Training Log Archive: Mr Wonderful

A decent warmup. Soon squandered!

Debating one last pit stop. Then back. Then back again.

I had a perfectly prepared warmup, then the start was delayed thirty minutes to accommodate late arrivals. Grrr.

So I chatted with longtime AR friend Pam Bower, who was waiting for the 10k start.

I had a much more restrained opening. I was good through the middle, a few people starting to fall off. I tried to reel in a couple after 2.5 but I was hurting and fading.

Then my killer instinct failed me. I closed on the 2nd place female. She turned the second to last corner...and started walking.

I yelled, "c'mon, you got this. GO!"

She gave me a whuh? look and then freaking threw down like 5:30 pace to edge me out.

I am encouraged by what this time could mean for the spring with more consistent running over the winter.

Festively bringing it home

C • Yay, that's not bad at all. 5

Oddly I haven't obsessed much over tomorrow's 5K. Perhaps because it was assumed to be out the window until we stumbled upon its phoenix-like rebirth from the ashes of "this race is over!" by the former RD, perhaps because of afterglow from my glorious victory...

anyway, plan is simple:

Open no faster than 6:50, including the first quarter (unlike last year!)
Try to do another 6:50
Try to do that again
Last 0.1 sub 6.

Then PR in the spring.

C • Weather-wise it is gonna be... 2

I'm famous.

http://www.lakeviewtimes.com/U/2i.htm

C • Holy Cats 6

Back on the board!

Did not have nearly enough time between work and practice to bike over. Next best thing: jog Yellow from the carpool lot. I had the park to myself!

Considering a small project:

Overlay yesterday's map in Google earth, pick off GPS coordinates for the controls + start/finish, then using the time stamps and control order from Or, make up psuedo gpx files for some/all participants. Then you don't get actual routes, but can at least see general people movement, and compare the differences.

C • Routegadget may do that for... 3

FB spoiler alert. Purple Pen distances for some routes:

Voit's route: 16.9 km
Eaton's: 16.9 km
Wonderful's: 16.3 km

So they quickly determined efficient routes, especially since both showed up after map delivery. Starts were the same, then they split up after Halfmoon Lake, then converged again around 60 and back through the 3 * 30 in the SE.

Biggest difference w/ mine is I did 45 early. I had the benefit of a lot more time, and even still my first draft pushed towards 18 km until I switched to 72-61 around the south end of the swamp.

73 was originally a bit more north, but then it seemed to make a boring road run too viable.