Training Log Archive: JanetT

Dodge the Deer (hi, bct ;-) ) trail race at Schodack Island State Park in Castleton, NY.

Large crowd of almost 300 -- FLAT and mostly wide sandy trails and jeep roads. Glen commented on this being a trail race where you could cut tangents. glen was 37th(!) and first M55-59. I was 221st and 6th F55-59 but only about 2:15 behind 3rd place (Phyllis Fox, who also does snowshoe races; 1st F55 was around 26 minutes).

Start was in a wide open field and I did my best not to get boxed in before the funnel several hundred yards along, where I kept on picking off people. Settled into a good pace but not wanting to push too much in case my hamstring was going to act up. Though I felt tightness in the third mile it never got to be painful and I was able to push a little in the last bit and pass one woman. Head/lungs still not totally clear from last week's cold so that may have held me back a bit too, butI think I did the best I could today. Will try to be healthier if we run this again.

It was the 9th running; all previous ones have conflicted with orienteering. ;-). Nice weather -- low 40's and overcast.

Will download FR later. A quilt show calls me away.

EDIT: uploaded FR. Splits show that I was going slower as the race went on (not too surprising) except for the last tenth where I picked up the speed a bit because it felt okay to do so.

As to the quilt show -- it was being held less than 3 miles due west of where we ran this morning, but "you can't get there from here" unless you're a bird. (I came back home between race and show anyway). Some interesting quilts and exhibits.

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Warming up on the trails around parking. I looked at where we'd go when we headed out of the field, then turned around and went down the trail we'd be finishing on (having seeing the layout of the race, I knew the flow).

With my recent cold, I needed to be sure my head/chest were as clear as I could get them before the race started. I don't usually like long warmups, but today's was necessary.

Plus, 5 minutes +/- after the race.

Results

Event: US Interscholastic & US Intercollegiate Championships
 

Mailed some tax forms/payments and a 65th-anniversary card (Glen's aunt and uncle). Walked up the hill (Albany Turnpike) just for the fun of it. Barked at by two dogs (one I greet by name, but he still barks at everyone who goes by).

Weights; no other tools. Will have substitutes next week while Mary's on vacation--should be interesting. At least neither substitute is Kendra.

Different program --hill intervals, resistance around 20 and elevation from 6 to 12. "Distance" was 1.54 mi. Felt harder on the quads than the other program. Fortunately, much easier on the knees than the treadmill. Listened to Fresh Air segment on methane. ;-)

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1000m, a few seconds faster than on Tuesday.

Did adductors, and would have done pulldowns except there was a fellow who did repeated sets and taking breaks. Looked like he wasn't going to give up the machine and I got tired of waiting. Tried to substitute on a different machine (this one had a separate pulley for each hand) but it wasn't quite the same motion.

Started to go to exercise class before I realized this was a break day (Monday was a make-up class).

Started to go for a walk between showers (mid 40s) when it started to rain again, so headed back home.

Maybe I'm supposed to take a rest day. :-) We'll see how the weather shapes up for later.

I have a friend who's into National Poetry Month and NaPoWriMo (30 poems in 30 days), and is trying to write a poem a day. [I haven't been writing a poem a day, myself.]

She mentioned an idea seen in previous NaPoWriMos, and today I quickly came up with this little poem based on the suggestion of writing a Fib (a Fibonacci sequence-based 6-line poem):

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Want a reason to play in the woods?

Map
Fun
Compass
Adventure
Checkpoints in the park...
Let's all go orienteering!
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Okay, so it's a bit banal...

Using bands today.
Coughing before and after, but not during the class.

Elliptical, program 1, level 3. MHR noted was 136. "Distance" of 1.65 mi. Listened to this week's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me podcast.

1000m on the rowing machine, damper set on #6.

Good to work out the stiffness remaining from yesterday (mostly from the falls). Otherwise, I'm surprised my quads aren't more sore from the climbs.

Event: HVO Rockhouse Mountain
 

Walk/jog to and from start. HVO meet on Rockhouse Mtn map, parking near Lake Welch. Start was on the other side of the tunnel under the road.

Billygoat training. :-) At this rate the Billygoat will be interesting.

Kept taking the wrong routes through the green (laurel), then having to correct/relocate when I left it. Attacked the cliff (#2) from above but must have been picking my way down when I should have just turned to the right; had to climb back up to it. Tried to find the white corridor to 3 but ended up a bit off to the right. And 5 was just difficult! Relocated from large boulder in white to SE of control. Clean the rest of the way, but slow. Fell a couple of times; Whacked my right shin and hip and hand pretty good--I'll feel those tomorrow.

Happy to be done. Gotta work on hills, though.

EDIT: uploaded FR track; 8.27 km recorded; climb is what AP calculated.

Map with red course, no track

QuickRoute track --

From Track jpg files

Route choices that could have been better:

2 -- The marsh between 1 and 2 wasn't too bad but the laurel was sometimes hard to get through. I was trying to avoid the rocky hillside west of 1. Time lost in the control circle (because I didn't see the bag on the cliff I was probably within spitting distance of: 4:30)
3 -- Was just trying to skirt the laurel and find the white corridor but didn't do so well. When I was approaching the control I lost confidence in what hills/rocks I was seeing so went west to check out some rocks there. Time lost: 3:30
Lost a minute or two on the way to 4, between looking for the bare-rock corridor (west of main trail) and missing the white corridor off the trail
5 -- Trudged up the hill through the green, but then wasn't sure exactly which bare rock I was on; relocated from large boulder. Time lost, about 2:00

So, with better navigation in the circle and better route choices I could have been 12-15 minutes faster, I think, putting me closer to 2 hours.

1:15000 map (vintage 1993). Good thing I had both bifocals and the magnifier on the compass!

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