Training Log Archive: bishop22

Event: GorgesGoat
 

GorgesGoat at Letchworth. I felt guilty about blowing off the XC team at their first race of the season, so I went to Byron-Bergen before Letchworth - saw the Varsity Boys race (so I didn't see Chelsea or Nate, although Nate wound up with Webster's 4th best time of the day). The trip to Letchworth was slightly longer than expected and I had to stop for 3 gallons of gas in Perry, and I ended up arriving 5 minutes late - it figures we would finally get a mass start off on time.

Ended up starting about 7 minutes back. C1 was easy, although I ran almost to the end of the trail to be sure I knew where I was. C2 was a lot of climb, and I wish I had others to chase to keep me motivated. I cut up to the circle and attacked, and there was way more green between the circle and the flag than mapped. C3 was easier than I expected (should have looked at the clue, but it was on the back of the map). C4 was a nice run along the top of the cliffs and down a spur. C5 was also straightforward.

The fork was next, and C6 looked easier to find, so I went that way. I missed it right (barely, as it turns out - Randy was apparently almost to the flag when I saw him. Had to relocate from the top of the hill. On to C8: I saw a nice black mark crossing a creek, so I figured, great, a bridge. Nope - a waterfall. I lost at least 10 minutes slogging thru the creek (and when I tried to turn onto the creek leading to C8, I hit an insurmountable waterfall). Went mostly straight to C9 - there were nice tracks thru the swamp in the toughest section of the leg. I ran down to the trail and things got scary.

I saw Linda near the trail junction about halfway to C10. She said Sergey was having heart trouble (rapid beating for about 10 minutes), so I hustled down the trail to the start/finish area for help. I guess Sergey later made it down under his own power; hopefully he is OK.

So, that counted as my check-in that was supposed to occur between C10&11. So, I had a big climb to C10. Then it was to the trail and off at the bend. I had a bit of a delay going to a hilltop that must not have been big enough to make a contour line before correcting. I almost skipped C12, but I didn't consider it until I was too far down the trail to change my original plan of skipping C16. Too bad, because I had a lot of slow going near the ponds, aka swamps after leaving the dirt road. I was able to work my way over to the proper stream, then stumbled on the control about 70m earlier than I expected (tough to judge where stream actually ended). C13 went pretty well, straight from the gate by the water stop. Saw Dave there, and tried not to get distracted. My map was getting pretty crinkled (useless map bag), and I had trouble reading the contours and water features. It turns out I ended up searching short of the flag, as I discovered when I made it up to the trail, for an easy attack down.

Then it was straight to C15, skipped C16. Came out to the road near the bridge, then found the wet land to extend higher and wider left than expected, but I slogged thru. It was tough being down low, and knowing that the bag was at the top of the cliff, but not seeing it, and having to climb. For C18, I stayed right of the rocks and the green, and up to the trail. One last climb to the road and I was off to C19. Cut thru the woods to the finish when the woods turned white.

A nice course with interesting options set by Eric. I really wish I had made the start, but I think I had a positive impact at the XC meet.

C • Riverbed between #6/7 and 8 1

Nice easy run around Webster Park during practice. Three obnoxious, drunk, unemployable, post-HS youths were harassing the team during the warm-up (this is shortly after 3:30, not quite happy hour) and again during the run. It appears someone may have wrapped their car in saran wrap shortly afterwards. The [white] drunks flipped out, threatening to call their "homies" to beat the $%&! out of someone. A quick apology and there were off, DUIing away.

14:30 w/u
2:30 of jogging between each 1000
9:30 w/d

4 x 1000m (avg recovery 3:45) on the Mendon East XC course with the team. Part of my Anti-taper for the Goat this weekend. Nate beat me on each one. Started from where the course leaves the beach parking lot and looped around to the field near the start. Ran in the other direction (net downhill) on the second and fourth intervals, so they were faster.
~4:05
3:54
4:05
3:48

After practice, I went to the hash in Gates. Decent trail. When we returned, Squirk, who turned around early, wasn't back yet, and he had Faller's keys in his car. It turns out he has had heart trouble recently, so a few of us jogged back out to check for him - but we discovered he had just stopped to do some shopping.

Had to run after Z's hockey practice - it was 9pm before I got out. Real easy Plank-5 Mile-Beacon Hills loop. Coming down Beacon Hills N, I came across some of Penfield's finest local youths firing up a doobie, right in the street. No contact buzz, though.
8:32
8:02
8:40 (Chelsea told me this mile was long)
8:03

4x440 before hills
82,84,82,80
4x440 after hills
82,83,82,83

C • age 2

6x45 sec hills
Beat Nate on most of them (all but 1?)

13:06 w/up
1:30 recovery jog after each 400 (the total recovery averaged just over 2 minutes)
1:15 jog down after each hill (plus 2 min jog back to tennis court area)
22:00 w/dn

Easy run on the Ellison Wetlands map, revisiting several of the dry controls from the canoe-o event. Splits (controls might be wrong, from memory):
C10-5:15 (had to run past control a ways before cutting up due to severe undergrowth)
C11-1:48
C12-5:24
C13-2:35
C15-3:55
C16-2:57
out & back towards C17-6:33
C14-4:29
lot-8:18

Club Champs, Day 2. Opened with 6 bogeys, but finished the front well, for a 42. The wheels almost came off on the back with a triple/double on 13/14, but I settled down for an 89. I hadn't played the back (except 10 & 11 yesterday) since July.

6:57 w/u
10:51 w/d

Parked by Devil's Bathtub and jogged up to the ROC Green practice course start, then back to the lot from the finish. I also went and verified that C4 was indeed missing with a careful study of the area afterwards.

Ran the semi-permanent green course from 7/30 at Mendon. Tried to maintain roughly tempo pace on the straight running sections, since the team was supposed to do a tempo run today. Pretty accurate navigation, with the following problems:
C4 - missing; I ran up the correct reentrant, didn't see a streamer (and didn't remember exactly where it was last time), so I went to the trail, turned left, and checked the next reentrant (that wasn't the correct shape/direction) before moving on
C8 - missing; I did not stay up on the spur initially for my attack, but I got there and saw the control location, but no streamer. I spent about two minutes verifying that I didn't make a parallel error before moving on.
C9 - missing; I cut down from the trail just a bit late, but the tip of the swamp is very pronounced, so it was quick to see there was no streamer.

I did find the C13 streamer this time. I am quite certain it is right of the line and/or short of the circle, since it was too long to run out to the little shed after tagging the streamer.

C • Agreed on C4;-) 1

Semi-permanent Green Course - Splits