Training Log Archive: RJM

Pig Long, Mt Airy Red. Gorgeous day, runner's course. I pretty much ran straight lines between controls most of the time. Might have saved a bit of time sometimes by going around, but it was fun, and often on trail as it was. I was able to push the pace on those trails, and really felt like I was racing for the first 6 controls. AFter that it was intermittent, mostly because of the break in rhythm at 6 (spiked it, but the code there didn't match that for '9', which was the control number visible on my folded and south-pointing map. Investigated several other nearby features to check my position before I realized the error. A couple of other small bobbles, and some route choice decisions that I may later learn were poor, but this was a good run, probably the best yet (next to the relay yesterday). Saw handrails and used them, terrain matched how I read the map, caught errors quickly. If i can do this a couple more times I may find myself at a new level. Later learned i came in just 3 seconds ahead of Jeff Shaw!
Later: i realized days later that unlike prior a meets, i didn't run out of gas at 40-60min, as I have lately. I think making sure to include longer runs this winter paid off.

Sunday Long Red - Splits

burnet woods and mt airy warmups combined

Burnet Woods Sprint red/blue. Running never quite moved into the sprint/short course speed, mostly due to my unncertain navigation and need to look at the map longer. Reasonably good navigation except for contgrol 9, for which i went into the circle three separate times and didn't see the control, until someone (tom good?) came in and read the map more carefully. The control was perfectly placed on the map and in the terrain - i just didn't read carefully enough, and happened not to see the flag behind some greenery and in the glare of the sun. I probably lost 5 minutes there. Sliding down to control 11 was a great treat.

Mt Airy relay champs. Stan said he didn't sleep last night, didn't want to do anchor, so twisted my arm to do the longer and steeper red. In retrospect, a good decision - his green course looked much more technical and difficult than mine, and i'd have had real troubles. Bob had a strong orange leadoff (2nd in 8 point?), olga maintained at 3rd, Stan kept it at 3rd, and I also maintained that. Whoopee!
I think this was my cleanest course ever - few bobbles, and quickly recovered from, i saw handrails that normally wouldn't be obvious to me, and used them well, and managed to push the running a bit more than i sometimes do. ANd this without running with a pack much if at all. Had some company through control 4, but onlyh 1 person. So, this was not due to following! Very satisfying, and a contrast to the sprint.
Nice course and woods, what a fine day

Saturday Red_8pt - Splits

Sprint 3 - Splits

Event: OCIN 25th Anniversary / Flying Pig XIII / Relay Champs
 

Red Short Pig at McFarlan Woods. Good map contact except in the most technical sections, and a fun run overall. Nice course, nice organization. I had the most problems on the stacatto middle section, with short legs and lots of changes of direction in some reasonably technical terrain. I could have done MUCH worse on that section, so although I think I lost a lot compared to the winners there (they were under 40min total), i'm pretty happy. My long legs went really well, and that's something that doesn't always happen. Placing was not great, but i'm not unhappy. Good to see the Ocin crew

Friday Middle Red - Splits

Felt very flat AM (26:50), and not much better PM. Market both ways