Training Log Archive: mikeminium

Event: MVOC - Germantown West
 

Shadowing Teratin on white and first half of yellow at Germantown. Mix of trail/terrain running and walking. He was mostly doing a good job of orienting the map, just a couple places where he was not careful enough. Let him try the second half of yellow on his own, which was mostly a re-hash of white with just a couple extra trail legs thrown in.
Legs were pretty sore form yesterday's race, but no problem keeping up with him except on the steepest downhills, where I couldn't descend with quite the same degree of youthful abandon.

Shadowing Teratin.

Legend of the Dogman 8 hour rogaine, covering two overlapping 1:15,000 11x17 maps. Very happy with 1750 out of 1900 possible points, and second place overall. Happy to still be running at the finish, albeit slowly, after over 7.5 hours. Ran just about everything except significant uphills and thicker or intense off trail areas. A couple 5 minute errors close to controls, but otherwise a pretty clean effort. More O-nalysis later.

Total distance estimated at 39-40 km (24-25 miles).

The prologue: Controls 1, 2, and 3 were all close to the start and had to be pin punched in any order, then the punch card turned in before you could start for any other controls. This spread out the crowd quite a bit. It was a chilly morning, and I took advantage of this roughly 1.4 km, 12-13 minute jaunt to warm up, dropping off my jacket ad swigging half a bottle of water before setting off for real. It cost a minute or maybe 2 to throw the jacket in the car and chug that extra water, but I believe it was well worth it.

The bonus control. We knew that 2 controls would tell us how to find a special 110 point bonus control; we just didn't know where. The annoying part was having to carry a magnifying glass to read the micro-writing clue, but it proved to be worth it when I got the bonus, which was guarded by a scare-crowish, nattily dressed Dogman - a nice extra touch by the course setter. The bonus was nicely set - from either of the 2 controls with the clues to find it, it didn't really require you to re-think your route strategy, only a few extra minutes of time consumption. Nice that it didn't require you to go halfway across the map, or back to some place you had already been.

C • Great job! 3

Event: 2019 Legend of the Dogman
 

picking up controls at Harbin.

VOA

Rentschler

Putting out controls at Valley View. About half before dawn with headlamp in light drizzle, which gave way to a beautiful clear morning (although chilly and windy).

Map hike with class of 23 4th graders.

Control pickup at Valley View.

Whitewater SP Memorial Loop with Jeremy.

Putting out controls at Harbin Park.

Putting out controls for UC O practice. Putting out all 18, picking up 6.

2 courses on school grounds.

Found a handful of very minor map updates.