Training Log Archive: Wyatt

Event: Flying Pig IX (US Team Trials)
 

Medium paced loop around an old course at ? (25miles NE of Cincinnatti on I71...). L Foot twinged a bit, but not too bad.

Rerun of 3 controls on map about 25 miles NE of Cincinnatti on I-71. While on drive to Sprint... (Slept in Columbus.)

L-foot twinged a bit and got mildly sore after, with just a few hours before the Trials sprint...

Long slow warmup, not much cooldown. Foot sore a bit on and off and was afraid I wouldn't be able to push off. But it eventually seemed to warm up okay and I didn't noticed it much during the Sprint.

Almost a very good race. I did reel in Randy, who just wasn't moving that fast. Leif missed his start so there was no one chasing me.

I had a 15 second drift on #3. I've got to check my compass longer/more times because it's sometimes off at first glance and you can just say 'go, go, go' and be off by 30-45 degrees or so. Not good. But if this was my only problem, it would have been a fine run.

But then, for some reason, I decided that 3 little 2-contour reentrants with gullies at the bottom wouldn't be that hard, and so why go all the way around. Despite having some easy legs to read the map on, I didn't check it enough, and didn't notice the short cuts on the long way around. I also wasn't thinking that at 1:5000, it's even less costly to go around.

That cost about 45-50 seconds right then and there, and I probably lost another 10-20 on the rest of the course from having totally shot my quads with that route choice.

Overall not terrible, but not nearly as good as it should have been. And for me to go to WOC, I need a combination of very good and great races...

Sprint - Splits

Pre-trials taper. Not running at all on Wed & Thu.

Did some ankle work with a band. Apparently this was really stupid, as my left foot issue got sore today, and all ice & advil did was dull the pain - not eliminate it. It hurt (light dull ache) most of 3/30 too, and some of 3/31... Not a good sign pre-trials, but it all worked out okay...

With Angelica at VF park

Taking it very easy to hope that foot stays fine, and as part of pre-Trials taper. Foot not sore during run or all evening. Good.

Brandywyne. 1st I think, 10% ahead of Mihai, but he had run a 15k trail race earlier in the day. Race was physically and navigationally okay. Biggest issue was a sloppy start. I was talking when they said Go, so I fumbled with watch and map and ended up going straight through too much medium green on the way to # 1. On # 2, I waffled on route choice taking a middle forest route between two trail options, and on # 3, I didn't even see the road option right next to me. Total lost there was probably over a minute - I need to get focussed better before I start next weekend.

Warmup & cooldown was long enough to be proper for a change. Reran start of course (via better route choice) as cooldown. L-foot was totally fine for 30 minutes of the race, and only a touch of soreness after that, recovering as soon as I stopped. But then about 3-4 hours after finishing it was getting pretty sore while walking around a store. After that I went home and put ice on it for 10 minutes and took 600 mg IB, and it got better.

Red - Splits