Training Log Archive: GlenT

Day 2 at Fair Hill. A much better run than Saturday but made lots of small errors totalling about 3 minutes. Sloppy in the control circle on 5 controls! Also made two small route choice errors by not reading the detail on the map on two short legs. Even though I consider 3 minutes of errors a reasonably good run, it also happens to be how far I was behind the fastest run of the day on the course. (Woulda , coulda, shoulda....)

Rant: I did not like the choice of the start location and first control. I had trouble finding the start triangle on the map since the line to the first control was hidden in the contours. Unless the Fair Hill powers-that-be required that the start be where it was, there are many better areas to place the start on this map.

Day 1 at Fair Hill (Interscholastics). An OK run except for errors at controls 3 and 4 resulting in a loss of about 7 - 8 minutes. Was sloppy on the attack going into 3 and didn't read the detail in the circle carefully, so I think I went right by the bag without seeing it. Searched up and down the stream for a while before finding it. Hurried out of 3 trying to make up lost time and headed up the (almost) parallel reentrant to the right of the one I needed. Relocated on the fields. The rest of the run was OK except for another 30 seconds lost chasing the wrong bag on #14 even though I knew it wasn't the one I wanted. Managed to (just) break an hour but was well off the leaders' pace. Not a good run.

Sprint at Fair Hill (non-sanctioned). Nice course, in the woods but with lots of trails and plenty of route choices. Started one minute behind Mike Minium. Caught Mike at 4 then made an error on the way to 6 crossing a smaller stream on a trail and thinking it was the larger one (lost ~20sec) and he regained the lead. Punched after Mike at 8 then took the route to the right while he went left and I beat him to 9 by 30 - 50m. On my own the rest of the way in. Ended up 20th overall (out of nearly 100 who did the sprint). Earned 23 sprint points (18th male) which ties my 6th lowest score so far - so no net gain.

Sprint - Splits

Day 1, Green X - Splits

Day 2, Green X - Splits

Event: DVOA A-Meet (Interscholastics)
 

66S, Richmond Rd to Bashford Rd and back. Cool and breezy, but the sun was out.

56F. Shorts!!! 66N, Albany Tpke and back. Lots of water in the Creek.