Training Log Archive: bishop22

Run for the Young. Nate got out a step ahead of me, but then we settled in together for the first mile, when we caught Megan. I took a couple of tangents to get a few steps on them early in the 2nd mile, and slowly opened a bit of a lead. With about a half to go, I turned around to cheer for Nate a bit, and Megan dropped off the pace. I gave a couple more shouts of encouragement on the way to the finish, and got in 7 seconds ahead of Nate.

Splits: 6:17, 12:49
Not a bad race, considering I've done absolutely no speed training. I hope to get to the track with Nate at the end of the month, after his lax season ends.

Warmed up a little longer than planned - trying to figure out Zach's 1-mile fun run course (I was following arrows in the road, but they must have been for another race). That was good for me, getting nice and loose and all, but the time pressure was not good - got to the start with only about a minute to spare - no time to grab a drink.

Long Orange course at the ROC meet at Irondequoit Bay West. Choked on my first local meet of the season, after being out of town for the first 3. I made a 7-minute error on C10 and lost by 2 minutes. There was plenty of climb and my legs were a little heavy from the 5K in the morning, but I was navigating fairly well (well, other than 2 45-60 second mistakes), until I tried to get cute and avoid some climb heading to C10. Got myself turned around, and couldn't relocate until I had run to a stream, and followed a trail a ways to familiar territory. Saw Pavel leaving C11 ahead of me, and he had started after me, so I tried to focus and run hard the rest of the way.

Just a quick warm-up after working the start / finish for 1.5 hours.

Flag pick-up.

Long Orange - Splits

Easy run - Ford St - Andrews.

Beautiful day, but I had a tight schedule, so I ran sort of hard, since it had to be short.
East-Culver-Park
6:26 (7:35 pace)
12:49 (7:18)
20:33 (7:08)
27:44 (6:47)

Ran (mostly trails) at Mendon Ponds on the way back from Nate's lax game in Honeoye Falls. Nice to run easy for an hour, and have it actually be easy to do. No way I'll be under 20 in Saturday's 5K, but it seems I am orienteering myself into reasonable running shape.

4:02/8:01
1:29,33,2,0,1,28,9 (on 1:50)
3:22,19

Day 2 Blue at West Point. Was resolved to not make the same mistakes as yesterday. That lasted for 7 controls, before I was not careful enough going to C8 - a warning shot was fired when I popped out on the wrong trail and ran around before heading back into the woods and finding the correct trail. Then I thought I had a decent line, but I was not accurately keeping track of which big features were which, so when I spotted a reentrant that had to be mine, it wasn't. Had to climb to the top of the hill before I was able to relocate (then "spiked it") - leading to a 42 minute leg. Also struggled thru 9, 10 and 11, at which point, I was halfway thru the controls in 1:51:39 - OVT was practically wrapped up. So, I took the road to C12, stopping to unload both shoes of debris, and with the pressure on, the tide turned. Most of the remaining time loss was due to careful route selections and fatigue from topping 6 hours of orienteering for the weekend.

Nate rebounded nicely today, from his rough virgin Orange outing at an A-meet yesterday. Picked up the fastest time for M-16, but it wasn't quite enough to make the podium (40 secs from 3rd, less than 4 minutes from first - out of something like 2:43 total for the 2 days).

Blue 2 - Splits