Training Log Archive: kkling

Event: OLOU Summer Sprint Series #18
 

Single course at Waterfront Park. Enjoyed the course. Good turnout, best weather day of the week. Ben & Aaron are testing a new program - SI Droid Event 1.6.3. I'm interested to see how it turns out. It seemed to work well at the event. You download, tap the screen enter your name, tap a second time and it prints your splits. We are in the process of writing people's names on the stick, so they don't even have to type them in each week. The first obstacle, older finger sticks like mine, do not support the name function.

Control pickup

Day 30 out of 52 for meet goal

Waterfront Park - Splits

Day 29 out of 52 meet goal (last week AR )

Kayak trip was up Coon Creek. Start point was a WMA parking lot. The view at the confluence of Coon & Skaggs creek was incredible. Thus ends another epic trip for us. Only cracked the surface of the many creeks that drain into Barren River Lake.

Kayak trip up Walnut Creek. Start point was Austin Boat Ramp. Walnut Creek was incredible. Upper part past lake the water was crystal clear and the temperature was 15 degrees below the lake temp. The pictures we took you cannot even see the water, just the rocks below.

Kayak trip up Barren River past confluence with Long Creek. Start point Browns Ferry boat ramp

Start of our kayaking trip this year along Peter's creek - start point WMA parking lot. Back at Barren River Lake again.

Event: Sheltowee Extreme 12 hr AR
 

This is the most difficult AR race I have been doing each year. The check points are spread so far apart. Ended up with 11 this year compared to 7 last year. I actually teamed up with Carl this year - even though we are each listed as solo. It really helped my confidence on the bike to be with a team mate. We had a sound plan to grab 14 points but the front Derailleur on my bike flaked out after the 6th point. Carl helped me with it and we were able to get the bike to work in only 3 gears, so it was a slow limp back to the TA. The bike melt down screwed up our NAV big time and we wasted a lot of time on CP 18 also got ourselves dehydrated in the process. We refueled back at the TA and went out on a paddle leg grabbing 3 more check points plus 2 bonus CP's. Great time so close to my goal of one per hour.

Day 28 out of 52 meet goal

Very humid day but luckily the temps were only in the 80's. Good turnout for the weather. Blew one control #8 badly.

Lakeland Sprint - Splits