Training Log Archive: PG

Event: Flying Pig XIX - U.S. Individual Champs - Sprint-Middle-Long
 

My sprint map (click on map for a larger version). On comparing routes on my second run, splits showed no difference on 1-2 and 2-3 for left vs. right. I'm pretty sure lower was better on both 6-7 and 9-10, but I didn't test the upper route. And left was slower by 10 seconds on 12-13. (And my route to 12 was certainly slower.)

C • 12 was tricky 2

Good warm-up on a rather cold day. Finished about 10 minutes before my start, just about right.

Sprint champs, M70, 1.9 straight line. Reasonably mediocre. Thought my one miss was at 12, down when I should have been up. But rerunning the course reminded me of mistakes leaving 6 (not knowing which way to go, and changing my mind), and leaving 7 (not having a plan to get up to the upper road, so once again diddling at the start of the leg), and once more, leaving 10 (not having realized had to swing around to the left).

Mental laziness in all cases, just not looking ahead at all.

Excellent map and course.

Cold almost immediately, so jogged back to the start/parking.

And once there, put my long-sleeved shirt and hat back on. And then it occurred to me that, since today was supposed to have some more running, why not run the course again. Mike Minium said it was OK, I'd been about the last starter, so off I went.

Took different routes whenever it was possible. No mistakes, of course. Ran at a just slightly less effort than the first run. Splits showed clearly that each of my three diddles cost about 10 seconds, and the bigger mistake about 30 or so. A good teaching lesson.

And then a final jogeroo back to the start, with Alex this time.

And a decent effort for the day, about 6, about what I hoped for.

Sprint - 4 5 Brown - Splits