Training Log Archive: bbrooke

Orienteering!!!

I had planned to do all three of Jim Baker's Woodland Park-area UsynligO courses at Camp Elim, Manitou, and Rainbow Falls. But --

* I got a late start (I decided to get an overdue oil change on my 15-year-old car before getting on the road);

* After getting to the Camp Elim start area, I couldn't pull up the course on my phone and ended up driving all the way into Woodland Park before I got a strong enough signal. GD! (I had a printed map, but I learned the hard way that a cell signal is required to get the course loaded -- and then it's GPS only); and

* I was seriously sucking wind and therefore very slow on the first two courses. Ay caramba -- time to start some real training again instead of the 12-minutes-per-mile jaunts I've been doing lately... :-|

So this was the Camp Elim course -- a beautiful area, nice course, and perfect weather (sunny, not too hot, no afternoon thunderstorms). I was slow anyway but I also stopped a few times to take photos.

Course #2 of the day at Manitou South. I walked pretty much the whole thing -- it's easy to get hopelessly lost here!

And then I headed to Colorado Springs to shower at my hotel and get dinner. The hotel looked nice from the outside in the onlne photos, but was actually a fleabag dump -- the periodic reminder I need that it's worth it to spend some extra $$$ sometimes.

I eventually enjoyed dinner (after they remade the shrimp fajitas I had ordered, not chicken...). And apparently masks aren't a thing in Colorado Springs; people were looking at me like I was a weirdo. So I decided to be (inwardly) defiant about it -- "yeah, that's right, I'm the Boulder County liberal here in your territory, right-wingers!"

Neighborhood walk.

Neighborhood run.

Walked to & from the rec center.

(Outdoor) yoga class at the rec center.