Training Log Archive: AliC

Event: SMOC Chilson
 

Helped send people off for the first hour, good turnout on another awesomely nice day for orienteering!

SMOC Chilson - Barbara's Meet! (With vetting by Mark, mapping by Igor)

Good times, although I didn't run totally cleanly. 3 issues:

#1- I didn't see control at #6. Came around from the trail, was sure I was in the right reentrant, saw no flag. But it was up just a bit higher than I was expecting and on the far side of the reentrant. Circle slightly off.

#2- Bah! Totally botched trails! Thundered down from 6, just keeping vague sense of direction. Came out on a trail, decided I was north of junction and to go south. So did, ok, heading southish, should be ok. But then I came to a junction that didn't make total sense, oops, I'm *there*! Probably a quicker realization that otherwise even, since I set courses here in the fall... bad.

#3 - Number 12. Which, ok, isn't quite in the place indicated by control circle, but I can't pretend that was my problem. I sailed way past it, too far North. Thought I was on a good bearing, but must have been off by some 30 degrees, so that's definitely not good. Found far depressions in N-S reentrant before turning back.

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Controls:
#1 - Through #13, then around marsh.
#2 - Pretty straight on line, using trail from clearing at 2/3s of the way there.
#3 - Started on the ride for maybe 70m then up reentrant, popped out on ride and over mini-reentrant to the right one.
#4 - Wheee! This section was a blast to run through, pretty much on line, hitting saddle points, pop over to the control.
#5 - On line through the wiggly stuff, then right off the side to the lowlands where I picked off the squiggly reentrant full of water to tell me to definitely continue on.
#6 - Out from the lowlands, on the trail. The map probably says cut towards the end, but it looked thicker with green, so my tired-from-5k legs choose the trail. Went well until I couldn't see the control where I expected.
#7 - Aforementioned disaster out to trail, but then fine actually attacking, perhaps a little more tangled in green than necessary over the small green hill along the way.
#8 - Bashed through undergrowth and then splashed through the marsh. Was there a dry way to get there?
#9 - Splashed out from #8 and to trail, then attacked easily through the way I'd been fixing my trail mistake earlier. But I was a bit too far right, through necks of both double-depressions would have been more ideal, instead of south of the 2nd set.
#10 - Whee! Control pick! Direct.
#11 - Control pick #2, also went well, unsure about choice of a mini-short leg like this that goes through marked under growth.
#12 - Bah, aforementioned off-ness. Kept just searching too far left for some sign of reentrantness, but it was to my right!
#13 - Straight North, along fence, then trails, then in after the mini-swamp on left. Hesitation as I approached though, should have been more confident from the bigger hill. After all, had been there before!

Nice course, awesome little area!

C • I was dry to and after 8 (until 13) 5

C • trail junctions 1

And Orange, on tired legs. Maybe shouldn't have done this, actually, left patellar tendon is now really ouchie....

And control pickup of some fun controls. But, yeah, legs quite tired.

Dart Frog Dash 5k

Woo! Nice and close to the PR despite a 'hilly' course for Toledo. And then there's the going through the zoo part, where you have two 150-degree corners and have to make sure you bear right when you go underground by the under-water part of the seal exhibit... But it's not every race you do that you pass by elephants, so all worth it! =)

An unknown woman kept up with Rachel and I for the first mile, then faded, but still had a solid under-20 time, she's a herptology (hence interest in doing a Dart-Frog themed race!) student at Bowling Green. Hoping to make a career of researching/consulting on Ohio's reptiles!

Beats last year's time of 17:40, same weekend.

C • Woo! 4

Cool down. Missed the awards because they did them a half-hour early? When does that happen? Anyways, have a new family membership to the Zoo for next year, maybe will use one least time before leaving!

And then to the farmer's market. Bread from Amelia, bok choy, pea shoots and lettuce mix from Liz and coffee and a Black Forest scone from Ralph and Ginni. Still think their Dark Star scone is my fav, but gotta experiment!

Day off and Toledo symphony finale - Mendelssohn's violin concerto and Mahler 5. It's been so much fun having season tickets, for sure one of my fave race prizes ever!

C • Wonderful 6

Up and into the rain for a tempo run. Totally drenched by about 10 min in, but at least it's not cold rain!

I haven't been doing tempos yet this spring, time to get on track. Today's 2 x 10 min effort wasn't hard, but also wasn't as fast as I would have liked. So definitely need to keep these up!

Morning Wildwood run with Tom, legs tired! Diverged just a few times for extra hill. We also brought the Wildwood map from cedarcreek using Jagge's tool, good for Tom to keep track of where we might be while on the trails.

Then headed to Schmucker's Restaurant for a quick breakfast after. Two pancakes, two eggs, two sausages with coffee for $4.50 and getting to spectate our food being made on the grill. Grabbed a cherry strudel pie to go for lunch! =)

Run over to the Rec. Holy moly the Ottawa is getting high!

Core 15, about 8 of us. Yay calm summer term...

And 4 for Zumba. Joanna had nearly 100% new songs! Eep! None are yet my fave, maybe they'll grow on me...

C • Zumba entry 3

Woke up in the middle of a nightmare about missing a flight. Ug. Don't think I'm flying for almost another month though at least!

Normal running drills. Busy times at the track. Two guys already there when I arrived, doing 100s. And then a man and women came while I was drilling, told me I looked serious and did their own interval workout, not quite sure what it was.

C • Serious 3

And hard one! 12 x 400s with Kevin, 200 jog rest.

I read a map (model map from Trondheim WOC) during his leads. It is hard to read at 80s quarters!

Pretty toast by the end, it was already 80s and humid at 8.30 am when we started the hard stuff!

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Morning workout with Tom, running over to the Rec (which has decided to stay open early for the summer, woo!).

Indoor track mile, at some speed. One guy learning to toe run, by the amount of awkward he looked.

2 warm up sets, then 5 x 15 at 70 lbs, to get back used to it.