Training Log Archive: BigWillyStyle

My watch said that I achieved a new V02 max on this run, so that's great?

Event: CascadeOC Winter League #6
 

I am currently in Hawaii. But not to worry - I have many hours of quality training beach lounging to log, as soon as I am forced to reincorporate the whole "using a computer" thing back into my life.

C • Best conference prep I ever did... 9

Event: SDO: Anza Borrego Weekend
 

Marymoor Park

Ya boy #instafamous

Event: CascadeOC Winter League #5
 

Event: Port of Stockton Go!
 

Winter League 5 @ Fort Steilacoom. A lovely day and enjoyable race, though a bit of a runner's course for my taste. I lost close to a minute in the circle at 4; I thought the description and control placement were a little creative there. In glancing at the map, I assumed the control was on the south tip of the left thicket, because there's no other feature in the middle of the circle. Had I checked the description, I would have seen that the feature was "between thickets" - which is strange because there is a trail running between the thickets, so the de facto feature was the trail, which is not exactly a feature one puts controls on. The flag also happened to be placed in some tall grass on the right side of the trail, while I was snooping around the thicket on the left side of the trail. My problem was compounded (created?) by the fact that I had forgotten my orienteering bag, so didn't have a description holder and was often loathe to go to the trouble of unfolding the map and checking the on-map descriptions.

Also lost 30s on 6 when I didn't find/trust an indistinct trail, and some time on route choice to 11. Peteris got me by a minute, which means that we've now had five different winners of Winter League events, which is surely unprecedented. More incredibly, Bonesaw has not yet won one; if he wins the next (which is a distinct possibility given that I understand he will be there, and also that one of his main competitors [me] will not be), we will have had six (!) different winners covering four different countries and three continents. However, I am not sure who we can find to win the seventh to complete the...septet?

You don't know the power of the Darkside.

C • Everyone has a dark side. Y... 1

Spent the weekend skiing in Whistler with Celia, Jourdan, and Kate, so can knock that one off the bucket list! It was excellent, though preposterously expensive for a day or weekend pass. They have quite the racket going up there where because they have two mountains they basically make you pay double. Even though there is just one of you, so you still can only do a normal amount of skiing. However, they had tons of light, fluffy powder which was a novel treat and something I am not used to at the local WA spots.

Anyway, this bit of training arises from one of the chairlifts breaking down, so we had to either wait an indeterminately long time or hike 1.2k uphill in order to continue enjoying the fruits of gravity. By my reckoning it was just enough of a pain in the ass to be loggable.

Have you met my pet bird? His name is Larry. Larry the Bird.

C • Free Lift-line Entertainment 4

Conditions resplendent. My times are remarkably consistent.

Solo TMT. Due to map quality issues and also me waiting too long to get out the door/waning light, this sort of became hybrid orienteering/terrain running, but better than nothing I guess. I found-ish most of my features but I forgot that to find the boulders you have to physically apply spikes and listen for the sound of metal against rock. If no sound, you have found merely a rootstock or lump of random biomass.

C • So true. 11