

17-F - I tried to run harder but never at 100%. I was pretty tired.

Overall, I think I lost right at about 11 minutes. It was disappointing but not so much as finding out that I'd mispunched again.

Blue - Splits