Training Log Archive: TomN

Drumm loop.

GSFC perimeter road.

Borrego long. Window order: 7-9-6-8. Skipped 17. Split right (23). Spiked the trail-O. Despite having company most of the way, made some egregious errors. Way off on 11 somehow, spent time in various reentrants before relocating from the trail, and even then missed the attack. Overran 12 and climbed a huge ridge only to have to descend it again. Terrible time with 13, went right by the control and didn't know it, finally attacked from the disappearing road. Parallel error on 23, which I thought would be the easy split, turned out there were two washes with signposts right next to each other. Fun race, finished just under the time limit but that included at least a half hour of mistakes.

Update: looks like I missed one of the string-o controls. I had a nagging feeling that an extra number went by in there.

Anza-Borrego Day 2 Green. Slow on 1 and 2 (trouble finding the controls) and a disaster on 3. Overran the control and got onto the ridge just off the edge of the map. Looked in all the reentrants on both sides of the ridge before understanding the situation, and then it was right to the control. The problem is I had not appreciated the difference between the pedestal of rubble surrounding these hills and the hills themselves. There is a visible steepening of the slope, but it's hard to see on the map. This control was in the pedestal, but I ran to the hill. After that things went better. Big route choice on 6: after thinking about it for a while I continued up the trail to the ridge and followed it all the way down to the saddle just west of the control. Extra climb, but a very straightforward approach.