Training Log Archive: bishop22

No time to fit in a workout, since the day included rising at 4:35am and flying from Asheville to Rochester via Cinci, then straight to work (~10am), then dropping Chelsea at softball before driving to Buffalo to see the Sabres thrash the Flyers, 8-2, including hat tricks by JP [Dumont] and JP (Jason Pominville) - not sure how often dual hat tricks have been done in a playoff game - and arriving home at 11:20pm.

Day 2 of the Blue Ridge Challenge, Red course. Was delayed right from the start - my route of choice would have been to run back past the call-up lines to the dirt road, but I didn't want to look stupid, so I navigated (slowly) thru the terrain. Clicked off the next few controls pretty cautiously, then had a big boom at C8 - after crossing the creek twice, and battling mountain laurel, I found myself bailing left to the trail, anyway. Then I thought I was at a trail intersection, so I made my attack, only to hit a trail, and finally figure out that I hadn't actually reached the intersection - just fooled by an unmapped, or false, trail. For C12, I went past C16 as planned, but followed a mountain laurel boundary that led me within sight of the house (which I could not find on the map for a couple of minutes). Next problem was C15 - I came down by the big cliff, then saw the rocky spur, and ran out it, not realizing (until just now, in fact, that the clue said "top" of the spur), so I had to climb back up the spur, and still had trouble spotting it. Chose to run around (past the finish) to get to C18. Turned out to be a good choice for me, even though I was running out of gas, since that dark green-infested leg would have been trouble for me. John Campbell went a more direct route and passed me, but I'm sure I would have lost more time going straight. A youngster punched the GO control just before me, so I tried to go with him, but all it got me was hyperventilation (a first for me). Well, it did also give me a 4-5 second split victory over Nate.

I think I need to invest in gaiters. My shins really took a beating running thru some of the green areas.

Nate had a terrific run, to grab the fastest yellow of the day, and it was fast enough to move up from 3rd and claim the US Interscholastic Jr. High championship. Zach had one big error (3-4 minutes?), but other than that, was really quick again. Patty extended her lead to win her age group, but Walt struggled big-time on Brown C2, and was not able to retain his podium position from Day 1.

Well, they fooled me today - yesterday's "15 minutes" to the start was just over 400m; today's "30 minutes" was just about a mile. I did some jogging and walking toward the start with Nate, but when we were not in sight after 10 minutes, I had to turn around, so I could get back and send Zach on his way. Then I suited up and jogged after him. By the time I caught him, his start time was getting close, and no start was in sight, so we jogged a little quicker, and got there about 20 seconds after he was called up, giving him a little time to recover before his start. But he's young, he can handle it.

Event: Blue Ridge Classic and Interscholastics
 

Blue Ridge Challenge Day 1 Red.

Comments to follow - for now, suffice it to say I failed to avoid the green.

w/up before race - several trips between the car and the start.

Comments to follow.

Warmed up with Nate before the sprint. Afterwards, jogged out and found Zach, and followed him the rest of the way, since it was his first solo effort above White.

Sprint - Splits

Shiggy-filled hash down in Mendon. Downside was that someone swiped our stocked cooler from the first beer stop. Luckily, it was only the first of two, and we were able to finish a beer at the second stop before getting kicked out of the [private] park - I think none of the members that were with us wanted to 'fess up.

ROC training session at Webster Park. We set out 7 controls, did the loop and met back in the middle. I reran my first control, since I had time, and I tried straight vs the original trail route, but was slower.
11:49 to set control, then splits:
6:20, 3:40, 3:10,
3:18, 2:54, 4:15,
2:40, 7:12 (re-run), 5:31 to meeting place.

Up until 2am doing taxes - not bad, considering I didn't find the forms until about 9:30pm. This AMT crap has to stop - my taxes are over 15% higher because of the AMT. Sucks to live in a high tax state (high income tax, high property tax) with 4 kids under these rules.

Easy swim. Collarbone area still sore.
4:01/8:00
1:29,30,0,1,1,0,29 (on 1:45)
3:23,21

Drove over to Buffalo for their training session at Chestnut Ridge. Jackie had set up a corridor-o - the first half was pretty straight-forward (a ton of beginners showed up for the training and did the first half with the whole map), second half was great practice for me - a park road saved me the one time I unintentionally ran off the map. Pace is an estimate.
Splits:
2:07, 4:27, 6:53,
8:24, 11:29, 13:32,
15:23, 18:59, 23:07,
26:35, 28:33, 38:57