Training Log Archive: iansmith

Event: CSU Park-O #2: Peters Hill
 

Park-O - Splits

It turns out "not much" and "a lot" are not valid entries for the "Sleep" and "Weight" fields in attackpoint.

Commute to work. Legs felt much stiffer than they did yesterday.

Run to track workout.

More warmup with Terry, Kevin, Alex and Anna. This shouldn't have been a separate track. Oops.

CSU track workout. Conditions were grim with a temperature of 8-10 C, a wind of 20-30 kph, and a light falling mist. I was wearing a long shirt and tights, and was still cold at times. We warmed up and ran drills and strides; I didn't record the drills. The workout was a pyramid of 600, 1000, 1200, 1200, 1000, 600, with 200m rest between each bout. CSU-O had good turnout, with Alex, Anna, and Brendan. I tucked behind Kevin and Terry for all six intervals; I was able to hang with them for the 600s, but fell perhaps 15-30m back on the longer intervals.

Splits:
600, 1000, 1200: 2:07, 3:29, 4:17
1200, 1000, 600: 4:18, 3:34, 2:00

My legs felt very tired an hour or two after the workout, probably from a combination of going a bit faster than I'm used to and from the Billygoat.

Easy recovery run, finishing with 4x30s strides. Anecdotally, average HR < 150 is a heuristic for what feels like an easy run to me, so I may have pushed the effort a bit. Still irritated with myself.

Event: The 35th annual Billygoat Run
 

2013 Billygoat, my third. I orienteered neither well nor fast, and my performance was very disappointing. More to come.

Cool down jog. Displeased with myself.

Billygoat - Splits

Event: Speedy Goat Sprint Relay
 

A few notes on the Speedy Goat:

First and foremost, PBricker was fantastic. When I proposed a Speedy Goat sprint relay in the vicinity of the Billygoat (keeping with the past two years), Phil critiqued the possibilities and offered to set courses at Cemetery Hill. The courses were magnificent - challenging and avoiding running into high traffic dog and frisbee areas.

I was not sufficiently organized. A combination of an hour long traffic delay and not enough initial planning led to a convoluted but successful relay system. Had there been a significantly larger number of teams, it would have been prohibitive. The specific issue was handling the map exchanges per team. My unfamiliarity with the relay software led me to push back the start 30 minutes (when I really only needed 5). It is also advisable to have at least two people working the meet site: a competent results person and a director who can keep everything flowing smoothly. I was able to fulfill both roles because attendance was low.

Event location: holding the event in conjunction with the Billygoat is a reasonable idea (though I think a sprint relay other times of the year would work at least as well). It's not necessary that the Speedy Goat site be near the Billygoat, and this can be prohibitive if people have to travel more than an hour to get to the site. Unless plentiful, inexpensive housing is available, most people will want to return home on Saturday night. I think this year's SG would have been much more successful if help near Boston or Hartford, both in terms of the absolute number of attendees and the number of Billygoaters who attended.

So, while the organization and logistics (and hence attendance) were a bit lacking, the event went off well enough, and everyone seemed to have a good time. Thanks a bunch to Phil, to Alex, Anna, Anne, and Jeff Saeger, and John Eric Nelson for their help with registration, control pickup, hauling equipment, and logistics, and to Ed for taking the time to teach me the meet software. And of course, thanks to PG for making the weekend happen in the first place.

C • Thanks Ian! 4

In loose shorts. I slowed to a walk for a few minutes to check attackpoint.