Training Log Archive: Mr Wonderful

Warmup towards start for middle

C • :) 3

Disastrous middle on an extremely well-set course in fracking fabulous terrain.

Stayed slow and safe 1-3, thought I was on line to 4, misread and added five minutes. Saw Igor but wasn't sure if he had four or not so I couldn't even cheat.

Bonehead to 8- proceeded as if I was leaving nine. Dumb!

Knew ten would be the killer, and still did not give it proper respect. Found a half dozen controls from other courses. Fifteen minutes of errors before I finally brute forced from the embankment to catch.

Missed thirteen a bit. I cannot run on a bearing to save my life. Dogged fourteen and fifteen in order to kick for the third fastest of 317 finish splits. Woo woo

I have so much room for improvement!

I am thinking I will be conservative in the long.

C • Good luck tomorrow. Stay c... 6

C • Nice pic! 2

Middle Course 9 - Splits

Event: 2013 Nationals (Hamilton, CANADA)
 

Sweet training after package pickup. Glorious woods. I used a log to cross a reentrant 3m deep. I jumped multiple streams.

Warmup

Super fun campus sprint, my first.

Lots of little errors, big errors at 9&10&18. Many sub optimal routes. Igor pipped by one second on finish split en route to smoking me by three minutes. Finish roughly mid pack in M35-44

10/10 would do again.

C • Thank You! 2

C • Have fun! 1

Sprint Course 5a - Splits

Haha, I found my old, old 5k result.

http://www.runmichigan.com/results/98/crim985krun....

If only that kid had found o/ar then, when he could run that off pure hate.

There's a 20:35 somewhere c. 2006, but it was a very small event and their website is non responsive. It would be fun to try to better it in December if it's remotely feasible.

C • That is funny because I hav... 9

Out to the library and back w/ dog #2 and 10 lb pack.

I took the singlespeed out because I know I don't have enough rpms to get it above 15 mph, which meant nice easy spinning.

Brief pause at 16.7 miles to move a large log that was partially blocking the road.

(33x18 on a 29er is roughly 90 rpm for 14.2 mph.)

Slept in; should have gone for a bike ride. Dear wife mentioned a jog, so I jumped at it.

We drove to the end of the sub to enable a loop rather than out and back. One mile walking warmup.

My heart rate is lower at this pace than before. I should do non-wife runs at a slightly faster pace now, woo woo.

Cool down back to the Escape.

Event: SMOC Fall Yankee Springs
 

Ouch! Fortunately, I am willing myself to use a growth mindset, and am brimming with all of the possibilities I can do for training to fix the myriad mistakes.

Jens: "After last week's bad run, I was hoping this would be a confidence booster."
Igor: "You don't need confidence. You need training."

Very true words!

1 - well, I was close. Then ran off.
2 - argh, I thought I made it down around the second pond. No clearings left uninspected. First pass from the trail bend was semi-clear, imho. I'll forgive myself for that part of the mistakes.
3 - meh. Almost overshot, but these were my kinda of features, so at least I knew when to check up.
4 - To cross...the uncrossable swamp...... then blow the landing, argh.
5 - How did I miss this?
6 - woot, spike. Green was not very green
7 - ran hard, missed circle, but checked up at the right time
8 - Ugly! I swear I tried to go north. Vegetation shoved me around? Not good. In hindsight, I think the best option for a hack like me was to take the road south of 7, then run fast all the way around, and then attack from the road as I eventually did.
9 - easy, follow Igor
10 - seemed easy, follow Igor, but missed west a bit
11 - I should've cut the swamp. If uncrossable wasn't bad, that should have been fine. Still barely read the reentrants rights
12 - Argh. At this point, who cares, walking around. My only chance for a fast split was to F anyway, so why try to get to it at speed.
F - deep breath, then hammer! I saw 5:35/mile; Training Center says max was 5:03 pace. It felt like flying. Highlight of the day!

You are welcome to point and laugh. I'll be back in form one of these weeks. Maybe once when it doesn't rain so I can use glasses for more than to the first control.

C • Strong finish! 5

Control pickup with Michelle. They seemed much easier, except 8 which is still really tough - vague terrain, my arch nemesis. Nice to chat with Mrs. Green.

I see why I missed #10 in the race by a little - the swamp to land transition was much less distinct here than at your usual SE Michigan venues - Silver Lake, Highland, etc. So trying to use that edge was not as reliable. I should have noticed this earlier on the course.