Training Log Archive: Nadim

Event: QOC: Wheaton
 

Wheaton Regional Park, MD. Warm-up along the roads. I got to the park intentionally late so I could finish without having to wait long to pickup controls. It was in the upper 40's to low 50's F but turning colder.

QOC: Wheaton Regional Park. I ran the Blue course. Most advanced courses were run on maps that had the trails, buildings and fields removed. Contours, streams, ditches, uncrossable fences and green vegetation were the primary symbols. I felt good starting off and read my way well to most controls. I tended to go straight too much, not planning routes out all the way before commiting to them. This lost me some time. All legs but one were run under 8:00 minute pace including errors. On the one 10:00 minute pace leg, I mistook a waterfountain for a different manmade feature and veered off. It was a nice to race/train this way and made Wheaton significantly more difficult despite the open woods.

C • Man-made feature 1

Control Pickup in Wheaton Regional Park. The knots for the e-punches were too tight. Temperatures were in the low 40's F.

Blue - Splits

MCRRC: From Ken Gar Park, down the Rock Creek Trail to Spring St. and back. It was fairly cold starting out--28 F. All the marathoners were pooped or injured from their endeavors. I started out easy with Peggy and we pulled away ahead of everyone else. Even with the easy pace, I didn't feel like I was going very slow. I decided to pickup the pace after 2 miles and ran the rest by myself. I never felt all that good but the time off from running must have helped as I was running faster than my other runs recently. Marathon training packs went by occasionally. Splits: 8:44, 8:23, 6:56, 6:47, 31:54 at the turnaround, 6:51, 6:53, 6:56, 6:36.

Once again a day off (both from work and from working out) with errands. I had to abandon plans to do a terrain run but did get tickets to Russia. 45 situps.

20 pushups and 45 situps. Continued laziness on a day off with errands to do.

45 situps. Just some more laziness after getting home late. I've decided to take this week easy.

The old problem of getting home late and not feeling very motivated combined with scary looking radar, rain and a tornado watch to keep me in. 45 situps. My side hurt during these.

C • 2

From Rosedale Ave., I did the Two Mile Loop around the neighborhood. I started slowly but with the nice 61 F weather and no sweats, I got moving and loosened up quickly.