Training Log Archive: bishop22

Event: US Two-day Classic O Championships
 

Running around during the Bulldog Invite at Alden. The silly 12 meet rule, coupled with the ridiculous counting of two varsity meets in one day (EA and Pawling) meant that our Varsity had to sit this out. And most of the juniors had PSATs, so we were a small squad.

I ran around during the Mod Girls (nice run by Shelby), then our races, and the EA races.

Ran around a bit during practice. Arrived a little late.

Didn't make practice because of the issues at work; kids did 6 x 800 on the course (bonus 7th for some)

Event: ROC - Stop-By-Rochester-On-Your-Way
 

Running around during the event, while 10 kids participated, then did falg pick-up.

Event: Niagara Falls Sprints
 

Running around before and during the XC meet at Webster Park. Our girls managed a 2-2 split in the first race, despite competing against 3 of the top teams in the state, losing to Fairport (#4 in Class AA) and Penfield (#18 in Class AA), but defeating Sutherland (#10 in Class A) and Athena.

The boys beat Penfield, Fairport and Athena comfortably, but were just a bit too far back from Sutherland's pack - they are ranked #2 in the state in Class A, so making them earn the victory over us is a moral victory.

The times were incredibly fast today. Val (19:30), Amanda (19:31) and Annelise (20:30) posted the #1, 2 and 4 times for Schroeder at Webster Park (#3 was Val last year), with Sarah (20:35) adding #6 and Alaina (21:18) #10.

AJ ran 15:50, which was just 8 seconds off the course record, which was set in the epic season-ending battle of unbeaten teams in 2008 (Mendon, Thomas, Brockport, Brighton). The top 6 went under 16 in that race. No one else had until AJ did it alone today. Geoff (16:32) was faster than Nico last year and JMatt (16:44) was only 1 second slower than Nico. Joe was our 7th man in 17:24.

And Zach ran 18:54 (but did not quite get nate's freshman time of 18:37 - nate was our 7th man in that race, 14 seconds behind #3, today he would have been 12th, just like Zach, almost 2 minutes behind #3).

At work from 7am-6:20pm and was in no mood to do anything other than eat when I got home. I may have to adjust my eating (i.e. not skip lunch) on the days when the Sabres play, and add workouts in the evening so I can catch the Sabres at the Y until Dish and MSG resolve their silly squabble.

Finishing off the Map Hike at Hunter's Creek, then repeating some before the awful Bills performance. I guess other than the time around halftime and the 4th quarter, they were only mediocre to poor, not awful. And for a couple of bright shining moments, they were decent.

I don't have the map, but I started in the SE (via the road to avoid an early creek crossing) - perhaps at C8, then had a heck of a time getting out of there to the north. I tried right, but it got too thick, then tried a bit to the left, but was on deer trails, not the real trail and went to hands and knees before finally retracing a bit and bailing further west where I found the real trail. I then worked up to the power line, crossed the creek and came back. The trip back included one aborted control because I didn't trust myself leaving the power line.