Training Log Archive: bishop22

OK, so Nate finally beat me in a 5K (it's about time). He had to win money to do it (although he has not accepted the money, since I'm not sure about NYS rules regarding cash awards for athletes).

Splits: 6:36, 6:32, 6:40, 38

I couldn't make the transition from running tempo pace to racing. I was alone by the mile mark, with no one close enough to catch in front of me, and no one pressing me from behind.

The Rochester Christian School race also had a 10K, so I decided to run the course at marathon pace (~7:36 per mile) for a decent workout for the day.

Splits: 7:54, 7:31, 7:37, 7:31, 7:25, 7:20, 1:28

I passed Lonsberry about 1/2 mile in, then passed a few others by the mile mark and I was all alone the rest of the way.

10 min w/up, partly with Nate, partly with Chelsea; 6 min w/dn after the 10K.

Easy run from home to Irondequoit Bay East via Daytona, then back after 15:30.

The next time someone schedules a 12-12:30 meeting, I will say NFW.

I thought I could squeeze in a run before my 1:30 meeting, but 12:30 became 12:50 and I was done. I didn't get to the golf course until almost 5, so I barely made it home for the Bills kickoff.

Definitely rusty early: got up and down from 55 yards on 1 to save bogey, but missed a 2-footer for bogey on 2. Made par on 3, 4, 5, then all bogeys.

No time to run at lunch, then had to take Luke to a 1st grade "class reunion". And then I had to watch the Olympics via TiVo delay - perhaps if the Y added DVR to the individual TV stations...

4:05/8:17
1:30,33,34,32,32,34 (on 1:55)
3;26,24

It was clear that I had been out of the water for quite some time. That, plus
taking it easy with Patty's O-Meet tonight made for some slow times.

BFLO Sprint at Emery Park

I caught Luke at C1. Nate gave me a 2-minute head start, but I made mistakes early (took the road around left to C4 and drifted well right on the way to C5), so he was just behind me at C5. I held him off on the long run to to C6, but he out-sprinted me to C7. I followed him over to C8 and passed him on the way to C9 as I cut thru some nasty vegetation, going straight, and he went too far left. I blew by C10 at full steam, thinking it was across the bridge, when it was really before the stream, costing me nearly 40 seconds and Nate smoked me. Rob also got me by about a minute.

Splits:
2:04, 3:04, 4:09, 7:38, 9:57,
12:22, 13:15, 14:01, 15:41, 16:57, 17:40

BFLO Score-O at Emery Park.

Nate started off in the same direction as I did, and we hit 75 (after Nate realized he was no longer on a 1:5 map). We both went too far right to 72 and I recovered more quickly. I tried the field by the power line to 73, but it was too nasty, so I ducked back into the woods, which was full of unmapped blowdown, but I got a bit ahead of Nate, since he struggled thru the field. I lost the lead near the circle, since it was medium green, not white, protecting the flag. The field on the way to 74 had houses, so we ran the roads. It was too dark to read the low quality map's uncrossable fence blocking the field to 76, so I went around the end of the fence and grabbed 77 first. I lost sight of Nate leaving 76, but saw him near 78 - I took off up the road to 79 without seeing Nate, but he was coming out of the control when I cut in. We took separate, but equally brutal paths to 80. He went too far east, so I got there first. Leaving 80, the reentrant / stream was brutally steep, so we went east to the road (no easy going there).

Then it was the north side. Nate was ahead of me, but went up to the ski hill parking lot, while I cut in and closed the gap a bit going to 82. He stayed in the fields towards 84, while I cut thru some of the woods, but still couldn't catch up. I lost sight of him heading to 86, but he was still at the control, trying to figure out which square to punch as I closed in. I took the XC ski trail to the road and cut back into 87, and found I had almost caught Nate again. He took off towards 40 and I had a decision to make - it looked like time might be close and 40 was 300m away with enough junk on the map to pose potential difficulties, so I skipped it. Grabbed 41 quickly and loved the wooded section going to 43. I left 43 on a beeline for 45 via the tennis courts. I crossed the road and cut into the woods, looking towards the bridge, but no control, so I ran up the stream bank a bit before realizing there was no way it was that far from the road, ran back to the bridge and read the clue, saw the spur, climbed up and found the bag hanging against the tree (Zach never found it, preventing him from bagging all 10 south of the road).

I hustled in and wound up with almost 8.5 minutes left, which would have been more than enough time to grab 40 and give Rob a good run for 2nd place. As it was, Nate won by a couple of minutes, and I was 3rd (I think 13 controls was 4th).

My, that was a long drive back from Laramie. Left yesterday at 13:10 MDT arrived in EA at 14:00 EDT today. By the time I returned the car and drove home it was about 16:30.

Red Day 2 - Splits