Training Log Archive: Tundra/Desert

BAOC B-meet at Spooner Lake, NV. Barely attended. Out at 6:30, back home at 22:30. 11 hours of driving (with stops) for 5 hours of running and socializing? Why don't we just hold park events at the Presidio?
I ran very slowly, tired from yesterday's adventure. I tried to generalize as much as I could, but could not resist actually reading the map at such a slow speed. Reading the map is fun, but I wouldn't recommend much of it for competitive orienteers.

Control pick-up at Spooner Lake. Tired and wasted, mostly walking, e-punches in hand.

Blue - Splits

Tried to catch the light rail (which is now on a new stupid schedule) at 7:30 am. The attempt failed, leaving me with no options but to jog the distance to the Guadalupe light rail line.

The usual: New Almaden to Los Gatos through Quicksilver, Azul, and St. Joe. Splits: Azul entrance (3.3) 43'47; Mt. El Sombroso viewpoint (9.1) 1:47'19; Kennedy trail junction (9.5) 1:51'23; St. Joe entrance (15.2) 2:36'18. I measured the climb off of a 1:24K USGS and it came to 3750' (net elevation gain 2510' from New Almaden to El Sombroso).
My 2:35 PR was in January. It was 79 F/26% –> 91 F/33% at the sea level today. The mountain felt dryer and cooler. I used about 80 ml of SPF 45 in the morning and still got a tan on the back. I ran out of water on the mtn (the Rincon and an unnamed Soda Spring Creek tributary were just about the only non-dry water features) and at the end for 20 minutes, but recovered quickly. I ran pretty aimlessly (HR 145 – 160) until the start (1960', 1:23) of the monster climb section at the W-most branch of the Rincon. Then, I pushed it into the 170s—and could never recover on the way down, it stayed around 165 although I slowed myself down as much as I could.
Met a total of 8 people before St. Joe: 4 mtn bikers, 3 hikers hear park entrances, and one pretty ranger lady.

"Near record high temperatures expected today". That's lower 90s F for the Bay.

91 F, 26%, gentle breeze. Felt awesome.

Doug showed up this time at De Anza track.

Stretching.

6×(400 + 200 easy + 200 + 400 easy). Good effort on the 400s, Doug had one 73 but also an 80. He was done a bit early, as soon as we had to fight through a crowd of TIT people. But we messed up the "rest" part completely and did too much walking; I had to go to the water fountain to drink twice as it was about 27 C and 35% humidity. 74.7 33.9 74.3 34.5 73.7 34.2 75.4 35.8 76.4 35.0 76.9 35.2.

ST = 630 (R = 39).
A long day at work, slacked off.

Warmup at De Anza. Syd showed up.

Stretching.

5×1000 with very slow 400 m recovery, a 400 jog at the end. 3'21 3'24 3'26 3'30 3'29. Syd was about 2 seconds per thing faster on average. The third one was the worst, and felt much better for the 4th and the 5th.

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