Training Log Archive: jima

Green course at the Hollis wet-fest 3.44 km straight line, 4.1 km per Garmin. Wet drizzly, mid-60s, not unpleasant at all.

A couple of mindless bobbles, #2 if I'd shifted right a couple of orchard rows, and/or paid attention to the contours, wouldn't have over run. 1:45
#5 - Very short leg that I made 3 times as long, didn't get far enough right to the stonewall and dropped too far, and had to climb back up. :30
#12 - trying to pull ahead of 3 adventure racers, came around the corner of the field and dropped too far again, not stopping in the first large gaps between rows, droppped an extra 3 contours. 2:00

Got beat by Bill Pullman, Tim Parsons, possibly Ben Parsons and Alar R also.

Short stretch out walk around the neighborhood after an afternoon of too much food.

Morning run at Ahern to check out some new bike trails and contemplate course design. Found a a completely new (to me) bike trail on the W side of the spur trail to the industrial park that I'd never seen before. A lot of puddles from the rain overnight and the past few days, so my feet were soaked.

Evening session to flag some control locations. Changed a couple around a bit, have to adjust the map in a couple of places. Brought my head lamp with me, as it was dusk when I started. Got really dark in the woods, but still enough light to see the map in the clearings. Bugs weren't too bad.

Inaugural run with the Garmin 405.
Couple of observations -
Need to lock the bezel before I take off - kept getting the training partner screen - which I wasn't interested in.
Got satellite lock much faster than with the FRWD unit.

Was alternating between mist and rain the whole time I was out, but felt good. Running trails at Ahern, started with a complete lap on the main loop (12:13 for the 2 k loop), then circled back and down the spur trail to the indistrial park and back on bike trails.

Checked out the functionality of Garmin Training Center, and then downloaded QuickRoutes. A good combination of features - really like being able to load in the map file to QUickRoutes and overlay the GPS track - had to do some tweaking (some of the issues might have been with the map), but it helped me refine a couple sections of bike trail.

Evening run on the Blackstone River Bikeway - an exploratory outing.

Didn't bother to look at the map by the parking lot - took a left at the end of the spur connecting the parking area to the trail, ended up at the I-295 rest area where the trail ended. Back the way I came, past the parking connector, and found out that this was all a spur off the main trail. Crossed the river, and headed north up the main trail. Went as far as the interstate overpass, then turned and headed back.

Didn't feel like I was moving fast, but my HR was up there.